We are delighted to announce this year’s festival lineup!
From September 26 – October 9, 2022, Prismatic Arts Festival is celebrating innovative work by Indigenous artists and artists of colour from across the country.
Prismatic 2022 will bring vibrant, boundary-pushing works in theatre, dance, music, film, visual arts, media arts, and spoken word to Kjipuktuk / downtown Halifax!
Catch these amazing artists this fall at Prismatic 2022!
Santiago Guzmán – a writer, performer, director, and producer for theatre & film from Metepec, Mexico, now based in St. John’s, NFLD. His play, ALTAR, focuses on cultural diversity, loss, and familial and queer relationships.
Aysanabee – an Oji-Cree singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who is working on his debut album with Ishkode Records.
Emmanuel Nwogbo – a Nigerian-born visual artist who, in his most recent series, explores the relationship between the common meat vendor – The Suya Man – and the wider world, from political discourse and social justice to the absurd and humourous.
Celeigh Cardinal – with a confident voice and boundless energy, 2020 Juno Award winner Celeigh Cardinal owns a stage, connecting deeply with her audience. Her voice is rich and deep with a burnished maturity and technical virtuosity that wraps itself around notes.
Djely Tapa – descended from a lineage of Malian griots, 2020 Juno Award winner, Djely Tapa offers a repertory suspended between Sahelian, blues, and electro atmospheres.
Cliff Cardinal – a multiple-award-winning Indigenous playwright and actor. His award-winning play, huff (co-presented with Neptune Theatre), explores the brutal reality of death and addiction for brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles, as Wind is preyed upon by Trickster and his own fragile psyche.
Ebnflōh – (co-presented with Live Art Dance) a dance company that promotes a choreographic language rooted in hip-hop. With raw and sharp physicality, the choreographer and six dancers plumb the depths of human relations and relative coexistence, subtly combining dramatic tension, dark humour, and forces of hope.
Boca del Lupo – part theatre and part social intervention, Boca del Lupo’s Red Phone is an audience-to-audience performance that uses the intimacy of a phone call. Audience members partake in a scripted five-minute dialogue about some of today’s big questions as written by prominent Canadian playwrights.
DeeDee Austin – a local Indigenous singer, songwriter, and musician who, at 16 years of age, is poised to make notable strides in the East Coast music scene with the release of her debut EP, Stepping Stones.
Tamarzee – a multidisciplinary poet and filmmaker who uses a playful mix of montage, animation, and traditional documentary techniques to paint a musical portrait of drummer, Sarah Thawer.
Sarah Prosper – a Mi’kmaq Womxn from Eskasoni First Nation. Sarah is a young dance artist, choreographer and director whose work will be featured at several events throughout the festival.
Breaking Circus & Upstream – contemporary circus and improvisational music meet to explore new territory and find common ground on a journey to understand what we do and do not know about the unknown in this global period of growth.
Prismatic will be here sooner than you think…seriously!
Stay tuned to find out how you can get an early glimpse into the vibrant world of Prismatic.
For more information, visit our website or email info@prismaticfestival.com.
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Prismatic 2022 news and our ticket launch!
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