The Quiet Power of Personal Things at IMPACT 25

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Presented as part of IMPACT 25 International Theatre Festival.

Bring an object, a memory, a scrap of something once loved (or still loved!) from your personal or family archive to this participatory show-and-tell-style workshop led by dance and theatre artist Kate Kamo McHugh. The workshop begins with a short, devised performance displayed in wheatpasted works created in collaboration with Natalie Vuong’s "In this act of burial". After the performance, participants are invited to gather around a kitchen table to share stories about their objects. Rooted in storytelling and practices of care, the workshop invites reflection and roundtable sharing to realize the quiet power of personal things, while considering the tension between Regional and personal archives.

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A Textile KW production.

Creator & Performer: Kate Kamo McHugh

Producer: Shalaka Jadhav

Artistic Collaborator & Graphic Designer: Natalie Vuong

Kate Kamo McHugh (Instagram: @kate.k.mch) is a dance and theatre artist born and raised in Elmira, Ontario, exploring migration, belonging, and the intersection of art and care. She is currently working on Retraced, a collaboration with her spouse, documentary photographer Colin Boyd Shafer, and their two children, wherein they will travel to explore the spaces her grandparents were forcibly moved from and to during Japanese Internment.

Trained as an urban planner, Shalaka Jadhav (Instagram: @shalaks_j) took the advice of a grade school aptitude test and currently practices as an independent researcher, writer, and curator. As a 2025 Musagetes Fellow, they are developing place-based curatorial projects that explore publication as form. They co-direct Textile, a hyper-local arts collective in Waterloo Region. Shalaka is one of the inaugural Visiting Curators at the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery, and a Writer-in-Residence for CAFKA.25: Field Guide to the Understory, a regional biennial in southwestern Ontario.

With a background in ecology, Natalie Vuong (Instagram: @poppyisdesigning) takes a place-based approach to her graphic design practice, situated in Kitchener, ON.

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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.