About this Event
Folding/Unfolding
with Shion Skye Carter
Tuesday, November 17, 6:00pm-8:00pm
SKAM Studio 846 (846 Broughton St)
$20
About the workshop:
Folding/Unfolding, a workshop by Shion Skye Carter, is an expansion of their choreographic practice embodying calligraphy, handmade paper, and the sediments of memory that reside within our bodies. A collective study on the idiosyncrasies of calligraphy including ink, rice paper, and brushstrokes will be followed by improvised explorations and movement sequences embodying these materials and forms, oscillating between tension and release, fluidity and rupture; allowing the stories, identities, and dances that we carry with us to spill and unfurl.
About the facilitator:
Shion Skye Carter is a contemporary dance artist from Gifu, Japan, based in Vancouver, BC. Through a choreographic language of sensitive intensity and a practice of embodied calligraphy, Shion's work invokes memory as heirloom, dance as respite, and performance as imperfect artifact. They’ve facilitated workshops for youth and adults across Canada, guiding folks through interdisciplinary play, curiosity in movement, and unhurried ways to connect the mind, breath, and body.
Accessibility
Scent-Reduced Space Policy
As some members of our community experience severe scent sensitivities we ask that individuals attend these events as scent free as possible. This means where possible no perfumes, colognes, hairspray, scented creams and deodorants, or essential oils.
SKAM Studio 846 (846 Broughton St)
SKAM Studio 846 has ramped entry to the building, with an automatic push button to open the door. Entry to all rooms and washrooms used as a part of Peek Fest have level access. This venue has armless chairs with a weight capacity of up to 400 lbs. They can easily be moved for additional space.
Washrooms: The venue has a single user, all gender, wheelchair accessible washroom.
Parking & Transit: Pay parking at on-street meters is in effect from 8am-8pm. Parking is free after 8pm and all day on statutory holidays. Payment can be made by credit card, app, or at an on-street pay station within your zone. There is also a Robbins pay parking lot directly beside the building. It is a 500m walk from the Douglas and Fort Downtown Bus Hub.
For more information about accessibility, please visit: www.impulsetheatre.ca/accessibility
Read our Safer Spaces Policy.
Workshop Access Program
Impulse Theatre, and Peek Fest, seeks to create an anti-oppressive and queer-positive space for artists within the community. Impulse Theatre is pleased to offer up to 3 paid ($40) spots to arts workers who identify as queer, trans, non-binary, Indigenous, Black, a person of colour, neurodivergent, d/Deaf and/or disabled. Participants are limited to 2 workshops each.
Intake is on a first-come; first served basis until all spots are filled.
Find more info and apply here: www.impulsetheatre.ca/workshops
Acknowledgements
Presented with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of BC, the Victoria Foundation, the Hamber Foundation, and the CRD Arts Development Service.
Sponsors include Braem Accountancy Ltd and Theatre SKAM.
Impulse Theatre lives and creates on the traditional and unceded territory of the Lekwungen Peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.
Event venue & nearby stays
SKAM Studio 846, 846 Broughton Street, Victoria, Canada
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.