Buzz 20.21

The BUZZ Development Series focuses on creating an artistic process that places the art and artist at the centre.  This can manifest itself in various ways including: workshops, dramaturgy, public presentations as well as ways which cannot yet be anticipated or defined. At TPM, rather than prescribing a specific methodology, we aspire to empower the artist through their development.  Works in the program are being considered for future development and potential production at TPM.

For BUZZ showings, TPM is sharing the artist’s process in front of an audience, as a tool in helping to shape their work. The event is designed by the artist in collaboration with TPM, to create the most useful and productive audience feedback at this point in the work’s development. You, the audience, are a critical part of our development process.

20.21 BUZZ Development Series

Public Workshops

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*Building Relationships With The World

by Luke Reece

October 31, 2020

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

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*Wall With A Door

by Katie Ready-Walters

(Artist-in-Residence)

November 21, 2020

Supported by the Toronto Arts Council (Open Door)

Seven Pieces

by Jenn Forgie

Postponed

In-House Workshops

The Effeminates: A Queer Tale of Bloody Vengeance

by Raf Antonio with lemonTree creations (Company-in-Residence)

October 2020

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Augmented Reality / ASL Project featuring 11:11

by Samson Bonkeabantu Brown

November 2020

Supported by the Toronto Arts Council (Open Door)

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Rubble

by Suvendrini Lena with Aluna Theatre (Company-in-Residence)

November 2020 & March 2021

With the additional support of Pandemic Theatre and Nightwood Theatre

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What Brings You In

by Leslie Ting

December 2020

Produced by Leslie Ting Productions

Merlin has fair skin, round and soft features with a clean buzzed-cut hair. Here they are wearing a turtleneck shirt.

Fear Of Men

by Merlin Simard

January 2021

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OK, You can stop now

by Shakeil Rollock

January 2021

With the additional support of 

b current performing arts

*Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land)

by Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)

February 2021

Produced by Saga Collectif, Tarragon Theatre and TPM

I Don’t Feel Pretty

by Nancy Kenny

June 12 2021

2:00pm

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Erased

by Coleen Shirin MacPherson

Postponed

Produced by Open Heart Surgery Theatre

In Defense Of The Serpent

by Tamyka Bullen & DM St. Bernard (Artists-in-Residence)

Ongoing through 20/21

Supported by the Ontario Arts Council

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Woking Phoenix

by Silk Bath Collective (Company-in-Residence)

Ongoing through 20/21

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

Luke Reece Photo Credit: Cesar Ghisilieri | Raf Antonio Photo Credit: Raf Antonio | Nancy Kenny Photo Credit: Hill Peppard | Aaron Jan, Donna-Michelle St Bernard Photo Credit: Graham Isador | Suvendrini Lena, Katie Ready-Walters Photo Credit: Dahlia Katz | Leslie Ting Photo Credit: Galit Rodan | Shakeil Rollock Photo Credit: Grant Landry | Samson Bonkeabantu Brown Photo Credit: Ajamu Ikwe-Tyehimba | Merlin Simard Photo Credit: Mark Binks | Gloria Mok Photo Credit: Maxime Coté | Jenn Forgie Photo Credit: Kristine Cofsky | Bessie Cheng Photo Credit: Sarah Tung | Coleen MacPherson Photo Credit: David Yiu

Brand and Concept Design by: Louis Duarte