I Have a Drum!

A THRILLING NEW SHOW FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED
INGOMA NSHYA: THE WOMEN DRUMMERS OF RWANDA

In 2004, a group of Rwandan women, led by Odile Gakire “Kiki” Katese, came together to form the first-ever Women Drumming group in Rwandan history: Ingoma Nshya. In so doing, they broke a centuries-old taboo against women being allowed to even touch a drum. This was no easy task, but the benefits of empowering girls and women in the aftermath of nation-wide extreme trauma, were worth the struggle. Ingoma Nshya is now recognized as the best drumming ensemble in the country. This is their story - a story to inspire girls, women, and entire societies; a story told in music, rthym, and pure joy.

The agreements

A GAMIFIED SONG CYCLE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

The Agreements is a contemporary classical music project for a virtual performance space. At its centre is a song cycle being created by Debbie Patterson, a Canadian theatre writer and leading disability activist, and composer Reza Jacobs. As someone embracing the disruptions of disability, Debbie writes: “We know something about what it is to be human that everybody else doesn’t know yet.”

Treemonisha 

A co-production of Moveable Beast Collective and Volcano Theatre

Combining a new libretto with Joplin’s ground-breaking music, Volcano is creating a ReBoot of an opera unlike any other. Found under a tree by an ex-slave named Monisha, Treemonisha grows into a woman who will change the course of her post Civil War community. This is Scott Joplin’s main character in his almost unknown 1911 opera, Treemonisha: the first black opera composed in North America to survive to the present day.