Prairie Theatre Exchange
3rd Floor, Portage Place, Unit Y300-393 Portage Avenue R3B 3H6 Winnipeg, MB, Canada

This week we wrapped up the filming of VOICE by Ismaila Alfa! This means our full-length digital production will be coming to you as scheduled on June 24th to July 11th! Sending a huge shoutout to our friends and partners at Ice River Films for once again helping us to bring the magic of theatre to audiences through film. Tickets for VOICE are on sale now! Visit the PTE website for details. * Photos featuring actors Melissa Langdon & Ray Strachan... Set concept by Cherissa Richards and Thomas Morgan Jones Costumes by Joseph Abetria Lights by jaymez See more

Prairie Theatre Exchange supports the national Stop Asian Hate campaign. We invite you to read the image slides to learn more, and if you are an Asian performing artist, leader, practitioner, or administrator, please visit the link below to join the initiative. To join: http://bocadellupo.com/StopAsianHate/ PTE lives and creates on Treaty 1 Territory, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Dakota, and Métis nations and home to many other Indigenous nations and peoples.

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Taking another step toward our upcoming, full-length digital production of VOICE... filming begins tomorrow with Ice River Films! #pte * Photo featuring Ray Strachan Set concept by Cherissa Richards & Thomas Morgan Jones Costumes by Joseph Abetria... Lighting by jaymez See more

Not a bad little Friday... We took some photos & did a dress rehearsal for VOICE by Ismaila Alfa via Zoom! #photographingthephotographer #pte * Photo featuring actor @melissa_langdon & photographer @leifnorman. Set concept by @cherissarichards & Thomas Morgan Jones Costumes by Joseph Abetria... Lighting by @if_it_moves See more

HAPPY OPENING to the UK'S 2021-22 Border Crossings ORIGINS Festival! * We are delighted that today's opening event will feature a performance of Yvette Nolan's KATHARSIS - a digital love letter to a theatre left empty by the pandemic. * ORIGINS Festival is a multidisciplinary celebration of Indigenous arts and culture from around the world. The 2021-22 Festival will offer an unprecedented and evolving year-long program, transforming digital and physical spaces into vibrant... sites of creative enquiry, intervention and performance by leading Indigenous artists and thinkers. * The festival launches today in the UK with a FREE online event happening at 12:30pm CDT. Set your Youtube reminder now: bit.ly/ORIGINSOpening Photo by Joey Senft feat. Tracey Nepinak Lights by Ksenia Broda-Milian

This group makes Zoom meetings look good! A lovely marketing/development meeting with Melissa, Matthew, Omar and Sophie from Out From Under The Rug Theatre Collective, our company in residence! OFUR's mandate is to create, develop and produce theatrical works by, for, and about people of colour.

On this day, please take the time to read this entire post from Sunshine House. #TransDayofRemembrance There are local vigils and services being held via Zoom: Two Spirited People of Manitoba Inc. and Manitoba Moon Voices Inc. will be hosting a digital 2Spirit Trans Day of Remembrance at 7:30pm. There will be a sacred fire, invocation, and calling of names. Register to attend by emailing [email protected]. There will also be a digital candlelight vigil by TDOR Brandon from 7-8pm on Zoom. You can register to attend by emailing [email protected] using the subject line TDOR 2020 Vigil Registration, and follow TDOR Brandon on Facebook.

It's Love Theatre Day today! We're missing live theatre and our beautiful space so much. What do you love/miss most about theatre? We'll start... YOU! #LoveTheatreDay : by Ian McCausland

Exciting news from our friends Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre!

A little something to feed your soul...

FYI! The deadline to apply is Sunday, Nov.29th, 2020.

A special shout-out to our friends and collaborators @iceriverfilms for helping us bring KATHARSIS to life. We have never attempted to make theatre for film before, and your skills and ideas made this project everything we hoped it would be. Thank you for helping us create theatre during this time.

Today is the FINAL day to take in KATHARSIS, this hopeful and healing theatre production, created from the start to be filmed. Written by Yvette Nolan and available online until MIDNIGHT tonight. Watch it for the first time, or watch it again... Click to watch: https://vimeo.com/472876184