THE HATE SHOW

Festival Colloque: The Hate Show

Please note that we will be hosting a colloque today from 4:30 - 5:30 in the Founders Room (in the Lobby of the Jack Singer Concert Hall in the EPCOR centre for the performing arts). The colloque is a forum for anyone who is interested to engage in conversation about The Hate Show. Everyone is welcome, admission is free.

Why was there a choice to not have anyone speak before or after the show?

I thought it would have been really useful to have someone contextualize what the show was about before it started because there was a lot of different threads, images, etc. going on, and I and others got lost at various points.

Also, it would have been great to have had the chance to talk with the performers and writers at the end of the show, while we were still assembled as an audience. I had questions and thoughts to share and a lot of the people around me were a little stunned and confused at the ending. A period of discussion at the end would have let us all share our understandings and the experience of the performance could have been richer for it.

Thank you so much for the work you do!

Anonymous

Hi there,

We will definitely write out a more thorough answer to this question, however I wanted to let anyone who is interested know that there is a Colloque on The Hate Show today in the Founders Room - located off of the Jack Singer Concert Hall’s lobby. It starts at 4:30 and admission is free. There will be lots of space to talk about The Hate Show. Hope to see you there!

THE HATE SHOW

By: Stage Left Productions

Part of the Calgary International Children’s Festival May 25-28

Calgary consistently has the highest number of hate crimes in Canada. This dynamic, original and interactive performance presents some of these true stories and asks the question: Which side are you on?

The Hate Show combines Invisible Theatre, Forum Theatre, Documentary Theatre, and Performance Creation processes into an interdisciplinary, interactive performance that engages teenagers in critical discussions about hate in our community – and about what we can all do about it.

WARNING: Mature language and content.

SHOW TIMES: May 25, 26, 28 @ 7:30 PM

May 27th @ 7:00 PM

WHERE? THE BIG SECRET THEATRE

240 9th Ave S.E. Epcor Centre For The Performing Arts

Calgary, AB T2G 0K9

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Some audience words on The Hate Show’s first performance

MAY 25, 2011 SHOW

“Thought provoking, interesting, heart wrenching!”

“It made me squirm, in really important ways”

“Stimulating, bloody, and hope inspiring. It reassures me that Calgary has this underground army of cool people who work really hard to make Calgary awesome”

it sux

Anonymous

reader comments on Calgary

Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It’s a wonderful thing, to look at someone to whom I would never be attracted and think about what looking at them feels like to someone who is devouring every part of their image, who has invisible strings that are connected to this person tied to every part of their body. I think this fun pastime is a way of cultivating compassion. It feels good to think about people that way, and to use that part of my mind that I think is traditionally reserved for a tiny portion of people I’ll meet in my life to appreciate the general public. I wish I thought about people like this more often. I think it’s the opposite of what our culture teaches us to do. We prefer to pick people apart to find their flaws. Cultivating these feelings of love or appreciation for random people, and even for people I don’t like, makes me a more forgiving and appreciative person toward myself and people I love. Also, it’s just a really excellent pastime.

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—	Dean Spade, poly essay take 2 (via caitlinate)

The [Hate Show] is a masterpiece, this is the most avant-garde thing I’ve ever heard of happening in Calgary, it’s genius, it’s smart, it’s hilarious, and whoever wrote it should win some kind of prize. I love it.

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—	Zacery Volpe

What do you think of Calgary?

TELL US in your own words.

A reader comment about hate in Calgary:

A really good person I know just had her car and 
house spray-painted with swastikas, yesterday.   
She is one of the most kind, thoughtful, 
intelligent people I know.

What comes to mind when I think of Calgary? Sexual Violence

The other day I sat down by the river to eat a vietnamese sub, only to see the police arresting a man for raping a woman by the river in kensington. I didn’t see what was happening, but it was rush hour and a beautiful way and the paths were clogged with pedestrians. Only two joggers running together stopped and called the police. How can we make this city safer for women? How can people walk by sexual assault and do nothing?

-Anonymous