June 2025
- Wednesday 04 at 8:00 PM
- Thursday 05 at 6:00 PM
- Friday 06 at 5:30 PM
- Saturday 07 at 2:00 PM
FOLDA 8: Seeds of Resistance and Solidarity
A festival for anyone who is curious about what’s next.
Synopsis
FOLDA’s programming is structured to support artists creating theatre in a digital age. They borrow an iterative model from software design, presenting work at three stages of development:
ALPHA: Performances in their earliest stages, ready for internal testing, but require audience feedback to spark the next stage of development.
This year’s ALPHA projects are: WindRush by Marcel Stewart and The Mary Robin Show by Deaf Spirit Theatre
BETA: Performances ready for public testing to refine the audience experience.
This year’s BETA project is: 2021 by Cole Lewis, Patrick Blenkarn and Sam Ferguson
GO: Performances ready for production release. Audience input contributes to improvements and bug fixes just like your favourite app.
This year’s GO presentations are: Reflections and Refractions by PeerLess Productions
To see their iterative model in practice, check out the Incubator Page.
The festival runs from June 4-7, 2025. For scheduling and more information on performances, click here. The dates and times listed below are only the time of the first performance for that day.
Venue
FOLDA 2025 presentations will take place at multiple locations:
The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, 390 King St West, Kingston, ON K7L 2X4. The Isabel has Pay and Display parking options as well as accessible parking on site.
The Broom Factory, 305 Rideau Street, Kingston ON K7K 3A9. The Broom Factory has a small number of parking spaces available on site. Street parking is available on surrounding streets (James, Charles, Orchard).