Paprika Festival is currently seeking applications for our 2016/2017 artistic programs. Whether you’re looking to meet new collaborators, starting your first project and don’t know where it could end up or you have the perfect vision for an exciting new play, Paprika can support you in taking your work to the next level.
JOB POSTING – Community Arts Manager
Paprika Festival is nominated for NOW Magazine Reader’s Poll Best Youth Organization
Our annual summer clothing sale is back, and this year we are making it a REALLY BIG DEAL because it's our last event as a 15-year-old and we are so super stoked to turn sweet 16!
Three women reveal never-before shared stories and secrets from their lives in a theatrical dismantling of gender and cultural expectations. Their inner-most desires, frustrations, hopes, fears, and triumphs take centre stage in this deeply personal, collectively-created piece.
Aracely Reyes, our second participant of the Director's Lab program, facilitated by Clare Preuss, sits down with Advisory Board Member Sukaina Ibraheem to share details about her creation process, growth and ambitions for her play Faerie Dust, mentored by Jiv Parasram.
Celia Green, the artist behind She is Right Here, a production mentored by Amy Nostbakken shares details with Advisory Board Leader Sabah Haque about her creation process, and her ambitions.
Aryn Strickland, member of the Writers' Circle shares details with about her process, her ambitions and journey of her blooming theatre career with Advisory Board Leader Sabah Haque. Aryn developed her play The Places We've Been over the season under the guidance of Festival Associate, actor and playwright Jeff Ho.
Advisory Board member Deanna Galati interviews the cast and crew of Intermezzo to discuss their show, and process. The ensemble: Alexandra Jones, Vivi Diaz, Max Akerman, Jacqueline Levitan, Daniel Halpern, David Harding, Rosalia Vagalatis, Eric Venis and Saskia Muller sat down together to answer these questions as a collective about the development of their piece.
Advisory Board Leader Sabah Haque pins down the bustling Zaiba Baig, who shares a little insight on the creation of her play Plum BOMB with his beautiful ensemble, under the guidance of playwright and actor Meghan Swaby.