Europa New Works Festival
The Europa New Works Festival is a collection and presentation of new Canadian works of performing arts. For artists, it’s an opportunity to develop and experiment with new works. For audiences, it's a chance to see exciting works-in-progress and be part of the creation process.
January 31 - February 2, 2025
Erratics Indie Arts Club
625 11th Ave SW #150, Calgary, AB
The 2025 Europa New Works Festival is featuring FOUR new works by Calgary artists. Performances are taking place January 31st - February 2nd, 2025 at the Erratics Indie Arts Club (625 11th Ave SW #150, Calgary, AB). This year's festival line up includes:
Yeoman by Miranda Martini, with songs by Miranda Martini and Will Weisenfeld
People Who Stand With The Gods by Madeline Hunter Smith
Strangers by Andrew G. Cooper
Winging It! An Improvised Comedy Adventure
By Miranda Martini
with songs by Miranda Martini and Will Weisenfeld
Directed by Conrad Belau
Yeoman is a sci-fi musical in two acts. It tells the story of two young men, Tom and Bastian, who grow up together on a backwater planet on the brink of being swept up in an intergalactic war of expansion. One flees the planet as a refugee, eventually taking up the rebel cause and captaining his own ship; the other remains on-world, leading an unremarkable life as a civil servant while secretly forging papers and hiding enemies of the state. When fate finally brings them together again, they must decide: what price are they willing to pay for love? Lush synth pop buoys up the play’s themes of justice, internalised homophobia, colonialism, and what it means to follow your dreams in a world designed to crush them.
An Improvised Comedy Adventure
Winging It! is a live improvised fantasy comedy—think a cross between a TTRPG Actual Play and an improv game show in the vein of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Mixing short form and long form improv with a fantasy RPG à la Dungeons & Dragons, this show is a recipe for critical tales and epic fails. Roll the dice! Expect laughter and adventure! Let’s have some fun!
By Andrew G. Cooper
While visiting a remote radio astronomy observatory, a brother and sister witness the arrival of otherworldly horrors. After an intense stranger traps them in the basement with two other survivors, they must navigate human dangers as well as alien ones to safely escape. STRANGERS is a tension-filled, science-fiction ride filled with thrills and heart that explores how we communicate and ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
By Madeline Hunter Smith
Directed by Madeleine Taylor-Gregg
1999. A young woman, unlucky in love, turns to the Internet to connect with others like her. Little does she know, her bid for connection has opened a portal, and as she desperately reaches out, something sinister begins to reach back. Inspired by Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, PEOPLE WHO STAND WITH THE GODS is a multimedia cyber-gothic opera that will rattle the senses and sing the body electric.
Why the Name Europa?
Europa is among the first of Jupiter’s ninety-five moons to be discovered and is one of the few celestial bodies in our solar system with the potential to support life. Europa’s surface is sheeted with a thick crust of ice but harbours a vast ocean underneath with conditions that could be suitable to sustain living organisms. The Iceberg Theory, coined by Ernest Hemingway, offers an insight into the implicit deeper meaning often found below the surface of a writer’s work. Europa’s frozen exterior gives this iceberg metaphor an entirely new context.
With the Europa New Works Festival, Jupiter Theatre seeks to discover new life in the unfathomable depths of Canadian creators of the performing arts.
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