Playwright Carmen Aguirre

Rumble Theatre is excited to offer a two-day playwriting workshop led by our playwright-in-residence Carmen Aguirre. Intended for beginning playwrights, the workshop will focus on crafting a monologue based on personal experience. Participants are welcome to come in with an idea that they’re keen to work on, or to take this opportunity to create something from scratch. The studio will available throughout the workshop weekend for participants to use as a writing space.

WHEN: Saturday, December 1 & Sunday, December 2, 2018
Sessions will run from 4pm to 8pm each day.
WHERE: PL1422 studio at 1422 William Street, Vancouver

Fees & Financial Assistance
Application is free. The participation fee for the workshop is $120 + GST. Rumble is able to offer three partial bursaries for artists who can demonstrate financial and/or accessibility needs. To be considered for financial assistance, please include a brief statement in your application outlining how you would benefit from being awarded one of the bursaries.

How to Apply
Applicants are asked to submit a short (no longer than one page) statement that answers the following question: Why are you interested in participating in this particular workshop?

We strongly encourage submissions from artists who self-identify as members of under-represented communities.

E-mail your application (and your statement for financial assistance, if you are submitting one) to jiv@rumble.org with the subject line: “Playwriting workshop with Carmen Aguirre”.

You can send via mail or drop-off in person to: Rumble Theatre, 1422 William Street, Vancouver, BC, V5L 2P7

The deadline for applications is Friday, November 23, 2018.

Please note that workshop spots are extremely limited and that we may not be able to accommodate all applicants due to capacity restrictions.

Monday, November 26, 2018, 7pm to 9pm
PL1422, 1422 William St
FREE admission; no advance registration required

Emerging Artists! Please join us on Monday, November 26 for our next Living Room. This time our special guests will be Heather Redfern (Executive Director at The Cultch) and Joyce Rosario (Interim Artistic Director at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival) and they’ll be bringing their industry expertise to our session about pitching your work. We’ll talk about what makes a good pitch, what’s not so great, and – most importantly – how power can factor into building reciprocal relationships. Rumble AD Jiv Parasram will moderate the session. Come hang out, eat chips, and take part in the conversation!

GUEST BIOGRAPHIES

Heather Redfern, Executive Director of The Cultch

HEATHER REDFERN is the Executive Director of The Vancouver East Cultural Centre (The Cultch) where she curates a program of over 20 different presentations each season. Before coming to The Cultch, she was the Executive Director of the Greater Vancouver Alliance for Arts and Culture and the Artistic Producer for Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton. Heather has sat on numerous boards including The Koerner Foundation, and The Edmonton Arts Council. She was the first Chair of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, an organization she helped to found.

Heather has been honoured with the City of Edmonton, Business and the Arts Award for Excellence in Arts Management and the Mallory Gilbert Leadership Award for sustained, inspired, and creative leadership in Canadian Theatre. She continues to work on innovative ways to promote Canadian artists at home and abroad. In East Vancouver, she has overseen $30 million of refurbishment and construction first at The Cultch and then as a driving force behind the restoration of the historic York Theatre. Over the past ten seasons she has built an international reputation for the Cultch through her innovative curation and impeccable leadership.

Joyce Rosario, Interim Artistic Director of the PuSh Festival

JOYCE ROSARIO is currently Interim Artistic Director at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver BC, Canada. She has been with the PuSh team since 2013. Previously, Joyce spent 10 years in the Canadian dance milieu as a curator, producer and manager. Her training is in Theatre Production/Design from University of British Columbia’s Theatre program, and she was once nominated for a Jessie Richardson award for Costume Design. Her first foray in performance was as a teenage participant in ‘Turning Point’, a new genre public art project by Suzanne Lacy. Joyce is a first-generation Canadian of Filipina descent. She is privileged to live and work on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

The Living Room is co-produced by the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance.

Welcome to Rumble’s 2018-19 season! It’s been a rocking one so far, marked by exciting theatre-making and new directions for the company. We started things off with Tremors, our festival of emerging talent, in August. Featuring three outstanding contemporary plays by three stellar Canadian playwrights (Selfie by Christine Quintana, Tiny Replicas by Dave Deveau, and Theory by Norman Yeung) and a fierce team of emerging artists, Tremors was a hit with audiences and critics alike.

Meet the Rumblers (l to r): Kellee Ngan, Jivesh Parasram, Carmen Aguirre, and Christie Watson. Photo: Stephen Drover. Location: Postmark Brewing event space.

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By Sarah DeLappe

Produced by With a Spoon Theatre in association with Rumble Theatre
Presented by Pacific Theatre

Oct 19 – Nov 10, 2018
Pacific Theatre | 1440 West 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC
Wed to Sat evenings at 8pm; Sat matinees at 2pm
Pay-What-You-Can Preview: Oct 18
Artist Talkback: Oct 26

Tickets on sale now via the Pacific Theatre box office

With a Spoon Theatre’s production (in association with Rumble) of Sarah DeLappe’s acclaimed script is on stage now at Pacific Theatre!

A pack of teenage girls prepares for battle on the soccer field. In the exhilaration of adolescence, they grapple with everything from pop culture to politics, discovering their identities as individuals and as a team. Who will come out on top?

Don’t miss this beautiful, powerful, and illuminating show about the teenage experience.

Trailer and photos by Riun Garner

Click here for more info on The Wolves

This season Rumble Theatre is thrilled to offer an exciting mentorship opportunity for an emerging playwright.

Playwright Carmen Aguirre

The selected emerging playwright will receive season-long mentorship (November 2018 – June 2019) from our playwright-in-residence, acclaimed playwright and author Carmen Aguirre, as they work toward completing the first draft of a new play.

This mentorship includes monthly meetings with Carmen, free entry to Carmen’s playwriting workshop in December 2019, and a commission fee of $1,000.

Emerging Artists: Eligibility

Rumble encourages applications from people who identify emerging or new-career playwrights/creators.

We strongly encourage submissions from artists who self-identify as members of under-represented communities.

If you have any questions about the application process or your eligibility please email info@rumble.org.

Submission Procedure

Applicants are asked to submit the following materials, via email:

• A current CV.
• A letter of intent that includes (a) the idea for the play you will be writing and (b) why you would like to work with Carmen, and (c) how this mentorship opportunity will benefit your writing career.
• A three- to ten-page writing sample.

Submissions should be sent to info@rumble.org with the subject heading: “Emerging Playwright Submission”.

**THE SUBMISSION PERIOD IS NOW CLOSED.**

Apply now to be one of Rumble’s Student Ambassadors this season!

Every year, Rumble Theatre mentors students in the final year of their post-secondary professional theatre training as they prepare to enter their independent practice. We offer access to company resources such as studio and/or office space, mentorship in a variety of areas from the Rumble team (Managing Producer Christie Watson, Director of Operations Kellee Ngan, and Artistic Director Jivesh Parasram), opportunities to make connections with working professionals, and invitations to engage in Rumble’s programming (e.g. AGM-apalooza, first read-throughs of our mainstage productions) with the objective of building familiarity and comfort in contemporary independent theatre production.

In exchange, Student Ambassadors will represent Rumble to their student body, bring their fellow students to see our work, volunteer at events, and generally spread the word about Rumble throughout the year. The Student Ambassadors will also help host our Living Room sessions, and produce and present the 48-Hour Crockpot, our theatre creation challenge that brings together students from different theatre training institutions to create a piece together over one weekend.

Being a Student Ambassador is a great opportunity for soon-to-be graduates to immerse themselves in Rumble’s work and in the community they’ll soon be ready to join.

We are currently seeking to fill two positions for this season. The ideal candidates have just entered the final year of a post-secondary professional training program (BFA or equivalent) and are self-motivated, ambitious, focused, and can rally some troops when needed.

You can read more about the program and past ambassadors here.

If you are interested in applying, please send us the following:

• A current CV.
• A cover letter telling us why you’d like to be a Student Ambassador and how you would take advantage of this mentorship opportunity.
• A response to these two questions (maximum one page total):
  • What has been the most rewarding part of your training?
  • What is your biggest criticism of your training institution?

Applications should be sent, via e-mail, to info@rumble.org with the subject line: “Student Ambassador”.

**THE SUBMISSION PERIOD IS NOW CLOSED.**