INSIDE Series

A body of work over time that supports the creation and production of NEW ART from women and femme artists. So much of traditional art making and production is at the mercy of strict timelines, finacle ‘bottom’ lines and programming beholden to tickets sales. By liberating this process from those exclusionary parameters we are producing art in a more equitable and accessible way; we are reinventing how, who and what gets created, produced and witnessed in our communities and we are bringing important, transformative stories to life in the INSIDE Series.

rhythm and autism

Created and Performed By Andee Joyce

Directed By Jacquelle Davis

RHYTHM AND AUTISM, Andee Joyce’s one-woman original musical comedy, leads us through an interactive, funny and touching WONDER YEARS-style narrative about growing up autistic in the 1960s and 1970s. Andee tells the story of how her lifelong autistic obsession with rhythm, shaped by the pop culture cheese of her childhood, ultimately became a way to connect with others on the deepest level. But first, she had to reckon with her internal “Clappy Monster,” which showed up during the pandemic and changed her relationship with music (and other people) forever. Andee intends RHYTHM AND AUTISM to be a thunderously joyous celebration of difference, and an open invitation for people to be everything they are.

Performances at the Historic Alberta House

February 25th & 26th

Tickets go on Sale February 1st

grand Canyon

Written and Performed By Katherine Murphy Lewis

Directed by Lauren Wilson

‘…2 to 7 months…2 to 7months….. 2…..to…..7 months… those dates, those numbers, so small, so short, rang and clanged about inside me, time no longer my friend.

I hit record and subtly placed my phone on the table. I am struck by how normal it all sounds, sitting outside, eating chicken, talking about our favorite Netflix shows and what treatments my dads going to try. I want to capture us, our conversations, he cadence, the rhythm that is my mother and him and me, a little nation of three, still intact. I try keep that place, that moment in a jar like a firefly, untouched by time.…hit record, quietly place phone on table, capture something, something that cant be lost… I’d hit record and hope I could captured him before he was gone… and he did go…’

This emerging work takes secret recordings, grief, a trip to Target, a world of us trying to live forever by destroying ourselves, and of course my dads favorite chair and attempts make something new of it all.

Work in Progress Coming Soon at the Historic Alberta House

Sublimation by shona carter

This new creation by Shona Carter blends family photos, recorded autobiographical stories and visual arts in an exploration the migration of generation trauma, of cells, of black joy, family and a lineage that calls her and her family back to Historic Alberta District.

In a co-production with the Historic Alberta House this experimental and ambitious living exhibit is still in its’ incubation phase and dates are TBD