FADO E-BULLETIN
July 2025

1. NEW DOCUMENTATION POSTED ON THE FADO WEBSITE
   DATE NOW
   LOCATION ONLINE
   SOURCE FADO

A few new documentation treats have been added to the website. Have a gander at the galleries (found at the bottom of each programming page), loaded with photos by Henry Chan, and video edits by Peppercorn Imagine. [To view the videos, scroll through the images and click the start button on the last image.]

• The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony: A Travelling Circus by Cason Sharpe
• part of the ramble that remained in the end without by Mark So
• FUTURE DANCES
• Emerging Artists LAB: Threshold, curated by Christina Trutiak

Enjoy!
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2. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS BUZZCUT FESTIVAL
   DEADLINE DATE JULY 4, 2025
   LOCATION GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
   SOURCE BUZZCUT

BUZZCUT Festival 2026 | Call for Performers
Deadline for applications: 4th of July 2025 at 23:59 (pm)

BUZZCUT Festival is a lively and welcoming space for artists of all levels of experience working in Live Art and contemporary performance. We’re looking for artists with bold ideas who are eager to present new performance experiments in the ninth edition of the festival! We see the festival as a resource for artists & a space to come together—not just to present work, but to connect, exchange, witness what others are creating & strengthen artistic communities.

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3. PERFORMANCE BY LIN SNELLING
   DATE JULY 6, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE THE POWER PLANT

Durational Dance Performance: Lin Snelling
Sunday, July 6, 2025
2PM–6PM

The Power Plant invites you to share an intimate encounter as dancer and choreographer Lin Snelling performs an improvised response to Shelagh Keeleys Film Notebooks 1985–2017. This continues their collaboration of 45 years into the body as a locus for imagination and thought. Space is a script that all bodies move through and with. Snelling looks forward to performing with the saturated, intuitive and quiet spaces Keeley offers in her film notebooks.

All of The Power Plant’s public programs are free, thanks to generous support from BMO and from visitors like you. You are invited to Pay What You Can to help keep events like this accessible to all. Because of your generosity, everyone can experience art.

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4. EVENT SHADOWLANDS DRAWING DARKNESS AND THE CITY WITH MIKIKI
   DATE JULY 6, 20 & 27, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE MIKIKI

Mikiki presents SHADOWLANDS Drawing Darkness and the City

July 6, 20, & 27
7PM-10PM
FREE

Mikiki is excited to be hosting and facilitating a series of landscape drawing sessions in beautiful Taylor Creek Park. These sessions will start an hour before dusk and will conclude after dark. We will talk about our relationship to lighting and illumination in regard to social marginalization. During each workshop an unseen local solo vocalist will perform an interpretation of a simple text score describing our changing city.

Vocalists are:
July 6: alaska B
July 20: James Knott
July 27: Rosina Kasi

July 6 & 20
Picnic Area 3, Taylor Creek Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
MAP

By car/bike: 130m east along the northernmost trail from the Dog Park parking lot off Don Mills Road.
On foot/transit: 500m north through Cullen Bryant Park at the top of Coxwell Blvd, down two steep flights of stairs and northwest along the trail.

July 27
Picnic Area 5, Taylor Creek Park, Toronto
MAP

By car: parking lot entrance on west side off Dawes Rd, just north of Crescent Town Rd.
By bike: along Lower Don River Trail from west or Gus Harris Trail from east to Taylor Creek Trail.
On foot/transit: at Main Station take the 23 Dawes Road to St. Clair bus six stops north to Crescent Town Road, walk 350m West from Dawes Road entrance through parking lot to clearing on the first left on Taylor Creek Trail past the parking lot.

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5. OPPORTUNITY FIERCE FESTIVAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
   DEADLINE DATE JULY 7, 2025
   LOCATION BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND
   SOURCE FIERCE FESTIVAL

ICYMI, we’re on the search for an Executive Director.

We’re looking for a passionate arts leader to, in collaboration with the Artistic Director, steer the organisation and realise the Festival programme, while caring for the artists and audiences we work with and holding and embodying Fierce’s values of Trust, Rigour, Disruption and Joy.

This job is for an exceptional arts leader who will manage all aspects of organisational operations, leading on finance and HR and taking an active role in the delivery of the biennial festival, informed by an understanding of (and ideally lived experience of) the progressive politics that is implicit in Fierce’s work. You will lead on all aspects of organisational operations, leading on finance and HR as well as taking an active role in the delivery of the biennial festival.

Could you or someone you know be the brilliant Executive Director we’re looking for? We can’t wait to meet you and conjure the next era of Fierce together. The deadline to apply is 7th July.

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6. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS GRUNT GALLERY
   DEADLINE DATE JULY 15, 2025
   LOCATION VANCOUVER, CANADA
   SOURCE GRUNT

grunt gallery’s programming includes visual and media art exhibitions, installations, performances, events and projects, which are often accompanied by print or digital publications. A curatorial committee of 5 to 9 people, consisting of curators, programming staff, board members, and artists, meets for 5 days every August to review submissions. Responses will be sent out in the fall. The committee typically select projects to be presented 1 to 2 years in the future (for example, in August 2025 projects selected will be presented mid-2026 through mid-2027).

For this intake, we are prioritizing submissions from local artists and curators based in the Metro Vancouver area and Indigenous reserves/territories within or connected to this area. We are particularly interested in proposals exploring the communities, lands, relationships and/or other specific contexts of this region.

grunt gallery encourages applicants to review the past few years of programming by visiting grunt.ca or coming by the gallery to learn about how they have prioritized accessibility for artists, arts workers, and audiences. Artists are invited to name any priorities they may have in developing an accessible practice. They do not require artists to be familiar with accessible practices, but hope that you come with an interest to learn, explore, and develop them when you consider showing at grunt. You can read their accessibility statement here.

The submission deadline is July 15, 2025.

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7. ANNOUNCING SUMMERWORKS 2025 PROGRAMMING
   TICKETS ON SALE JULY 15, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE SUMMERWORKS

SummerWorks Performance Festival 2025
Back to the Future | Forward to the Past

August 7–17, 2025
Across Toronto

Marking 35 years of radical artistry, experimentation, and creative collaboration!

Entering its 35th year, SummerWorks Performance Festival returns with a landmark season of bold performance, intimate creative experiences, and daring artistic interventions exploring time—personal and collective, real and imagined. From August 7–17, 2025, artists and audiences will gather across Toronto for 11 days of theatre, dance, music, and live art in theatres, in public parks, in galleries, at transit hubs, and in the spaces between.

This year’s Festival theme, Back to the Future | Forward to the Past invites reflection, imagination, and disruption with bold creative expressions that dive deep into temporality, exploring and questioning the past, present, and future, with a gentle curiosity and a critical ferocity. Inspired by the words of Dr. Elder Duke Redbird, and curated by Artistic Director Michael Caldwell, the 2025 edition features works that dive into our memories, our legacies, our bodies, and our relationship to time.

With 35+ projects and over 200 artists, SummerWorks 2025 is a space to gather in curiosity, conversation, and complexity—to mark the past, anchor in the present, and move collectively into imagined futures. Uncover your next magical experience at the 2025 Festival!

Tickets go on sale July 15th.

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8. SYMPOSIUM WHAT CAN DANCE CURATION DO?
   DATE JULY 17–18, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO & ONLINE
   SOURCE DANCEMAKERS & CRITICAL DISTANCE

Dancemakers and Critical Distance Centre for Curators presents:
What Can Dance Curation Do?

July 17 & 18, 2025
Critical Distance Centre for Curators | 122–401 Richmond St. W., Toronto
& ONLINE

Our first annual symposium exploring the craft, practice and plurality of dance curation. With Celia Green, Rumi Jeraj, Shani K. Parsons, Abel Hagos, Christina de la Cruz, Sanjukta Banarjee, Dena Devida, Nomadic Curatorial Collective, Parks N Wreck, Arts Assembly, Shay Erlich.

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9. EVENT PALESTINE ALL THE TIME
   DATE JULY 18–19, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO & ONLINE
   SOURCE DANCEMAKERS & GALLERY TPW

Palestine All the Time
July 18–19

Gallery TPW | 170 St. Helens Avenue, Toronto
6PM–6PM

Join DanceMakers for Palestine All the Time—a 24-hour program co-presented with Gallery TPW that brings together Palestinian artists, writers, filmmakers, scholars, and activists. In-person and live streamed continuous programming includes performances, talks, readings, film screenings, music and sound works, and discursive gatherings that centre Palestinian cultural life and struggle. Food, drinks, and a chill-out zone will be available.

Palestine All the Time is made possible through the generous support of individual donors and an incredible network of partner organizations, including: Art Metropole, Artcite Inc., Between the Lines, Buddies in Bad Times, C Magazine, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC), Dancemakers, Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC), Factory Media Centre, Femme Art Review, Forest City Gallery, Gallery 44, Gendai Gallery, Hamilton Artists Inc., Images Festival, Mercer Union, Media City Film Festival, Music Gallery, South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC), Tangled Art + Disability, Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Toronto Queer Film Festival, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Vtape, Whippersnapper Gallery, Xpace Cultural Centre, and more.

Curated by Toleen Touq. Artist list and detailed program to be announced soon.

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10. LOOKING FOR MATERIALS PERFORMANCE BY LAURA PAOLINI
    DEADLINE DATE AUGUST 9, 2025
    LOCATION SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK
    SOURCE LAURA PAOLINI

While Supplies Last, a work by Laura Paolini
THIRD SHIFT Festival, New Brunswick

Artist Laura Paolini is presenting a new work called While Supplies Last as part of the THIRD SHIFT Festival in Saint John, New Brunswick between August 15–17. The artist seeks supplies from the community to use in the execution of the work including: old agendas/day timers, the stickers from birth control pills, and old file folders. They will be cut up and shredded for use in this work.

In this installation, the artist constructs an office-like environment with a table or desk. Within this staged setting, she engages in a repetitive performative gesture—feeding unconventional materials through a laminator including crushed eggshells, cue cards, cut-out letters, discarded birth control pill date labels, strands of her hair, and threads pulled from her own clothing. Each 9x14cm laminated piece emerges as a conceptual time card—a tactile record that viewers/participants are invited to take home.

Unfortunately, the artist cannot compensate shipping, so please use lettermail and a stamp.

Please mail these items to:
Third Space Gallery
attn Laura Paolini
P.O. Box 20103
Saint John, NB
E2L 5B2

11. CALL FOR INTEREST CURATING THE VILLAGE
    DATE UNSPECIFIED (SEPTEMBER, 2025)
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE SHALON WEBBER-HEFFERNAN

Call for Interest: Curating the Village

Curating the Village is a small pilot project led by Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan, supported by Balancing Act Canada and MOTHRA: Artist-Parent Project through the Level UP! initiative.

Running from September 2025 to March 2026, the project brings together Toronto-based curators and cultural workers who are also parents or caregivers. This study group will explore care-centered curatorial practices, asking:
What does it mean to curate with children, not around them?
How might we work from lived entanglements, rather than separation?

Sessions will be relaxed, flexible, child-inclusive, and shaped by participant needs. Modest honoraria, childcare, and access support are included. Outcomes may take the form of zines, conceptual sketches, or shared tools for future intergenerational exhibitions.

If you’re interested or want to learn more, please contact shalonwh@gmail.com

12. TO READ PRACTICAL ECODESIGN GUIDE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    AVAILABLE NOW
    LOCATION THE WORLD
    SOURCE FTA

FTA and Écoscéno are delighted to announce the online publication of the Practical Ecodesign Guide for the Performing Arts. This guide was produced in collaboration with the Montréal Complètement Cirque festival and eight other institutions within Quebec’s performing arts ecosystem.

The Guide is now accessible in French and the English. It outlines the various stages of ecodesign in a clear, practical manner. It is intended for a wide range of professionals, including artists, designers, creative business managers, technicians, presenters, cultural organizations, educators, and many more.

The content is divided into two complementary parts:
1) A theory section based on extensive documentary research and the observations of sector experts
2) Reference sheets intended as tools that can be applied directly to professionals’ day-to-day work

Both a reference work and a practical resource, the Guide also highlights inspirational Quebec projects that have incorporated ecodesign into their processes. It provides various practical suggestions for making creative works, tours, and post-production more ecoresponsible, with the aim of actively contributing to the ecological transition in the performing arts—a sector that has always stimulated our collective imagination and inspired social change.

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13. TO READ REJECTION/AMBITION: A 25 YEAR PERFORMANCE BY ANYA LIFTIG
    DATE NOW AVAILABLE
    LOCATION THE WORLD
    SOURCE ANYA LIFTIG

REJECTION/AMBITION: A 25 Year Performance by Anya Liftig
Published: April 2025
Press: Renous River Press
Designer: Alexis Almada
Size: 10 x 4 inches, 112 pages, paperback
Price: $25 US

Culled from 25 years of her copious collection of rejection letters, interdisciplinary artist Anya Liftig’s REJECTION/AMBITION is an artist book that can be read both forward and backward. Read from the Ambition side, it is clear-eyed in its determination for artistic recognition. Read from the Rejection side, it is a text about failure, mistakes, and confusion. Sure to delight and console, Liftig’s work is unique in its vulnerability, humor, and heartbreak. This performance work was also written about by the artist in the book The Art Life.

Anya Liftig is a performance artist and writer. Her first book, the memoir Holler Rat, was published by Abrams Press in August 2023. Called “a searing debut” by Publishers Weekly and cited by Jo Ann Beard as a new influence in her writing, Holler Rat was a USA Today Bestseller. Liftig’s artworks have been exhibited at TATE Modern, MOMA, Queens Museum, Movement Research, Performer Stammtisch Berlin, Performance Space London, and many other venues around the world. As a dancer and actress. Liftig’s work has been published and written about in the New York Times Magazine, BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, PAJ, New York, Theater Magazine, and many others. Her experimental film and video work has been screened in festivals in Canada, Greece, UK, Holland, France, and many other countries. Her essays have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and noted in Best American Non-Fiction. She is a Connecticut Council for the Arts Emerging Arts Fellow in Creative Writing, a recipient of a Franklin Furnace Award, and fellowships at MacDowell, Kimmel Harding Nelson, VCCA, Atlantic Center for the Arts and Yaddo.

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