In 2025, Peek Fest had:
3 Presentations;
4 Workshops;
4 Mentorship Programs with 10 participants;
5 Artists-in-Residence;
4 Community Gatherings, with free food, artist talks, and a birthday party; and
1 Sharing of Contemporary Dance.
Find out more through our digital brochure or by scrolling below!
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.
Presentation Series
SmartSmart by Adrienne Wong
Take your phone to the theatre! Join Adrienne Wong for storytelling, crafts, and surprises—and keep your phones on! SmartSmart playfully explores how smartphones extend our senses and shape our lives
asses.masses by Patrick Blenkarn + Milton Lim
An epic day of video gaming and uprising: asses.masses invites you to play out the heroic journey of a herd of donkeys trying to get their jobs back.
Workshop Presentation: Joy Cuisine by Impulse Theatre
Joy Cuisine is an experiential and tactile “meal” centred around joy. Enjoyed by a table of two to four patrons, Impulse served a set menu of immersive activities for the audience to savour and enjoy. Audiences left full, without eating any real food.
Workshop Series
The Peek Fest Workshop Series covered a range of exciting topics, designed to provide substantial training opportunities to local arts workers ranging from performance creation to administration.
Functioning Dialogue: Techniques and Strategies to Boost Dramatic Writing
with Kevin Kerr
Making Immersive Theatre from Personal Stories
with Kyle Loven
Designing Cooperative Play for The Gameful Revolution
with Laurel Green + Milton Lim
Feeling, Seeing, and Adjusting: Using Memory as a Tool for Composition
with James Gnam + Natalie LeFebvre Gnam
Community Gatherings
We celebrated creativity, conversation, and community at our Community Gatherings, hosted by Impulse Theatre.
We were joined by local artists, arts workers, and community members to share a meal with us and other community members. We’ll be served a variety of foods and refreshments (vegetarian and gluten-free options available), while enjoying the company of our community.
Artists-in-Residence
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.
2025 Artists-in-Residence
Electric Company Theatre
Embrace Arts Foundation
Kyle Loven + Maryls Loven
Laurel Green + Milton Lim
Plastic Orchid Factory
Mentorship Programs
Administrative Cohort
An administrative-focused mentorship with Impulse's Artistic Producer Andrew Barrett, based in cultivating and exchanging administrative and producing knowledge with the goal of sharing the skills, tools and knowledge gathered between participants
Dance Incubator
The Dance Incubator is a mentorship program that supports contemporary dance artists, providing the artists with studio space, one-on-one mentorship and technical support to explore their artistic and/or producing practice.
Elevators Cohort
Elevators is an ongoing partnership between Impulse Theatre and Embrace Arts Foundation that hosts a cohort of neurodivergent and disabled creators to empower their artistic processes.
Performance Lab
The Performance Lab program prioritizes interdisciplinary, contemporary dance, and physical or non-traditional theatre practices. Each year participants are paired with a mentor to interrogate and expand their own creation practice.
Accessibility at Peek Fest
Workshop Access Program
Impulse Theatre was pleased to offer 3 paid spots to arts workers who identified as queer, trans, non-binary, Indigenous, Black, a person of colour, neurodivergent, d/Deaf and/or disabled. Participants were limited to 2 workshops each. Space in the Workshop Access Program was filled on a first come, first serve basis.
Accessibility
Impulse Theatre seeks to create an anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory space for all arts workers. We had a wide variety of access options available for artists, audiences, and participants throughout the festival. Check out the Accessibility Page for more details.
