Downstage

CALL FOR PLAYWRIGHTS - DREAMING CLIMATE CONSCIOUSNESS! ☁️🍃☀️

💡 We invite playwrights interested in speculative storytelling, climate futures, dynamic collaboration, and new modes of collective creation to apply for this paid opportunity!

Downstage, Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation (ICAI), and Evan Medd, creator and facilitator of the ‘Dreaming Climate Consciousness’ initiative will be bringing together both established Calgary/Treaty 7-based playwrights and newcomer playwrights to collaboratively imagine and inhabit a co-created speculative world.

Participants will develop the histories, tensions, and possibilities of a shared climate future, with each playwright creating an original short play set within the collective universe they build together.

🗓️ APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!
APPLICATIONS CLOSE: June 26, 2026
PARTICIPANTS SELECTED BY: END of July 2026

💸 Please Note: This is a PAID opportunity.  Selected playwrights will receive $2,000 each.

SWIPE THROUGH for MORE INFO!
TO APPLY, please visit the LINK IN OUR BIO or VISIT http://downstage.ca/dreaming%20climate%20consciousness/ to FILL OUT THE GOOGLE FORM.
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✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT!

For our final festival offering, we invite you to slow down, open up, and reconnect through movement and play with LINDA KEE!

As a theatre and film artist, Linda specializes in using theatre and storytelling as a vehicle for positive social transformation. Working in Arts Education as a Teaching Artist, Linda believes that the arts is a vital entity in supporting and empowering learners to find freedom to guide their own personalized learning. She practices the values of expression, connection and collaboration as a Theatre of the Oppressed Forum Theatre Facilitator, and sharing the philosophy of the late Professor and Philosopher in Residence at the Lincoln Center of Education in NYC, Maxine Greene, who designed the pedagogy of Aesthetic Education, using digital, media, literary, visual, performing, music and movement arts to make learning inclusive. She includes the modalities of movement, yoga and taoist arts to foster wellness and healthier communities. She infuses these modalities into her storytelling, teaching and facilitation. She values telling stories in different avenues of expression, working to amplify the voices of subjugated perspectives, to foster understanding, deeper listening, and to celebrate community.

🗓️ Sunday, May 24th at 1:30pm
📍Motel Theatre, Werklund Centre

👉🏽 CREATIVE STRETCH is a free offering - drop by to join this afternoon. No experience necessary - just curiosity and a willingness to play. Come as you are.

PLEASE WEAR COMFY CLOTHES YOU CAN MOVE IN!
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✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT!

🍑 SEW GAY

Fat & Fruity artists Maddy and Sara are ! Based in Mohkinstis, they use various mediums to craft, create and construct kooky, colorful and fun art for everyone! Find them in person at local art markets or on instagram.

🧵CYTOSTIITCH

KD () makes soft little weirdos for weird little softies! They’re a q***r and autistic multi-media artist filling the deep lonely void in their heart with huggable yarn and portable stories. The scope of their work is ever expanding, it explores every direction all at once and their curiosity is never satisfied. They hope you will find personal connection, companionship, or some kind of solace within the work they are producing.

🗓️ Friday, May 22nd + Saturday, May 23rd
📍Centre Court, Werklund Centre
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The Stage It Festival is HERE! ⭐️✨

Start your weekend with us by mixing & matching MOTEL THEATRE SHOWS + CENTRE COURT DROP IN PERFORMANCES:

Motel Theatre:
4:30pm ~ Mide Kadiri’s short film, Breakthrough plays on loop
5:30pm ~ Squeaky
7:30pm ~ Four Strong Seasons
9pm ~ Hunt/Peck

Centre Court:
4:30pm ~ KaamilK. (DJ) with 88 Brewing Co. tastings
7:00pm ~ Belladonna The Blest (live music)
8:30 & 9:30pm ~ Harvey Nichol (DJ)

🎟️ TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR TONIGHT’S SHOWS!  Ticketing options for $0 and $15 available at CHECKOUT.  Book now!

Celebrate Community! Bask in Art! Join us for a weekend full of unforgettable experiences that will open your heart and expand your mind! 

📸: Photos by Caitlind Brown, Stage It Festival 2023
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The Stage It Festival is HERE! ⭐️✨

Celebrate Community! Bask in Art! Join us for a weekend full of unforgettable experiences that will open your heart and expand your mind! 

We open the festival tonight with Four Strong Seasons!
Created by The Memorias Collective

🍃 Four Strong Seasons begins in that longing to witness and connect. Inspired by the real shared stories of Calgarians, this immersive devised vignette brings together fragments of life in our city — childhood memories, familiar walks through Fish Creek Park, moments of hardship, resilience, and hope.

🎟️ TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE for TONIGHT’S 9PM SHOW!  Ticketing options for $0 and $15 available at CHECKOUT.
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SCHEDULE UPDATES 🗓️!!!

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the performances for Somewhere In Between Us have been cancelled.
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EXTRA SHOW ADDED FOR WOMANIFESTO! Due to popular demand, a 6:30pm showing of Womanifesto has been added on Saturday, May 23rd. TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE.
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