Playing Fields is a youth driven, outdoor, participatory sound performance that takes place on your local field.
Created using interviews with youth ages 13-17 about ownership and belonging, this aural performance comes from communities around the world (Dublin, Hong Kong, Whitehorse, Richmond, BC) that have experienced some form of colonization. Playing Fields uses sport as an entry point, but the focus is on where the game takes place: the field itself. The recorded audio interviews are interspersed with live prompts from a local Halifax teenager- who directs the audience on the field - each wearing individual headsets - leading them through a series of movements that accumulate into some sort of group choreography that resembles a field game.
RUNTIME
50 Minutes
VENUE
(Behind Bicentennial Jr. High School on the baseball diamonds. Entrance on Thistle Street, near Victoria Road.)
PRICE
Pay-What-You-Can-Afford
($20 / $30 / $40)
SEATING
This is an active performance. Audiences will be led through a series of movements on a soccer field. There will be limited bench seating for anyone wishing to observe as a spectator only.
AUDIENCE NOTES
This performance is outdoors and involves moving on an uneven field; dress accordingly.
To request personal ASL interpretation, please click here.
In the case of inclement weather, tickets will be honoured at a later performance.
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