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Dragging Out My Rural Roots
I live by the philosophy of being both/and when it comes to my existence. I am both masculine and feminine. I am both an artist and a hockey player. I am both a drag performer and a farm kid. My existence is not a contradiction, it is a harmonious attestation to a multitude of concurring truths.
SPARC’s First Playwriting Contest!!!
We are hosting a playwriting contest!! To find out more info, click to read.
Re-Igniting the Spark!
Re-Igniting the Spark! 2024 SPARC Symposium Workshop Proposal Call-out. Click to read more!
SPARC Communities Call-Out!!
Is it time for your community to become a SPARC Community? Now’s the time to apply!
Brockville Community Consultation!
Join us Saturday June 24, 2023 from 10am-2:30pm for a Community Consultation in Brockville!
Changing Regional Perceptions Through Theatre
What do you think of when you think of Northern Ontario? Lots of snow? Moose? Jackpines? The warmth of the Shabbos candles on frigid December nights? No? Let’s go back a little.
Towards routes painted by colours: An approach to my experience with Art and Education
May Art be present at the time of educating ourselves.
It’s time to reveal some of our Cabaret performers!
Meet some of the performers for the Cabaret!
Meet two artists involved with the Gathering portion of the Regional Gathering & Cabaret!
Meet Lisa Poushinsky & Susanne Larner!
More news on the Regional Gathering & Cabaret!
Connect with fellow Rural & Remote artists, creators, presenters, producers and community animators at the first SPARC Regional Gathering & Cabaret!
The Case for Theatre Amongst Youth
“…my first time on stage was in fact with my starring role as the titular nutcracker in the play of the same name in junior kindergarten, a role which I secured through being the first five year old to volunteer. “
Symposium Workshop Presenter Bios & Workshop Descriptions
We know you’re getting ready to choose your Symposium schedule and thought we’d help. You’ve got the schedule, now get to know your Symposium workshop facilitators and a little more about each workshop.
Something from Absolutely Nothing: Making Theatre Against the Odds
“Despite this proud rural lineage, I (like so many others) believed a career in the performing arts necessitated a move to a large urban centre, as if the mark of “true” theatre was its ability to find box office success under the city lights.”
Rural Arts in Peru: The Colours of History
Rural Art celebrates Peruvian culture, and represents the shock of a people with a memory of colors, and a testimony of hopes.
A blog by Youth Blogger Jimena Yengle