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Recent News
Alameda at FOOT!
The Festival Of Original Theatre (FOOT), now in its 20th year, is a four-day Festival and Conference organized by graduate students at the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. This year’s FOOT interrogates the complex relationships between Theatre and Learning in both theory and practice. The conference will comprise three broad areas of exploration: learning theatre, learning through theatre and theatre plus learning. Each stream will feature scholarly panels, performances, workshops and a roundtable discussion. With presenters joining us from six different countries, this year’s festival promises a unique international forum for researchers, artists, students, teachers and parents to meet and explore theatre in education, theatre for social change, theatre training and theatre for young audiences (TYA), among many others. Alameda Theatre Company will present a reading of LA DANZA DEL VENADO by Ari Belathar (current member of the 2012 De Colores Festival of New Works) on SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2012 from 2:30-3:30 PM LA DANZA DEL VENADO: Inspired by Ari Belthar’s experience of illegally crossing the border into the United States as a child, La Danza Del Venado is a multidisciplinary play, exploring the deep contradictions generated by the migration and displacement of human beings who are forced to cross the oceans, the rivers and the deserts of this world. It tells the story of a group of migrants whose clandestine journey into the north is hindered when they find themselves lost in the middle of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona —a harsh and desolate area that for hundreds of years has stolen the souls of its travellers. Reading directed by: Marilo Nuñez FOOT 2012 runs from Thursday, February 2, 2012 to Sunday, February 5th 2012 at Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College St., 3rd Floor (Use entrance on St. George for easiest access to the theatre) All activities at the conference are free to attend. There will be no admission charge for the reading of LA DANZA DEL VENADO on Sunday, February 5th, 2012. See you all there. To find out more about FOOT 2012 please go to http://foot2012.wordpress.com.
Nueva Voz: A Latino Youth Initiative gets sponsored by TD Bank! We are very excited to say that TD Bank has sponsored our most exciting venture this year, our youth outreach program! Giving access to 10 Latino youth between the ages of 14-19, Nueva Voz is a program that will give Latino youth the tools to tell their stories, in their own words. A collective Creation process of 25 weeks which will culminate in two performances, Nueva Voz will empower and engage our youth! Thanks to the generous support of TD Bank, we are proud to bring this pilot project to life! Visit the Neuva Voz page for complete information about the program.
Alameda Continues to Grow...
Alameda Theatre Company is delighted to welcome Sigrid Velis as the company's new Artistic Associate & Producing Intern. The position is made possible through Theatre Ontario's Professional Training Program funded by the Ontario Arts Council. Sigrid Velis came to Canada at the age of two after leaving her native county of El Salvador. Art always played a prominent role in her family and, as time went on, she realized that a career in the theatre was her destiny. Sigrid joined the wonderful team at Humber Theatre in their performance program and after finishing that program she went on to complete her BFA in Theatre at York University. While at school, she trained extensively with such artists as Dean Gilmour, Kelly McEvenue, Heidi Strauss, Janet-Laine Green, and more. She was also involved in numerous workshops and productions directed by resident artists, including Rod Ceballos, Kelly MacIntosh, Karin Randoja, Ker Wells, David Fox, and Jim Warren. Her most memorable roles include playing the Jailer in The Five Vengeances, an adaptation of The Revenger’s Tragedy directed and written by Jovanni Sy and Guillermo Verdecchia and playing The Woman in Green in Peer Gynt directed by Maja Ardal. Since graduating from Theatre School, Sigrid has been trying to keep busy. She appeared in an adaptation of Barbara Gowdy’s novel, The White Bone, written and directed by Sean Dixon at the 2007 SummerWorks Festival, other acting credits include Driftwood Theatre’s Trafalgar24, Alameda Theatre’s 2009 and 2010 De Colores Festival and the Hysteria Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Gaggle directed by Karin Randoja. Sigrid spent last winter touring the United States with Kid’s Entertainment/King Cole Theatrical’s production of Stellaluna. Most recently Sigrid has been working on gaining experience in the administrative side of the Theatre World. This is an exciting and challenging change and she feels blessed to have so many people supporting her through this new career path.
Dora Nomination for Refugee Hotel September 2010
We are so proud to say that Carmen Aguirre's The Refugee Hotel received a 2010 Dora Nomination for Outstanding New Play in the General Theatre Category! Way to go Carmen! Click here for more about Alameda Theatre's production of The Refugee Hotel... |
Upcoming Events
Playwriting Masterclass
IMAGINING MEMORIES & WRITING DREAMS A two-day workshop using sense-memory, breathing, and remembering to help find and fuel the dramatic voice. Space is limited for this rare opportunity - register early to guarantee your spot! Saturday, September 10th & Sunday, September 11th CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS
Recent Events
Book Launch
Alameda Theatre Company, the Toronto Women's Bookstore, and Douglas & McIntyre proudly present the Toronto book launch of Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by playwright Carmen Aguirre.The book is a gripping, darkly comic memoir of a young underground revolutionary during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile.
Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre
7pm, doors open Wine and cheese will be served.
For more information about the book or to purchase online visit: Douglas & MacIntyre Book Publishers
Learn more about The Toronto Women's Bookstore |
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