2023 ALBERTA PLAYWRITING COMPETITION - SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

After 3 months of reading and 5 hours of deliberation, the jury has selected the outstanding plays for the shortlist for the Sharon Pollock Prize!

albertaplaywrights.com

Congratulations to our SUBSCRIBE OR LIKE Outstanding Sound Designer Darrin Hagen! His work is EVERYWHERE in this season. We are thrilled for him. ❤️

Can't stop thinking about this new social media thriller, in a digital world where 'real' isn't an either/or choice: Liam Salmon's Subscribe Or Like at Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre, a 12thnight REVIEW, tinyurl.com/26f8d2kk #yegtheatre #yegarts #yegwhere

Our ferocious actors Gabby Bernard & Geoffrey Simon Brown visited Global Edmonton this morning to discuss Subscribe or Like--what it's about, what you can expect, the joys of the show & the audience response to Liam Salmon 's play. What a great interview!
globalnews.ca/video/rd/ca645…

The WWPT team is pumped for tonight's performance of 'Subscribe or Like' and our Audience Talkback, 'Social Media: Psychology & Sustainability', featuring Registered Psychologists Becky Ponting (M. Ed) and Brittany Budzan (M. Ed). We hope you can join us! showpass.com/o/workshop-wes…

Fame and fortune in the digital world: Liam Salmon's Subscribe or Like taps into milliennial ambition, at Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre. 12thnight learned a lot talking to the playwright in this PREVIEW: tinyurl.com/2vsswucc Liam Salmon #yeg theatre #yeg arts #yeg

Subscribe or Like

By Liam Salmon

Presented by @workshopwest

Dates: May 24th - June 11th
Location: The Gateway Theatre (8529 Gateway Blvd NW)

Tickets: workshopwest.org

We will all see a sharp increase in cancer, dementia, vascular & and lung diseases as our cumulative exposure to high levels of air pollution increase. Concomitant decreases in physical activity will amplify the problem.

But please, tell me about killing the economy again.

This is not ok. This is an unmitigated moral, ethical and ecological disaster and this is also just a mere taste of what is in store if we do not turn around.

Shut down politicians' speeches. Occupy roads. Blockade fossil fuel infrastructure. We're in emergency mode. (7/7)

46000 Albertans work in the arts. They contribute 5 billion to the AB economy. More than 1/3 of Albertan attend arts events each year. BUT the Alberta Foundation for the Arts has been cut 27% since 2009. Ask for change. Text ARTS to 587-875-5751

Alberta’s arts sector is in crisis. Over the last 14 years, the Alberta Foundation of the Arts budget has been cut by almost $10 million. Why does this matter? And how can you help? A thread.

It's spring! There's birds chirping and ... an atmospheric music in the air.

It's got us thinking about the ticking of time & this quote from Guys in Disguise playwright Darrin Hagen 'A piano unplayed is like a life unlived.'

May spring bring music to your hearts, friends.❤️🎶

'We need each other, to share stories.' TRUTH. Louise Mallory and Jake Tkaczyk articulate the workshop experience so well, from both playwright and actor perspectives. 'In service of the playwright' is our raison d'etre. We're thrilled to have you both at Springboards this year!

We now bring you this msg from Springboards Cabaret Curator, Darrin Hagen. AHEM:
“Springboards' Cabaret content includes: Violence, Swearing, Revenge, Periods, Professional Touchers, Ghosts, Sex Robots, Near-Death Experiences, Orgasms, Love, Life, Death, Funerals & Free Verse.”

Hey Twitterverse--particularly Edmonton humans--if you aren't signed up for our Newsletter, please do! We've got little treats hidden in it for you...

Springboards, Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre's signature new play festival, springs back this week. And 12thnight talks to artistic producer Heather Inglis about the lineup in this PREVIEW: bit.ly/3LTLicH #yeg theatres #yeg arts #yeg

This wish, from playwright Stephen Massicotte, resonates for us Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre:
'I want the audience to be moved in some way, to be confronted, even if just a little bit, with their own mortality, and to find an offer of hope.'
#WWPTSpringboardsFestival
workshopwest.org/star-shoulders

Don't miss Girl Brain at the Gateway Theatre April 1st. Tickets at showpass.com/swing-into-spr…

Simple pleasures
Exist only if we make
Space for them.

It only seems extravagant
If you sacrifice too much of yourself,
Forgetting what made you
The good person you
Really are.

Check out these sharks swimming through a massive school of fish.

Nature is incredible. Protect it. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateAction #climate #energy #nature #rewilding #GreenNewDeal #biodiversity Vid via Tim Regan.