FADO E-BULLETIN
June 2025

1. FADO EMERGING ARTISTS SERIES LAB WE COULD BREAK PERFORMANCE
   DATE NEW EPISODE OUT NOW
   LOCATION ONLINE
   SOURCE FADO

FADO’s Emerging Artists Series LAB #1: We Could Break Performance
A podcast by Vanessa Godden and James Knott

 We Could Break Performance is a podcast hosted by artists Vanessa Godden and James Knott investigating the question: “How do we evaluate the substance of tropes enacted in performance art?”

Each episode of will We Could Break Performance will feature a local performance artist and ourselves in conversation, to help us tackle our dilemma and provide perspective on the values of performance art tropes that we may share or disagree on. Does performance go harder if the performer gets harmed? Or is that negligence in disguise. Is endurance awe-worthy? Or is it sometimes used to unpoetic ends? Does nudity really bare all? Perhaps by the end this series’ run, we could break performance.

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All episodes are now captioned!
Episode 5: Kiera Boult

Also available:
Episode 1: Francisco-Fernando Granados
Episode 2: Archer Pechawis
Episode 3: Erika DeFreitas
Episode 4: Mikiki

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2. EVENT FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES
   DATE MAY 22–JUNE 8, 2025
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE FTA

With 20 shows presented from May 22 to June 5, Festival TransAmériques’ 19th edition will provide a breath of fresh air in our cultural and artistic landscape! Its program stands apart from the prevailing cynicism of our time—just as it has done each spring for the past 40 years.

In this year’s exciting line-up, around 200 choreographers, directors, performers, and designers from no less than 23 countries will present multiple visions of the world through powerful, moving, and sometimes disturbing dance and theatre shows.

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3. EVENT AYUM-EE-AAWACH OOMAMA-MOWAN BY REBECCA BELMORE
   DATE JUNE 12, 2025
   LOCATION OTTAWA, CANADA
   SOURCE SAW GALLERY

Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother by Rebecca Belmore
Presented as part of the national artist-run centre gathering, Against the Current / Wàbi mikanàwàn

Thursday, June 12, 2025, 10AM–5PM
Location: Parliament Hill, 111 Wellington Street, Ottawa

Special reception: Thursday, June 12, 8PM–midnight
SAW, 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa

With special guests in attendance, including the artist and over 200 delegates from artist-run centres across Canada.

In 1991, the internationally recognized artist Rebecca Belmore created Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother in response to the Oka Crisis. Commissioned by the Walter Phillips Gallery and constructed at the Banff Centre in Alberta, the participatory installation takes the form of a giant wooden megaphone inspired by the birch-bark cones traditionally used to call moose in Northern Ontario. The work was first presented by SAW at Parliament Hill in 1992.

As part of Against the Current / Wàbi mikanàwàn, the sixth biennial gathering of the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference (ARCA), SAW invites you to engage with Belmore’s landmark work. Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan will be accessible on Parliament Hill during the day and open for activation in the SAW Outdoor Courtyard at night.

Indigenous artists, cultural workers and members of the public will be called upon to speak truth to power through this vital work. Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan opens up a space for Indigenous audiences to tell their stories and communicate to, from and with the land. This interactive work conveys Indigenous voices as a powerful medium for expression, connection and intervention — the medium is the message.

Rebecca Belmore is an Anishinaabe multidisciplinary artist currently based in Vancouver. She is a member of the Lac Seul First Nation, Kenora District, Ontario, Canada. Belmore’s artistic practice encompasses sculpture, installation, video, photography and performance. Central to her work is the body in relation to history, place and Indigeneity. Drawing from the political and social realities of Indigenous communities, her compelling works make evocative connections between bodies, land and language. Belmore’s art emphasizes Indigenous presence through visual storytelling and creative protest.

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4. EVENT SAND FLIGHT
   DATE JUNE 12–15, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE TDT

Sand Flight by Ingri Fiksdal and Jonas Corell Petersen (Oslo, Norway)

June 12–15 | Thurs–Fri 7:00 PM | Sat–Sun 2:00 PM
The Bentway at Strachan Gate, Toronto

Commissioned by The Bentway
Co-Produced by The Bentway and Fiksdal dans stiftelse
Presented in partnership with Toronto Dance Theatre

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Experience the world premiere of Sand Flight, from internationally renowned choreographer Ingri Fiksdal. Eight dancers and a 50-person choir descend on a massive sand dune under the Gardiner Expressway for a powerful performance that speculates on climates-to-come, where shade-worshipping is the new normal.

In a future-Toronto, an immense sand dune appears under the Gardiner Expressway, encroaching on the concrete columns that support the busy highway above. As the city heats up and our wind patterns change, desert-like formations materialize and move throughout parks and public spaces with regularity, creating new landmarks. Under the shade of the highway, this particular sand dune becomes a place of sanctuary in the city.

Sand Flight explores our changing relationship to the urban world due to global warming. Developed in response to the rapid heating of our urban centres, and long-standing rituals in Scandinavian cultures including the sun-worshipping dances of the Bronze age, this new performance piece by Ingri Fiksdal and Jonas Corell Petersen (Oslo, Norway) imagines a speculative mythology for climates-to-come, where shade-worshipping becomes a new tradition. Eight dancers and a large choir navigate around the newly formed sand dune, exploring the tension between honouring our infrastructure and fighting our new nature.

Featuring an original composition, TDT ensemble members plus local and international performers, this bold new work of climate fiction is a call to closely consider the evolution of our local environments in the not-so-distant future, while creating new customs we’ll collectively value in a changing world.

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1. EVENT SHADOWLANDS – DRAWING DARKNESS AND THE CITY WITH MIKIKI
   DATE JUNE 15, 2025 (PLUS JULY 16, 20, 27)
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE MIKIKI

Mikiki presents SHADOWLANDS: Drawing Darkness and the City
June 15, 2025
7:30PM – 9:30PM
*Picnic Area 5, Taylor Creek Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
FREE

Mikiki is excited to be hosting and facilitating a series of landscape drawing sessions in beautiful Taylor Creek Park entitled, SHADOWLANDS – Drawing Darkness and the City.

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. On June 15, special guest vocalist is Rosina Kasi, artist and frontperson of LAL.

Location: *Picnic Area 5, LINK HERE
Weather updates: LINK HERE

SHADOWLANDS – Drawing Darkness and the City is supported by Toronto Arts Council Artists Animating the Parks fund.

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6. OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SILT: FRESHWATER
   DEADLINE DATE JUNE 16, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE CHRISTOPHER PETERSEN

Open Call for Silt: Freshwater

Call Closes: June 16
Show Date: August 25 and 26

Silt is an evening of performance. Through a public open call, five artists are each provided with 15 minutes to present an action, event, performance. Silt was originally started for dance, movement, and performance artists; however, it is open to everyone regardless of artistic or personal identifications. The aim of Silt is to provide participants with an accessible low stakes stage for experimentation and expression.

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7. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS PERFORMANCE RESEARCH ON MUSICALITY
   DEADLINE DATE JUNE 25, 2025
   LOCATION THE WORLD
   SOURCE PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

Volume 31, Issue 3 – On Musicality
Deadline: 25 June 2025
Issue Editors: George Rodosthenous and Demetris Zavros

On Musicality aims to operate at the intersection of multiple disciplinary boundaries, emerging research areas and evolving creative paradigms. We invite proposals that explore the evolving relationships between musicality and various elements of the mise-en-scène in contemporary performance. This includes investigations into how musicality interacts with creative processes, influences genre formation or redefinition and contributes to the subversion or development of theatrical conventions. Our aim is to trace and analyze this expanding tessitura of connections, revealing new insights into the role of musicality in theatre-making today.

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This call for papers invites contributions that expand the discourse on musicality in contemporary theatre, and approaches that challenge Eurocentric frameworks. We encourage innovative perspectives that reframe artistic hierarchies, collaborative authorship and the intersections of embodied practices, technologies and transformative research methodologies. From the collective polyphony of Balinese Kecak to the relational agency of West African Griot storytelling, from the affective chant of Iranian Ta’zieh to the epistemological rhythms of Aboriginal Corroboree, diverse global practices challenge dominant modes of authorship and production. We are especially interested in work that engages with these and other musical traditions, performance practices and aesthetic philosophies from across the globe, addressing how they shape the aesthetic, epistemic, and political dimensions of performance-making today.

Schedule:
Proposals: 25 June 2025
Outcomes: July 2025
First drafts: October 2025
Final drafts: March 2026

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8. WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE ART WITH ARKADI LAVOIE LACHAPELLE
   DATE JUNE 28 & 29, 2025
   LOCATION MONTREAL, CANADA
   SOURCE ARKADI LAVOIE LACHAPELLE

Introductory performance art workshop for creative people
Facilitated by Arkadi Lavoie Lachapelle

June 28 & 29, 205
Cité-des-Hospitalières, Montreal

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9. 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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10. EVENT TOGETHER ELSEWHERE 2025
    DATE JUNE – DECEMBER
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE BBEYOND

Pavanna Reid
Together Elsewhere 2025
Live Streaming Performance Event

Performance Art Bergen (PAB) member Pavanna Reid initiated an online project, Together Elsewhere in 2021. This year they have decided to invite international, non-member artists and PAB members to take part in this monthly streaming performance event. They are currently looking for artists to take part in the upcoming June through December events.

Contact Pavanna or Gisela if you have any questions.
Pavana Reid (PAB): pavanareid@icloud.com
Gisela Hochuli (PANCH): nexus@giselahochuli.com

Performance Space: Artists chose the same type of space to perform in
Materials: Artist pairs choose 3 materials each, they have 6 materials to work with each
Time: Performances are 30 minutes each and will be streamed side by side.

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