Artistic Direction
Diane Roberts
Artistic Director
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Welcome to urban ink!
We are a company with a diverse team dedicated to developing producing touring and archiving astonishing works of theatre sourced from aboriginal, indigenous and intercultural processes.
Our focus in fulfilling this mandate is to create and develop new theatrical works that take us into a deeper dialogue with our historic present. Ancestry and the reclamation of voice, body and spirit are the dominant themes that run through our work. We’re interested in working with artists and communities who want to challenge, through story and form, the notion of homogenized diversity. Our goal is to ultimately create, through every project and every event, an Indigenous crossroads — creating and producing extraordinary theatre from diverse cultural perspectives.
We are moving into our 9th season with strength and purpose. As we fortify our home territory with the DTES Women’s Writing Group’s Vanishing Project, extending our roots across the province with the Squaw Hall Project we also see ourselves expanding our National and International reach and impact with our Arrivals Project. The integration of disciplines that runs through our work allows us to engage with artists experimenting in form. This year we are pleased to welcome M. NourbeSe Philip as our Canada Council Artist in Residence. Follow the development of Philip’s Zong!, a haunting poetry cycle, being adapted for the stage; and join us for the premiere of Heather Hermant’s ribcage, slated to appear this coming spring. February’s CrossRoads Slam! is sure to dazzle you as we challenge our poets to risk an Olympic rhyme.
Join us in visioning a creative future!
