Impulse Theatre’s Peek Fest is our annual festival for arts workers. The festival offers an exciting new look at work-in-development from innovative creators and celebrates creation, performance, connection, and exploration. The festival also contributes to the growth of arts workers through residencies, showcases, workshops, and more. Arts workers are offered the chance to investigate their impulses and processes, and audiences are always thrilled with the fresh and dynamic work shared. |
Next Peek Fest is November 2024
SPECIAL EVENTS
Peek Fest Open House
A chance for folks to mingle, confab, and corroborate with festival staff, artists, and community members. We provide company, light food and beverage.
A chance for folks to mingle, confab, and corroborate with festival staff, artists, and community members. We provide company, light food and beverage.
WORKSHOP SERIES
The Peek Fest workshop series covers a range of exciting topics, and is designed to provide substantial training opportunities to local arts workers ranging from performance creation to administration. 2023's program included:
INTRODUCTION TO AI DIGITAL DANCE CREATION
with Sarah Ching U |
INDIE PRODUCING 101
with Tom Arthur Davis |
BRINGING CARE INTO YOUR PRACTICE
with Regan Shrumm |
SENSING, BEING, HOLDING CHOICE
with Pam Tzeng |
SHOWCASES
Peek Show
Peek Show is an informal and exciting experience between artists and patrons, all discovering new stories and worlds for the first time. Peek Show showcases new works from local performing artists, from text, to dance, to somewhere in-between. Presented twice-annually, once in the spring and once in the fall at Peek Fest.
Peek Show is an informal and exciting experience between artists and patrons, all discovering new stories and worlds for the first time. Peek Show showcases new works from local performing artists, from text, to dance, to somewhere in-between. Presented twice-annually, once in the spring and once in the fall at Peek Fest.
Residency Showcases
Peek Fest provides showcase opportunities for a few of our residency projects each year, based on the needs of the project. This year these showcases will happen privately.
2023 RESIDENCIES
Artists in Residence Program
A curated residency program that provides artists an opportunity to dive into their own process over the course of the festival. |
Dance Incubator
The Dance Incubator is a residency program that supports contemporary dance projects, providing the artists with studio space and technical support to explore their movement practice. |
Elevators Residency Program
Elevators is a partnership between Impulse Theatre and Embrace Arts Foundation that supports micro-projects from local neurodiverse and disabled artists. |
Performance Lab Residency Program
The Performance Lab Residency welcomes artists to receive studio time, one-on-one mentorship, and access to a cohort of artists in the depths of creation. |
ACCESSIBILITY
Impulse Theatre seeks to create an anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory space for all arts workers. We aim to have a wide variety of access options available for artists, audiences, and participants throughout the Festival. Please check out the Accessibility Page for more details.