Performance

A flyer for the show: Speaking Vibrations at SkirtsAfire Festival" March 6-7 2024 — _{Image Description: Flyer for the Speaking Vibrations show at SkirtsAFire Festival. An image of the Speaking Vibrations performers is superimposed overtop a background of light pink, red and burgundy. Each performer wears a distinct colour fabric for their costume. From left to right: On the far left is a Filipina woman, she has long black hair and wears black shirt, red pants and sash. Beside her, left of centre, is a white woman, she has long curly brown hair and wears a white draping fabric like a dress. On her right is a Black woman, she has a short fro and is wearing a bright green shirt. Beside her, is a Vietnamese woman who has her black hair tied in a high bun and is wearing a dark blue robe . Photo by Andrew Alexander at Great Canadian Theatre Company (2022).The flyer reads: Speaking Vibrations, with show dates: Wednesday March 6th 7:30-9pm. Thursday March 7th 12:00-1:45pm, Thursday March 7th 7:30-9:00pm.}

Upcoming Performances

Speaking Vibrations is performing at SkirtsAfire Festival in partnership with SOUND OFF: A Deaf Theatre Festival. March 6-7, 2024 in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Speaking Vibrations gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the City of Ottawa.

Past Perfomances

For links to all reviews, interviews and transcripts, click here.

A Black woman in a beige dress poses against a black background.

Speaking Vibrations at Ottawa Fringe Festival (June, 2021)

Links & Reviews
Apt 613 (2021)
Ottawa Fringe Festival, Audio Pre-Show Note (2021)
CBC Ottawa, All In a Day (2021)

Four women (one Filipina, one Vietnamese, one white, one Black) on stage, standing in a diagonal line.

Speaking Vibrations at Great Canadian Theatre Company (2022) (2022)

Credits:
creation/performance | Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit, & Jordan Samonas
producers | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
director/dramaturg | Jacqui du Toit
Deaf culture director | Pamela Witcher
lighting design | Emilio Sebastiao
projection and video designer | Lesley Marshall
vibrotactile installation | Jesse Stewart
vibrotactile specialists | David Bobier & Jim Ruxton (VibrafusionLabs)
stage management | Kat Wong
production manager | Seth Gerry
Technical director | Kyle Ahluwalia
assistant technical director & set builder | Jonah Maybear
accessibility coordinator | Drea
sound | Patrice-Anne Forbes & Josephine Trudel
movement consultant | Dayna Szyndrowski
set and sound design | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
digital film captioning | Carmelle Cachero
wardrobe | Lita Cachero
interpreter coordinator | Marianne Kelly
interpreters | Josée Bower, Sabrina Chang, Mary Ann Decasa, Kathleen Henderson, Ayoka Junaid, Marianne Kelly, Catherine Maier, Laura Nimigan, Misty Saikaley, Katherine Sibun

Funded & Supported by: Canada Council for the Arts, Great Canadian Theatre Company

Links & Reviews
GCTC.ca – Speaking Vibrations
Intermission Magazine
GCTC ASL Promo Video

Four women (one Filipina, one Southeast Asian, one white, one Black) on stage against a black background.

Speaking Vibrations Accessible Music Concert Film (2021)

Credits:
creation/performance | Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit, & Jordan Samonas
producers | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
director/dramaturg | Jacqui du Toit
interpreters | Marianne Kelly, Amanda Grimaldi, Ayoka Junaid & Jennifer Roberts
filming | NP Productions
film editing & dynamic text | Carmelle Cachero
graphic design | Isabel Lainez
technical director/light & sound | Jonah Lerner

Funded & Supported by: The Ontario Arts Council, Great Canadian Theatre Company

Links & Reviews:
Ottawa Citizen (2021)
CHUO 89.1FM (2021)
Video Trailer (2021)

Three women (one Filipina, one Black, one white) stand on stage against a black background.

Speaking Vibrations at Uproar Arts Festival (2019)

creation/performance | Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit, & Jordan Samonas
executive producers | Caterina Fiorindi, Monica Bradford-Lea, Ali Harris & Nicole Titus
light & sound | Carolyn Barnes
vibrotactile set up | Ted Forbes

Speaking Vibrations at Halifax Fringe Festival (2023)

Speaking Vibrations performed as part of the 2023 Halifax Fringe Festival at Neptune Theatre’s Scotiabank Stage, September 2023.

producers | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
stage & production manager | Kat Wong
director/dramaturg | Jacqui du Toit
Deaf culture director | Pamela Witcher
lighting design | Emilio Sebastiao
projection & video designer | Lesley Marshall
vibrotactile specialists | David Bobier & Jim Ruxton (VibrafusionLab)
lead interpreters | Carolyn Carter & Marianne Kelly

Funders & Supporters: Canada Council for the Arts

Links & Reviews
The Coast.ca
Halifax Presents
Twisi Theatre Blog

Speaking Vibrations at Ta Da! Festival (2023)

Speaking Vibrations is the most complex multi-media theatre piece Theatre Wakefield has ever presented. Performed at Centre Wakefield La Pêche (September, 2023)

Links & Reviews
Low Down Newspaper Article (2023)
Theatre Wakefield Event Page (2023)