Update: January 2018 After two years of work with New Pathways for the Arts, Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre has adopted a new Art Manifesto as of January 2018: Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre creates productive discomfort. We engage with power structures, shining...
Artistic Accomplice Kevin Jesuino Kevin Jesuino is a queer Portuguese-Canadian interdisciplinary artist. His works spans the performing arts, visual art and participatory social art practices. Born in Edmonton, Alberta to Portuguese parents who arrived in Western Canada...
Discomfort Lab Artist Biographies Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre is proud to present the creative team for Discomfort Lab. Discomfort Lab artists: Audrey Lane Cockett & Geneviève ParéJay Northcott Hayley Feigs & Justin Many FingersKatie Sly Audrey Lane Cockett & Geneviève Paré Audrey Lane Cockett is...
Labelled Artist Biographies Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre is proud to present its creative team for LABELLED, part of Humainologie's Empathy Week 2017. Artists Makambe K. SimambaTroy Emery TwiggMark Hopkins Makambe K. Simamba Makambe is Zambia-born theatre artist based in Calgary. As a...
Charitable Donation Information To celebrate our 10-Year Anniversary, Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre is seeking to raise $10,000! Since we're new to this fundraising business, we did a little research into charitable donations. Did you know...? ● donations made to...
Financial Literacy Month 2015 In 2014, Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre teamed up with the Financial Empowerment Collaborative to create Money Theatre, a series of short plays about financial literacy that toured to Calgary's post-secondary institutions throughout November,...
From January 9-12, 2013 the Martha Cohen Lobby will transform into a veritable fairground. As part of that Swallow-a-Bicycle will set up a tent for our original creation Freak Show: Tall Tales and Terrible...
Volunteer for We Should Know Each Other #100 We Should Know Each Other #100 - running September 28-30, 2012 - is going to be a giant, vibrant community-building extravaganza. We need your help to make...
At last night's Secret Dinner, we had the amazing fortune of featuring performances by Kris Demeanor, Calgary's first Poet Laureate! Before each course, Kris recited a poem he had written, inspired by elements of the...
This year Swallow-a-Bicycle is expanding with a new style of FREAK SHOW tour. The FREAK SHOW REDUX tour will be a cohesive ensemble show. With that on our plate we decided to bring on...
i moved to calgary about 5 years ago. people always ask why, especially because many people leave for the city i am from, vancouver. well, i love this city. really. i know we rip it...
From Jonathan Ball's Clockfire, a book of impossible plays: Entering the theatre, you dream what brought you here. Impossible dreams. You know before you sit, before you turn your attention to the stage, that nothing...
