QUEERNESS IS DIVINE MYSTERY [How does a season come to be?]
a conversation between Artistic Director, ted witzel and Artistic Associate, Erum Khan. Creatively arranged + edited by Susanna Fournier.
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A SPACE THAT HOLDS IMPOSSIBLE ASKS [BUDDIES’ REVAMPED VALUES]
A conversation exploring Buddies’ new values betweenArtistic Director, ted witzel and Artistic Associate, Erum Khan. Creatively composed + edited by Susanna Fournier. IT’S BEEN A MINUTE SINCE BUDDIES REVISED ITS VALUES. WE ACTUALLY DON’T KNOW HOW LONG, BUT WE KNOW …
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Multiple attempts at a statement on the ongoing genocide in Palestine
Maybe all you need to hear from the leaders at Buddies is this: FREE PALESTINE. If that’s all you need or have the capacity to read, that’s cool. If you want to read a longer piece from us that contextualizes …
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A Pisces’ Guide to Passion, Limerence, and the Gaymerican Dream, or, À La Folie
“I’m sick and I’m in love.”“You seem the sort of person who confuses the two.”“That’s right. That’s the first time you’ve been right. I confuse the two and I don’t care.” — Magnolia (1999) My walks home from WHITE MUSCLE …
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We Quit Catharsis
Content warnings: suicide, ableism & MAiD The first time Dasha and I worked together, for reasons I can’t or don’t care to remember, I was suicidal. Walking through downtown to my office job I would squint up at the roofs …
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Looking back on 2022/23: Peter Hinton-Davis on The Man That Got Away and The Hooves Belonged to the Deer
What is your history with Buddies? How did it feel to be back? Buddies goes back as far as I remember working in Toronto—from early days of seeing shows like Pasolini/Pelosi and The Dressing Gown by Sky Gilbert, and being …
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Free to be: choosing yourself powerfully
November 2012 sitting in the sterile immigration processing center, I had to make the biggest choice of my life thus far. Do I stay? Or do I go back? Two (2) weeks earlier I was sharing with my friend that …
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Revisiting a Performance: James Knott’s The Apocalypse In Your Bedroom Tour
I recently had a conversation about revisiting past work — how, contrary to a common practice in the pantheon of performance art, I don’t shy from performing work over and over; sometimes with lengthy gaps in between, and others with …
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THE MAKING OF BODY SO FLUORESCENT
We both had the great privilege of attending the same Catholic high school in Vaughan, ON. More specifically- a Catholic ARTS high school. (For some reason it feels like there is an oxymoron in those words strung together—catholic-arts-school?) Of course, …
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The Disability Collective presents: CRIPtonite
It’s an exciting time in the Toronto arts scene as our stages finally begin to reflect the diverse community around us. Unfortunately, disabled folks continue to be left behind. When the team at The Disability Collective realized that there were …