Finding Joy: Dance Therapy
Lead by a certified Dance/Movement Therapist. This workshop will be open to performers, artists, and producers looking to dive into some creative wellness. This safe space will promote creativity while also providing space to overcome internal struggles as an artist and encourage performers to return to play in their creative modalities.
Gender Performance Exploration
THIS IS NOT A DRAG SHOW If you come expecting one, you will be very, very, very disappointed. Instead, come and explore what it means to YOU to perform gender! Whether that’s heightening your current gender identity, dipping your toes into what you consider to be the ‘opposite’ of your identity, or finding a blend of every gender identity all at once! All drag performance is gender performance, but not…
Intro to Butoh
Mitsu Salmon will lead an introduction workshop to Butoh, which is a contemporary avant- garde dance form that emerged after WWII in Japan and connects movement to imagery. In this workshop, you will learn a quick overview of Butoh and some basic exercises. We will work with guided movement and structured improvisation. Salmon was in a Butoh company, Ima Tenko and Kiraza for three years in Japan and will draw…
Slimy Fractal Conspiracy
A poet and educator/youth worker with 15 years of experience (Elisabeth Layne) partners up with a writer-director-performer and youth worker (Gum Preston) to make an original work of conceptual performance art for/with children. Together, we are AGENCY Agency, and we believe that transgressive performance art is already central to how children play together. We want to celebrate that creativity and see if we can learn from it. The Slimy Fractal…
The Fool’s Yoga
The Fool’s Yoga © is a physical embodiment practice that combines the practice of Clown with Yin Yoga, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and Guided Meditation. This innovative approach benefits people from all walks of life, offering stress relief, creativity, and a playful approach to mindfulness. Through the lens of the Fool, participants will learn to be more emotionally in touch, share their authentic selves, physicalize mindfulness, and more. Join…
Trinity, a new play reading
Following the gnawing death of his mother, Charlie escapes into the hardscrabble desert of New Mexico to hunt for his father. Guided by a bizarre trio of hermits and haunted by the shame of growing up gay, Charlie leaves behind the safety of Los Alamos and enters a strange world of magic and beasts to learn what only the desert can teach him: letting go is fucking hard.
Your Own Space: Buying a First Home with CB Sponsor Ben Camp
Your Own Space – Buying a First Home with CannonBar Sponsor Benjamin Camp and the CCSJ Team Thinking about buying a home? Are you curious about what the process is like, what you should plan for, and what the first steps are?Are you an artist with an unusual income structure, wondering if homeownership is even possible for you? Ben and his team have been helping artists own houses for over…
Visions
Visions shows glimpses of works-in-process, excerpts, and/or short form performance(s) to help artists see what their work looks like now and what it might become as we look toward the future. Each night is specially curated for one night only! Blink and these visions are gone, until next time. Featuring: September 7TH & 11TH (as part of Black Circus Week) at Icebox Project Space:Christina Gainey’s Livin Black: Small Town Girl…
OVERBOARD!
OVERBOARD! is BACK at Cannonball! Come for a weekly variety cabaret with offerings from sideshow, circus, storytelling, ecstatic camp counsellor rants, pirate rituals, and everything in between. Jump in with us, we’re going OVERBOARD! Catch OVERBOARD at Pig Iron Studios (Studio B) every Sunday at 8PM starting on Sunday, September 15th. September 15th: Open Mic Scratch Night Works-in-progress, short performances, bits, gags, and whatever else you can imagine – open…
It Takes Guts
What’s it like to be caught between your head and your heart? To have your muscles work for you but your brain work against you? To sit in a therapy office and talk over all of that with a pile of guts as big as you are? Come and explore these questions through the point of view of an acrobat with anxiety. This captivating 45-minute circus show will take you…
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