Announcing our biggest Festival yet. Theatre, dance, music, poetry, and more: All waiting for you at Found 2024.
Welcome back, Foundsters! The sun is coming out and we’re daydreaming about sunny days and sharing magical moments across our city. Read on for the full scoop.
FOUND GROUNDS PATIO
Our Found Grounds Patio has moved!
We’ll be at the front patio at the Fringe Grounds Café (10330 84 Avenue NW).
Thursday / Friday July 4-5: 5:00-10:00pm
Saturday / Sunday July 6-7: 2:00-7:00pm
On Opening Night, join us on the patio at 5:30pm for our OPENING CEREMONIES featuring special guest performer Mustafa Rafiq plus previews of awesome Festival events and presentatinos.
Our Music Series has moved too! Scroll down to “Special Events” for our two FREE concert events.
MAINSTAGE PROJECTS
Brick Shithouse
fenceless theatre
this is not your daddy’s fight club.
Age Rating: 18+, MINORS WILL BE TURNED AWAY
this is not your daddy’s fight club.
Age Rating: 18+, MINORS WILL BE TURNED AWAY
BANANA MUSIK
Kris Alvarez
In this memory play about aging, reciprocity and care, 50-year-old “immigrant kid” Kris gives you a tour of her childhood home – the sights, sounds, smells – to meet her parents, while she takes inventory of ALL their stuff, trying to get to know them better in real time.
Age Rating: 12+
In this memory play about aging, reciprocity and care, 50-year-old “immigrant kid” Kris gives you a tour of her childhood home – the sights, sounds, smells – to meet her parents, while she takes inventory of ALL their stuff, trying to get to know them better in real time.
Age Rating: 12+
Madness and Other Ghost Stories
re:Create presents
Ghost stories told around a campfire. An exploration of mad-art creation in storytelling.
Venue: Mill Creek Ravine
Age Rating: 16+
Ghost stories told around a campfire. An exploration of mad-art creation in storytelling.
Venue: Mill Creek Ravine
Age Rating: 16+
afterbirth
Kait Ramsden
afterbirth is a show. afterbirth is a feeling. afterbirth is a prayer. afterbirth is for everyone.
Age Rating: All ages.
afterbirth is a show. afterbirth is a feeling. afterbirth is a prayer. afterbirth is for everyone.
Age Rating: All ages.
The Nature of Us
Kevin Jesuino, Cass Bessette, and Jean Louis Bleau
THE NATURE OF US is a devised sound installation featuring soundscapes, monologues, and choral music. The concept aims to give voice to natural elements for a more empathic understanding of nature.
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Park
NO TICKET REQUIRED
Age Rating: All ages.
THE NATURE OF US is a devised sound installation featuring soundscapes, monologues, and choral music. The concept aims to give voice to natural elements for a more empathic understanding of nature.
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Park
NO TICKET REQUIRED
Age Rating: All ages.
Islands of Utopia: Veden äärellä
Deviani Andrea & Janita Frantsi
Physical and playful, this piece unfolds with the River Valley as a setting and invites us to reflect on our experiences, memories, and significant moments with the water around us.
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Park (West, near ÎNÎW River Lot 11∞ Indigenous Art Park)
Age Rating: All ages.
Physical and playful, this piece unfolds with the River Valley as a setting and invites us to reflect on our experiences, memories, and significant moments with the water around us.
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Park (West, near ÎNÎW River Lot 11∞ Indigenous Art Park)
Age Rating: All ages.
Lucky Charm
Louise Casemore
Venue: A secret location in Old Strathcona.
Age Rating: 18+
Venue: A secret location in Old Strathcona.
Age Rating: 18+
Finding Four Leaf Clovers
Geoffrey Simon Brown
Geoffrey loves looking for four leaf clovers. Come look for them with him and attune your focus to the intricate world that lives under our feet.
Saturday: End of Steel Park ft. Ghost Cars
Sunday: End of Steel Park ft. Bigfin Squid
NO TICKET REQUIRED
Age Rating: All ages.
Geoffrey loves looking for four leaf clovers. Come look for them with him and attune your focus to the intricate world that lives under our feet.
Saturday: End of Steel Park ft. Ghost Cars
Sunday: End of Steel Park ft. Bigfin Squid
NO TICKET REQUIRED
Age Rating: All ages.
SPECIAL EVENTS
FF24 Music Series: Eve Parker Finley
with guests respectfulchild 敬兒 and Silvering
With Guests respectfulchild 敬兒 and Silvering
Venue: Paul Kane Park
FREE: No ticket required
With Guests respectfulchild 敬兒 and Silvering
Venue: Paul Kane Park
FREE: No ticket required
FF24 Music Series: Truster
with guests SILKRøAD and Fille-Fille
Venue: McKernan Skate Park
FREE: No ticket required
Venue: McKernan Skate Park
FREE: No ticket required
Pressured Poetry
Curated by Janel Lope with mentor Nisha Patel
A Found Festival Poetry Showcase
Venue: Basketball Courts at Strathcona Community League
A Found Festival Poetry Showcase
Venue: Basketball Courts at Strathcona Community League
The Hoedown
Curated by Salem Zurch, D’orjay Jackson, Saint Jackson
Our annual official Found afterparty is back and bigger than ever.
Age Rating: 18+
Our annual official Found afterparty is back and bigger than ever.
Age Rating: 18+
Artist Workshop: Art in Public Spaces
Deviani Andrea
With Deviani Andrea
Venue: Studio A at Fringe Theatre Arts Barns
Age recommendation: 18+
With Deviani Andrea
Venue: Studio A at Fringe Theatre Arts Barns
Age recommendation: 18+
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
We’re thrilled to partner with Thou Art Here for their production of Josh Languedoc’s Civil Blood: A Treaty Story at Fort Edmonton Park. Originally developed at the Truth and Reconciliation through Theatre Workshop at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2016, Found regulars will remember Civil Blood: A Treaty Story‘s workshop reading at our 2021 Festival. This incredibly ambitious and immersive production reaches across generations and cultures.
CIVIL BLOOD: A TREATY STORY
A THOU ART HERE PRODUCTION
with support from Common Ground Arts
Co-Created by Josh Languedoc and Neil Kuefler
Written by Josh Languedoc
Directed by Mark Vetsch and Neil Kuefler
Performed at The Old Fort at Fort Edmonton Park
July 24 – August 4, 2024
Choose your own adventure in the historically authentic 1876 Amiskwaciwâskahikan fort (ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ). Tensions are high. The fur trade is collapsing, settlers are encroaching into the territories of the First Nations, and the newly founded Canadian government is attempting to define itself through law and order. Tribes are suffering from scarcity of food, destroyed hunting grounds, starvation, and the ever-burdensome whiskey.
Follow Ekah, a nehiyaw huntress or Lily, a European idealist in this immersive contemporary tale inspired by the signing of Treaty #6, the love story of Romeo and Juliet, and the lessons learned about what is means to be treaty people. See the present truth by discovering our collective past.
When: July 24 – August 4, 2024 at 3:00pm or 7:30pm (Mondays & Tuesdays are dark).
Where: The Old Fort at Fort Edmonton Park, 7000 143 St NW, Edmonton
Runtime: ~90 minutes with no intermission. Special Post Show Community Gathering after most performances
Price: Tickets range from $0 to $50 on a Pay-What-You-Will scale
Click below for tickets and to meet the full cast / creative team!