MINE TO HAVE (CANCELLED)

by The Other Ordinary
The production of Mine to Have that was scheduled from March 19th – 29th, 2020 has been cancelled.
We appreciate your understanding during this time.
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MINE TO HAVE (CANCELLED)

by The Other Ordinary
The production of Mine to Have that was scheduled from March 19th – 29th, 2020 has been cancelled.
We appreciate your understanding during this time.
Click for details

There is a seismic shift happening through theatre communities across the continent. As more and more companies acknowledge systemic racism and declare their solidarity with BIPOC artists, the message from BIPOC artists is loud and clear: solidarity is not a statement, it is action that centres the voices and lived experiences of BIPOC globally.

Racial equity is not a performative trend. It is a human right. It is a moral imperative and we, the board of directors of Live Five Independent Theatre, must serve it as such. We acknowledge we exist in an industry and country founded on settler white supremacy and that, as a white-dominated organization, we benefit from this system and our complicity upholds it. Cultural violence comes in many forms. Our failure to achieve BIPOC representation in our board, our committees, and our season selection is a violence. Our failure to have policies explicitly committing us to anti-racism and decolonization is a violence. Our failure to nurture our relationships with BIPOC producing companies and season applicants is a violence. Our imperative is to not only end these violences but ensure BIPOC theatre artists can and will thrive. In light of shifting artistic leadership in Saskatoon, we are listening and we are acting.

Over the summer, we will be drafting and releasing a new mission, mandate, and values, complete with hard commitments for representation in our boardroom and equity in our practices and policies. All of this will be achieved through the paid labour of professional consultants and the BIPOC theatre community. This will compose a primary part of a larger community consultation to develop new organizational models, partnerships, and knowledge to share with emerging producers and companies. We intend to have the new mission, mandate, values, and commitments with new targets in place before any fall/winter programming is curated or produced. And the work will not stop there – white supremacy is endemic to our entire industry and the larger cultural and economic system of which it is a part.

So let’s take it apart. Only then can we truly do what theatre asks us to do: come together.

UPCOMING SHOWS

Thank you so much for your outpouring of support over the past few months as we work through navigating COVID-19 together as a community. We have come to the conclusion that we must unfortunately postpone our 2020/2021 season and shift it forward one year to 2021/2022. In the interim, we are working on new digital opportunities for local theatre artists. We will also be renewing our vision, mandate, and mission in time for us to return to the stage in 2021/2022 with a diverse, provocative, and entertaining season.

This decision was made by our board of directors in tandem with the companies who were selected to participate in our upcoming season. Many factors have contributed in making the picture of our upcoming season clearer. The independent companies we program are made up of artists who put in the work of selecting their own plays, production teams, and assume the financial risk. There are simply too many unknowns for us to commit to producing a full-scale live theatre season beginning in the fall.

We anticipate announcing our 2021/2022 live theatre season sometime in the spring of 2021.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support.

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MINE TO HAVE (CANCELLED)

MINE TO HAVE (CANCELLED)

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