Ghostlight Theatre Projects presents Fear the Festival, a brand-new horror arts festival! Under the leadership of Eunice Gatama and Isabella Derilo, Fear the Festival will run October 23-30 and will include work from BIPOC artists. We plan to have Feasts of Fear (official programming), a Fear-for-All cabaret, as well as BIPOC artist mixers and panels. This is a super new initiative but we are very excited to work it out!
How this festival will work is we are ticketing each day of the Feasts of Fear as Pay-What-You-Can tickets. Sign up for the day of programming you’d like to take in, and on the day of the programming we will send you a YouTube link with an unlisted playlist of that day’s content. This way, you can take in the playlist at your own pace and on your own schedule!
To grab tickets and for more information, check out our Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/fear-the-festival
We are also taking donations through our GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/fear-the-festival
Both our ticket and GoFundMe streams go towards our artists!
Each evening of the festival will include Night A or Night B programming. Here are the pieces on each night:
Night A:
This isn’t Home by Maezy Dennie (Multidisciplinary Short Film)
Don’t Ask Me + Child of the Sun by Tadiwa Nemutambwe (Spoken Word Poetry)
The Door by Alex Ariate (Video Diary Monologue)
afra-id by Sophia Iligan (One Woman Show)
Night B:
Forks Makes a Friend by Dayna Lea Hoffmann (Physical Comedy/Clown)
The Spectre & Other Poems by Sara Campos-Silvius (Compilation of Experimental Film + Prose)
Postal by Maggie MacKenzie (Short Film)
SKINS by Eunice Gatama (Autobiographical Short Film/Movement Piece)
There are also script readings of new pieces by Shyanne Duquette and Brian Kinabo. Check out our full schedule below for all the daily info!
The entire schedule of Fear the Festival is as follows:
October 23
Opening Statement
First ‘Fear-for-All’ Cabaret LIVE @ 8:30PM
Feast of Fears – night A
October 24
Feast of Fears – night B
October 25
Thirdspace Playback Theatre Panel
Feast of Fears – night A
October 26
Feast of Fears – night B
Stay in the Tent premiere reading by Shyanne Duquette
October 27
Feast of Fears -night A
endowment premiere reading by Brian Kinabo
October 28
Emerging Artist Panels: Two back-to-back panels, one with Makram Ayache and one with Cindy Ansah
Feast of Fears -night B
October 29
Feast of Fears – night A
endowment reading by Brian Kinabo
October 30
Last ‘Fear-for-All’ Cabaret
Stay in the Tent premiere reading by Shyanne Duquette
Feast of Fears – night B
Closing Statements
