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Benevolence A charming and intimate storytelling experience that blossoms into a multi-layered Chinese-Canadian tale spanning continents, migrations, and generations. Learn more A unique and intimate theatre experience where internationally-renowned environmentalists David Suzuki and Tara Cullis join forces with theatre artists in a poetic, thought-provoking performance. Learn more Space Project What if artists had access to free space? Read more Learn More mahabharata book Read more Why Not Theatre is thrilled to announce the launch of the publication of its most recent play, Mahabharata, by Coach House Books. 1s1 theatre 1S1 is a Deaf-led theatre company founded by Dawn Jani Birley to create theatre at the intersections of the Deaf and hearing worlds, always from a Deaf-led perspective. Read more

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Why Not acknowledges the sacred land on which we operate as the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. This territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live, work, and create art in the community, on this territory.