Workshop: Making Immersive Theatre from Personal Stories | Peek Fest 2025

About the workshop:

The personal is universal. Join artist Kyle Loven who will share his creation methods for developing immersive theatre experiences that draw from the autobiographical stories of the performer (including non-actors). Participants will use a specific topic or personal story they feel compelled by, to explore turning their idea into an engaging theatrical event.

Please Note: This workshop is a masked event unless you are physically unable to do so.

Things to bring:

Please come with a specific topic or personal story you feel compelled to explore. Please also bring a notebook, pen/pencil, charged laptop or phone for possible internet research, and a water bottle.

About the facilitator:

Kyle Loven (he/him) is a queer performance and visual artist whose recent decade of original work has focused on creating immersive theatre that centres intergenerational, autobiographical storysharing with gentle community building. His theatrical game night Me Love BINGO! has been seen at venues across the PNW: from bike repair shops and living rooms, to the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Arts Club.

SKAM Studio 846 (846 Broughton)

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. The venue has a single user, all gender, wheelchair accessible washroom.

Parking & Transit: Pay parking at on-street meters is in effect from 9am-6pm. Parking is free from 6pm-9am and all day on holidays. Payment can be made by coin, credit card, the ParkVictoria app, or the City Parking Card at an on-street pay station within your zone.

It is a 500m walk from the Douglas and Fort Downtown Bus Hub.

Additional information regarding workshop accessibility will be coming soon.

For more information about accessibility, please visit: www.impulsetheatre.ca/accessibility

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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

Presented with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of BC, the BC Arts Council, the Victoria Foundation, City of Victoria, and the CRD Arts & Culture Support Service.

Sponsors include Theatre SKAM, Westcoast Academy of Performing Arts and Braem Accountancy Ltd.

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