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Phew! We made it through 2019.

And what wonderful and busy year it was! In 2019 we produced 8 productions, 7 presentations, 7 development workshops, and 10 participatory workshops, with 28 stops in 14 cities in 4 countries around the world. We also launched 4 new strategic initiatives to benefit artists and audiences alike. We are proud to have supported 250+ artists in 2019.

Not many people know that for the past 4 years we have consistently produced over 20 productions, presentations and workshops. Here’s some of the things we got up to over the past year (clockwise from top left, ending with centre image):

•National Tour of Prince Hamlet (Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Canadian Stage, National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts – Photo by Rick Roberts

•International Tour ofQuote Unquote Collective‘s Mouthpiece (UC Santa Barbara, Stanford Live, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Jamais Lu) – Photo by Joel Clifton

•Local presentation of the UK’s Selina Thompson’s salt. (Progress Festival, SummerWorks Performance Festival, The Theatre Centre) – Photo by Richard Davenport

•Local presentation of Australia’s Hot Brown Honey(Briefs Factory, TO Live, Native Earth Performing Arts)

•Vancouver tour of Thomas McKechnie’s 4½ (ig)noble truths (zeitpunktheatre, Pi Theatre) – Photo by John Gundy

•Co-production of Lilies; Or, The Revival of a Romantic Drama (Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, lemonTree creations) – Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh Photography

RISER Project 2019

•RISER Project 2019: Wring the Roses (Madonnanera: Creators of Body So Fluorescent) – Photo by Lyon Smith
•RISER Project 2019: Eraser (Eraser Theatre) – Photo by Sam Gaetz
•RISER Project 2019: 1991 (Guilty by association) – Photo by Dahlia Katz Photography
•RISER Project 2019: 11:11 (A.V.O. Collective) – Photo by Brett Haynes

•Co-hosted artist residency for Shaista Latif and her participatory workshop How I Learned To Serve Tea (Koffler Centre of the Arts) – Photo by Shaista Latif

•Co-produced the 10th anniversary reading of Nicolas Billon’s Greenland (SummerWorks Performance Festival)

•Supported Chris Dodd’s Deafy (SummerWorks Performance Festival)

•Winnipeg tour of Like Mother, Like Daughter (FemFest, Sarasvati Productions) – Photo by Janet Shum

•Australian premiere of A Brimful of Asha (Melbourne International Arts Festival) – Photo by Paul Jeffers

•International development workshop of Nicolas Billon’s CODE (Barbican Centre, Stratford Festival) – Photo by Sarah Ainslie

•Development workshops and showings of Mahabharata (Shaw Festival) – Photo by Dahlia Katz Photography

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•Co-production of The Book of Life (Volcano Theatre, Canadian Stage)

•Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program (Citadel Theatre, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity)

•Space Project, providing artists with unused space across Toronto

•Childcare Project, supporting artists in their childcare needs

•New Audiences Project, making theatre more financially accessible

•Continuing our role as a recommender for Ontario Arts Council – Conseil des arts de l’Ontario‘s Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators

Thank you to everyone who made 2019 such a productive and exciting year. We’re truly grateful to all those who help us make the work, and to all those who share it with us. See you in 2020!