FADO E-BULLETIN
June 2026

1. EVENT THE CHAINS BY EVAN WEBBER
   DATE JUNE 3–7, 2026
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE FTA

The Chains by Evan Webber
Produced by Evan Webber + Public Recordings
Presented by Festival TransAmériques (FTA)

June 3–7, 2026
Cité-des-Hospitalières, Montreal

In a room bathed in light, small groups of people are seated at tables. You take your place among them, holding in your hands an unusual questionnaire. Is this a story, a test, or a collective ritual? The timer begins. Bells ring. And you face a series of questions about your beliefs, your desires, your optimism and your despair. Gradually, the scene transforms. The figure of Antigone appears in late-90s Toronto, a city reeling from the policies of Mike Harris and the rise of the War on Terror. In The Chains, each participant discovers they have a role to play, re-enacting Sophocles’ classical tragedy in a new context.

Evan Webber turns the theatre into a laboratory where the personal and political collide. After Other Jesus, performed at FTA 2019, he returns with a stark and deeply human work. The Chains makes audience participation an act of thinking and sharing—and tests how freedom and responsibility can survive their contradictions.

For twenty years, Toronto writer and performer Evan Webber has been challenging our preconceived notions about theatre: who acts, who watches, who decides. He has developed a stripped-down dramaturgy with methods of disconcerting simplicity. Co-creating and coauthoring his projects with longtime collaborators such as choreographer Ame Henderson and Public Recordings, his work reveals the structures that govern us and the mechanisms that shape our actions—cultural narratives, inherited myths, political constraints, collective frameworks, etc.

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2. EVENT MANUAL BY ADAM KINNER & CHRISTOPHER WILLES
   DATE JUNE 3–6, 2026
   LOCATION HALIFAX, CANADA
   SOURCE CHRISTOPHER WILLES

Manual by Adam Kinner & Christopher Willes
Presented by Eastern Front Theatre

June 3–6, various times
NSCAD University Library, Halifax

Manual is a one-on-one performance that turns a public library into a space of sensory encounter and heightened awareness. Staged covertly during public hours, viewers arrive on site with instructions to meet a stranger at a particular time and location. From there they are led silently through a series of subtle events, following written notes and immersive audio in headphones. They walk through the space and listen together. They look at books and read to each other. Sounds and images found in the library combine and blur. And as the piece progresses the materials they encounter come to form a manual for slowing down.

Intermingling with the daily life of the library, Manual reflects on the act of listening and the intimacy of reading with another person in a public space. Through a carefully guided participatory experience, the piece invites viewers to engage with the library as a site of deep sensory awareness, and to reflect on the social and technological conditions of shared attention.

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3. EVENT YOU CANNOT CAN BY DANA MICHEL
   DATE JUNE 3–7, 2026
   LOCATION MONTREAL, CANADA
   SOURCE FTA

You Cannot Can by Dana Michel
Presented by Festival TransAmériques (FTA)

June 3–7, 2026
UQAM Sports Center, Montreal

Performance artist Dana Michel considers the ability to swim to be one of the ways in which we might embody self-trust and wonders why, despite many attempts at learning, she still cannot really feel at ease in the water. And what is it that holds back the majority of her family from swimming, despite hailing from an island that is surrounded by both the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea? How safe can you feel in the world if you cannot float in the liquid that makes up a large part of your body?

With You Cannot Can, Michel creates a new solo performance in a swimming pool. Surrounded by the audience, she wades inside global histories and socio-economic realities of swimming and safe access to water. She uses her kaleidoscopically curious approach to focus on how we might shake off fears. Might this watery adventure be an entry point to ultimate liberation?

Acclaimed in both Canada and abroad, Michel has received numerous prestigious awards. These include the ImPulsTanz Award (Vienna, 2014), the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennial (2017), the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art (Kuopio, Finland, 2019), the Canada Council for the Arts’ Jacqueline Lemieux Prize for her contribution to dance in Canada (2022), and the Prix de la danse de Montréal International Touring Award (2024).

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4. EVENT EX MACHINE
   DATE JUNE 5, 2026
   LOCATION COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
   SOURCE LIVE ART DENMARK

EX MACHINA – an international performance night
Curated by Performancekøkkenet/ David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo

June 5, 2026
Live Art Zine, Nørrebrogade 5C, 2200 Copenhagen

ARTISTS
Mikka Mallow and Marcos Nacar (Denmark/Spain)
Sól Ey (Iceland)
Bistu Ryx (Colombia)
Ada Ada Ada (Denmark):
Kristoffer Raasted (Denmark)

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5. EVENT WRITING/LISTENING/ACTION: LAUNCH & PERFORMANCES
   DATE JUNE 13, 2026
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE VIVA!

Writing/Listening/Action: Launch & Performances

June 13, 2026
À Espace Transmission, 5435 Av. des Érables, Montréal
5:00PM launch / 7:00PM performances

ARTISTS
Joy Boissiere
Marina Barsy Janer
Stephanie Castonguay

VIVA! is thrilled to invite you to a performance evening celebrating the launch of the latest issue of Inter, art actuel, which features a micro-publication by members of the Phorie collective!

As part of the latest edition of the VIVA! Art Action biennial, three members of the Phorie collective (Félix Chartré-Lefebvre, Benoit Jodoin, and Marie Achille) participated in a writers’ residency dedicated to supporting performative writing practices and advancing theoretical knowledge related to current practices in action art. Phorie combines research and creation in an interdisciplinary practice where art and theory are shaped by experiences, narratives, and fiction. During their residency, the collective conducted research on the forms and strategies of affective contagion in contemporary art.

We are pleased to announce that the outcome of this residency takes the form of a micropublication featured in issue #147 of the magazine Inter – Ouïr: performances et installations sonores. Organized in collaboration with Le Lieu, the evening’s artistic program echoes the magazine’s theme.

Inter, art actuel is a cultural magazine that showcases various forms of contemporary art while exploring its relationships to the social, the political, and ethics. An open forum for artists, critics, and thinkers, it has championed ephemeral, emerging, avant-garde, and interdisciplinary practices for decades. The latest issue Ouïr explores the transformative interrelationships between sound creation, performativity, and installation in contemporary art.

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6. EVENT FIERCE JAMS 02
   DATE JUNE 18, 2026
   LOCATION BIRMINGHAM, UK
   SOURCE FIERCE FESTIVAL

Fierce Jams 02
June 18, 2026

Midlands Sailing Club, Birmingham
7:00PM

ARTISTS
Margot McClane (Birmingham)
Francesca Millican-Slater (Birmingham)
Harmanpreet Randhawa (Birmingham)
Sym Stellium (Birmingham)
Emily Parsons-Lord (Melbourne)

After the incredible success of the inaugural Fierce Jams back in April (and the launch of our artisanal jam artist editions), we’re thrilled to announce the line-up for Fierce Jams 02. Fierce Jams is our new, ongoing, and nomadic performance series, indulging in small-scale experiments in contemporary performance and live art. It is an excuse for Birmingham’s performance community to gather and to develop their practice in conversation with one another.

Tickets are now on sale for £5! If you’re interested in attending and cost is a barrier, please reach out to us at contact@wearefierce.org

And for Birmingham artists interested in getting involved in future editions of Fierce Jams, our rolling Call for Expressions of Interest remains open and can be accessed on our website.

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7. EVENT ALL IRELAND LIVE ART MEET-UP
   DATE JUNE 20, 2026
   LOCATION TIPPERARY, IRELAND
   SOURCE BBEYOND

BBEYOND’s Performance Monthly in June will be held in Roscrea at the All Ireland Meet-up
The Black Mills Centre, Roscrea

12:00: Talks and Discussions
14:00: Open Group Performance
15.30: Networking Black Mills Centre

Accommodation Live Art Ireland 19-20th, please email live.art.ireland@gmail.com to book accommodation which will be shared rooms or camping.

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8. EVENT OPEN FIELD WITH JOHN BOEHME & SHANNON COCHRANE
   DATE JUNE 24 & 26, 2026
   LOCATION BEUNOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
   SOURCE GRACIELA OVEJERO POSTIGO

Open Field/Campo AbiertO with John Boehme & Shannon Cochrane

Peras de Olmo – ARS CONTINUA
June 24 & 26, 2026

With great joy we have the honor of announcing and inviting you to the next two in-person events in June of the current year, programmed within the framework of the artist residency of pioneering artists of contemporary performance art from Canada, at Peras de Olmo – ARS CONTINUA, the only exhibition and research space dedicated exclusively to performance art in Argentina, in existence since 2011.

Event 1: Masterclass Abstract x 2
June 24, 6:00PM
A free-format session, discursive, conversational and possibly demonstrative in nature, approximately one hour+ in duration, with a circular conversation facilitated at the end of the presentations, with interpretations between Spanish and English.

Event 2: Laboratorio de acciones
June 26, 7:00PM
Individual Performance Showcase within the framework of Vol. LIII of the curatorial series Open field / campo abiertO – Laboratory of actions

Shannon Cochrane from Toronto (ON), and John Boehme from Victoria (BC), individually represent more than 30 years of experience as performance artists in their country and internationally. Both artists, in addition to generating notable contributions to the thinking of the practice in their field through their particular combinatorial approaches, are also recognized for their sustained contributions to the development of the multiple scenes of action art across their vast country, consolidated through teaching, curatorial, and organizational work, with great dedication.

The two events that host and celebrate the work of these artists, who are visiting Argentina for the first time, are unique, in-person, and unmissable in nature, aimed at a general adult audience and especially at audiences who love contemporary art, students, researchers, and action art artists.

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9. EVENT 43RD BELLUARD BOLLWERK
   DATE JUNE 25–JULY 4, 2026
   LOCATION FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND
   SOURCE CLAUDE WITTMANN

Belluard Bollwerk: 43rd Festival
June 25–July 4, 2026
Fribourg, Switzerland

ARTISTS
Claude wittmann
Samia Henni
Tyna Might
Jamila Baioia
Stéphanie Mwamba
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Elina Kulikova & Dima Egremov
Catol Teixeira
Catalina Insignares & Carolina Mendonça
Eugena Poblete
Adeline Rosenstein
Yuck Miranda
Hend Jouda
Sophie Guisset
And many more….

At the 43rd edition of the festival and under the title underground complicities, Belluard Bollwerk continues its artistic research on land and earth by exploring the multiple layers, sediments and abysses of the underground and the possible ties and complicities between below and above.

Since 1983, festival Belluard Bollwerk takes place every summer over the course of ten days in Fribourg, Switzerland. Through performance, dance and theatre, visual arts, film and installation, music, literature, critical thinking and multiple forms between and beyond disciplines, the festival aims to be an inspiring and convivial space devoted to the love for the arts, to unfamiliar and radical approaches, and aesthetics. As place for creation, reflection, and exchange, the festival wishes to be an experience beyond the ordinary, a state of exception, where there’s a place for everyone. In times of extreme violence, despair and shivering darkness, Belluard Bollwerk insists together with artists and audiences that we can imagine the festival as temporary community that lives on generosity, laughter, love and hope. In a world of polarization and simplification, Belluard Bollwerk desires to create a place of nuance, where complexity, difference, and confrontation can be embraced. The festival imagines a shared space of encounter and mutual curiosity that proposes another way of saying ‘we’.

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10. EVENT CURATING THE VILLAGE: OPEN SESSIONS
    DATE JUNE 26–27, 2026
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE SHALON WEBBER-HEFFERNAN

Curating the Village: Open Sessions
Theatre Direct & Critical Distance Centre for Curators
Curated by Shalon Webber-Heffernan

FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2026
Evening sessions from 6:15–8:30PM
Theatre Direct (Studio H), Toronto

SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2026
Full day from 10:00AM–6:00PM
Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto

PARTICIPANTS
Indu Vashist / Mark Reinhart / Jeneen Frei Njootli / Tender Again / Ebru Winegard / Heather Frise Maryna Salagub / 44.4 Mother/Artist Collective / Janet Hinkle / Ragamalika Mohanraj / Una Janicijevic Margaret Evans (Balancing Act) / Rafah’s Kitchen / Michelle Wilson / Zoë Heyn-Jones & Amanda White Shira Leuchter / Yanaminah Thullah / Regatu Asefa / Sandra Dusabe / Delilah Edouard Williams /Renée Anne Bouffard-McManus / Sasha Singer-Wilson

Curating the Village: Open Sessions is a two-day gathering of artists, curators, and cultural workers exploring caregiving as both a lived experience and a working condition. Spanning rest, performance, workshops, shared meal, and conversation, the program brings together perspectives on caring for children, parents, elders, neighbours, the dying, and broader communities within the arts ecosystem.

Developed through an ongoing research-creation initiative, Curating the Village approaches care not only as a subject, but as a force that reshapes how artistic and curatorial work is organized, timed, and sustained. Marked by interruption, exhaustion, and relational obligation, caregiving challenges dominant expectations of productivity, availability, and coherence in cultural labour. While “care” circulates widely in contemporary arts discourse, it is still rarely accommodated structurally within programming or institutional time. Through short offerings, shared food, and collective discussion, Open Sessions considers what shifts when care is approached not simply as a trending theme, but as a method—one that foregrounds interdependence, negotiation, and the conditions that make work possible.

Saturday programming includes FREE onsite childcare, a shared meal, and hybrid participation options to support caregiver access.

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11. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS PERFORM’ACTION GREEN FESTIVAL 2026
    DEADLINE DATE JUNE 29, 2026
    LOCATION YAOUNDÉ, CAMEROON
    SOURCE CHRISTIAN ETONGO

Perform’Action Green Festival 2026 – 10th Edition (Cameroon)
The Body as a Territory of the Living: Acting for the Earth and for the Future

The Perform’Action Green Festival is an international festival dedicated to performance art and artistic practices committed to ecology and sustainable development. Led by Cameroonian artist Christian Etongo, it serves as a platform for creation, reflection, and action, where art becomes a tool for awareness-raising, education, and social transformation in direct connection with communities.

As part of its 10th edition, which will take place from December 8 to 12, 2026, in Yaoundé, Akak 1 (Soa), and in partner rural communities, the festival is launching an international call for applications aimed at performance artists, interdisciplinary creators, sustainable development actors, researchers, and engaged practitioners.

This call invites artistic proposals that critically and sensitively explore the relationships between the body and the living world, as well as between human beings and their environment. Projects may address connections to territory, the memory of the land, the impacts of human activities on ecosystems, local ecological knowledge, and forms of resilience and transformation. Particular attention will be given to participatory projects rooted in local realities, environmentally engaged, and involving communities.

International artists are expected to secure their own funding to cover international travel, production costs, and expenses related to their participation. The festival can provide official invitation letters to support funding applications. The festival will cover local transportation, offer accommodation options with host families or within partner communities, provide meals, administrative support, and ensure national and international visibility within its official program.

Applicants are required to submit:
A statement of intent (maximum 1 page)
A description of the project or performance
A portfolio (PDF or link)
A technical sheet
A workshop proposal (optional but strongly encouraged)

Applications should be sent to:
performactionliveart@yahoo.com
WhatsApp: +237 69 900 6540

Artistic Director: Christian Etongo
Guest Curator: Ruth Colette Afane Belinga

The Perform’Action Green Festival is a space where creation becomes an act of presence in the world. Through this edition, it invites artists and engaged actors to make the body, territory, and the living world a field of exploration and transformation. Acting for the Earth and for the Future.

The application deadline is June 29, 2026. Results will be announced in July 2026.

12. OPEN CALL SILT: FRESHWATER
    DEADLINE DATE JUNE 29, 2026
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE CHRISTOPHER PETERSEN

Performance Open Call: Applications due June 29th

SILT: FRESHWATER
Gerrard Art Space
August 24 & 25

SILT: FRESHWATER is an evening of performance. Through a public open call, four 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: FRESHWATER is to provide participants with an accessible low stakes stage for experimentation and expression.

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13. CALL FOR PROPOSALS CTR THE FAILURE ISSUE
    DEADLINE DATE JUNE 29, 2026
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE CHRIS DUPUIS

Canadian Theatre Review announces a call for proposals for a special issue exploring the subject of “failure.” Failure plays a key role in many aspects of the Canadian theatrical landscape. This includes hindering the development of specific works, limiting the careers of individual artists, and restricting the growth of companies and presentation platforms. Conversely, failure is often cited as a creative tool, which leads to the generation of new ideas and approaches by enabling alternate ways of sharing, learning, and relating.

How might failure and failing engage these tensions and be mobilized as a strategy for producing emergent connective pathways, new ways of thinking, and alternative methodologies?

Potential topics can include (but are not limited to):
Failure as a creative/learning tool
Failure as resistance
How failure inhibits/supports the creation of new work in Canada
How failure shapes an individual artist or company’s trajectory
Failure in acting, writing, directing, designing, or producing
Technical failure
Emerging technologies, failure as possibility
Curatorial failure
Scholarly/pedagogical failure
Failure of the individual subject and collective engagement
Failure of an institution/company
Failure by governmental agencies/policy makers
The challenges of audience development and fundraising
How to create more productive spaces for failure
Examples of failure from Canadian theatrical history

We will consider scholarly articles (around 2500 words and exceptionally up to 5000 words) as well as interviews, personal reflections, and photo/text collages (around 1000-1500 words). Submissions should be made to the email addresses listed below.

Submissions should include:
Names, email addresses, and institutional affiliations (if applicable) of all co-authors
The proposed title of the piece and word length
An abstract (250 words)
A bio for each co-author (100 words)

Along with scholarly articles, the issue will include space for performance practitioners to reflect on their work, their working processes, and the wider field. In either case, potential contributors can contact the editors to discuss their ideas prior to submitting a proposal/abstract. If you want to arrange a meeting, please contact the editors Esteban Donoso and Chris Dupuis at
ctrfailureissue@gmail.com.

Deadlines
Abstracts: June 29, 2026
First Drafts: November 16, 2026

14. EVENT PARTITIONS ILLIMITÉES / UNLIMITED SCORES
    DATE JULY 7, 2026
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE JULIE LASSONDE

Partitions illimitées / Unlimited Scores with Julie Lassonde, James Knott, Leena Raudvee

Tuesday, July 7
The Tranzac (Southern Cross room), 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto
7:00PM, PWYC (suggested contribution $10-20)

Experience Julie Lassonde’s residency involving movement and sound improvisation. This month, they invite Yang Chen (percussion), James Knott (voice, electronics) and Leena Raudvee (movement). Together, they will perform scores composed by Julie specifically for this residency.

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15. EVENT BBEYOND BERLIN
    DATE OPEN
    LOCATION BERLIN, GERMAN
    SOURCE BBEYOND BERLIN

You know the Belfast Bbeyond performance monthy in Belfast?

Now, here is “Bbeyond Berlin” WHO is basically everybody, who joins into a (more or less monthly) interactive performance in a public space in Berlin.

WE ARE OPEN! WE ARE FREE! WE EXPLORE!

Started by Hilla Steinert & Keike Twisselmann in December 2021, they invite you to any future session with Bbeyond Berlin. Just get in touch, come over to Berlin, be our guest, perform with us. Simple as that.

Email: marge@magenta.de