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Tracey Nepinak and Emily Solstice Tait in The War Being Waged by Darla Contois; Produced by Prairie Theatre Exchange; Photo by Joey Senft 

TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival 2023
– Ended on May 28th

This year’s festival revisited outstanding performances from past years and featured groundbreaking new works, all for FREE!

TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival is unlike any other festival in the world. With a focus on empowering Indigenous artists and encouraging collaboration with non-Indigenous artists, this unique festival builds relationships and brings communities together to create lasting social change and groundbreaking performance.

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And be sure to watch for our co-presentation of Te Tangi ā te Tūī this fall at The York Theatre.

Guide My Way
Guide My Way
A Concert Film by Corey Payette
Produced by Urban Ink
Making The Mystics: An Artistic Ceremony Documentary
Making The Mystics: An Artistic Ceremony Documentary
Kim Senklip Harvey's journey into cultural guardianship and artistic legal orders.
A Green Thumb Theatre Production in collaboration with Kim Senklip Productions and The Cultch
The War Being Waged
The War Being Waged
One Indigenous family. Three women's stories.
By Darla Contois
Produced by Prairie Theatre Exchange
Te Tangi ā te Tūī
Te Tangi ā te Tūī
This documentary is a look inside the development of Te Tangi ā te Tūī, a fantastical and allegorical tale of loss of te reo Māori and its reclamation.
Te Rēhia Theatre (Aotearoa New Zealand) in partnership with The Dust Palace (Aotearoa New Zealand)
Film by Matt Gillanders
Demolition by Polytoxic. Photographer Joel Devereux
Demolition
Tick Tick Boom…Time’s Up Motherlovers!
Created and written by Lisa Fa’alafi & Leah Shelton (Polytoxic)
Polytoxic (Australia) and Kiosk Film (Australia)
The Candy Show with Candy Palmater and Friends
The Candy Show with Candy Palmater and Friends
Join Candy and Indigenous superstars and emerging artists.
Selections from Transform 2020 and Transform 2021
Produced by Victor Pokinko and Archipelago Productions
Connective T/issue—Classical Cirque
Connective T/issue—Classical Cirque
What is our connective tissue? What keeps us apart?
Curated and hosted by Cris Derksen and Sido Adamson
The Darlings III
The Darlings III
TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival favourites The Darlings' imaginative blend of drag and theatre from 2020.
Transform 2020 Opening Bash
Transform 2020 Opening Bash
The cabaret that launched Transform into the digital world.
A collective creation hosted by Lisa Fa’alafi and Busty Beats from Hot Brown Honey