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February 6 | 8:30 pm - 11:30 pm
PWYC
Calling all visceral clowns, earnest wailers, sound sculptors, body poets, etc.! TRIAL RUNNERS is an experimental open mic— a low-pressure event for folks who make performances/videos/sounds to try stuff out in front of an audience. If you are interested in signing up to perform please email Trial Runners‘ host, Megan Arnold, at [email protected]. All are welcome to attend the event as audience members.
After the live performance portion (8:30-10:30pm), there will be an “xtra” special live-streamed broadcast of Men Explain Things to Us… And We Like It! by We Quit Theatre, an artist-duo based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In the broadcast, two impulsive, unpredictable, extravagantly gendered late-night talkshow hosts — Dasha Plett and Gislina Patterson — invite real life men into a cardboard and construction paper television studio to talk about their passions, fears, and what it’s like to be a man. Streamed live from Winnipeg, Men Explain Things to Us… And We Like It! uses the space between reality and performance to transgress and re-write the unwritten rules and social etiquette of gender relations. Men Explain… is presented with support from send+receive, Winnipeg Film Group, Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts, and is directed by filmmaker Ryan Steel.
