Leaders of Today Conference at IMPACT 25 International Theatre Festival

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Presented in partnership with YMCA of Three Rivers, as part of IMPACT 25 Festival.

Building from MT Space’s Newcomer Youth Theatre Project, an after-school theatre program for multi-language learning high school students in partnership with the YMCA of Three Rivers, the Young Company brings together newcomer, immigrant, and refugee youth for a more intensive theatre process of workshops and sharing of lived experiences.

This year’s Young Company includes a group of 15 youth participating in workshops over the summer with guest facilitators and engaging in intercultural dialogue with each other. During IMPACT 25, the youth will continue these conversations and experiences as they move through the festival together, – taking in relevant and urgent work by artists of the diaspora and collecting their reflections to create a unique theatre showcase that will be presented in October as part of the SSHRC-funded Staging Better Futures national program, of which MT Space is part of the Waterloo Cluster. Staging Better Futures is a community engaged, knowledge sharing project to design interventions into institutional structures that currently act as barriers to anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion in post-secondary theatre education.

To build on their experiences during IMPACT 25, the Young Company will be hosting a conference session to further the discussion. We invite you to join us as these youth share their insights, tell their stories, and facilitate us in dialogue as the leaders of today.

Join in on the conversation with the leaders of today.

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IMPACT 25 International Theatre Festival

IMPACT (International Multicultural Platform for Alternative Contemporary Theatre) is a biennial festival produced by MT Space in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada – presenting politically-charged and urgent international, national, and local work by Indigenous, Black, and Racialized artists since 2009.

Founded in 2004 by Majdi Bou-Matar, MT Space centralizes minoritized voices and narratives through theatre. Over the past two decades, MT Space has grown from being a company that produces one show every other year to an organization that brings culturally and socially relevant work from across the country and around the world to communities in Waterloo Region – bringing different communities together to create a community of difference.