This website will shut down on April 23rd, 2024
Goodbye!
We are saddened to say goodbye to the Vancouver and Canadian theatre community, as of April 23rd, 2024 we will be officially dissolving New(to)Town Collective. It has been 10 great years of offering experimental and economically accessible Training Jams, rambunctious clown parades, workshop intensives, collective performance pieces, and joining folks together in a community dedicated to trying something new or keeping warm in their performance process. We the co-leaders of New(to)Town Collective have grown so much in doing this work, yet as we all individually have our ambitions and dreams, we believe it’s time to move on.
We’d like to thank our funder Canada Council for the Arts and Vancity for supporting us and allowing us to reduce economic and access barriers for artists joining us for Training Jams and Workshops. We’d also like to acknowledge all the donors for our past fundraising events. Your significant contribution to us, our work, and the causes we care about has created such an impact.
Thank you to our Community Partners, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement for providing us space and home at Woodwards and Vines Art Festival for us TJ, presentation, and community activity opportunities, specifically all made possible because of folks like Am Johal and Heather Lamoreaux. Forever grateful to you both.
Thank you to ongoing artistic leaders who believed in us from the start, specifically folks like Heidi Taylor (Playwrights Theatre Centre), Jarin Schexnider (WhatLab), David MacMurray Smith (Fantastic Spaces Enterprises), Stephan Wangh, and Raina von Waldenburg. Throughout the years you’ve supported, collaborated, mentored, and advised us in different capacities and our work. Special thank you to co-founder Eddy van Wyk (you started something special with us, thank you!), Ladan Sahraei (for your ASL interpretation and connecting Deaf artists to our workshop), and Lisz Keallen (for your interpretation work and that of the other interpreters).
Thank you to the ancestral, traditional, and stolen territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) for whose lands we live and work on, and will continue our journey’s creating right relations with these host nations.
And finally, thank you to every artist who stepped up to lead a TJ or workshop for us, collaborated with us on a project, and/or had been a regular at our TJs and workshops. You have all contributed to making New(to)Town Collective the best possible. We ask that you keep the spirit of cross-pollination and curiosity in performance and theatre going. Enjoy the process, and keep play alive!
Goodbye and Take Care!
We’d like to thank our funder Canada Council for the Arts and Vancity for supporting us and allowing us to reduce economic and access barriers for artists joining us for Training Jams and Workshops. We’d also like to acknowledge all the donors for our past fundraising events. Your significant contribution to us, our work, and the causes we care about has created such an impact.
Thank you to our Community Partners, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement for providing us space and home at Woodwards and Vines Art Festival for us TJ, presentation, and community activity opportunities, specifically all made possible because of folks like Am Johal and Heather Lamoreaux. Forever grateful to you both.
Thank you to ongoing artistic leaders who believed in us from the start, specifically folks like Heidi Taylor (Playwrights Theatre Centre), Jarin Schexnider (WhatLab), David MacMurray Smith (Fantastic Spaces Enterprises), Stephan Wangh, and Raina von Waldenburg. Throughout the years you’ve supported, collaborated, mentored, and advised us in different capacities and our work. Special thank you to co-founder Eddy van Wyk (you started something special with us, thank you!), Ladan Sahraei (for your ASL interpretation and connecting Deaf artists to our workshop), and Lisz Keallen (for your interpretation work and that of the other interpreters).
Thank you to the ancestral, traditional, and stolen territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) for whose lands we live and work on, and will continue our journey’s creating right relations with these host nations.
And finally, thank you to every artist who stepped up to lead a TJ or workshop for us, collaborated with us on a project, and/or had been a regular at our TJs and workshops. You have all contributed to making New(to)Town Collective the best possible. We ask that you keep the spirit of cross-pollination and curiosity in performance and theatre going. Enjoy the process, and keep play alive!
Goodbye and Take Care!
- Anjela Magpantay, Avyen von Waldenburg, Davey Calderon and June Fukumura.
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