Tag Archives: Found Festival

It’s a new season at Common Ground Arts! And it opens with Tiny Bear Jaws’ I Don’t Even Miss You

Posted on September 30, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “One of the strengths of Common Ground Arts is that we’re big enough to have institutional support, staff, a team, a board…. And small and scrappy enough that we’re malleable, to support the needs of whatever … Continue reading →

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The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part one

Posted on July 24, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Life of Pi, which launched the Citadel’s 60th anniversary season, the Indian teenager who finally washes ashore after an ocean-crossing with a Royal Bengal tiger, gets grilled by skeptics about his amazing story of survival. … Continue reading →

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Discover art and artists in unexpected places: get found at the Found Festival

Posted on July 6, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s just no telling what will happen when you find yourself at Found. Yes, the festival of encounters with art and artists in unexpected places is back Thursday with a 15th annual edition. You too could … Continue reading →

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2025, and live theatre as the prize human connector: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1

Posted on December 31, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2025: What a crazy, scary year it’s been. The world seems impossibly fractious, incoherent, unrecognizable. Can anyone really say they feel at home there? But the full-throttle invasion of screens of every size by A.I. has … Continue reading →

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Opening the doors into the past: Ecos, a multi-generational dance/theatre piece from Common Ground. A review

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening scene of Ecos, a woman arrives onstage to build, piece by piece, an altar of tiny objects — bottles, a wine glass, flowers, a little cake, picture frames, salt, a dead plant.… A funeral … Continue reading →

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Quality time with the older generation: the unforced charm of Banana Musik, a review

Posted on September 21, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The homey smell of cooking hangs over the unusually hospitable show, developed at the Found Festival, that’s currently running at the Backstage Theatre. There’s dinner and there’s theatre in Banana Musik, launching Common Ground Arts Society’s … Continue reading →

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Kris Alvarez invites us to meet her parents: Banana Musik launches Common Ground’s Prairie Mainstage Series

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is nothing remotely classifiable about Banana Musik, launching Common Ground Arts’ new Prairie Mainstage Series Friday. There’s storytelling, yes, and a memory play with unusual trimmings. There’s original music. There’s a celebration of the immigrant … Continue reading →

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Lifting the veil between the living and the dead: Lucky Charm, a little review of a very cool show

Posted on July 19, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I’m coming very late to this (a week away in the east is to blame, more about this later). But I went a séance Friday night. It was in an unexpected place, a bungalow on a … Continue reading →

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The rise of RISER: a new works festival from Common Ground

Posted on May 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca RISER has risen. Again, and in a new, expanded form. Edmonton, where theatre is the leading arts industry, was always the right place for the visionary national initiative — launched by Toronto’s Why Not Theatre — … Continue reading →

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2024: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1

Posted on December 20, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a chaotic, incoherent year in the world, live theatre, which has itself been under every kind of duress in 2024, stepped up to offer us other perspectives, other visions, characters on personal quests for meaning, … Continue reading →

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