Oct 10, 2024
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… Read More
FOUND FESTIVAL 2022 LINE UP
Amiskwaciwâskahikan / EdmontonJune 18, 2022 – Common Grounds Arts Society is excited to announce the lineup for Found Festival 2022. This four-day long event will celebrate the work of local and national artists through live, in-person, and digital performances that respond to place and space in the heart of Old Strathcona and beyond.We’re proud to… Read More
Announcing 2022-23 Fresh AiR Artists
Common Ground is excited to announce sibling duo Steven Sobolewski and Nicole Sobolewski as the 2022-2023 Fresh AiR artists!We’re launching an expansion of the Fresh AiR program: Starting with Nicole & Steven, our Fresh AiR program will extend over two Festivals. The artists will be encouraged to experiment and workshop in… Read More
CG ANNOUNCES INCOMING FOUND FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
The staff and board of Common Ground Arts Society couldn’t be more excited to share the appointment of the incredible Whittyn Jason (they/them) as the next Festival Director of Edmonton’s celebration of art in unexpected places.Whittyn will begin their role this month as co-curator of the 2022 Festival alongside long-time… Read More
Announcing the 2022 RISER Edmonton Artists
UPDATE JANUARY 18, 2022:For the safety of our team and the participants in RISER Edmonton, we have postponed the premieres of the RISER 2022 participants. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for an announcement about rescheduled live performances from these incredible artists. A bold new platform for producing theatre is… Read More
CG Presents Major Matt Mason Collective’s NIGHT
As the dark settles in, there is a crack in the branches. A whistle in the breeze. Howling.The moon is full, and it’s time to break your cage. We at Common Ground are so excited to bring our friends at the Major Matt Mason Collective back to Edmonton for the… Read More
RISER comes to Edmonton
Edmonton, AB (March 2, 2021) – Common Ground Arts Society is thrilled to announce a partnership with Toronto’s Why Not Theatre to launch RISER Edmonton as part of the 2022 Edmonton Theatre season. With generous support from the Government of Canada and the RBC Foundation, Why Not Theatre is embarking on a national expansion of RISER, starting in… Read More