Liminal Magic will showcase 3 new works accompanied by live musicians!

Doors will open at 7:00pm. Show up early to enjoy the festivities: Tarot Readings by Susan Horning, Photo Booth, Mystery Activities with prizes and complimentary food from Camion Viet Food Cart. Show starts at 8:00pm.

Pay What You Decide, suggested $10

Featuring

Mily Mumford

Always Been Loved is a short multimedia cosmic horror from the perspective of an astronaut on a mysterious space mission with their partner, who might not actually be the person they claim to be.

Francis Dowlatabadi & Parmiss Sehat

My Roommate Ahriman is a Mythological Comedy that brings you into a world of legend, history, and dirty dishes clogging the entire sink, as grad student Hank Sanati contends with his new roommate, Ahriman the Spirit of Destruction.

Omari Newton & David Morin

Night of The Woke-ing Dead is a Hip Hop Horror Comedy that tells the story of Anthony Blackman’s overnight transformation from mild mannered history teacher, into the spirit of radical black rage, bent on seeking vengeance against all racists who cross his path.

Covid Safety

This event will take place outdoors under tents, in the parking lot of Progress Lab, rain or shine. Masks are  encouraged but not required, and please be aware of distancing, hand-washing/sanitizing, and the varying personal comfort levels of others around you. Please stay home if you have symptoms of COVID, or have been in contact with others who have contracted COVID. Thank you for helping us keep events live, in-person, and safe.

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An interactive theatrical experience to create your ideal society in a mega-game of collaboration, competition, and potential. Build, risk, advance, succumb. What happens next depends on you.

Join us for a mega-game of collaboration, competition, and potential Utopia. New Societies draws together the forms of a strategic board game and a theatrical narrative, all shaped by the choices you make as you play. This new interactive digital performance has been a hit with audiences of all ages in cities across Canada. Join us from your home – as a single player, with kids, or with a partner (any combination is possible!) – for the new digital edition of New Societies.

Guided by a set of facilitators, you’ll be placed in groups over a custom online platform to compete against or collaborate with other players in order to build your ideal society. Be careful, because as your choices shape the direction of your group, there are seven other societies also creating an ever growing and responsive landscape.

Filled with humour and levity, New Societies is a playful challenge to reflect on how we operate within our current world, while giving players the opportunity to be the catalysts in crafting a better one.

Play on your own, with a team at home, with friends in an online team! Please note there is a maximum of 6 players per team.

Original trailer courtesy of Crow’s Theatre

Accessibility

Due to the live and interactive nature of this production, it is not currently being offered with captions or audio description. However, audiences may enable Google Chrome’s live caption during the performance. If you have any access requirements or require specific information about the production, please contact recurrenttheatre@gmail.com who will try to assist you.

How to Access

You will receive a unique link to the New Societies Online platform for your reserved date.

The majority of the performance is interactive. It is recommended to reserve one ticket per player. If playing as a household, you may be still be designated a single player capability for the duration of the performance, unless otherwise indicated upon reserving your performance.

New Societies Online is played in groups of six. If you would like to play with friends or family as part of a team, email jarin@rumble.org your names and email addresses prior to the date of the performance. Please note there is a maximum of 6 players per team.

New Societies Online is not compatible with mobile or tablet devices. It is best experienced using Google Chrome web browser on a laptop or computer with good internet connection. You will need to have your camera and microphone on for the duration of the performance, and it’s advised you wear headphones.

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In “LAKBAY” (Tagalog word for Journey), Josh meditates on patterns, cycles and rhythms. Drawing upon his mother tongue of Tagalog, pivotal personal experiences and journeys into the natural world of the west coast rainforest, he intimately attunes into buried roots; breathing life into the undercurrents of their queer and filipinx identity.

New Works is proud to partner with Rumble on the world premiere presentation of LAKBAY by Josh Ongcol & Miguel Maravilla. This piece was created earlier in March 2021 as part of Josh’s artist residency with Rumble and New Works. The development of LAKBAY is made possible through Made in BC/Dance West Network’s 2nd annual Creative Residency, Re-Centering Margins 2020-21 and was further developed through Josh’s artist residency with Rumble and New Works in March 2021.

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UnDone is going grey. Fast. Not just physically but socially, psychologically and even technologically. Ghosted by friends and society at large, the aging, isolated musician fades toward invisibility in an East Vancouver that seems increasingly surreal. Can he survive his mission to get to “Mission”? It’s a long shot!

A rock performance piece mining metaphor and comedy in the grey zones of mental illness, Isolation Suite features live music by Cold Calculi (Theatre Conspiracy’s Tim Carlson and Rumble’s own Christie Watson).

Isolation Suite was slated for a Spring 2021 stage premiere but, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the live version has been postponed until next season. In the meantime, we are producing an audio series, supported by music videos and a multimedia website, to be launched on April 15, 2021.

To give you a taste of the show and its music, we’re excited to share this trippy stop-motion video for “We Teach Our Objects How To Speak Our Language” by Margaret Krawecka and Ulla Laidlaw. The video was supported by a grant from Canada Council/CBC’s Digital Originals program.

Cold Calculi – We Teach Our Objects how To Speak Our Language

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‘You are safe here.
But out there
I’m not always sure.’

Blending a dreamy sonic landscape, solitary physical environment, and an unexpected use of technology, Good Things to Do invites participants to place themselves within a dreamscape in which they possess extraordinary powers. This wondrously immersive experience is a meditation on goodness, generosity, and the struggle to stay tender in a world that asks us to be hard.

The project was originally a live performance/installation incorporating digital design.

Following a COVID-19 pivot, Good Things to Do the piece has adapted, or perhaps found its form by embracing its digital form, having reached audiences across Canada, and well beyond.

“Good Things To Do offers a welcome asylum of tenderness” — Colin Thomas (colinthomas.ca)

“This is an interactive show truly designed with isolation in mind.” — Georgia Straight

Good Things to Do was originally created by “The Good Things Collective”.  It was developed with the support of Boca del Lupo, and first showcased at the rEvolver Festival, and the inaugural FOLDA (2018).

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ephemera plural : paper items (such as posters, broadsides, and tickets) that were originally meant to be discarded after use but have since become collectibles.

The scholar Peggy Phelan once claimed that the ontology of live performance is its disappearance. It is here for a moment in time, and then it is gone. But, as Rebecca Schneider has argued, every performance also leaves remains: in the bodies of its creators; in the memories of its audiences; and in the paper trails and material detritus that attest to the different phases of its development. Ephemera is hoping to collect some of those remains as they pertain to the recent history of performance on these lands.

How to participate in Ephemera IV
On June 26 and 27, we welcome you to come by PL1422 (1422 William St, Vancouver) at any time between 12:00pm and 4:00pm to submit your materials to be archived. COVID-19 safety protocols will be observed. If you prefer, you may email digital items to ephemera@rumble.org. Please submit your digital items by June 28.

Choose up to any three items to contribute. These can be anything from any timeline! If that sounds too open ended, here’s a prompt for those who wish to use it: “How does art evolve?”

Please fill out an archiving card for each item you submit. An archiving card template and event invitation can be download here: Fillable Ephemera IV Invitation and Archive Form

About the Ephemera Project
Ephemera is an ongoing archiving project that celebrates all of the performing arts community on these lands. For Ephemera IV, we are once again reaching out to ask artists and arts organizations to contribute bits and pieces of creative materials, office work and production pieces — items that would otherwise be discarded — to a collective archive. The collection will be housed, along with Ephemera I, II and III, as part of SFU Special Collections and Rare Books. The objective of Ephemera is to gather the Vancouver Theatre community in a non-competitive way to catalogue and celebrate our shared memories and our history.

Ephemera is a series of events brought to you in collaboration with Theatre Replacement, Rumble Theatre, and SFU Special Collections. Partners for previous iterations of the event also include the GVPTA and Upintheair Theatre.

Ephemera I
March 29, 2018
Progress Lab 1422
Vancouver

Ephemera II
Making a Scene Conference
Presented with with the GVPTA
May 30, 2019
The Post at 750
Vancouver

Ephemera III
e-Volver Festival
Presented with Upintheair Theatre
June 18-27, 2020
Online

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Rishi sees and hears things that others can’t, just like their Uncle, “Papaboisee Mamou”. Rishi heard that when Uncle was small, he was taken by a Douen: a forest spirit that lures children into the woods. It was all just village talk and folklore…until one day Rishi’s little brother disappears, called into the forest. Now it’s up to Rishi to journey deep into the forest to seek out the Douen and find their brother!

Rishi & d Douen was commissioned as part of AudioPLAY, Carousel Theatre for Young People’s 2020-2021 season of screen-free audio theatre designed to engage and excite.

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