2009/2010 Season
fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company
in association with Factory Theatre presents
The 7th Annual Potluck Festival featuring GENesis: Asian-Canadian Theatre Conference
May 3 – 9, 2010
Factory Studio Theatre
125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide Street)
fu-GEN brings you Canada’s largest and most comprehensive new play development festival dedicated to showcasing the vibrant works of Asian-Canadian playwrights. The 7th Annual Potluck festival features full-length staged readings of exciting new works by Asian-Canadian writers including some of the best emerging and established artists in the theatre community.
This year’s Potluck festival features GENesis: Asian-Canadian Theatre Conference - the first ever conference of its kind, gathering Asian theatre academics and practitioners from across Canada and the US, to discuss the renaissance of Asian-Canadian theatre. The conference and festival together will result in the largest gathering of Asian-Canadian theatre practitioners ever, with over 100 Asian-Canadian theatre artists and academics involved from across Canada! Whether you want to meet a trailblazer of Asian-Canadian theatre or meet the hottest new playwright, we’ve got it all! Past, present and future collide in this historic event.
The 7th Annual Potluck Festival seeks to…
- mentor new Asian-Canadian writers for theatre
- reflect the cultural diversity of our city of Toronto on our stages
- develop writers for mainstage programming for other theatres across the country
- showcase these writers and their work to larger theatre companies and arts organizations in the hopes that they are picked up for development, production, and/or extended runs
- showcase these writers and their work to Toronto audiences
- create new theatre audiences from within the Asian-Canadian community
- encourage Torontonians to engage more actively in the arts
The GENesis: Asian-Canadian Theatre Conference seeks to…
- encourage intercultural dialogue within the diverse Asian and non-Asian-Canadian communities
- critically analyze and discuss Asian-Canadian theatre works
- engage non-Asian theatre representatives in a discussion of Asian-Canadian theatre
- create a vision for the future of Asian-Canadian theatre in Canada on a national and international scale
Potluck Festival Works Synopses
Factory Theatre
125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide Street)
fu-GEN’s 2009-2010 Season in 3 min