About rock.paper.sistahz

 

For the past eight years b current has been filling a huge gap in the Toronto arts scene, while we proudly produce our annual rock.paper.sistahz festival.  This innovating event which concentrates mainly on presenting performance work by black women artists  and artists of colour has generated a fast growing and valued venue for experimental work from black theatre creators.  Each year, the festival has been ‘pushing the envelope’… developing and presenting fresh material, performance styles, and ideas seldom seen in professional contemporary spaces; while also focusing on themes, forms, and styles which have grown out of the black diasporic culture.

Our continuing goal for the rps festival is:

1. to create a gathering in the season of new growth for just that… new growth

2. to promote the voices of emerging and established artists alike

3. to expand the opportunities for black women artists to have their work nurtured from beginnings, through incubation, and into fruition

4. to create a public space for galvanizing and stimulating interaction among black women artists

5. to deepen the company’s vision of creating spaces where the life-affirming effects of the collision of art and culture and everyday life can have positive impacts on the general community.

6. To serve the local Toronto community, the provincial and national community through providing quality artistic programming and gathering people from all walks of life.

 

See below for last season's festival.

press release

festival line up     buy tickets/passes

         about our festival artists

        venues & how to get there

           get involved/volunteer

    for more info & to reserve seats:

            fone/text 416.707.0330