Uncovering

Wednesday, December 16. 6pm EST

https://www.facebook.com/anarctheatre/live/
 A photo collage with cut out photos that appear to be pasted together. The grouping of photos has a lot going on: a white woman does a handstand in front of a set of stairs, red fabric, faces, a Black women wears neon colours and poses inside a large suspended metal aerial hoop, a white woman is upside down with a net hanging below, three white women use sign language, small text reads “Mad”, an Indigenous person sings, a photo of several young children, and an Indigenous woman gazes at papers she holds in her hands. Text to the left of the clump of photos reads “Uncovering” and is spaced out with “un” on the first line, “cover” on the second and “ing” on the third.

A photo collage with cut out photos that appear to be pasted together. The grouping of photos has a lot going on: a white woman does a handstand in front of a set of stairs, red fabric, faces, a Black women wears neon colours and poses inside a large suspended metal aerial hoop, a white woman is upside down with a net hanging below, three white women use sign language, small text reads “Mad”, an Indigenous person sings, a photo of several young children, and an Indigenous woman gazes at papers she holds in her hands.Text to the left of the clump of photos reads “Uncovering” and is spaced out with “un” on the first line, “cover” on the second and “ing” on the third.

 

Please note the link to the livestream will be live at the time of the event.

A co-presentation of anARC Theatre, Kingston Circus Arts and the Circus Kingston Collective, Uncovering is an access-centered, work-in-progress video collaboration featuring artists connected to Kingston, Ontario. The work seeks to uncover the untold stories of people, places and institutions and are shared from a place of lived experience.

 

Exploring creative digital access, the work is captioned, includes ASL and provides descriptions for Blind and partially sighted audiences (and everyone). We will also make the transcript available. The artists are mostly new to digital work and have adapted their typical live performance modalities to work within our current pandemic reality.

 

Combining drumming, singing, circus arts, story-telling, dance, poetry, sign language and voice, we uncover stories of activism, Black joy, Deaf history, Indigenous thanks and grief, Mad and Disabled horror stories, and reflections from a Japanese student’s perspective.

 

Join us for a first presentation of our explorations, followed by a 15 minute Q&A with live captions and ASL on Wednesday, December 16th at 6pm. The link above will be live when the showing begins.

 

If you have access to a balloon, please bring it with you for the show.
CW: Please note that this show engages with intense content matter including racism, ableism, sanism, audism, and abuse. Please take care of yourselves accordingly.

 

Artists
Alexandra Hickox
Chihiro Watanabe
Elizabeth Morris
Erin Ball
Jane Kirby
Kathy Brant
Kemi King
Lavie Williams
Theresa Upton
Tracey Guptill
Yessica Rivera Belsham

 

Videographers
Josh Lyon
Sian Alcorn

 

Livestream Tech
Jesse MacMillan

 

Consultants
Alex Bulmer (access)

 

Sound
Matt Rogalsky (sound recording)
David Parker

 

With Thanks To:
Carmelle Cachero
Deaf Spirit Theatre
Leah Riddell
Becky Gold
Molly Mask
Mariah Horner
Joan Kuyek
Syrus Marcus Ware
Sue Bazely
Alan Jeans
All of the LAB participants

 

Thank you so much to our generous sponsors: Kingston Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Tangled Arts, Nightwood Theatre and Theatre Kingston.