Folda - Festival of Live Digital Art

FOLDA 8: June 4-7, 2025
Seeds of Resistance and Solidarity

A festival for anyone who is curious about what’s next.
FOLDA Festival of Live Digital Art
Presented by Spider Web Show Performance

FOLDA 2025

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WindRush – ALPHA

Marcel Stewart

An immersive concept album exploring Caribbean migration, identity, kinship, and home.

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2021 – BETA

Cole Lewis, Patrick Blenkarn, and Sam Ferguson

Through live narration, live music, and live video gaming, 2021 examines the place between memory and simulation.

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Reflections and Refractions – GO

PeerLess Productions

PeerLess Productions explores how their creative work is often refracted and made to fit into ableist preconceptions rather than received as a unique offering.

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Remixed – BETA

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A deep listening experience about how we instigate transformation in our lives, communities, and world.

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Kinnomics: Iman Datoo

co-presented by FOLDA and Agnes Etherington Art Centre

In Iman Datoo’s solo exhibition combining digital claymation, sound installation and augmented reality, an intriguing narrative takes root between the potato and its local cousins.

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The MaryRobin Show – ALPHA

Deaf Spirit Theatre

An ALPHA presentation of a newly commissioned work by Deaf Spirit Theatre, a collective of three Kingston-based actors who are Deaf and dedicated to excellence in ASL storytelling.

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The StartUp

The StartUp is a multi-day intensive of hands-on workshops that runs June 4-7, 2025 in Kingston, presented in partnership with Ingenuity Labs at Queen’s University.

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FOLDA’s programming is structured to support artists creating theatre in a digital age

Alpha

Performances in their earliest stages, ready for internal testing, but require audience feedback to spark the next stage of development.

Beta

Performances ready for public testing to refine the audience experience.

Go

Performances ready for production release. Audience input contributes to improvements and bug fixes just like your favourite ap.

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Funded by the Government of Canada
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