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IMPACT 25 International Theatre Festival

Event Hub

Location

Waterloo Region

220 King Street West

Kitchener, ON

6 days. 20 productions. 100 artists bring theatre and dance from many nations – Colombia, Lebanon, Palestine, and across Turtle Island (Canada/Mexico).

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.

Survivance, a term coined by Anishinaabe scholar Gerald Vizenor, refers to the survival of Indigenous Peoples, their cultures, and their stories as an act of resistance. This IMPACT 25, we follow this theme in a global context as artists from around the world and across Turtle Island bring their lived experiences to the stage and directly into the audience's hands...

From the destruction and rebirth of nations depicted through dance, to the resilience of women told through intimate theatre, to interactive play with audiences as they reenact the journeys of those trying to flee hardship, IMPACT 25 unpacks what it means to survive, to resist, and to seek refuge.

Founded in 2004 by Majdi Bou-Matar, MT Space centralizes minoritized voices and narratives through theatre.