PEEK FEST 2025

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

  • Electric Theatre Company

  • Embrace Arts: Performance

  • Laurel Green & Milton Lim

  • Kyle & Marlys Loven

  • Plastic Orchid Factory

GATHERINGS

  • Administrative Cohort Presentation

  • Community Meals

  • Dance Community Gathering with Dyana Sonik-Henderson and Veronique Emmett

PRESENTATION SERIES

  • assess.masses by Patrick Blenkarn + Milton Lim 

  • SmartSmart by Adrienne Wong

  • Workshop: Joy Cuisine by Impulse Theatre 

WORKSHOP SERIES

  • ​Designing Cooperative Play for The Gameful Revolution with Laurel Green and Milton Lim

  • Feeling, Seeing, and Adjusting: Using Memory as a Tool for Composition with James Gnam and Natalie LeFebvre Gnam

  • Functioning Dialogue: Techniques and Strategies to Boost Dramatic Writing with Kevin Kerr

  • Making Immersive Theatre from Personal Stories with Kyle Loven

MENTORSHIPS

Administrative Cohort

  • Hayley Fulford

  • Thomas Moore

  • Victoria Association of Mask and Puppetry (VAMP)

Dance Incubator

  • Veronique Emmett

  • Dyana Sonik-Henderson

Elevators

  • Hannah Mariko Bell

  • Corina Fischer

  • Luka Garvin

  • Emily MacFarlane

Performance Lab

  • Zane Allison & Alynne Sinnema

Mentors

  • Administrative Cohort / ​Dance Incubator - Andrew Barrett

  • Elevators - Tom Arthur Davis, Tiffany Tjosvold and Adrienne Wong

  • Performance Lab - The WonderHeads

PEEK FEST 2024

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

  • Embrace: Performance

  • Impulse Theatre

  • Kerri Flannigan

  • Robin Love

  • Melissa Taylor

  • Adrienne Wong

GATHERINGS

  • Administrative Cohort Presentation

  • Community Meals

  • Dance Community Gathering with Amber Downie-Back & Kiera Shaw

PEEK SHOW #17 PARTICIPANTS:

  • Jane Bee - Becoming Invisible

  • Anna Bigland-Pritchard and Véronique Emmett - Seasonal Shift

  • Burger & Briggs - The Two Body Problem

  • Paige Louter - Nod

  • Emmett MacMillen - Iridaceae

  • Pedro M. Siqueira - Antxón Saves the Show

  • Tricoz (Treecoz) Productions - Reckoning

  • August Winter - River Bed

WORKSHOP SERIES

  • ​Devising Participatory Theatre with Adrienne Wong

  • Gender-Affirming Voice: You Already Have What You Need with Robin Love

  • Research Methodologies and Performance with Kerri Flannigan

  • What's in the Room?  with Maiko Yamamoto

MENTORSHIPS

Administrative Cohort

  • Amber Downie-Back

  • COWBOY

  • Plastik Chaskilla

Dance Incubator

  • Sarah Rose

  • Kiera Shaw

  • Dyana Sonik-Henderson

Elevators

  • Hannah Mariko Bell

  • Corina Fischer

  • Luka Garvin

  • Eevan Hocking

Performance Lab

  • Julian Legere / Cocksure Productions

  • Cheyenne Scott

Mentors

  • Administrative Cohort / Dance Incubator - Andrew Barrett

  • Elevators - Tiffany Tjosvold

  • Performance Lab - Adrienne Wong

PEEK FEST 2023

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

  • Amber Downie-Back & Sierra Megas

  • Impulse Theatre

  • Pandemic Theatre

  • Pam Tzeng

PEEK SHOW #15 PARTICIPANTS:

  • Alex del Angel - Body Knows

  • Isabella Derilo - Scrambled Eggs

  • Molly Jamin - The Dog Child

  • Sophia Radford - Famous Last Words

  • Secret Shark Collective - Game:Play

  • Kiera Shaw - Untitled

  • timetheft theatre - Carving Knife

  • Ciarán Volke - sibling

WORKSHOP SERIES

  • being, sensing, holding choice with Pam Tzeng

  • Bringing Care into Your Practice with Regan Shrumm

  • Indie Producing 101 with Tom Arthur Davis

  • Introduction to AI Digital Dance Creation with Sarah Ching Hin U

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MENTORSHIPS

Dance Incubator

  • Sarah Hin Ching U

Elevators

  • Claire Bruce's​ Jump Around

  • Adam Irwin-Gunn's ​Galaxy of Moons

Performance Lab

  • Lee Ingram

Mentors

  • ​Dance Incubator - Andrew Barrett

  • Elevators - Tiffany Tjosvold

  • Performance Lab - Pam Tzeng

PEEK FEST 2022

CONVERSATION SERIES guest curator Kayleigh Sandomirsky

  • Playwrighting Support - Kayleigh Sandomirsky and Davey Samuel Calderon.

  • Conversation: Arts Marketing 101 - Kayleigh Sandomirsky and Linda Pitt

​PEEK SHOW #13 PARTICIPANTS

  • Holly M. Brinkman - My Body of Work

  • COWBOY - Hair Funeral

  • Miriam Dumitra - How to Be a Man (for eight hours a day)

  • Tiffany Hannan - A Voyage / A Destination

  • Kerri Flannigan - Wild Flame

  • Lee Ingram - Crawling to the Other Side of Centre

  • El Newell - ​Our Lady, Star of the Sea

  • Trick Pony Theatre - Nana

WORKSHOP SERIES

  • ​Creative Administration with Nicole Malcolm

  • Interdisciplinary Creation & Collaboration with Amber Downie-Back and Angus Gaffney

  • Set Design with Shizuka Kai​

MENTORSHIPS

Dance Incubator

  • Amber Downie-Back's'on the nature of...'

Elevators

  • Luka Garvin​'s Colours of Restricted Access

  • Green Violet Productions​' ​Isabella Blue and the Legend of the Rowan Witch

  • Noelle Theobald's Snapshot

Performance Lab

  • Hilary Ho's The Beckoning

  • Sierra Megas' beach studies

Mentors

  • Dance Incubator & Performance Lab - Andrew Barrett

  • Elevators - Tiffany Tjosvold

  • Wee Peeks - Story Theatre

WEE PEEKS RESIDENCY

  • Nicole & Geoff Malcolm's Untitled Fairy Tales & Complementary Creation Workshop

  • Erica Petty's Sound Garden

PEEK FEST 2021

PEEK SHOW #11 DIGITIZED ​PARTICIPANTS

  • Claire Bruce - Joy and All It’s Friends

  • Joanne Cuffe - 47 Steps

  • Veronique Emmett - Untitled

  • ​Sarah Shepherd - Modern Narcissus

  • Regan Shrumm- 50 Shades of Grief: A Neurotic Erotica

  • June Yeo - C

WORKSHOP SERIES

  • Exploring Accessibility In Movement Practices with Tiffany Tjosvold

  • The Ins and Outs of a Successful Application with Kayleigh Sandomirsky

  • Movement For All Bodies with Tiffany Tjosvold

  • The Performing Body with Alex Thompson

  • SYNCHRONICITY: seeking happy accidents in performance creation with Stewart Legere

MENTORSHIPS

Dance Incubator

  • Noble Riot Dance Theatre (Kayla Henry and Finley Rose)'s Luminaries

Elevators

  • Claire Bruce's Joy and All It’s Friends

  • ​Joanne Cuffe's 47 Steps

  • Regan Shrumm's 50 Shades of Grief: A Neurotic Erotica

Performance Lab (formerly Peek Fest Residency)

  • Colette Habel (Vancouver, BC)'s Sensitive Content​

  • Sophie Underwood (Victoria, BC)'s In Motion

  • Ryan Wilcox (Halifax, NS)'s i think i loved you (and it scares me)

Mentors

  • Dance Incubator - Andrew Barrett

  • Elevators - Tiffany Tjosvold

  • Performance Lab - Stewart Legere

PEEK FEST 2020

GUEST CURATORS

  • Conversation Series - Heather Lindsay

  • Wee Peeks - Jess Amy Shead

CONVERSATION SERIES​ 

  • Elaf Alkanzy

  • Angele Galea

  • Erica McCalman

  • Fuyuko Mezawa

  • Rosette Nteyafas

PEEK SHOW #9 PARTICIPANTS

  • Collectivus Theatre - Tomorrow’s Day 

  • Veronique Emmett - Holding True 

  • Corina Fischer - The Wilds Within 

  • Jared Middleton - Work from Home

  • Over the Moon Puppet Company - What's Cooking? 

  • Melissa Taylor - The Hunter 

  • Sarah U - Puzzle

  • SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles - Kepler 

WEE PEEKS: A VARIETY SHOW FOR WEE ONES
PARTICIPANTS:

  • Arthi Chandra & Bella Halladay's Arthi & Bella's Musical Storytime Adventure

  • Julia Siedlanowska & Kanon Hewitt's Sen・Nemuri​

  • SNAFU (Ingrid Hansen & Kathleen Greenfield)'s NumNums

WORKSHOP SERIES

  • Sound Design 101 with Carolyn Moon

  • Movement for Camera with Sophia Wolfe
    QLab for Artists with Carolyn Moon

  • Sound Design 101 with Carolyn Moon

  • Using Digital Tools To Tell Stories with Adrienne Wong

MENTORSHIPS

Elevators

  • Rachael Buchanan

  • ​Luka Garvin

  • Adam Irwin-Gunn

  • Andrew Jones

  • Janelle Resendes

Performance Lab

  • happy/accidents (Vancouver, BC)'s a place once called home 

  • Howard Dai (Vancouver, BC)'s The Rex Project

  • FromTheCorner Productions (Vancouver, BC)'s Selective Memory 

Mentors

  • Performance Lab - Adrienne Wong

PEEK FEST 2019

PEEK SHOW #7 PARTICIPANTS

  • Bluejaye Productions - Old World New

  • Collectivus Theatre - Fossils

  • common particles theatre projects - the yet untitled romeo and juliet project

  • Company Vivo - Section 2. Pg. 3 What Remains of Chelsea Jane

  • Devon Sereda Goldie - Enemy Aliens

  • Impulse Theatre - Jitterations

  • Sophie Underwood - Milton's Mystical Moment*​​

*performance installation at the Closing Reception

VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
States of Play curated by Laura Gildner featuring:

  • Laura Dutton - Untitled Light Piece

  • Laura Gildner - Siamese Dreams

  • ​Bronwyn von Niessen - Brazilian Ju Jitsu Drawings

WORKSHOP SERIES

  • 360 Producing with Clayton Baraniuk

  • Dance/Theatre with Andrew Barrett

  • Devising Theatrical Performance with Ingrid Hansen

  • Taxes for Arts Workers with Jen Braem

​MENTORSHIPS

Performance Lab

  • Embrace Arts (Victoria, BC)'s S_ Pace

  • Re:Current Theatre (Vancouver & Toronto, BC)'s 100 bad plays about the environment and one red balloon

  • ​SNAFU (Victoria, BC)'s SNAFU Shorts: Epidermis Circus and Today you, Tomorrow me

Mentors

  • Performance Lab Admin Mentor - Clayton Baraniuk

PEEK FEST 2018

PEEK SHOW #5 PARTICIPANTS

  • Collectivus Theatre - Summer Bucket List

  • Luciana Fernandes - Cassandra's Curse

  • Bragi Theatre - Last Pick Nick

  • Christian Martin - It'll Come To Me

  • Scantily Glad Theatre - Gitch

  • Jess Amy Shead - He Comes With An Asterisk

  • Emma Leck - The Speed of Falling

  • Holly M. Brinkman - A Very Pack Animals Christmas

  • Delaney Tesch - Songs About Love*​​

*performance installation at the Closing Night Reception

VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
​Curated by Laura Gildner featuring

  • Laura Gildner - Objective Sacrifice (Oppenheim)

  • Elizabeth Charters - If I'm Ever Back This Way

  • Christine Walde - Love Will Tear Us Apart In A New Order

  • Michael Jess - kóngafólk, granít, hlaupari, heila, kvöld, jbmx​

WORKSHOP SERIES

  • Intro to Isadora with Milton Lim

  • Grant Writing for the Emerging Artist with Matthew Payne

  • The Storytelling Body with The Wonderheads

​ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

  • Broken Down Bus Productions (Victoria, BC)'s off on/on off

  • Milton Lim + Patrick Blenkarn (Vancouver, BC)'s culturecapital

  • Rose Cotton (Victoria, BC)'s Gender is Mine: A One Person Poetry Slam

PEEK FEST 2017

PEEK SHOW #3 PARTICIPANTS

  • Andrew Brimstone - Plan 9 From Outer Space

  • Holly M Brinkman - Untitled

  • Copper & Pickle

  • Elizabeth Martin - Naturals

  • La Palabra en el Tiempo

  • Emma Leck - The Plight of the Dung Beetle

  • Kai Taddei/Vino Buono - BOYS

​THE SECOND PEEK PARTICIPANTS

  • Brian Postalian - There Was and There Was Not

  • Impulse Theatre - the soft spaces

  • SNAFU Dance Theatre - 17 Minutes

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WORKSHOP SERIES

  • Essentials of Puppetry with Randi Edmundson

  • ​Foundations of Performance Creation with Brian Postalian

  • Introduction to Devising Theatre with Kathleen Greenfield