THE COMMON GROUND FESTIVAL RETURNS WITH
OUR TENTH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!
The Common Ground Festival returns for its tenth birthday this
winter to celebrate and showcase the work of Calgary’s finest emerging
and small professional artists from November 20th to the 23rd at the
Victor Mitchell Theatre. One ticket grants access to an evening of
entertainment.
Click here for tickets to Thursday November 21.
Click here for all performances, go to the day you want to attend for specific performances, call 403-246-2999, or take your chances and buy your tickets at the door!
The work is inspired by Lorna Byrne’s writings around Mother Earth and the mythical idea of a protective angel figure who works to calm mother earth when she is damaged. She describes it like this: “Mother Earth is that life force inside our planet, that beautiful angel. Angel Jimazen tries to stop her from twisting and turning too much but she has to do this to heal our earth. He has to calm Mother Earth. She has many arms, and they flow out from her like sails. She moves ever so gently, stretching out those sail-like arms to every part of our planet that needs healing. She is like a mother feeding her young, doing her best to take care of our planet and all the life upon it and within it.
Angel Jimazen has an incredible relationship with Mother Earth. He fights with her to stop her convulsing too much but knows that she has to do it to heal our planet. He uses his staff to tap the earth to quell her out of love for Mother Earth
In partnership with The Calgary Zoo, we are bringing the animals to the stage for a unique province-mandated enrichment experience! This will be an open mic featuring a variety of truly raw and vulnerable performances: poetry, stand-up, song… with a few feral twists and turns along the way.
You Work Where? Follows 3 surreal stories of odd jobs, and those who are curiously employed. A Bed Bath & Beyond that isn’t quite what it seems, a plot to turn Antarctica into the world’s largest golf course, and a door-to-door salesperson selling rain to an increasingly odd cast of characters.