FADO E-BULLETIN
January 2026

1. FADO CALL FOR CURATORIAL PROJECTS 2026–2027
   DEADLINE DATE MARCH 1, 2026
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE FADO

FADO is seeking curated performance art projects to be presented in Toronto during our 2026–2027 season. We want to fund and support innovative and experimental curatorial projects of varying sizes—from small-scale projects focused on a single artist/theme to larger project concepts/series presenting the work of multiple artists. You can propose a project that requires more research and development (including finding the artists you want to work with) before being presented at a later time. Alternatively, you can propose a project that is ready to go.

Curatorial projects focused on performance art/artists/processes/form including but not limited to:
Projects designed for gallery/presentational works
Projects in site-specific contexts or public space
Multi-disciplinary or performance-adjacent projects
Research projects with a public-facing or audience engagement element
Projects that look at performance for podcast, camera or on-line platforms
Projects that work within specific audience or community
Series within a series or one-off event etc.

Projects will be chosen based on their inventiveness and experimental character AND for their attention to the practicalities of execution/feasibility within FADO’s presentation capacities and resources.

This is a call for Toronto-based and Canadian curators. Projects are to be realized and presented in Toronto. FADO cannot support projects from international curators who wish to present international artists in Toronto. However, a Canadian curator may propose a project that includes an artist/project from outside of Canada. Project proposals that are designed for dissemination online / virtual platforms will be considered from international and Canadian curators.

Proposals will be accepted until March 1, 2026.

NOTE: If you have already submitted to the call, you will be notified at the end of March 2026.

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   LOCATION YOUR HEAD (IT’S A HAT)
   SOURCE FADO

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3. PERFORMANCE DARE DARE PRESENTS STEVE GIASSON
   DATE NOVEMBER 2025–MAY 2026
   LOCATION ONLINE
   SOURCE DARE DARE

DARE-DARE is delighted to present Steve Giasson’s new project entitled NOUVELLES NOUVELLES PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES (New New Invisible Performances).

This project will mark the 10th anniversary of PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES, a vast body of work comprising more than 250 actions to date, initiated with DARE-DARE in 2015–2016 and relaunched with Le Lieu, Centre en art actuel in 2020–2021.

NOUVELLES NOUVELLES PERFORMANCES INVISIBLES will consist of some 50 minimalist performances based on conceptual statements. These new actions will be performed in public and private spaces without an audience (hence their “invisibility”). Images of the actions (photos and videos) and statements in several languages (French, English, Spanish) will be unveiled twice a week, every Tuesday and Thursday, for six months (November 2025–May 2026).

Where to see the work:
DARE-DARE’s Instagram account: @daredaremtl
The Instagram account Nouvelles Performances Invisibles: @nouvellesperfinvisibles
The Truth Social account: @stevegiasson (Donald Trump’s network!)
The websites: www.performancesinvisibles.com and https://dare-dare.org/fr/.

Steve Giasson is a conceptual artist with a PhD in Art Studies and Practices from the Université du Québec à Montréal. His engaging, deadpan practice draws on pre-existing works or fragments of history and everyday life, which he appropriates in a variety of ways, in order to challenge romantic notions of authenticity and originality and demystify the creative process and the figure of the artist. His works are characterized by a great economy of means and by their use of different media (performance art, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, conceptual writing…). His work has been shown in fourteen countries in North America, Europe and Asia, in over a dozen solo exhibitions and numerous group shows.

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4. WORKSHOP WALKING EACH OTHER HOME | STACY MAKISHI & LOIS WEAVER
   DATE JANUARY 11–25, 2026
   LOCATION ONLINE
   SOURCE LADA

LADA presents Walking Each Other Home: Online workshops with Stacy Makishi and Lois Weaver

Sunday 11 January to Sunday 25 January
3:00–6:00PM / online
Pay What You Can (£10–£20)

There are still a few final places left for Stacy Makishi and Lois Weaver’s online workshops, which were postponed to January.

As part of her year-long participatory project Walking Each Other Home, Stacy Makishi will lead three online workshops with collaborator Lois Weaver. The sessions will explore where and how we gather, the transformative power of ritual, and new ways to build communities rooted in connection and care. With a focus on ‘creative homesickness’, the workshops are oriented towards artists who feel far away from their creativity, perhaps feel they have lost their way, and/or need time to focus back in. They will involve exercises, provocations and individual and group tasks designed to support you in your own creativity.

Each workshop will be different, so folks are welcome to take one, two, or all three. Workshops are ticketed separately.

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5. PERFORMANCES FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND PERFORMANCES
   DATE JANUARY 11, 18, 30, 2026
   LOCATION NEW YORK, USA
   SOURCE FRANKLIN FURNACE

Franklin Furnace FUND Performances for JanArtsNYC 2026

A Tale of Fire and Flight by j. bouey
January 11 & 12, 2026
ASDS Repertory Theater, 80 Greenwich St., New York, USA
4:45PM

A Tale of Fire and Flight is a poetic rendition of the saga of Black Copper, a dancer who self-immolates to protest the encroachment of a fascist government and is subsequently reborn as the mythical phoenix. Black Copper mirrors the rebellious dream of the legend of the Flying Africans who sought freedom, much as this era’s children of the sky seek truth and liberation through disco and house club culture today.

DOMINA by EYIBRA
January 18, 2026
Green Lung Studio, 22 Commerce St., Brooklyn
1PM–6PM

DOMINA: a durational performance that explores the tensions between surveillance, power, and embodiment across lines of gender, race, and nationhood. Set within a stark, ritualized environment, the work unfolds around a massive ice block encasing a machine gun—a suspended symbol of institutional violence.

WAR CRY by Luis Eduardo
January 30, 2026
Danspace Project, St Mark’s Church, New York
7:30PM

WAR CRY uses elaborate costumes, movement, and technology to delve into themes of detention, ancestral wisdom, and unity in three acts. Drawing from sacrifice rituals, Mexican folklore, and contemporary techniques, the work tells the story of Pardo, a migratory bird who returns to his ancestral homeland, his sequester and subsequent exile.

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6. PERFORMANCE MAKE BANANA CRY BY ANDREW TAY & STEPHEN THOMPSON
   DATE JANUARY 14–17, 2026
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE

Make Banana Cry by Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson
A co-presentation by Toronto Dance Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

January 14–17, 2026
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street, Toronto
7:30pm

Make Banana Cry, a genre-defying work merging runway aesthetics with contemporary performance and dance, created by choreographers Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson.

Performers
Francesca Chudnoff
Hanako Hoshimi-Caines
Winnie Ho
Cynthia Koppe
Sehyoung Lee
Stephen Thompson

In an attempt to shake off the weight of representation and fetishization, an international cast of six East Asian artists critique, parody, and protest stereotypes of “Asian-ness.” Slipping between the codes of couture and contemporary art, straddling spectacles of consumption and entertainment, Make Banana Cry is an impressive demonstration of physicality, an unrelenting examination of Western xenophobia, and an ingenious show of humour and wit.

“We made Make Banana Cry out of a shared need to confront the troubling images and expectations placed on us as East Asian diasporic performers. What feels most powerful to me is that the work doesn’t lecture or offer a tidy narrative. It opens a space for audiences to reflect on their own relationships to “Asian-ness,” whether shaped by personal history, pop culture, or inherited bias—regardless of their background. And we do this in a way that is queer, subversive, humorous, tender, and defiantly playful. The performers bring a depth of nuance that reflects the fluid, shifting realities of our identities today, making the piece both emotionally destabilizing and joyfully irreverent.” ~Andrew Tay, co-creator

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7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NUIT ROSE: REWILDING
   DEADLINE DATE JANUARY 15, 2026
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE HENRY CHAN

Nuit Rose: REWILDING call for submissions and expressions of interest
Deadline: Thursday, 15 January 2026

The festival runs June 18–21, 2026, with the Main Event on June 20 throughout Toronto’s Church–Wellesley Village. Applicants will be notified of selection results by April 1, 2026.

Nuit Rose: The Festival of Queer Art and Performance returns to Toronto in June 2026—ready to REWILD the Church–Wellesley Village with art installations, live performances, community activations, and parties. After a six-year hiatus, Nuit Rose REWILDING reclaims the Village as a site of cultural renewal. The theme REWILDING invites artists to explore regeneration, resistance, and joy—to plant seeds of change in a rapidly transformed landscape. Through light, sound, performance, and installation, Nuit Rose will celebrate resilience and reimagine queer futures.

2026 THEME: REWILDING
Rewind, Remember, Remind, Revisit, Reignite, Reinstall, Reanimate, Realize, Reunite, Recall, Reclaim, Reimagine, Rewild!

Artists are invited to creatively interpret, explore, and respond to this year’s theme, REWILDING, in their proposed projects. Examples could include:
Projects that reclaim or reimagine urban spaces as queer ecologies
Projects that utilize multi-media or adopt multi-disciplinary approaches
Projects that engage audiences through participatory or site-responsive experiences
Projects that reflect queer histories, futures, and intergenerational storytelling
Projects that embrace play, transformation, and renewal as acts of resistance

ELIGIBLE WORKS / PROJECTS
Applicants may submit work in any medium: two-dimensional works, sculpture, installation, screen-based works, new media, performance, multi-media, and site-specific works. Works and projects intended for either indoor or outdoor presentation are welcome. We strongly encourage artists and organizations to apply who reflect diversity and intersectionality in sexuality, gender, culture, race, ethnicity, creed, religion, age, ability, and other dimensions of diversity.

Please read the full call for submissions and guidelines for applications on our website.

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8. EVENT PUSH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
   DATE JANUARY 22–FEBRUARY 8, 2026
   LOCATION VANCOUVER, CANADA
   SOURCE PUSH

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
January 22–February 8, 2026

For more than two decades, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival has been BC’s signature, mid-winter cultural event delivering audacious, innovative, contemporary works of live arts by acclaimed local, national, and international artists.

Curated, multidisciplinary, international in scope—the Festival animates culture and accelerates social change with performance and multimedia projects that embrace creative risk and share a sense of cultural urgency.

The 2026 PuSh Festival is an invitation to the culturally fearless—to those ready to step into fresh futurities and the expansive possibilities of live performance. In a time when dominant ways of knowing and being are collapsing into the polycrisis they have created, the artists gathered here embody ancestral and emergent ways of living, understanding, relating, and dreaming.

ARTISTS
Archa – Centre of Documentary Theatre (Czech Republic)
Cole Lewis/Patrick Blenkarn/Sam Ferguson (Canada)
L’École Parallèle Imaginaire (France)
Jerahuni Movement Factory (Zimbabwe)
Akpik Theatre / Theaturtle (Canada/Greenland)
Creepy Boys/So.Glad Arts (Canada)
Plastic Orchid Factory/James Gnam (Salish Territories)
Lukas Avendaño (Mexico)
Renae Shadler/Roland Walter (Germany/Australia)
Tanya Tagaq (Canada)
Tiziano Cruz (Argentina)

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9. EVENT RHUBARB! 47
   DATES FEBRUARY 4–7, 2026
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE

Rhubarb! 47
February 4 – 7, 2026

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street, Toronto

ARTISTS
Aiden Robert Bruce + Rachel Rusonik + Sara Starling
Aliyah Aziz
Bronwyn Keough
Cass Cervi + James Jordan
Dasha Plett + Gislina Patterson (We Quit Theatre)
Eris Thomas with Other Hearts
Jessie Walker + Oliver Pitschner + Sophie Parisi
jonnie lombard
Katie Clarke
Lucy Coren
Ludmylla Reis
Macarena Coronado
Morgan-Paige Melbourne + En Tze Loh
River Oliveira

PLUS each year, Rhubarb! invites international touring work with major impact across the globe in terms of queer representation, to present in dialogue with the festival’s new Canadian works. This year, critically-acclaimed touring work TESTO from UK artist Wet Mess joins the lineup.

Stay tuned for the details and TICKET LAUNCH on January 15, 2026.

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10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS PERFORMANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL
    DEADLINE DATE FEBRUARY 16, 2026
    LOCATION THE WORLD
    SOURCE PERFORMANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL

Performance Research Journal
Volume 31, Issue 7 – On Capturing Practice
Deadline: February 16, 2026

The act of capture – whether by word, camera, drawing, code or archive – both preserves and transforms, inviting reiteration and return to what it seeks to hold. As we try – and fail – to capture events, processes, gestures, feelings and performances in other formats, there is always a slippage, a shimmer, between what occurs and what remains.

As a methodological tool and a creative act, capturing ephemeral performances during the making and after their realization helps to shape creative choices, while archiving seeks to preserve them for future generations while framing how they are interpreted and studied. Such acts are recognized to be always partial, porous and incomplete, yet definitions of capture might also indicate control and force. To capture practice, then, is a contradictory act. On the one hand, it suggests the violence of control; on the other it is an act of care and preservation. It holds and releases; it fixes and flows.

Artists and researchers use multiple means to document their work, including social media as a method to both reveal and market their work – perhaps becoming curators of their own discourse. Meanwhile universities have been developing digital repositories to archive practice research – supporting the preservation of materials, searchability and inviting re/use. Such processes of capture and sharing have the potential to enhance the reach of performance and access even as they give rise to questions of labour and authenticity, ownership and control.

This issue of Performance Research invites provocations and reflections on and creative explorations of the multiple meanings of capture in performance research – capture as preservation, as containment, as commodity, as attention, as collaboration, as care.

To read the FULL TEXT for the call for submissions, please visit the Performance Research Journal website.

Proposals: Submission by: 16 February 2026
Outcomes: March 2026
First drafts: June 2026
Final drafts: February 2027

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11. PERFORMANCE ART INTENSIVE CONSTELLATIONS OF CRITICAL BODIES II
    DEADLINE DATE MARCH 30, 2026
    LOCATION VENICE, ITALY
    SOURCE VESTANDPAGE

CONSTELLATIONS OF CRITICAL BODIES II
June 24–July 3, 2026
Venice, Italy

10-days Intensive Joint Summer Class on the Practice of Performance Art
With VestAndPage, Andrigo & Aliprandi, Sara Simeoni and Joseph Morgan Schofield

Applications are now being accepted on a rolling basis until March 30, 2026.

INFORMATION SESSION: Live on Instagram on February 3, 2026, at 7:00pm (CEST)

For this workshop, we seek up to 15 international performance artists, radical actors, movers, sound artists, and poets interested in performance practices centred on the body. This includes individuals of all experience levels and abilities who wish to deepen and challenge their performance practices further and collaborate with other international artists. Under the co-mentorship of our experienced facilitators, you develop your performance language or research. You will work through collaboration and co-creation processes, and design your own itinerary of daily focus sessions on personal narratives and storytelling, intuitive movement, composition, sound, and site-responsive, more-than-human, and ritual forms of performance-making. We aim to give you the time, space, and tools to refine your practice, draw inspiration from collaborations, and forge new connections.

• Tuition fee: 800€
• Optional additions (subject to limited availability): Shared rooms in the on-site hostel of Forte Marghera +20€/night
• Arrival: June 23, 2026
• Departure: July 4, 2026
• We offer two grants of a 50% reduction in tuition fees to persons from countries with limited access to funding support. Please consider and describe your situation in the relevant field in the application.
• Workshop language is English.

In your application, you provide extensive information about your artistic background and current urgency, and you show a solid commitment to the immersive, collaborative 10-day artistic process.

The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. The workshop venue is only partially accessible. Don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions about how we can accommodate your needs: info@veniceperformanceart.org

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12. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART 2026
    DEADLINE DATE APRIL 1, 2026
    LOCATION NEW YORK, USA
    SOURCE FRANKLIN FUND

Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art 2026 funding cycle is open now until April 1, 2026.

INFORMATION SESSION: February 4, 2026 from 7:00pm–8:00pm ET

The Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art is supported by Jerome Foundation, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and biennially by the SHS Foundation in honor of Ruth Hardinger. FUND grants range between $2,000 and $10,000 based on the peer review panel allocation of funding received by Franklin Furnace. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; however, artists selected by the panel are expected to present their work in New York City. Full-time students are ineligible.

Franklin Furnace has no curator; each year a new panel of artists reviews all proposals. We believe this peer panel system allows all kinds of artists from all over the world an equal shot at presenting their work. Every year the panel changes, as do the definitions of “early career artist” and “performance art.” So if at first you don’t succeed, please try again.

Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art supported artists are early career generative non-student performance artists who actively generate new original work.

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