Folda - Festival of Live Digital Art
Next up: Edition 6 in June 2023
The Halluci Nation
GO— The Halluci Nation make a stop in Kingston during their One More Saturday Night tour. Dance beats, epic visuals. In-person in Kingston, and livestreamed to the Internets.
June 11, 8pm ET
The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Kingston
ASL Interpreted
Sighted Guides available.
You Should Have Stayed Home
Written and performed by Tommy Taylor
BETA— Set in VR, an auto-biographical re-telling of the frightening events that took place on the streets of Toronto during the 2010 G20 summit protests.
ASL Interpreted.
Selfie
By Christine Quintana
GO— A new year of high school is full of excitement and potential—but three teens didn’t expect it to bring such a dark change to their lives. Audience experience a livestreamed, voyeuristic window into the lives of the teenaged characters through their computer desktops and smartphones, where their conversations and anxieties play out.
Captioning available.
Ways of Being
Michael Rubenfeld and Clayton Lee, Selfconscious Productions
BETA— Two artists in different countries perform at the exact same time for different audiences. Using the Internet and strong dashes of technological and theatrical magic, Ways of Being creates a liminal space in which these audiences are brought together.
Relaxed Environment
Through My Lens
By Amy Amantea with Theatre Replacement
ALPHA— An interdisciplinary, interactive, online performance that combines conversation, text, hospitality and photography.
ASL Interpreted
Blind/Low Vision Listening Party
The Maydee Box
By Rebecca Cuddy
ALPHA— Using augmented reality to share family history, generational stories, and unanswered questions.
Sighted Guides available.
FOLDA’s programming is structured to support artists creating theatre in a digital age
Alpha
Performances in their earliest stages, ready for internal testing, but require audience feedback to spark the next stage of development.
Beta
Performances ready for public testing to refine the audience experience.
Go
Performances ready for production release. Audience input contributes to improvements and bug fixes just like your favourite ap.
Last Year’s Edition Highlights
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