Break free of isolation with "Quarantine Fest 2020"

Harbour Theatre and UdderFest are both looking to
get your creative process in motion this fall

After six months or so of keeping mostly to ourselves and social distancing, perhaps composing songs for our times in our heads, or creating our own personal sitcoms or dramas to tide us over,  the opportunity to turn the personal experience into art is here.

Harbour Theatre Society and the Udder Theatre Festival Committee have come up with a project to turn the Spring and Summer of COVID into the feature for the Fall, announcing QuarantineFest 2020.

The project was announced through the Harbour Theatre Facebook page, with the local theatre community issuing a call out to the community to create and submit original video shorts, to be screened at the Tom Rooney Playhouse later this fall.

The options are endless towards the focus for the contributions, the only real guideline one that suggests a twenty minute maximum for the video presentations.

The deadline to provide a submission is September 30th.

As they note in their call out for submissions, COVID has indeed had an impact on many of the local theatre community's opportunities to create this year, with the popular summer festival Udderfest just one of their initiatives that was sidelined for 2020.

Harbour Theatre was not alone in the impact of the shutdown of our social activities, a range of local productions and the calendar of events at the Lester Centre for the Arts all came to a sudden stop as the coronavirus began its path across the globe in late February and early March.

The prospect that Harbour Theatre and Udder Fest are offering to rejuvenating the artistic themes will be a welcome one for the region, and you can learn more about the QuarantineFest 2020 plans from the Harbour Theatre Facebook page.

To seek out more details as to how to submit your videos or to ask further questions send an email to harbourtheatre@gmail.com

For more notes related to the Community Arts scene see our archive page here, a wider overview of Community themes is available here.