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UPCOMING
We. Are. Back!
Queer-prov returns with a new home at STARDUST!
We are so excited to bring our improv comedy show to a new venue. This mid-week show is not "mid", in any sense of the word. There will be belly laughs. There will be music. And A LOT of Queer joy.
We've added a bunch of NEW GAMES, including a few to get audiences up on the stage.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3RD
7:30PM - 9:00 PM
OutFest is the largest Queer performance festival in Mi’kma’ki/Atlanitic Canda, with local, regional, and national artists performing at venues across the city.
OutFest 2027 will take place from April 12 - 18th, with submissions opening at the end of June. We will be seeking completed projects, as well as new works. We are interested in theatrical, dance/movement, and non-traditional performance pieces.
Our Open Stage category specifically looks to showcase non-traditional performance pieces, such as sound-scape, experimental, small-scale audience, experiential and more.
Our inQubator progam is a 2-Year Development program and is open to all artists based in Nova Scotia. The selected artist will present a workshop presentations during Year 1 and a full productions in Year 2. Page1 Theatre will provide dramaturgical, and financial support during both years.
More information about submitting and the festival coming soon.
IN DEVELOPMENT
This show aims to push back and tackle misinformation and misconceptions about refugees and asylum seekers, while highlighting the fact that everyone deserves a safe place to live, access to health care, food, and water.
This story will also draw on the increasing threat of climate change, specifically here in Mi’kma’ki / Atlantic Canada, and will challenge audiences to ask themselves - what does it mean to be a refugee?
What does it mean to seek asylum?
Combining first-hand testimony from survivors in Holland, and Toronto, as well as over five years of research, this show uses the 2016 gay purge of people in Chechnya as a starting place to reflect the current global rise of anti-Queer and anti-Trans rhetoric. Through text, movement, and music, we follow four characters who face the impacts of forced displacement, generational colonization, and ong0ing war.
