About Us

The Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA) is produced by Spiderwebshow Performance.

Mission: Empowering the global community with boundary-pushing live digital artistry that transcends barriers and inspires profound connections.

Vision: To lead a revolution in live digital art, shaping a future defined by creativity and connection.

Brand Purpose: Through empowering live digital art experiences, we unite, provoke, and inspire.

Values: 

• Creativity: Cultivating innovation in every aspect.
• Inclusivity: Celebrating diversity and fostering accessibility.
• Exploration: Pushing the boundaries of artistic possibility.
• Leadership: Adapting and thriving in a dynamic world.
• Fun: Balancing the hard work of making art with joy and lightness

2024 is the eighth FOLDA Festival. You can learn more about our past programming HERE.

Our Supporters

Spiderwebshow Performance acknowledges the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canadian Arts Presenters Fund), Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Kingston Arts Fund, the National Arts Centre, The DAN School of Drama and Music and the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University, and our venue partner: The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.

We rely on donations and corporate sponsorships in order to be able to provide support and resources on a year round basis.

You can donate by clicking here, or for sponsorship opportunities please email producer@spiderwebshow.ca

Incubator

We aim to be an incubator for an emerging art form where audience feedback plays a key role throughout the creative process.

The festival incorporates a three-stage iterative development model borrowed from software design to present and engage with these works:

• 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 app.

Works in ALPHA one year, can return to FOLDA as a GO the following year. Works in BETA can be picked up by other presenters to be GO at other festivals.

This approach makes FOLDA unique by providing artists with creative opportunities that support work in various stages of development, matching the demands of how digitally-engaged performance is created. It allows presenters the opportunity to engage with and track work throughout their development process, offering more organic and informed partnerships to develop works beyond the festival.

The Incubator page features some of the artists and work developed at FOLDA.