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Creative Producer: Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival 2026 (Interior BC)
Music. Word. Performing Arts.
Rural Community.
Join us at the 2026 Summerland Ryga Arts Festival.
Sept 15 – 20, 2026
New Translation Canada: emportés sur la crête d’une vague (Montreal, QC)
emportés sur la crête d’une vague
By David Yee
Translated to French Maryse Warda
Translated from “carried away on the crest of a wave”
October 2026
Montréal, QC
In association with Le Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD) & Théâtre de Quat’Sous
Creating Theatre for Hope (North Vancouver, BC)
Meet international Polish theatre maker
Łukasz Wójtowicz
Sunday, August 2, 2026 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Presentation House Theatre, The Weaving Room
333 Chesterfield Avenue,
North Vancouver, BC, Canada V7M 3G9
Pay what you can
Celebrating the 2024-2025 Korea-Canada Year of Cultural Exchanges
“…an unforgettable performance! Blending powerful storytelling with youthful energy and cross-cultural collaboration…”
– Embassy of Canada (Korea)
뮤지컬 R;LINK THE MUSICAL
Written & Directed by 김가람 Kim Ga-ram
Co-Written with Tyrone Perreault (Cowessess First Nation)
Composed by 김준호 Kim Jun-ho
Seoul, Korea: July 26 & 27, 2025
Vancouver, Canada: Aug. 15 & 16, 2025
The Creatus Project featured at CART2025 Conference (CAN)
Julia Henderson presents a paper on The Creatus Project at Canada’s leading Theatre Research conference.
May 26-27, 2025
Sharing Creative Access Practices at The All Inclusive Kongress (DE)
Conference on the state of contemporary disability & inclusive performing arts in independent theatre in Europe.
May 22.- 24, 2025
Sharing in Each Other’s Songs at the flausen+ kongress (DE)
Artistic Freedom, Cultural Political Resistance, and Self-Empowerment through International Alliances in Times of Crisis.
May 20 – 22, 2025
New Translation Canada featured at 2nd CRLCC International Conference
New Translation Canada invited to speak on “Creative Translation” in theatre and our interprovincial work.
May 9-10, 2025
Glendon College, York University (Toronto, CAN)
Bali Canada Cross Cultural Exchange 2025
Conceived by Jack Paterson, I Nyoman Sedana, & I Made Sidia
Considered one of the longest uninterrupted performance traditions in the world, the Balinese traditional performing arts are unique, rich, and complex.
April 2025
Arts Across Canada – New Translation Commission
carried away on the crest of a wave
By David Yee
Translated to French by Maryse Warda
New Translation Canada
Arts Across Canada – New Translation Commission
Offensive to Some
By Berni Stapleton
Translated to French by Sonya Malaborza
New Translation Canada
Arts Across Canada – New Translation Commission
blood.claat
By d’bi.young anitafrika
Translated to French by Djennie Laguerre
New Translation Canada
Arts Across Canada – New Translation Commission
Granite
By Mishka Lavigne
Translated to English by David Gagnon Walker
The Ballad of Georges Boivin – Ignite the Arts Festival
“…explores with great insight thematic territory I’ve never seen covered before…”
– Colin Thomas, colinthomas.ca
Sunday, March 30 | 2:00-3:00pm
Tempest Theatre
125 Eckhardt Ave E, Penticton BC V2A 1Z5
Connecting Korean & Canadian Theatre Makers – Young artists from Korea, Canada join hands (Korea Times)
GAPYEONG — Young artists from Korea and Canada are joining hands to create the historical musical “R:LINK,” based on the Battle of Kapyong, now known as Gapyeong, during the 1950-53 Korean War….
Active Access Design for Senior Artists
CREATIVE RESEARCH
PAL Theatre
Western Gold Theatre
Oct.- Dec. 2024 & March 2025
New Writing
DUTY CALLS & LAYING UP OF THE COLOURS
Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Vancouver’s Victory Square Cenotaph
Christ Church Cathedral
Vancouver, BC
CAG2024: Agents of Change – Unraveling Complexity and Advancing Transformation
BRAZEN AGING: UNRAVELING RESEARCH BIAS TO SUPPORT AGING VIGOROUSLY AND DISRUPTIVELY
Julia Henderson, PhD & Jack Paterson
October 24-26, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Towards an Inclusive Theatre (Summerland CAN)
THE BALLAD OF GEORGES BOIVIN
By Martin Bellemare
Translated by Jack Paterson with Johanna Nutter
Creating new paths for Senior Artists in Festival Touring
Sept. 22 2024 | 7 PM
Ryga Arts Festival
My Success is Measured in the Success of the Artists I Work With
English Language Premiere
STILL LIFE
By Marie-Ève Milot & Marie-Claude St-Laurent
Translated by Rhiannon Collett
Translated from Chienne(s)
Talisman Theatre (Montréal Canada)
Oct. 28 – Nov. 9, 2024
New Translation
THE LITTLE CABARET: A CELEBRATION OF DISSIDENCE
(For ages 4 to 148 and a half)
By Martin Bellemare
Translated to English by Jack Paterson
Translated from Une petite fête – Cabaret de la dissidence
Commissioned by Le Carrousel, Compagnie de théâtre