Emerging Artist Series
Join curator and host Amanda Sum for a series of three events, tailored for emerging and young artists.
*An Emerging Artist Pass is required to attend the following events, advance booking is not required.
Artist Talk with Davey Samuel Calderon
Emergence: Navigating the New
Wednesday, February 5 @ 5pm
A conversation with dramaturg, performer and director Davey Samuel Calderon about navigating what it is to be an emergent artist in these new, continually emergent times. How do you embrace the uncertainty of the early to mid career leap? How can you find creative freedom within the confines of modern-day producing? In 2024, how and when can we emerge?
Purchase an Emerging Artist Pass to attend this event.
Emerging Artist Mixer
Wednesday, February 5 @ 6pm
Join us for refreshments and hangouts with the folks from HOLD ON LET GO, Theatre Replacement and Company 605. A great way to make new connections and meet other emerging artists in the community. Stick around and catch Kyle Loven’s Loss Machine* afterwards!
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*you must book in to see this show separately.
Panel with Keely O’Brien and Anjela Magpantay
Devising Practice: How we make what we do
Saturday, February 8 @ 2pm
What pressures does co-experimentation play in developing a brand new work? How can artists stay true to their visions when new, shiny forces come into the mix (collaborators, design, audience, etc). Join the 2023 & 2024 COLLIDER Artists Keely O'Brien and Anjela Magpantay for a discussion on collaborative making. Using their current works as mini case studies, we'll dive into their practices, sharing what they've discovered through their respective creation processes for Secret Ingredients and it is for when you meet me, and how they invited others in.
Purchase an Emerging Artist Pass to attend this event.
Emerging Artist Series curator and host
Amanda Sum is a performer and creator who dances between music and theatre. Amanda has collaborated on many interdisciplinary theatre based works, which have brought her to perform and present works at the Smush Gallery (Jersey City) at On The Boards (Seattle), and Summerworks (Toronto). Amanda’s recent acting credits include 4 seasons of the East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement), and Sense and Sensibility (The Arts Club). Her latest EP does it make me naive if i’ve never been part of something where i’ve meant more to them than they did to me? was released in June 2024. Her music video Different Than Before (2022) garnered a JUNO nomination and won the SXSW Music Video Jury Award (2023). As Theatre Replacement’s 2021 COLLIDER Artist, Amanda created New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert, which premiered in 2023 and will continue to tour in 2025. She is currently working on her next full-length record, and developing an accompanying experimental theatre show. Amanda holds a BFA from SFU. Antics and updates: @amanduhsum