Beat, Speak, Spark

Mon May 12, 6:30-8:30pm
With Angelic
$20

In this workshop with Angelic, you will explore rhythm, music, song, percussion, and body movement to find the exact moments when your clown can speak and spark with the audience—unfolding all dimensions of your clown as they bring their fullness and authentic expression to the stage through evolution and long-form exploration of all facets of self.

For clowns, actors, and performers to stretch, practice, learn, and flop

Play Play is a workshop series where we train live performers of all experience levels to be well-rounded in a wide variety of skills. We envision a theatre and clown community that is artistically interesting, politically relevant and invested in audience connection. We foster a community of diverse performers who are treated equitably. We aim to offer financially accessible professional training where artists feel they belong to a community.

We encourage people of all abilities and backgrounds to join Play Play. Scholarships are available for folks who are 2SLGBTQI+, racialized, or have different physical abilities.

Angelic Goldsky is a transmasc artist, poet, and performer whose work blends ritual, clowning, and queer futurism. A former poet-in-residence at Vancouver’s Roundhouse Community Centre (2021), they were shortlisted for the Canadian League of Poets’ Spoken Word Award (2023, 2024) and represented Canada at the international LGBTQ+ showcase in Brussels (2022). Angelic is a founding member of Queer Soul Poets, co-creating GAY ANCESTORS, a clown poetry ritual that premiered at STAND Festival (2024). They’ve opened the Vogue Theatre for Shane Koyczan with their former trio Tiny Tricycle Poets, and performed internationally—from sharing stages with rabbis and politicians to queers and clowns across Turtle Island and Europe, including at Switzerland’s Lila Queer Arts Festival.or a spot.