ASHTAR Theatre (Ramallah) has called for support from theatre companies worldwide to host readings of “The Gaza Monologues” on November 29th. Rumble Theatre, PTC, and Theatre Conspiracy will be hosting this event in solidarity.

The Gaza Monologues are testimonies written by ASHTAR youth in 2010, after the first war on the Gaza Strip. Tragically, these monologues are still accurate today. They are highlighting the horrors, hopes and resilience of the courageous Gazans to a broader audience, bringing out the voices of children and people in Gaza.

We invite you to witness these monologues as part of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on November 29th, read by local artists and community members.

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Symbiotic relationships tell us stories of survival, reciprocity, and rivalry. Our earth is a complex mix of species inhabiting each other’s spaces while in constant interaction. May it be mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic, life always finds a way to thrive and subsist.

Join us on our sixth rendition of our New Creation Nights, in which we share stories old, new, fiction and true!

The evening will showcase 4 new works in a cabaret format, breaking in between each performance. Amidst the breaks the audience will have the opportunity to check out the Garage Gallery featuring various art installations, and enjoy complimentary Vietnamese Banh Mi’s from our friends at Ba-Le.

Doors will open at 7:00pm. Show up early to enjoy the festivities! Performances start at 7:30pm.

A reminder to dress for the weather! We suggest you bring layers and rain gear just in case. We will be ready rain or shine!

New Works

Stampede on Vinyl by André Bessette

Merging of toe, heel,
sound, steel,
flesh, bone,
style, tone,
shoulders and boulders,
hips and billets,
grandmother, grandson
a little bit of fish
and interconnectedness.

Emergency Mushroom Report/Learning Fear in Omphalotus by David Bloom

‘Emergency Mushroom Report’ and ‘Learning Fear in Omphalotus’ are two linked speculative fiction plays being developed by David Bloom. The first will be a live online, interactive presentation; the second will be performed in a tent.

It’s 300 years from now, and two societies have coped with the Climate Crisis in radically different ways.
The Mountain is an underground escape bunker founded by tech billionaires in 2030. They planned to emerge and repopulated the world with an ideal technocratic society. The leader, The Speaker s the last surviving founder. When an exploratory expedition returns with data from the last 300 years, she must face the possibility that humanity has survived the crisis by working closely with another species. Is survival worth the cost?
Omphalotus is a society that survived by working symbiotically with fungi. Armilara teaches the oldest of the young about how they survived, and what dangers await them beyond the boundaries of their society.

In The Symbiotic Cabaret, we spend time with both Armilara and The Speaker and discover their radically different responses to the possibility of humanity and fungi coming together.
Potentially a mirror image to ‘The Last Of Us’

Content Warning: Climate Crisis & Mushrooms

David Bloom – Playwright/Director
Linda Quibell – role of The Speaker
Lissa Neptuno – role of Armilara

Kookie with a K by Maheem Bista

Kookie owes everything to Kousin. Her name, her new life in Canada, her education and all of her fondest childhood memories. Kookie with a K is a snippet into Kookie’s life as she ponders how could she repay her loved ones without asking for help any more.

Maheem Bista – Playwright
Peihwen Tai – role of Kookie

A Captivating Woman by Natasha Chew

A one-woman meta-theatrical show (in-progress!) revolving around Annalyn, who makes an irreversible mistake and faces the court of the audience, attempting to seek catharsis while struggling for control over her own narrative. Fighting between her need to perform a sympathetic character and her need for catharsis, she fumbles through her life, turning over pieces to find that perhaps like Theseus’ boat, it may no longer belong to her. Under your watchful gaze she is a woman “”snapped””, a ritualistic undoing, and anything in-between.

Content Warning: gun violence, (internalized) misogyny, descriptions of cannibalism.

Natasha Chew – Playwright
Jesse Del Fierro – Dramaturg
Sarah Roa – role of Annalyn
Hailey Logan – Props Master

Installations

FAMILY / They do not Come Back by Blake Hobson-Dimas

In an exploration of the meaning of family, Five performers react to their own descriptions of their homes as they dress themselves in handmade crocheted costumes and embark on the transitional journey from person to clown.

They do not come back.

Inspired by Ursula K. le Guin’s “”The Ones That Walk Away from Omelas”” this crocheted scene depicts the human inclination toward reckless indulgence, the refusal to admit the banality of evil, and the ones that walk ahead into darkness.”

Collaborators: Blake Hobson-Dimas, Frannie Warwick, Lois Warwick, Liam Wilkins, Tamlin Vetter, Samantha Li

The Parasite by Anju Singh

In The Parasite, virtual selves prey on the attention, interaction, and dependence of their organic counterparts in order to survive. But when typical organic living experiences, such as aging or losing self-composure rise to the surface and threaten the connection between realities, the virtual self must reduce, minimize and eventually murder the will of the organic self, entrapping it eternally in a static and virtual cocoon.

Content Warning: Volumes can be intense.

Anju Singh – Creator, Writer, Composer
Amy Lee Lavoie – Writer

Disconnect / Parasite by Sarah Pryor

There is a disconnect between how we live now and our true nature. Indigenous cultures lived in harmony with the planet and in tune with their own bodies for hundreds of years, before the western world and its material desires took over, draining us of our humanity. What sinister forces have brought us here, and how do we find a way back to our connection with the universe?

The work explores themes of spirituality, destruction and greed; examining the insidious progress of capitalism and the aged men who profit. There is a reflection on ancient spiritual practices, reminding us of our infinite connection to everything and everyone around us.

Inspired by: Russian photographer, Dmitry Styazhkin

About the Creators

André Bessette is a grateful visitor to the traditional and unceded lands of the Tsawwassen, Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. His roots are mixed settler and Métis from the Red River Settlement on the ancestral territories of Anishinaabe and Nehiyaw Nations where Treaty 1 and 2 lay. As a disconnected urban Métis, he has sought reconnection with Métis and First Nations communities, cousins, and culture.

Untraditionally trained in dance, André found the gregariousness of jigging matched his personality. He has dabbled in Swing, Breakdance, House, and Burlesque. André was educated by Yvonne Chartrand, and other Métis dancers, in Compaigni V’ni Dansi since 2018.

David Bloom is a playwright, director, dramaturg, and actor. Directing work includes co-direction of ‘Palace of the End’ for Touchstone Theatre/Felix Culpa/Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (Jessie Richardson award, Outstanding Direction, Small Theatre), and the North American premiere of Howard Barker’s ‘Und’. He has directed shows all over Canada and in London, England. His plays have been performed by Green Thumb, Studio 58, Felix Culpa, Carousel, Axis Theatre, Canadian Phoenix and the University of British Columbia. He has directed new music performances, been a writer and dramaturg on dance pieces as well as performing for theatre companies across the country.

Maheem Bista Maheem Bista is a Nepalese student in Canada. He’s very grateful for opportunities in creative spaces like this and to be able to meet so many interesting people and ideas! He’d like to thank Rumble and Peihwen for taking a chance on him and Kookie

Natasha Chew is an emerging Asian-Canadian playwright, theatre creator, and storyteller who is currently based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Natasha has recently had their work showcased at the Cultch and Presentation House Theater, and is especially passionate about celebrating moments of levity, passion, and joy in the navigation of an ever-evolving identity.

Blake Hobson-Dimas is a Mexican-Canadian artist developing a movement-based practice of character embodiment in order to showcase the hand-crocheted costumes of his design. His desire is to create a space where he and other artists can internally generate an imagistic dialogue with crocheted material. Through exploration, images are expanded into character bodies and eventually a living piece of art.

Crocheting has also become a way of grounding his beliefs. If Clown teaches him to extend his belief further, then crochet is the counter-practice that grounds him in the reality of what he knows to be possible.

Anju Singh is a composer, musician, sound designer and media artist whose practice is an exploration of texture through the use of extended or experimental techniques, use of electronics, experimenting with musical and non-musical materials, and electronic processing. One of the core processes in her practice is to use methods of deconstruction and reanimation to repurpose and contextualize materials in new compositional environments.

Anju’s work has been presented across Canada, in Europe, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States at festivals, galleries, and events in a variety of spaces including Send + Receive Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Polygon Gallery, and music venues.

Sarah Pryor is a British/Canadian visual artist & designer. She gained a BA degree in Fine Art in Kent England 2011 and has been expanding her skills and practises ever since. Her work typically explores themes of feminism, voyeurism, mental health and spiritual musings. Sarah works in a wide range of media; from abstract paintings, to detailed drawings, digital art, graphic design and she has been recently discovering tattoo art.

Covid Safety

This event will take place outdoors at Progress Lab 1422. Masks are encouraged indoors but not required. Please be aware of distancing, hand-washing/sanitizing, and the varying personal comfort levels of others around you. Please stay home if you have symptoms of COVID, or have been in contact with others who have contracted COVID. Thank you for helping us keep events live, in-person, and safe.

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Rumble Sound System is an experimental project from Rumble Theatre funded by the Canada Council for the Arts “Digital Now” program. Taking its inspiration from the origins of Dub music and Sound System Culture, we’re seeing what happens if we take text, and then liberally repurpose it to make new pieces. 

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Projects

May All Beings Shed Their Shame
by Sally Zori

We live in a day where trans people are ruthlessly vilified as perverts, sadists, and pedophiles. Based on these outrageous and false accusations they are being denied healthcare, stripped of their civil rights, and murdered everyday. However, the real threat lies behind cathedral doors…church and state. The real threat lies in the hands of obtuse politicians and archaic religious figures spewing hateful drivel at the pulpit.

This is a story told in 3 movements. Violence. A love song. Reclamation.

About Sally Zori

Hi, I am Sally Zori. ​I am a transgender Iraqi (They/Them/Their) multi-disciplinary artist born in Baghdad, raised in the United Arab Emirates and different parts of Canada. Today, I live on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

At the age of 11, I picked up my first drum, the Doumbek (middle eastern goblet drum), and never stopped. By the time I was 18, I’d played several instruments including congas, bongos, timbales, drum kit, and guitar. I pursued a career in music, performing, and touring while attending the University of Windsor to study Film & Television. My musical journey took me all over Canada and the world, performing in international arts festivals; The Sydney Festival in Australia, Dublin Fringe in Ireland, and the PuSh Festival in Vancouver, and was once lucky enough to have the opportunity (one new years eve in ’08) to be the percussionist for Aretha Franklin.

In early 2017, I started my own content creation company (Zori Media) which led to my falling back in love with making videos. With a film degree under my belt and a new found love for making videos, I’m starting to experiment with video composite art on collaborations with other Vancouver based artists. Today, I’m still a session musician, percussionist, and content creator just trying to get through the pandemic. I am currently working on my story of being a third culture kid exploring my relationship with ‘home’ and how to heal. Working with film,  the piece hopes to incorporate spoken word with live musical underscoring.

From The Corner
by Luz Fleming

The Soundsystem brings music and culture and history across many boundaries, exposes lies and brings a counter narrative to the ultra colonial and capitalistic one we have been spoon fed for centuries. Luz Fleming was drawn to Shanae Sodhi’s written parts for this project because of their blunt and unapologetic lyrics and subject matter, not far removed from Luz’s own experiences growing up on the inner city streets of New York and San Francisco. Shanae was inspired to write and record his lyrics to a Benny The Butcher song called “Who Are You”, produced by Daringer of Griselda. Daringer’s track features a haunting sample of the song “Take A Look At Yourself (Before You Frown On Someone Else)” by White Heat. In the spirit of Soundsystem and Riddim culture, Luz Fleming has taken the same chord structure and lead melody of “Take A Look At Yourself”, unpacked them, and remade a new “version” for Shanae and his partners to use as their backing track. With the addition of extensive sound design, editing, and effects, Luz brings the listener into an entirely new and visceral storytelling landscape.

About Luz Fleming

Colorado born, Bay Area raised, Brooklyn True Yorker, East Van local. Luz Mob brings the heat to every set with vibes from Hip-Hop to Rub-A-Dub, Cumbia to Coladeira, Deep Funk to Disco. Just try not to dance!

When My Father Becomes a Cobra
by Anju Singh

When My Father Becomes a Cobra is a sound art adaptation composed by Anju Singh of a poem of the same name composed by writer Roshni Riar. The piece travels through the poem using electronics, voice, violin, and other traditional instruments to create a sound experience that aims to honour the spirit of the poem.

The sound artist was drawn to the poem for its vivid imagery which inspired the creation of sounds for the piece as well as re-working parts of the voice to reflect the content and reading of the poem. While experimental techniques were used, the piece intends to draw listeners in so that the sound work is as relatable as the poem’s content – a stark and heavy reality that sits uncomfortably but locked in the present. The sound composition holds the piece in the same universe as the poem itself – in a realm beyond space and time.

About Anju Singh & The Nausea

Composer, musician and performer Anju Singh is bringing her combination of chamber-doom and noise – created via violin and electronics – to Sled Island as The Nausea. Easy-listening it is not. Rather, Singh is pushing the sonic boundaries of her instruments into the furthest reaches of the halls of extreme music to “channel doubt and discomfort, venting and volume, hypnosis and requiems.” It’s something best understood out-loud.

Kookum’s Sound System
by DJ Kookum

About DJ Kookum

Cheyanna Kootenhayoo AKA Kookum is a DJ and multi media maker from the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, and Cold Lake First Nations, their maternal Denesuline traditional territory. Based out of Vancouver BC, Kookum has been making a name for their self across the country and is no stranger in the community.

Kookum is an open format DJ inspired by EDM and Hip Hop music. This diverse-mix-diva is a force on the decks and always keeps the party hype, fresh, and unpredictable.

Kookum tours nationally and internationally with the Snotty Nose Rez Kids. Holds down weekly DJ residencies. Facilitates videography and DJ workshops, operates sound and lighting for community dance parties, and works with youth as a DJ mentor. You can also catch DJ Kookum performing virtually for online festivals, curating online events, hosting online workshops, making beats in the studio, and selling merchandise on their online store.

Kookum has been a video editor for just over 10 years editing television, documentaries and promotional videos. Kookum is also the music supervisor for the children’s television series called ‘Coyote Science’ and host’s the Immersive Knowledge Transfer Podcast produced by the Indigenous Matriarchs 4 Media Lab.  

Sandra, Said Like A Cuss
by Richard Brown

The piece reflects images of the background of the poet and the musician. Reflections of life in the Caribbean and Canada. Based on events that deeply affect the lives of all people. The images evolved, how deeply personal and yet, universal.

About the Work

Poem by: Melly Davidson
Music composed, arranged and recorded by: Richard Brown
Mixed by Richard Brown and Krischan Grohne (KG SOUND)

Musicians:
Chris Couto (Conga, Djembe, Bells Shakers)
Jonah Ocean (Bass, Cello, Vocals)
Langston Raymond (Trumpet)
Tim Sars (Flute)
Richard Brown (Drums, Keyboards, Samples)

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The performance is held at Fox Cabaret, a 19+ venue. Tickets on sale here.

What is Rumble Sound System? 

Rumble Sound System is an experimental project from Rumble Theatre funded by the Canada Council for the Arts “Digital Now” program. Taking its inspiration from the origins of Dub music and Sound System Culture, we’re seeing what happens if we take text, and then liberally repurpose it to make new pieces.

Rumble Sound System project features works by:
DJ Kookum
DJ Luz Mob
Anju Singh
Sally Zori
Richard Brown

About the Live Performances 

The Nausea

Composer, musician and performer Anju Singh is bringing her combination of chamber-doom and noise – created via violin and electronics – to Sled Island as The Nausea. Easy-listening it is not. Rather, Singh is pushing the sonic boundaries of her instruments into the furthest reaches of the halls of extreme music to “channel doubt and discomfort, venting and volume, hypnosis and requiems.” It’s something best understood out-loud.

MRD3 a.k.a. Mad Riddim Dub Trio

MRD3 aka Mad Riddim Dub Trio features the engine room (drums bass and guitar) from Vancouver’s favourite reggae/dub group Mad Riddim.

Forming prior to the pandemic as a way to explore classic reggae albums via a heavy, minimalist and improvised dub aesthetic, MRD3 has begun its foray into post-lockdown live performance.

If Sly & Robbie met Khruangbin for a spliff at a party on the Outer Rim, MRD3 would be the band playing.

The Rumble Sound System Band

The band is a response to the the Rumble System Project led by creative producer and musical director Rob Thomson. Featuring a line up of some of the cities most exciting musicians the group will be crafting up a new suite of atmospheric groove music. 

Jordan Waunch – Vocals
Cordelia – Vocals
Miguel Maravilla – Samples/Vocals/Guitar
Mike WT Allen – Sax/Keyboards
Rob Thomson – Bass
Max Ley – Drums

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The Stages of Transformation Creative Cohort:
A process-driven creative initiative, in partnership with Chromatic Theatre, Gwaandak Theatre, lemonTree creations, Rumble, TODOS Productions, and Undercurrent Creations. Stages of Transformation has commissioned five artists to undertake theatrical creation processes that explore the project’s themes of abolition and transformative justice. The resident artists are: Raven John, Keira Nolting, Sobia Shaheen Shaikh, Kris Vanessa Teo Xin-En (张欣恩), and Ravyn Wngz. Additionally, Yasmine Espert will work as an embedded critic alongside the resident artists, creating a written piece that will document and reflect on their creative exploration. Photography and multimedia artist Raven Davis will also spend time with the SoT Creative Cohort, documenting and reflecting on their process.

Tremors is proud to present the works-in-progress from the Creative Cohort as part of this year’s festival.

Artwork by Amber Williams-King

Tickets

May 22nd, 5:30pm
But First, We Eat

A welcome and tabletop installation by Mpoe Mogale & Nikki Shaffeeullah. Free event

May 25th, 7pm
Stages of Transformation Showcase: Night One

On Native Land by Raven John
Braiding Peonies by Sobia Shaheen Shaikh

May 26th, 7pm
Stages of Transformation Showcase: Night Two

feel ur feels (CRINGE LIBERATION) by Kris Vanessa Teo Xin-En (张欣恩)
SIGNALS by Ravyn Wngz
Transformation by Keira Ash aka Cece A. Blossom

About the works

On Native Land
by Raven John

What is our proximity to Colonization? Ink, Paper, and the space we take up.

Without the daily reminders of orange shirts, red dresses and shoes, so many people walk through their lives devoid of an understanding of their relationship to colonization.

What is our proximity to the atrocities that have been enacted, and continue to be perpetuated today? As a descendant of residential school survivors, this work by Raven John creates a rare embodied relationship, personal and physical.

Raven’s practice has always included a sharing of knowledge, history and skill. A combination of workshop and community care, there will be the option to participate in this work. No one walks away unchanged or ungifted. This work will have you walking away with a sense of self and place.

Creative Team
Raven John – Creator, Performer, Survivor
Jamie King – Dramaturg, Director
Aidan Hammond – Emotional Support Person

In partnership with Rumble Theatre

Transformation
Keira Ash aka Cece A. Blossom

An exploration on shame, the transformative effect of love, and finding freedom afterward. “Transformation” is a burlesque piece that utilizes religious imagery to show how intergenerational shame is limiting and judgemental. Looking to the night sky for guidance, Cece is embraced by ancestral love and breaks the chains of chastity to take flight.

Creative Team
Keira Ash aka. Cece A. Blossom – Creator/Performer
Cherry Cheeks – Performance Mentor
Raven John – Set design

In partnership with Gwaandak Theatre

Braiding Peonies
by Sobia Shaheen Shaikh

Braiding Peonies (working title) is a play-in-progress about a family who is dealing with the aftermath of racist, anti-Muslim hate in a violent encounter directed at a group of Muslim teenagers. Using transformative justice lenses, the play explores the themes of justice, protection and healing through the experience of the protagonist, Sadiqa (mother), and her 17-year-old, Samreen, as the family grapples with a crisis of trust in institutions that fail to provide meaningful resolution. The family finds support in racialized and transformative justice communities, as they begin to dream of radical and relational possibilities.

Creative Team
Sobia Shaheen Shaikh – Playwright
Santiago Guzmán – Dramaturge and Director

In partnership with TODOS Productions

feel ur feels (CRINGE LIBERATION)
by Kris Vanessa Teo Xin-En (张欣恩)

As we attempt survival in a white supremist and capitalistic society, it is so easy for us to cut ourselves off from how we are feeling, to deny ourselves pleasure, to move at high speeds, to ignore our needs, to bypass processing our lived experiences, to numb sensations that come up, to live through our days on autopilot, to hide who we are and to fast-forward anything that feels uncomfortable.

In her essay Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, Audre Lorde describes the erotic as a power that “rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge” and “the measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.” As someone with a lot of feelings all the time, I was deeply moved by this. It made me question when and how I tap into my strongest feelings, gut instincts, and my deepest, nonrational knowledge. It made me wonder about what the potential was if I trusted, listened and took action on these feelings a little more, a whole lot more. How would our relationships with each other evolve if we practiced this deep listening with one another? How big and wide are the possibilities of community and relationship building if we were all peering this intently into ourselves, and moving with this knowledge?

Right now, I have more questions than answers, and I might never find all the answers, and certainly not on my own. But I find comfort and awe in adrienne marie brown’s words: “Emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies. Emergence is our inheritance as a part of this universe; it is how we change. Emergent strategy is how we intentionally change in ways that grow our capacity to embody the just and liberated worlds we long for.”

Creating feel ur feels (CRINGE LIBERATION) is a way for me to practice the small actions and connections of listening to the deep feeling and nonrational eroticism within me, and to practice with my friendos, pals and buddy buds, through conversation, stopping to notice what’s around me, in me, and to follow the curiosities that come up along the way.

Audio Pleasure Recipe Contributors
Keshia Cheesman
Filsan Dualeh
Bianca Guimarães de Manuel
Liz Hannay
Bianca Miranda
Mpoe Mogale
Isabelle Sinclair
Kiana Wu

Special Thanks
Thomas Geddes – Sound Design Consultation
Tori Morrison – Projection Design Consultation
Kodie Rollan – Dramaturgical Support
Pam Tzeng – Movement Consultation + Creation

In partnership with Chromatic Theatre

SIGNALS
by Ravyn Wngz

A movement and vocal story that follows the journey of 6 enslaved Africans traveling from the Mason Dixie to British North America (Canada) on the 3rd voyage through the trails. A tale of hope, collaboration, survival strategies and liberation.  Signals is a love letter to abolition with a goal of inviting audiences into the ceremony that is freedom work.

In partnership with lemonTree creations

But First, We Eat
by Mpoe Mogale and Nikki Shaffeeullah

Stages of Transformation is in partnership with the National Arts Centre, Chromatic Theatre, Gwaandak Theatre, lemonTree creations, TODOS Productions, and Undercurrent Creations.  

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And check out Tremor’s special presentation of Stages of Transformation Creative Cohort Showcase, in partnership with National Arts Centre on May 22-26th.

Ticketing

One ticket gets you three shows in one night! Purchase your tickets here.

Each night an audience member chooses different pathways throughout the festival, roaming the Progress Lab 1422 venue. 

Purple Track
Order of the New Hyphae
The Knoll
The ghosts within us/les fantômes qui nous habitent

Green Track
The Fresh Prince of Egypt
TAOS: Song Cycle
The Ghosts Within Us/les fantômes qui nous habitent

Surprise Me! Track 
Roll a die at box office to determine your track for the night

Shows begin at 7:30pm with a welcome performance of благословення (blahoslovennia) by Sasha Theodora, with the final performance beginning approximately 9:30pm.

We encourage audiences to take the leap and choose the Surprise Me! track. We have limited tickets available for coloured tracks and once those sell out, everyone will roll the die to choose their fate.

If you would like to buy tickets to a single show or have any needs that inhibit your ability to see all of the shows, please reach out at anna@rumble.org.

New to Progress Lab 1422? Here is a visual story to help you better understand getting to and around our space: PDF version, word doc version.

About the works

благословення (blahoslovennia)

Sasha Theodora will be presenting “благословення” (“blahoslovennia”) an audio visual immersive exploration of Ukrainian ritual created in collaboration with Gabbie Che to promote their upcoming film “Bohyni” and open the evening of performances.

Creative Team
Sasha Theodora – director / co-producer / performer
Gabie Che – cinematographer/co-producer
Robbie Teehan – composer

About the Creator
Sasha Theodora is a Ukrainian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and musician. Her practice focuses on the existential struggles of identity and the intersection between art and accessibility. She uses her years of research into Ukrainian polyphonic singing and background in theatre as the backbone for her work

Fresh Prince of Egypt

The Fresh Prince of Egypt is an irreverent mash-up of age old Jewish tradition and NSFW hip hop storytelling.

About the Creator
David Kaye is an award-winning actor and producer living, working, and playing on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. David has continued to work in film, television, voice overs and theatre for almost 30 years. In 2008, he branched out into production as well, and since then has had a hand in producing more than 50 productions from commercials and web series to TV movies and a feature film. David is also an acting coach and teacher at Shoreline Studios. Most recently, David has become willfully whisked away with written word wizardry and its older, obvious, perpetual pen pal, oratory performance (he loves a little alliteration). David is thrilled to be working with Omari Newton and Amine Bouzaher again, and is very grateful and humbled to be in such excellent company in this round of Rumble Theatre’s TREMORS.

Order of the New Hyphae

Order of the New Hyphae is an immersive, devised performance that reconstructs ecological thought and post human spiritualities through the lens of an apocalyptic fungi cult.

About the Creator
Samantha Walters is an emerging interdisciplinary performer, writer, and creator based on xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) lands. She was born in England and raised in Hong Kong. They mostly work between contemporary performance, directing, and video making and their most recent works examine ecological relationships and post-human spiritualities, with a heavy favour towards the weird, the dark, and the camp. Collaboration within communities and alongside the non-human lies at the heart of her process. She holds a BFA honours in Theatre Performance from Simon Fraser University’s School for Contemporary Arts, where she performed in and collaborated on multiple mainstage productions, as well as directed work for the LIVE ACTS Festival. Her work has been presented by UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness, What Lab, the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, the Arts Club, and the Or Festival. You can find more of her work at samanthawalters.com.

Order of the New Hyphae was created with Avery Chapman, Blake Hobson-Dimas, Clare Noble, Denise Faith Cachero, Tamlin Vetter, and Viviane Wu.

The ghosts within us/les fantômes qui nous habitent

Ghosts Within is an audiovisual performance that explores the weight of cultural and religious background on individuals in the diaspora through electronic music, Arabic themes and 3D visuals.

Time and distance collapse in this performance, which draws on sharing traditions dating back hundreds of years to mix them with modern electronic productions and visuals. This is music of primitive essence and nameless nostalgia, full of electronic frequencies that seem to touch an ancient pain in our lives. In an identity that is never totally Canadian, nor totally foreign.

About the Creators

Firas Nassri is a Syrian-Canadian musician, artist and producer based in Montreal. Through his music, he wishes to explore the concepts of identity, culture and the meaning of creativity. Drawing inspiration from his origins, he strives to create art that reflects his multidimensional identity

Jonathan Hardy is a visual artist and creative developer at the PHI center. It was in architecture school that Jonathan entered the world of XR, showing his designs virtually, notably during an international competition in China. He then consolidated his skills with a master’s degree in digital project management and creative development at UDEM.

The Knoll

The Knoll is a ghost story and therapy simulation in which a son remembers his father, Norfolk County’s most infamous mischiefmaker. The semi-autobiographical performance combines scripted material and improvisation to contrast Indigenous and non-Indigenous understandings of grief and the joy of being haunted by people and places we miss.

About the Creator
Jeff D’Hondt is a KM Hunter Award nominee with Belgian Canadian and Lenape ancestry (Six Nations of the Grand River). His debut stageplay, A False Face, premiered at the Vancouver Fringe Festival and was remounted as A Spirit’s Face in Toronto. He was the Associate Producer of MSM at World Pride and writer/producer of Everything I Couldn’t Tell You at the Riser Project, the script for which will be published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2024. He is also a social worker with three decades of experience in the field, accompanied by a Master of Social Work degree from York University where his work with devised theatre for Indigenous youth was awarded the Gerry Erickson Prize for Best Practice Research Paper.

TAOS: Song Cycle

TAOS (The Art of Storytelling) is a new multi-disciplinary work, developed largely in ceremony in three different countries over the span of six years, rooted in the ancestral theatre tradition, inspired by stories and teachings from the Mayan Popol Vuh. TAOS infuses Indigenous traditions with current cultural aesthetics bringing the audience on a theatrical journey through allegory and myth – a retelling of who we are by connecting to our ancestral voices, cosmic energy, and to the land.

About the Creator
B’atz’ Recinos was born and raised on Turtle Island and is of Latinx descent with mixed Mayan roots from the K’iche’ and Kaqchikel Nations of Iximulew (Guatemala). Their commitment to equitable and diverse practices within the arts has led them to speak at YouthREX and several other panels and conferences and publish articles with NOW, Intermission Magazine, and contribute to The Director’s Lab book published by Playwright Canada Press. A trained facilitator, B’atz’ has delivered various workshops with youth, artists, and communities across Ontario. In performance, B’atz’ has recently presented: TAOS as part of Why Not Theatre’s RISER 2022, TAOS 2.0 as part of Aluna Theatre’s CAMINOS Festival, the music video ¿Quien Somos Ya? for RISER Digital, and can also be seen on the Showcase show: The Lost Symbol and as a series regular on the new PBS cartoon series Workout Wombats premiering in 2023. A Humber Performance Alum and founder of Creative Mafia Arts. B’atz’ is also a Maya Ajq-ijab (Day Keeper) belonging to Wajxaqib’ B’atz’ Council of Sumpango Guatemala.

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Got any big plans for Commonwealth Day? Well we do.

Come see Jiv off as he heads out on the East Coast tour of his Governor General’s award nominated (but not award winning) play Take D Milk, Nah?, get some free rice and dhal, dance the night away with DJ LUZ MOB’s all vinyl set, AND support Rumble.

This fundraiser event supports our mission to keep tickets for our shows low cost and accessible. Rumble tickets are pay-what-you-decide and you can see shows for as little as $5. This is your chance to see a staged reading of an amazing show while making a donation to help keep our regular programming tickets low cost and accessible.

Fundraiser tickets are sliding scale, $20 to $100, purchased here. Tickets over $20 will also receive a tax receipt.

About the Show

Post show DJ set featuring Luz Mob

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North, South, East, West – Which direction is forward?

Join us in the time honoured tradition of building a tent outdoors to house a night in which we share stories old, new, fiction and true. We invite you to enter the tent at Woodland Park to journey to The 4 Cardinal Points, the divine directions that hold universal intelligence, in search of coming back to centre, to the bare bones that are in alignment with the earth, fire, water and air.

This New Creation night will showcase 3 new works in a cabaret format, breaking in between each performance. Amidst the breaks the audience will have the opportunity to enjoy complimentary food from Tayybeh, a unique social enterprise and food venture, courtesy of the most amazing newcomer Syrian women chefs. https://tayybeh.com/. And to round out the evening we’ll have a night market featuring local artistic vendors @brutalbeauties, @lines.by.regina, @shyegg_, & @mosaic.motif.

Doors will open at 7:00pm. Show up early to enjoy the festivities. Performances start at 7:30pm.

Purchase your tickets here.

Featuring Works by

Cameron Peal and Riley Hardwick
Kaya Ko
Keara Barnes
Vanessa Yuen

About the Artists

Cameron Peal (he/him/his) is a Vancouver based (Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh territories) theatre artist, from the Nisga’a Nation of Northwest BC.
His current passion is in exploring the abstract; “how can I express something beyond the boundaries of what’s literal, what’s already clear?” His work looks to blur the boundaries between art forms and genres.
Recent credits: Ensemble – In My Day (Zee Zee Theatre) Director – enough is enough is enough (Studio 58), Producer/Creator – Where Is This Going (Butcher Shop Collective), Assistant to the Director – Bunk #7 (The Raven Collective), Co-Director – Cerulean Blue (Studio 58), Writer/Performer – Gather: Stories in Nature (Pacific Theatre, and Neworld Theatre), Production Coordinator – Indigenous Cities (Savage Society), Assistant to the Director – She Sells Seashells (United Players), Ensemble – Reframed (Electric Company Theatre), MC – Backyard Sessions (Savage Society), and Writer – The Transformation Project (National Arts Centre, and Pi Theatre). Actor/director/writer, Studio 58 graduate.

Kaya Ko is a first generation, queer Philipinx born on Turtle Island. A multi media artist, Kaya began

music at the ripe age of 5 with violin and singing. They picked up guitar in grade 3 and began song writing at the age of 10. Fast forward 15 years, with the help of SAE Institute, Kaya began producing music after years of acoustic performance and live looping.

They have since released an EP entitled “feeltherain” with good friend and producer “ciscles”, a fully self produced & mixed EP, “start somewhere”, one self produced & mixed single “what you want” and a band recording of original song “Complications”, recorded & mixed by Dani Lion.

Their style of music is a blend between flavours of old school RnB, Soul & Hiphop as well as influences from folk, punk, grunge and rock.

Their aim is to unite people through vibrations transmuted from their Human Experience.

Keara Barnes is a multiple award-winning actor/writer/producer and emerging director from Vancouver, B.C. She holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.

Recent stage credits include Mom’s the Word (Theatre Northwest), Screwball Comedy (Royal Canadian Theatre Company), HELLO (Theatre Terrific), and Mr.Burns: A Post Electric Play (Little Mountain Lion Productions). Keara is the writer/performer behind two acclaimed one-woman storytelling shows, Almost a Stepmom & TravelTheatrics, which toured around Western Canada for four years.

Keara is also a filmmaker and currently has three award-winning short films playing in the international film festival circuit. She is a three-time Best Actress winner for her short film ‘A Midwinter Nightmare’ and recently won ‘Best Scriptwriter’ at the Montreal Independent Film Festival for her most recent film ‘The Stepmom’ which she adapted from her solo theatre show.

樂凡 (Van Lefan), she/they, is a Taiwanese multidisciplinary artist currently based in Vancouver, BC. She honors music as powerful medicine for healing, connection, change, and the sharing of stories and ideas.
Her 2022 debut album, “What Holds Us Together?” is a sonic journey that synergizes folk, pop, world music, experimental soundscapes and poetry. Together, these stories weave a multi-sensory tapestry of ancestry, identity, ecological reverence and social justice. Her work holds a mirror up to the audience as both an invitation for self- inquiry, and a collective call to action.

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