A chronicle of my performances
JUST ANOTHER DAY Written and directed by Freya Ravensbergen and Rebecca Singh, starring Freya Ravensbergen and Rebecca Singh, Animation and Editing by Ruth Tait, Sound Design by John Gzowski. 2 min 59 sec 2014 16:9 CANADA Short Synopsis: JUST ANOTHER DAY is a short animatic film. It tells the story of two everyday Toronto police […]
Community (Love) Creates Change Exhibition In February I participated in a curated group exhibition at the Community Gallery of the Wychwood Barns with “Canada’s Smallest Theatre Creative Manual” . Click the link to see documentation of the show. The other artists in the exhibition were Lumír Hladík, Patrick Moore, Nicholas Power, Leena Raudvee and Elaine Stewart. Co-curated by Denise Morazé, emerging visual artist […]
We mined the great Canon of the Great Bard for 200 monologues that are typically performed by women. I teamed up with Jonathan Heppner and Kimberly Purtell to whittle the list down to 50 for piece we’re developing, SHAKESPEARE’S VOICE. Produced by Theatre Local and with development assistance by Videocabaret, SHAKESPEARE’S VOICE was workshopped in September […]
For the fifth year time in seven years I participated in Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. SMALL AUDIENCES was an entire theatre season presented in just one night. Besides the producing, I performed 50 monologues. A link to the program can be found here. It featured: me, Jonathan Heppner, Kimberly Purtell, Leslie McCue, Lindy Kinoshameg, Elva Mai Hoover, Neema Bickersteth, Gail Nyoka, Ruth […]
Ever a highlight of the Toronto festival season, I was once again excited to be part of the 2012 Luminato Festival. I produced and recorded over an hours worth of audio descriptions of the Visual Arts programming. AUDIO DESCRIPTIONS are recorded verbal descriptions, which make visual work accessible to low and no vision patrons via […]
David Bateman, Doctor, poet and all around amazing guy invited me to be part of this spoken word series. I read SPACE-IFESTO 2012 as well as a new piece about Detroit called KEEPERS OF THE INFINITE. Poet and blogger Duncan Morgan wrote about my set on his blog “…Rebecca Singh – another strong set by […]
New Adventures in Sound Art is one of Canada’s most important organizations when it comes to pushing the boundaries of electroacoustic music and sound art. They host an international symposium every year called Deep Wireless. In May 2010 I was invited to be part of this event by participating in a residency called the […]
On October 1st, 2011 I hosted and told several stories. The night was called TELL YOUR STORY and was a part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche.
In August 2010 I began a year long Fellowship at Toronto’s largest multidisciplinary festival, Luminato. Midway through I started to chat with the producer of Visual arts, Robert Vanderberg about doing audio description for visually impaired patrons. With the festivals support and though partnerships with Theatre Local and Rose Jacobsen through PicassoPro/Creative Trust, I ended […]
Or is it? Lunch can be an amazing journey when you mix the right ingredients. As a part of a unique Fellowship at the Luminato Festival, I was tasked to coordinate LUNCHTIME CONVERSATIONS. It turned out not so bad- here’s a rundown of the incredible talent I booked, hosted and sometimes interviewed: Chris Lorway, Devyani […]
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