FADO E-BULLETIN
November 2025

1. FADO PRESENTS DIE STRASSE [BACK ALLEY EDIT] BY CLINT ENNS
   DATE NOVEMBER 21, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE FADO

Die Strasse [Back Alley Edit] by Clint Enns
November 21, 2025

The Commons @ 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
7:00PM doors | Performance at 7:30PM (sharp!)
FREE | All welcome

Join us for another instalment in FADO’s Walk-And-Talk performance series. Clint Enns takes us on a cinematic Walk-And-Talk through the work of Karl Grune’s 1923 film, Die Strasse, narrating the film as a performative-intervention.

Enns’ Die Strasse [Back Alley Edit] re-imagines Karl Grune’s 1923 Die Strasse as a walking film. The film follows movements of a man who leaves his home and drifts through the city at night, each step carrying him deeper into the dangers of the street. Cinema as walk, narrative as restless wandering.

The artist’s reworking intervenes in this walk by adding a textual element and voice, shifting the film from “silent walkie” to “talkie.” A detour[nement] where new stories emerge in motion.

Clint Enns is a visual artist, writer, and curator living in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. His post-cinematic practice consists of reworking existing films, disrupting their conventional narratives and forms. His interventions destabilize the cinematic image, turning familiar works into sites of critical play and reinterpretation. By appropriating and manipulating filmic material, Enns challenges the permanence of cinema as a fixed cultural object, presenting it as malleable, thinking though the ways moving images persist, mutate, and circulate in a post-cinematic landscape shaped by digital technologies and remix culture.

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2. FADO + VTAPE PRESENTS AN AFTERNOON WITH MARGARET DRAGU
   DATE NOVEMBER 22, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE FADO

Your New Normal: An Afternoon with Margaret Dragu
Saturday, November 22, 2025

The Commons @ 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
2:00PM–5:00PM
FREE | All welcome

Join us for a joyful day of video-art BINGE WATCHING!

FADO Performance Art Centre and V tape are thrilled to present Your New Normal: An Afternoon with Margaret Dragu, part of FADO’s on-going Walk-And-Talk performance series. Two different screenings (NEW NORMAL and TICK AND TALK OF COMMON TIME) sandwich a guided movement practice for artists (supportTHEsupport).

Wear your jammies, drink ginger ale and eat popcorn ALL DAY!!! Feel free to bring your own yoga mat, towel, blocks. You are strongly ENCOURAGED to wear your PJs/bathrobes/BYOB (teddy bear).

2:00PM: NEW NORMAL: an embodied novel (video, 45:00)
3:00PM: supportTHEsupport (movement practice)
4:00pm: TICK AND TALK OF COMMON TIME (video, 33 min)

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3. PERFORMANCE EVENT SILT: FRESHWATER
   DATE NOVEMBER 29, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE SILT + FADO

SILT: FRESHWATER
In Collaboration with FADO Performance Art Centre!
Saturday, November 29, 2025

The Commons @ 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
3:00PM start time
FREE | All welcome

ARTISTS
Jen Hum
public-universal-friends
Emily Duckett
Abbey Richens (of Spiral Eyedd & Meaningful Movement)

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.

Please RSVP at the link below.

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4. FADO CALL FOR PROPOSALS 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.

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

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6. CALL FOR PROPOSALS SUMMERWORKS 2026
   DEADLINE DATE NOVEMBER 5, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE SUMMERWORKS

SummerWorks expands the possibilities of performance.

We are thrilled to welcome project submissions for our next Festival: August  6–16, 2026 in Tkaronto (Toronto), Canada, as well as other year-round programming initiatives and presentation opportunities.

We are seeking proposals for contemporary performance projects that challenge disciplinary boundaries and engage with form and content in innovative and imaginative ways. We strongly invite inter- and multi-disciplinary experimentation.

Each year, SummerWorks presents:

• fully-developed performance works;
• works-in-process, at various stages of creative development;
• works that engage with public space; in outdoor settings and in alternative venues.

Proposals are encouraged from established and emerging creators working across all performance disciplines and artistic traditions. Works for in-person theatre, gallery, outdoor, and non-traditional settings are welcome, as are proposals for online, site-specific, and immersive contexts.

All proposed works should have some previous research, creation, and/or presentation history, depending on the stage of development.

Projects curated from this Call will be provided a guaranteed fee of $1,000 CAD to $5,000 CAD (depending on the overall scale of the project and number of performances).

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7. EVENT ARTIST TALK WITH JORDAN KING
   DATE NOVEMBER 5, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE ART METROPOLE

Artist talk with Jordan King
November 5, 2025

Art Metropole, 896 College Street, Toronto
6:00–8:00pm

Please join us for an artist talk accompanying Jordan King’s exhibition and artist’s book Seen Through Red. King will be joined in conversation by long-time collaborator Greg Manuel to discuss the nature of their subject-photographer collaboration and Vancouver’s Davie Street community which they were each a part of between 1999–2005.⁠
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Seen Through Red is a book work by Jordan King expanded into an exhibition in Art Metropole’s project space. Drawing upon archival material in her personal collection, King presents Polaroids, photographs, ephemera, and press clippings from 2000–2006, facilitating an exploration of personal histories of photography and trans visual agency.⁠
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Seen Through Red offers up an archival unearthing in the dissemination of an unmined expressive period in King’s early creative life. While King took great care in storing these items, many for over twenty years, this exhibition marks a recognition of the ways in which an archive may become a heavy weight to carry. King’s revisitation of her collection of ephemera allows for its recontextualization, and she now shares this history in the form of a handcrafted artist’s book.⁠

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8. PERFORMANCE EVENT REVERBERATIONS: PERFORMANCE ART RESIDENCY
   DATE NOVEMBER 7, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE SAVAC

Reverberations: Performance Art Residency and Living Exhibition
Live Performances: Friday, November 7

The Commons @ 401 Richmond St West, Toronto
6:30PM–9:30PM
FREE | All welcome

ARTISTS
Jana Omar Elkhatib (Palestine/Canada)
Rajyashri Goody (India/Netherlands)
mihyun maria kim (Canada)

Curated by Abedar Kamgari

Reverberations is a five-week, living residency-exhibition that engages performance art methodologies rooted in unraveling oppressive histories. Artists Jana Omar Elkhatib, Rajyashri Goody, and mihyun maria kim give shape and sound to experiences that transcend generations and continents.

SAVAC brings these artists into a sustained conversation with each other, creating a supportive environment for learning, exchange, and experimentation. Performance is alive and thus always in relation with the people and places where it unfolds. Performance art evenings will allow the artists to stage planned and spontaneous gestures before live audiences, while viewers are invited into a dialogue and critique to support artists in their creative process.

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9. EVENT GLOCAL INTERMISSIONS: BBEYOND SYMPOSIUM
   DATE NOVEMBER 14–16, 2025
   LOCATION BELFAST, N.IRELAND
   SOURCE BBEYOND

Glocal intermissions: 50 Years of Performance Art in Ireland, Belfast and beyond | 1975–2025
November 13–15, 2025

Glocal Intermission: 50 Years of Performance Art in Ireland brings together artists, curators, scholars, and cultural workers to reflect on the radical, ephemeral, and transformative power of live art.

Hosted in Belfast, the symposium will feature keynote presentations, exhibitions, archival screenings, participatory and solo performances, and panel discussions that trace the lineage of performance art from its early provocations to its contemporary, socially engaged forms. From Alastair MacLennan’s durational works with students of Belfast School of Art, 1975 to the site-responsive practices shaping today’s cultural landscape, this event celebrates performance as a tool of resistance, enquiry and embodiment. Reaching from Belfast to a global network of performance art opportunities. Transforming lives as it goes.

The programme invites attendees to explore the intersections of body, place, and memory—reframing performance art not only as spectacle, but as a living archive of Ireland’s evolving identity.

Highlights include:
Keynote by Emeritus Professor Alastair Maclennan reflecting on his 50 years of experience
Live interventions by Bbeyond artists
A walking tour of Belfast’s peace lines as performative thresholds
Archival displays and poetic responses to seminal works
Solo Performance by Bbeyond new commission artist Madison Agnew
50 year anniversary group performance Unity Walk
Intergenerational knowledge share
Performance art and mental health what is the intersection?
Opportunities to learn about and share memories of performance art in Ireland
Opportunities to feed into 50 years of Performance art exhibition at Belfast School of Art

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10. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS HANGING BY A THREAD
    DEADLINE DATE NOVEMBER 15, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE HENRY CHAN

HANGING BY A THREAD
Call for Applications for CC #18

Performance is Sunday November 30 at 6:30pm
Bygone Theatre, The Bridge, 379 Adelaide St, 4th Floor

Puppets know all about precarity. We’re familiar with hanging by a thread, used to being manipulated, old hands at getting a rod up the ass—but no matter what they throw at us, together we always manage to find a wee bit of grace and a way to have fun. Tonight, we celebrate the surprising strength of the collectively-woven thread we’re all hanging from. Old and new object-performers: bring your precarious puppets, your awkward objects, your half-finished ideas, your barely baked narratives! We will revel in Bygone Theatre’s space before their eviction by their corporate landlords!!

If you’ve been curious about Concrete Cabaret before, but unsure if you could pull something together, we really hope that this is the time for you!

Applications due November 15, 2025 at Midnight

What we’re looking for:
We prioritize performances and acts that challenge theatrical norms and our understanding of objects and inanimacy, as well as projects and people telling stories pertinent to, and underrepresented in, today’s political and social climate. Low-tech and short-form pieces fit our cabaret best—performances ranging from 3-10 minutes with minimal setup and tech are preferred. All performers are paid a modest honorarium and will be provided with a free meal before or during the performance. This cabaret, we are prioritizing NEW puppeteer applicants. DO IT! We look forward to hearing from you!

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11. EVENT OLDER & RECKLESS
    DATES NOVEMBER 21–22, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE MOONHORSE DANCE THEATRE

Older & Reckless
Moonhorse Dance Theatre’s nationally acclaimed performance series!

November 21 & 22, 2025
Fleck Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto

Join us as we celebrate our 25th anniversary! The work curated into Older & Reckless is sought out to redefine destructive assumptions about age and dance ability, celebrating artists over 45 who continuously take risks, ask pertinent questions and dig deep into nuance. The production (3 performances over 2 days) features 4 guest artists, Community Performance Project, Crossing the Streams, and 2 great big receptions!

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12. EVENT FIX CATALYST ARTS PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL
    DATE NOVEMBER 18–22, 2025
    LOCATION BELFAST, N.IRELAND
    SOURCE BBEYOND

FIX: Catalyst Arts Performance Art Festival
November 18–22, 2025

Established by Catalyst Arts in 1994, and now in its 16th edition, FIX is an internationally renowned biennial of live art and performance. For over 30 years, FIX has delivered an innovative programme of local and international live, sonic and performance artists to the city of Belfast, and is one of Europe’s longest running live art festivals.

FIX25 is returning to Belfast this November with the theme: HIGH OCTANE—forceful; intense; dynamic; high-powered.

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13. RESEARCH PROJECT MANIFEST GESTURES | PAUL COUILLARD
    DATE ONGOING
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA & ONLINE
    SOURCE PAUL COUILLARD

Manifest Gestures
Beginning October 2025

This is an invitation to contribute to Paul Couillard’s ongoing performance art research into the durability and mutability of performance gestures, rooted in the work of the iconic Canadian performance art duo (active roughly 1975–2005) Randy & Berenicci.

Part interactive performance art project, part curatorial research (toward the mounting of a Randy & Berenicci retrospective exhibition), and part theoretical exploration of the materiality of gesture in performance art, this iteration of Manifest Gestures will unfold as a series of workshops-cum-discussions-cum crowd-sourcing focus groups.

Paul invites participants to join him in mining Randy & Berenicci’s paper and digital archives to consider what “gestures” in their work work we find to be relevant to current times and events, and that could be reanimated in new performance actions (see https://vimeo.com/685287056). This is a chance to access rarely seen, historically significant performance art documents while talking and experiencing art, process, and life.

Participation can take a variety of formats, from one-on-one meetings to larger group sessions, in person (Toronto-based) or over Zoom, from 30 minutes to several hours. You can book your personal or group session by contacting Paul at manifestgestures@gmail.com.

14. PERFORMANCE MORTIMER, BE QUIET. BY JAMES KNOTT
    DATE NOVEMBER 24, 2025 (MONTHLY THROUGH MARCH)
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE JAMES KNOTT

Mortimer, Be Quiet presents The Astringent Hearts Club residency
By James Knott

November 24, December 22, January 26, February 23, March 23
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Room), 292 Brunswick Ave., Toronto
9:30–11:30pm
PWYC

A monthly solo set of music turned cabaret experience, marrying the sultry appeal of a lounge singer and the tantalizing buffoonery of a glam rock icon. Costumes, masks, live piano, keyboards, singing, heartbreaks and surprises up the sleeve.

A project by performance artist James Knott, Mortimer, Be Quiet. makes manic art pop; shifting between genres and time signatures, with the masochistically wry confessional awareness of a singer-songwriter, but the absurdity of a mad scientist desperately seeking satisfaction (and never finding it).

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15. ONLINE EXHIBITION 7a*mgr8 Digital Residencies
    DATE ON-GOING
    LOCATION THE WORLD
    SOURCE TORONTO PERFORMANCE ART COLLECTIVE

7a*mgr8 [migrate]

Launching October 29: Bridget Moser’s Bone Conduction (It’s in My Blood)
Launching November 19: SF Ho’s A Solemn Clinic

Curated by Paul Couillard for Toronto Performance Art Collective

7a*mgr8 is a creative residency project that invites artists to create new digital performance works in dialogue with works from Toronto Performance Art Collective’s public web archive, an unparalleled free resource of performance art documents: recordings of performances, contextualizing panels, artist interviews, eyewitness accounts and critical writing.

Bridget Moser’s Bone Conduction (It’s in My Blood) is inspired by the notion of the “compulsive performer” that Andrew James Paterson explores in Performance: A Performance (1997). Bone Conduction (It’s in My Blood) uses computer-generated clones of Moser’s voice to perform different monologues or vignettes alongside layered song textures and sound compositions.

SF Ho’s A Solemn Clinic sits in conversation with Michael Fernandes’ Angelic Harp (2010), in which Fernandes reads passages from the book The Real World of Fairies for the audience. Riffing off an anecdote from the reading, in which a coffee tree is transplanted to a garden in California, Ho offers a series of videos and images that document a subtle relationship with several coffee plants coffee plants Ho bought at a local gardening store.

Included alongside the projects are in-depth conversations with the residency artists alongside the artists who inspired their works for 7a*mgr8.

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