FADO E-BULLETIN
October 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
The Commons @ 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto

November 21, 2025
7:00PM

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 + V TAPE PRESENTS AN AFTERNOON WITH MARGARET DRAGU
   DATE NOVEMBER 22, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE FADO & V TAPE

FADO + V tape present
New Normal: An Afternoon With Margaret Dragu
The Commons @ 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto

Saturday, November 22, 2025

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 sandwich a guided movement practice (with snacks!)

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2:00PM: NEW NORMAL: an embodied novel (video, 45:00)

“An embodied novel is a 13-part multi-modal project documenting Dragu’s experiences on public transit while waiting for/recovering from two hip replacement surgeries. This series of poetic-prose stories are articulated in the body as short videos produced by Dragu alongside her collaborators, Justine A. Chambers (choreography) and E. Kage (score), as well as in text in her publication by the same name.” (Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora, C.L.A.M.)

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3:00PM: supportTHEsupport (TORONTO VERSION)

supportTHEsupport is an art experiment that began September 2019 during the LIVE! Biennale in Vancouver. supportTHEsupport appears to be dance/fitness classes (live-in-person and live-on-ZOOM ) with members in Vancouver, Montréal, Toronto, Berlin, Hanover and Copenhagen. But it is actually a living studio of amazing and creative artists who help each other make art happen.

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4:00PM: TICK AND TALK OF COMMON TIME (video, 33 min)

“An opus of five variations and five entr’actes. Playing with the idea of TikTok dance trends, the variations feature fifteen live Vancouver-based dancers, three Toronto-based performers and many more [of whom are] dancing over Zoom, as well as several TikTok dance videos. Each variation presents a new choreography set to compositions from five different Canadian composers. The videos of the dancers are often in split screen or overlapping one another in the mainframe. The entr’actes feature improvisational dance by Dragu and Justine A. Chambers set to the sounds of live improvised vocal transcription.” (Nathaniel Marchand, Western Front)

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3. EVENT PME-ART’S RELAY-INTERVIEW PARTY
   DATE OCTOBER 2, 2025
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE PME-ART

PME-ART presents RELAY-INTERVIEW PARTY
MAI Café Bar, 3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance, Montréal

October 2, 2025
7:00PM–9:00PM
Free admission

Beautiful changes are happening for Montréal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART, both internal and external. Beginning now, PME-ART will open each new season with a Relay-Interview Party. This is a chance for the community to meet the us, meet each other, and get a taste for how the PME-ART process works. It’s also a chance to think alongside us about the theme for our upcoming cycle of creation: How Does Change Happen?

Relay-Interview is a ridiculously simple game for having unexpected conversations, like a relay race but for asking and answering questions. Please join us on October 2 from 7:00–9:00PM for questions, answers, snacks, and drinks. Come to learn Relay-Interview (an open-source activity which anyone may use for their own artistic processes) and begin our season with us–which is also the official start of a PME-ART’s next evolution!

If you have ever been interested in co-creating with us, auditioning, or proposing activities, this is the perfect space to tell us who you are, what drives your heart, and how we could walk together in the future. All disciplines, identities, and experience levels are welcome.

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4. EVENT LE LIEU PRESENTS PASSAGES ET DÉTOURS
   DATE OCTOBER 4, 2025
   LOCATION QUÉBEC CITY, CANADA
   SOURCE LE LIEU

PASSAGES ET DÉTOURS
Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, 345 Rue du Pont, Québec City

Saturday, October 4
6:00PM

ARTISTS
Jeff Huckleberry (USA)
Sakiko Yamaoka (Japan)
Juan David Molina
Joliz Dela Peña
Gabrielle Desrosiers
Marie-Claude Gendron

Le Lieu is welcoming artists Jeff Huckleberry and Sakiko Yamaoka as part of Passages et détours, an evening of performances bringing together artists featured in the VIVA! 2025 programming along with artists who presented performances in Mexico during a research-creation residency that was organized in partnership between VIVA! Art Action & Le Lieu.

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5. EVENT VIVA! ART ACTION
   DATE OCTOBER 7–11, 2025
   LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
   SOURCE VIVA!

VIVA! ART ACTION
MAI Café Bar (montréal arts interculturels), 3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance, Montréal

October 7–11, 2025
Times various / Free admission

ARTISTS
Alegría Gobeil (Québec)
Audrey / 卓涵 Jiang (China/Québec)
Ayana Evans (USA)
Caroline St-Laurent (Québec)
Chuyia Chia (Malaysia/Sweden)
Claudia Edwards (Canada)
collectif Phorie (Québec)
David Khang (Canada)
Fadwa Bouziane (Québec)
Irma Optimist (Finland)
Jeff Huckleberry (USA)
Jochi Muñoz (Dominican Republic)
Kelvin Atmadibrata (Indonesia/UK)
Przemek Branas (Poland/Portugal)
Sakiko Yamaoka (Japan)
Serge Olivier Fokoua (Cameroon/Québec)
Tatiana Koroleva (Siberia/Québec)

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6. PERFORMANCE TRANSFIGURATION BY OLIVIER DE SAGAZAN
   DATE OCTOBER 9 & 10, 2025
   LOCATION OTTAWA, CANADA
   SOURCE SAW GALLERY

Transfigurations by Olivier de Sagazon
La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins, 333 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa

October 9 & 10, 2025
7:30PM
Admission: $15–$50 / Limited seating

On October 9 and 10, 2025, La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins hosts a contemporary performance that has achieved cult status: Transfiguration by French artist Olivier de Sagazan. Presented by Théâtre du Trillium in collaboration with SAW, in partnership with the Institut français du Canada and Alliance Française Ottawa, this visceral solo blurs the boundaries between visual art, dance and theatre.

Wearing a business suit like a second skin, de Sagazan smears clay and pigment over his face and body. A mask emerges—then another, then another still—each wavering between beauty and horror. The body becomes canvas, time becomes material. Transfiguration tells of the “failure” of a painter-sculptor who, unable to breathe life into his work, throws his own body into the struggle. What begins as collapse becomes creation: shifting from identity to identity, from human to animal to hybrid, confronting the rawest of questions—Who am I?

Acclaimed worldwide, this performance fuses the precision of a sculptural gesture with the force of metamorphic theatre. The result is unforgettable: unsettling, moving, and strangely clarifying. Transfiguration offers Ottawa audiences a rare chance to witness an hour of images that linger on the retina long after the curtain falls—a long-awaited return following its riveting presentation at SAW in 2011.

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7. EVENT REVERBERATIONS: PERFORMANCE ART RESIDENCY
   DATES OCTOBER 9, 30 & NOVEMBER 7, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE SAVAC

Reverberations: Performance Art Residency and Living Exhibition
Curated by Abedar Kamgari

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

October 1–November 8, 2025
The Commons @ 401 Richmond St West, Toronto
Free events. All are welcome!

Open Studio and Meet-n-Greet
Thursday, 9 October, 4:00PM–7:00PM

Live Performances
Thursday, 30 October, 6:30PM–9:30PM
Friday, 7 November, 6:30PM–9:30PM
*performances will vary each night

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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8. EVENT SHORT&SWEET
   DATE OCTOBER 10, 2025
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE TDT

TDT presents Short&Sweet
Revival Toronto, 783 College Street, Toronto

October 10, 2025
Doors 7:30PM / Performances 8:00PM

FEATURING
Celia Green
Devon Snell
Sofi Gudiño
Tina Fushell
Tyler Quincy Yan
Ashely ‘Colours’ Perez
Johnathan Morin
Karen and Allen Kaeja
Keith Cole
Natasha “Courage” Bacchus
Nikki Huang
Ranganathan Rajan
Shona Kiyama
XLQ
Karyna Kaznova
Jenn Goodwin
Kate Nankervis
Megumi Kokuba
Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier
Claude Depussy
Purawai Vyas
Solonge Alexander AKA Solar
Brayden Cairns
Roberto Soria
and more…

The iconic performance party returns!

The epic Short&Sweet party returns this fall as part of TDT’s 2025/26 season. Originally created in Montréal by Andrew Tay and Sasha Kleinplatz, Short&Sweet brings together an impressive roster of 25+ artists from wildly different styles and aesthetics, giving them carte blanche to present anything they desire… with only three minutes on the clock. If they go over? The timekeeper cuts them off – instantly!

Expect bold risks, fresh experiments, and the pure adrenaline of seeing what can be accomplished in 180 seconds. After the performances, the night transforms into a full-on dance floor takeover. Followed by a DJ dance party until late.

Let’s kick off TDT’s 2025/26 season together with this unforgettable night!

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9. EVENT TAKE ME SOMEWHERE
   DATE OCTOBER 15–26, 2025
   LOCATION GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
   SOURCE TAKE ME SOMEWHERE

October 15–26, 2025
Glasgow, Scotland
Various times / venues

ARTISTS
Dan Daw (UK/Australia)
Jo Hauge (Scotland/Norway)
Tania El Khoury (USA/Lebanon)
Ontroerend Goed (Belgium)
Shawn Nayar (Scotland/India)
Paul Ramírez Jonas (USA)
Lukas Avendaño (Mexico)
Zu-Uk (UK)
Craig Manson (Scotland)
Doris Uhlich (Austria)
Mexa (Brazil)
Tiziano Cruz (Argentina)
21Common (Scotland)
Robbin Synge & Christine Thynne (Scotland)
Cherish Menzo (Belgium/The Netherlands)
Daniel Kok & Luke George (Singapore/Australia)
Antje Schupp (Switzerland)
Partrick Blenkarn + Milon Lim (Canada)

Take Me Somewhere is an international, biennial festival and year-round sector support organisation that exists to position Scotland as the place to create and see radical performance. Take Me Somewhere pulsates across the city every two years, bringing transformative performance into theatres, churches, nightclubs, gardens, and unexpected places in between. At the heart of the festival is a desire to connect people, ideas, and possibilities, and create a space for personal and political transformation. We centre diverse voices that speak to the complexities of our globalised world and invite audiences to join us in imagining what a future somewhere could be.

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10. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS SILT: FRESHWATER
    DEADLINE TO APPY OCTOBER 20, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE CHRISTOPHER PETERSON

Applications are open for SILT: FRESHWATER

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.

Applications close on October 20, 2025

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

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11. WORKSHOP WALKING EACH OTHER HOME / STACY MIKISHI & LOIS WEAVER
    DATES NOVEMBER 2, 9 & 23, 2025
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE LADA

Walking Each Other Home Stacy Makishi & Lois Weaver
November 2, 9 & 23, 2025

Online
3:00PM–6:00PM (GMT)
Pay What You Can (£10–£20)

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.

Stacy Makishi (she/her) is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993. A cross-fertilisation of live art, theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work ranges across stage performances, large-scale participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones and has been presented across the UK and internationally. She has received the ICA Attached Artist Award, a Millennium Fellowship Award, the Franklin Furnace Award, and the Live Art Development Agency Arthole Award. Also a teacher, director and mentor in international demand, Stacy believes in art’s transformative power and strives to share her creative process with others in order to put more ‘aloha’ into the world.

Lois Weaver (she/her) is an artist, activist and former Professor of Contemporary Performance Practice at Queen Mary University of London. She is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and a Wellcome Trust Fellow 2016-2018. Lois was co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater and WOW Theatre in New York. She has collaborated with Peggy Shaw and Split Britches since 1980. Recent performances include Unexploded Ordinances (2016-18) and Last Gasp; A Recalibration (2021-23). Lois originally came to London to take on the role of artistic director for Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company in 1992. She lives in New York and London.

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12. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION LEGS HALIFAX
    DEADLINE TO PARTIPATE NOVEMBER 1, 2025
    LOCATION HALIFAX, CANADA
    SOURCE HOLLY TIMPENER

We would like to invite you to participate in a Halifax iteration of LEGS, a relay performance. LEGS is a series launched in Montréal in 2015 that challenges traditional curatorial models of performance presentation, seeking to be self-organizing or without curation. Its founders aimed to create a non-hierarchical, independent, and adaptable event that’s open to everyone, regardless of their experience or artistic style. In 2015, over 50 participants took turns performing nonstop for 9 straight hours, with each performance lasting around 10 minutes. The event was a huge success. Other LEGS events followed: Toronto (2015, 2023), Zurich (2016), Olten (2016), Basel (2017), Giswil (2017) and more.

The project consists of a day of “relay” performances. That is, a single, continuous performance featuring performers primarily from the region. The idea is to create a series of uninterrupted performances. In other words, an endless performance that unites the broader community of performers.

LEGS is an event that blurs the concept of “emerging,” “mid-career,” or “established” artists and aims to shape, even if only ephemerally, the exchange and collaboration between performers, artists, and individuals of all generations and experiences.

EXAMPLE OF PREVIOUS LEGS EVENT (Toronto, 2023)

LEGS HALIFAX
November 9, 2025
12:00PM–8:00PM
Venue TBC
Deadline to join: November 1, 2025

INFORMATION TO SIGN UP AS A PERFORMER for LEGS HALIFAX

13. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SUMMERWORKS 2026
    DEADLINE TO PARTIPATE NOVEMBER 5, 2025
    LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
    SOURCE SUMMERWORKS

SummerWorks is 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 trans-disciplinary experimentation.

Each year, SummerWorks presents:
fully-developed performance works;
works-in-development, at various stages;
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.

Uncover more detailed information about the Call for Submissions, learn more about our Festival processes, and apply!

DEADLINE: November 5th, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST

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14. RESEARCH PROJECT MANIFEST GESTURES WITH PAUL COUILLARD
    DATE ON-GOING
    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

15. WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE ART FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE
    DATE NOVEMBER 23–30, 2025
    LOCATION MONTRÉAL, CANADA
    SOURCE ARKADI LAVOIE LACHAPELLE

Introductory performance art workshop for creative people
With Arkadi Lavoie Lachapelle

DATE: November 29–30, 2025
TIME: 10am–5pm
LOCATION: Cité-des-Hospitalières, Montréal
WORKSHOP LANGUAGE: French
PARTICIPANTS: 5–10

Questions? Email arkadi[at]live.fr

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16. TO LISTEN NEW PODCAST FROM HENRY ADAM SVEC
    DATE AVAILABLE NOW
    LOCATION ONLINE
    SOURCE JULIAN HIGUEREY NUNEZ

Souwesto Gothic: The Case of the Talbot Trail Boys
A new podcast from Henry Adam Svec

Is it possible that one of the greatest Canadian albums of all time might have come and gone without a trace? This is the question asked by Henry Adam Svec in his upcoming podcast series Souwesto Gothic: The Case of the Talbot Trail Boys. Throughout the six-part series Svec will explore the significance of place and the challenges of making art on the margins.

The band is called The Talbot Trail Boys. Having stumbled upon their self-titled album at a yard sale in St. Thomas, Svec was immediately taken by the authentic, timeless sounds—which, he would later learn, were produced in a barn on the fruit farm of three brothers: Darl Smith, Thom Smith, and Zackary Smith. “I am a folklorist and song collector by vocation, and I have been particularly interested in Southwestern Ontario,” he says. “So, it was surprising to me that I had never heard of them.” Early efforts at research yielded little results. “It seemed like no one had ever heard of these guys, no newspapers had covered them, so I just thought someone should try to tell their story.” The resulting audio work is a tragic and haunting meditation on family, grief, and perseverance through art.

Also a performer, Henry Adam Svec’s past works include The CFL Sessions and Artificially Intelligent Folk Songs of Canada Now. In 2021, he published his first novel, Life Is Like Canadian Football and Other Authentic Folk Songs, released by Invisible Publishing.

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

7a*mgr8 [migrate]
Digital residencies featuring Santiago Tamayo Soler, Bridget Moser, SF Ho, Pam Hall, Ronnie Clarke, k.g. Guttman and Claudia Edwards

Curated by Paul Couillard for Toronto Performance Art Collective
New projects will premier between October 2025 and February 2026 on the 7a-11d.ca website

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. The first (2024) season featured works by Sean Lee, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Abedar Kamgari.

The season launches October 8 with Santiago Tamayo Soler’s SAN ISIDRO LABRADOR: Rituales para Invocar el Agua (in dialogue with François Morelli’s Mari usque ad Mare / D’un trou d’eau à l’autre / Piss and Vinegar). Included alongside the projects are in-depth interviews with the artists.

Made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council. The 2024 season was funded through the Ontario Arts Council.

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