WHAT IS FOUND FESTIVAL ANYWAY?
We take art out of conventional venues directly into the community. Found Festival celebrates art of all kinds: theatre, dance, film, poetry, music, sound art, installation art, endurance art…if it’s art created for unconventional spaces that challenges the artist/audience relationship, there’s a home for it in Found Festival.
Found Festival is for you, exactly as you are. No matter who you are, what you look like, how or who you love, where you’re from, how you got here, how you identify, how or if you honour whatever higher power, how you move through this world – you belong here. What matters to us is that you feel welcome.
We believe in creating safer spaces that allow for creative risk. We uphold work that pushes the boundaries of audience interaction to allow spectators and performers to engage in more risk-taking and play. We honour the vulnerability of the artistic process, and the beauty of the exchange between artists and audiences.
We’re planning four days of in-person and digital performances that respond to place and space July 6 – 9.
How to join Found Festival in 2023:
We’re looking for your ideas big and small, indoor and outdoor, built for found and/or unconventional spaces.
DEADLINE: 11:59pm MDT Monday, February 13, 2023.
Take a deeper dive into your found space practice. The Fresh AiR Artist-in-Residence will workshop a project in 2023 for a full production in 2024.
DEADLINE: 11:59pm MDT Monday, February 13, 2023.