Folda - Festival of Live Digital Art
June 13-15, 2024
FOLDA 2024
SmartSmart
Adrienne Wong
Take your phone to the theatre! Join Adrienne for coffee, crafts, storytelling, and surprises. Leave your phone on.
LUCY AI
bluemouth inc & Reimagine AI
An installation about the future of memory and the way that emerging technologies are reshaping the borders between life and death.
HORIZON 360º
SESQUI
A visual journey across Canada, showcasing diverse cultural expressions from coast to coast to coast in hemispheric film.
KaKaow
Kick off the seventh Festival of Live Digital Art with an electro-psychedelifunk experience by musical guest, KaKaow.
Immersive Wilderness
Barry Bilinsky
A sneek-peek behind the scenes of a new VR performance by National Theatre School’s Indigenous Artist-in-Residence.
Mash Up
Erin Ball, Maxime Beauregard, Andrew Heule, Gaitrie Persaud-Killings, Jaideep Goray
How can digital offerings be more engaging and support folks who can’t participate in person? Mash Up is an exploration of creative access in performance art.
The StartUp
A three-day intensive of workshops and talks that runs concurrently to FOLDA, presented in partnership with Ingenuity Labs at Queen’s University.
PLAY: A Book Launch
Jenn Stephenson & Mariah Horner
Meet the authors of PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation, a new book that analyzes the moments when audiences become participants.
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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