On World Theatre Day 2026, we are thinking of the artists and audiences around the world that are not able to safely create and witness theatre due to war and other forms of oppression. Suppressing art and culture is a tool of erasure. In Canada, there is a long history of banning Indigenous culture and languages as a means of colonialism and genocide. Article 27 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.” As theatre artists, we stand in solidarity with theatre artists in Palestine, where cultural production is under direct attack. In Jenin, in the West Bank, members of The Freedom Theatre’s artistic leadership were violently arrested without charge in 2023. The Freedom Theatre was forced to close its doors in early 2025, when the refugee camp where it is located was attacked and occupied by the Israeli army. In November 2025, the El-Hakawati Theater in Jerusalem was raided during a performance of "Dreams Under the Olive Tree," a musical featuring children and teenagers, leaving audience members and performers in tears. We know that groups that are directly complicit in Israel’s occupation and genocide in Palestine are funding theatre in Canada. These relationships contribute to the art-washing of Israel's genocide, the censorship of Palestinian artists and those in solidarity with them, and most egregiously - the dehumanization of Palestinian people. In conversation with Canadian theatre artists in 2026, Rawand Arqawi, Artistic Producer of Fragments Theatre in Jenin, said, "Palestinian artists do not create from outside the reality we depict; we live under occupation ourselves. We face the suppression of our freedom of expression, including arrest, harassment, and intimidation, as well as severe restrictions on movement and travel. And yet, we persist in our cultural work as an act of resilience and resistance." From Turtle Island to Palestine, Sudan to the Congo, Iran to Ukraine, and beyond, we stand together to protect the human right to create and enjoy theatre.

2024 was one hell of a year We're looking back on the last years projects over the next few weeks (in no particular order), and getting ready to share what's coming up! Starting off with Still Life: Of a Wedding I Do, I Don't, I Dare, a festival of weddings in art, produced by @talkisfreetheatre Performed by @y.k_kong and @eris.thomas.art Dramaturgy by @all.is.to.be.dared

We've got an amazing fall/winter coming down the road, and we're so excited to share it with you all! Stay tuned for more details... #wemakeotherarts #liveart #performance #alternativetheatre #tease

Wildly chuffed to have been nominated for a #Dora2024 alongside so many Toronto theatre giants. We laughed, we hugged, we danced our faces off... Thanks to @tapa_to and the jury, puuuuurrrfect host @ryanghinds, and to our dreamy community for an incredible evening... our wee hearts are very full 💜💙💚💛🧡❤🤍

#Quartet has been nominated for a #Dora! Thank you so much to our incredible Producer/Other Hearts Founding member @y.k_kong, Co-Producer @aarrow/@video_cabaret, to our fantastic Stage Manager/Assistant Director @dontbemeek, to @tapa_to and the jury, and to our fellow nominees and audience... we are beyond thrilled!

These people... I can't believe we are closing this beautiful beast of a work today. It has been been a long and beautiful journey, and I can't imagine anyone else who would have joined me for it So some thankyous: @antmomm , whose incredible designs made concrete what had only whispered @y.k_kong who put so much love and care into producing this impossible ask @dontbemeek who served this work in every imaginable capacity. It truly wouldn't have been possible otherwise @aarrow and @video_cabaret , who gave this work the most perfect home I could imagine @coopershoots who captured this work of many years with a brilliant eye @eltoroburlesque , the perfect marriage of a million disciplines and desires, no one could have held Valmont or the vision or the various cameras better And @all.is.to.be.dared , you perfect mad creature, who held me together, who held the show together, who held this impossible task and asked for more: Mertueile is yours, as am I, forever

The reviews are in! "Quartet is the sort of daring underground work Toronto could use more of..." from Next Magazine We're on hiatus until Wednesday. We must close on the 21st, go get your tix! Link to the review below, or via the Other Hearts linktr.ee https://nextmag.ca/review-see-quartet-at-videocabaret-if-you-like-the-weird-stuff/#:~:text=Quartet's%20atmosphere%20is%20intoxicating.,is%20enrapturing%20yet%20somewhat%20stagnant.

How about a little tete a tete? After a wonderful opening weekend, we'll be following our 4pm matinee tomorrow with a q and a about the show, the text and our process Get your tix via the OtherHearts linktree, our website, or dm me if you have any questions #wemakeotherarts #quartet #experimentaltheatre #indietheatretoronto

Come on down to the bunker... we have a limited preview on Thursday, January 11th for #quartet. Dm us for details, and don't miss the sexiest, strangest and gender fuckiest show of the season, running the to the -21st @deannetaylortheatre