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We're so excited for the first ever Rough Cuts!
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We're hiring a Marketing and Web Design Assistant! Work with our small but powerful team to help create marketing materials for our upcoming season. Must be Canada Summer Jobs eligible.
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La Patin Libre's dancing ice skaters transform into flocks of birds in breathtaking 'Murmuration' on April 8. Public Energy presents 15 virtuoso contemporary ice skaters from around the world for one night only at #Ptbo Memorial Centre. kawarthanow.com/2025/03/29/l...
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CALL FOR VOLUNTEER USHERS
We are looking for ushers for our upcoming presentation of Murmuration by Le Patin Libre, coming to the Peterborough Memorial Centre on April 8th. Call time is 6:15, then you watch the show free at 7:30.
Email eva@publicenergy.ca if you're interested! #volunteer
It's tonight! Grab your last minute tickets to Vivian Chong's Blind Dates here >
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Wheelchair accessible venue, Blind-friendly performance, Auto-captions, Relaxed Performance
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Contest closes March 17th!
Blind Dates, Vivian Chong, a Theatre Passe Muraille Production Market Hall Mar 20, 7:30pm PWYC $5-$50 BLIND-FRIENDLY THEATRE
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Experience Vivian Chong's acclaimed show at Market Hall on March 20th! This 65-minute performance takes you through dating, romance & self-discovery with award-winning performer Vivian Chong's storytelling & original music.
Thank you Meg and Jeannine and Bruce - this is a great read! We can't wait for the 20th! 💃
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13.03.2025 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0she created numerous drawings that became the basis for her graphic memoir “Dancing After TEN”, a collaboration with graphic novelist Georgia Webber published in 2020. Last we checked, a few copies were available locally at Take Cover Books! (3/3)
12.03.2025 19:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In 2014 a medical accident resulted in a rare skin disorder, toxic epidermal necrolysis or TEN, that left her without sight. However, doctors were able to restore her sight for a brief period of one month, during which... (2/3)
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Illustration of a woman dancing. Multiple drawings of the same woman, in black and blue, with varying levels of detail, evoke movement. Written in the corner are the words "freedom is forgiveness."
The cover of the graphic memoir Dancing After TEN. A woman dances across the cover, sketched multiple times in red yellow and blue.
Did you know? Vivian Chong is an accomplished graphic designer as well as a theatre artist.
After graduation from the University of Toronto (Fine Arts) and Humber College (post-graduate diplomas), Vivian worked as a graphic designer, video editor and 3-D animator... (1/3)
It featured a cast of six dancers and cellist Cheryl Ockrant. Dancing with the Universe premiered at Harbourfront’s CoMotion Festival in 2022.
Get tickets now for Vivian's upcoming show, Blind Dates, coming to the Market Hall Performing Arts Centre on March 20th! Tickets at publicenergy.ca/tickets
Vivian Chong dances, one hand on the floor, in a red shirt and black pants. Behind her 5 dancers in shades of black and grey wave a white strip of fabric between them
Did you know? Vivian Chong is an accomplished dancer as well as a theatre artist.
Vivian was a dancer and co-creator of Dancing with the Universe, a dance theatre production co-directed by Vivian and choreographer Kathleen Rea.
encoreNOW - March 10, 2025. By Paul Rellinger. Featuring Glass Tiger, Foley's Irish Pub, Vivian Chong's 'Blind Dates', Peterborough Theatre Guild's 'Silent Sky', Carroll Baker, and Peterborough Performs V.
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Vivian Chong performs in front of a tactile set piece. She wears a pink sweatshirt and yellow sunglasses
Our next show Blind Dates is coming up in two weeks! Held over at Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille, this blind-friendly show by Vivian Wong has been getting some rave reviews.
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Catch Blind Dates at Peterborough's Market Hall on March 20th, fresh from it's sold out Toronto run!
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Norma Araiza performs Ewi what a dream, wearing a mask made of straw
There are still door seats available for tonight's performance of Toj by Heryka Miranda and Ewi, what a dream by Norma Araiza! Join us at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space - tonight at 7pm for these wonderful new works.
01.03.2025 21:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks to Paul Rellinger and kawarthaNOW for featuring our co-production of new work by Heryka Miranda and Norma Araiza with Nozhem!
24.02.2025 20:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Vivian Chong was featured on Q with Tom Power! We're bringing her show Blind Dates (a Theatre Passe Muraille production) to Peterborough/Nogojiwanong's Market Hall on March 20th.
www.cbc.ca/arts/q/vivia... #theatre #vivianchong #blindfriendlytheatre
Tickets for New Works by Heryka Miranda and Norma Araiza are going quickly! Reserve your spot now:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/heryka-mir... #pwyc #ptbo #nozhem
Thank you kawarthaNOW and Megan Gallant for this excellent article on our upcoming show!
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'Murmuration' will see 15 virtuoso skaters take to the #Ptbo Memorial Centre rink on April 8. Public Energy presents Montréal ice skating company Le Patin Libre's acclaimed performance inspired by the synchronized formations of flocks of birds kawarthanow.com/2025/02/10/m...
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Heryka Miranda kneels in the snow behind a coffin draped in sunflower textiles, the sky behind her full of stars
Norma Araiza performs in a mask woven from straw. A bright light casts a shadow behind her
Together with Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space, we are so excited to present new work by Norma Araiza and Heryka Miranda, February 28 and March 1 at 7:00 pm at Nozhem. Tickets are PWYC and available now:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/heryka-mir...
A woman with a dark cropped hairstyle, wearing black pants and shirt and a white shirt overtop, poses in front of the green backdrop of a leafy tree
Public Energy Performing Arts is delighted to announce that Kate Alton has accepted the role of Programming Director, and will lead the curatorial and programming vision of the organization beginning in early January 2025.
View the full announcement: publicenergy.ca/meet-our-new...
🔊 Time for our annual budget podcast! 🔊
Why are PTBO citizens facing another big tax hike? Could the city boost revenue without raising taxes? Or are spending cuts the answer? What role do the provincial and federal governments play?
Lots to discuss!
peterboroughcurrents.ca/analysis/a-d...
The silhouettes of 12 ice skaters performing Let Patin Libre's Murmuration. The dark ice surface is illuminated by a thin band of light and there is a smoke effect on the ice. The skaters perform with their arms raised in a relaxed gesture, subtly referencing birds.
Due to the postal strike we are bringing our donor letter online this year. While our wrists thank us, we miss the personal touch of a letter in the mail. We hope you will take the time to read the letter below and, if you're able, donate at publicenergy.ca/support/dona...
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