Blanket Fort and TV Marathon
Presented by The Theatre Centre
Our November 10-for-10 program invites a giant Blanket Fort to transform our BMO Incubator space, offering different activities each day with our friends at Art is Hard Productions!
November 22: TV Marathon
Join us at The Theatre Centre for the ultimate Blanket Fort and TV Marathon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the TV series, NOT the movie!), hosted by General & Artistic Director, Aislinn Rose.
Bring your theatre etiquette A-game: cozy socks, lounge-wear, pyjamas, and obscene amounts of junk food (additional junk food will be provided). Come and go as you wish, this epic 12-hour TV marathon has an episode for every kind of Buffy Fan!
Episode List To Be Announced in November.
November 20-23: Blanket Fort
Blanket Fort by Art is Hard Productions invites community members to take ownership of the spaces around them and engage in build and play. Blanket Fort was at The Theatre Centre in 2017, and is making a special return for this 10 for 10 event!
Wednesday, November 20, 10am-10pm - Build Day
Every blanket fort starts with an empty room and a dream. Come help us kick off four days of BLANKET FORT by letting your imagination run wild as we hang blankets, set up cushions, and decorate the fort we’ll play in for the rest of the week.
Thursday, November 21, 10am-10pm - Craft day!
Get cozy with us for a maker day in the BLANKET FORT! Bring your knitting, your embroidery, your collage work, and your sketching supplies; grab a warm beverage from the cafe; and settle in with your friends for a good stitch n’ bitch. Don’t have a craft of your own? Contribute to our collaborative stitching and collage projects!
Friday, November 22, Noon-Midnight - 12 hour TV Marathon
Hosted by The Theatre Centre’s Artistic Director Aislinn Rose, this epic, 12-hour TV marathon has an episode for every kind of Buffy Fan!
Saturday, November 23, Noon-Midnight - Pip’s Birthday Party
Grab the most glam onesie and pull on your party pyjamas up to celebrate Pip’s birthday in our BLANKET FORT! Join us for snacks, slumber party games, fortunes from Planetary Secretary, and more!
Art is Hard Productions
Art Is Hard is an installation art collective focused on creating interactive environments of permission that encourage participants to explore space and community together.
Created and helmed by Pip Bradford and Rebecca Vandevelde, past projects include Flip The Table (2014) and Fringe Portrait Studio (2015) at the Toronto Fringe; Pie In The Face with Theatre Passe Muraille (2015); and The People’s Gallery as part of the 2016 Rhubarb Festival at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre. They were also the Artistic Producers of Theatre Passe Muraille’s new performance series Crapshoot for the 2017/2018 season. BLANKET FORT has been previously produced in 2017 with support from The Theatre Centre.
Pip Bradford (she/her)
Pip Bradford is an independent producer, production manager, and stage manager who works with many companies in Toronto, including the Luminato Festival, Anandam DanceTheatre, The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Just For Laughs, Nightwood Theatre, Red Sky Performance, 7a*11d Performance Art Festival, SummerWorks, and Theatre Passe Muraille. Pip also works as a member of Means of Production, a collective of freelance production staff seeking to promote values-based production work, and creates experiential interactive art as part of Art Is Hard.
Rebecca Vandevelde (she/they)
Rebecca Vandevelde is an arts worker focused on production and design. Rebecca builds and curates spaces, events, and experiments – like Flip the Table and Blanket Fort – with Art is Hard; and works as a freelance designer and production manager. They are currently the Production Manager at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Most recently: set design for Tarragon My Sister’s Rage, lighting/touring for Pandemic x Rumble Take D Milk, Nah?, lighting for Madonnanera x bcurrent x Buddies Body So Fluorescent, PM/Producer for Theatre Centre Residency Project Here Are The Fragments., PM for Soundstreams x Signal Two Odysseys, lighting for Aluna Solitudes.
This event is part of The Theatre Centre’s 10 for 10 programming (ten unique offerings over ten months), which celebrates ten years since we moved into our forever home on 1115 Queen Street West. The Theatre Centre’s 10 for 10 programming is generously supported by the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund.
TV Marathon
November 22
Noon to Midnight
Blanket Fort
November 20-24
Drop-in during installation hours below:
Wed Nov 20
10am-10pm
Build Day
(FREE & no RSVP needed)
Thurs Nov 21
10am-10pm
Craft day!
(FREE & no RSVP needed)
Fri Nov 22
Noon to Midnight
(RSVP here)
Sat Nov 23
Noon-Midnight
Pip’s Birthday Party!
(FREE & no RSVP needed)
BMO Incubator
We’re looking for donations of blankets and textiles (bedsheets, pillow/pillow cases, cushions, curtains) to be a part of the Blanket Fort installation (details coming soon). Afterwards, they will be donated to a Toronto shelter. Machine washable only, please!
You can drop off the textiles at our café/bar (1115 Queen Street West) into a bin labelled “blanket drive”.
This performance is 12 hours
October 15, 2024
On September 23, The Theatre Centre hosted a Community Gathering & Reading, as part of our 10 for 10 programming (ten unique offerings over ten months), which celebrates ten years since we moved into our forever home on 1115 Queen Street West. This is the first of a series of texts that were read from our invited...
