MT Space 24.25 Season Launch

Name: MT Space 24.25 Season Launch
Start: 2024-08-13T18:30:00-0400
End: 2024-08-13T21:00:00-0400
Location: TWH Social, located within the Walper Hotel

Tue, 13 Aug, 6:30pm - 9pm EDT

TWH Social, located within the Walper Hotel

kitchener, canada

MT Space

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Event description

Our Presenting Series Returns!

Celebrate 20 years of MT Space with us at our 24.25 season launch! We will share a short presentation on all the upcoming works we have. Enjoy light refreshments as you flip through our programme and chat with some of the artists that make it all possible.

We hope you can join us in celebrating the work our visionary founding Artistic Director Majdi Bou-Matar started 20 years ago. Together, our stories can transform our spaces into meaningful community.

MT Space’s effort to create a community of difference is deepening this 24.25 season. Our now 20-year mission to hold space for marginalized artists and their definition-defying work continues even bolder. Help us celebrate this milestone alongside exciting performances, workshops, events and more.

It’s the return of our presenting series, featuring seven amazing works from across Canada and right here in Waterloo Region that explore and celebrate interculturalism. We invite you all to join us for an evening preview of the work to come!

Doors open at 6:30 P.M. Season presentation at 7 P.M.

This is a free event, but space is limited. Please RVSP to secure your spot!

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About the Venue

Our 24.25 Season Launch event is being held in Downtown Kitchener at TWH Social (1 King St W, Kitchener, ON N2G 1A3), located within the Walper Hotel building.

Kitchen will be open. There will be a cash bar available with alcoholic and non-alcoholic options.

Paid Parking is available at Charles & Benton Garage (4 Charles St E, Kitchener) and at the Ontario St/Charles St Parking Lot.

You can find a map of all City Of Kitchener paid parking lot options here.

GRT via the ION (route 301) or by bus route (3, 4, 6, 7, 8)

Accessibility

The Walper Hotel Main Lobby is accessible via a ramp on Queen Street. Or if you prefer, enter via their 1 King Street entrance. At times, this entrance may be locked, but the Front Desk Team is available to meet you anytime. Just give the hotel a call at (519) 745-4321.

Elevators connect all floors of the hotel, including TWH Social.

Wheelchair accessible seating and washrooms are available.

ASL interpretation will be available for the evening.

Notice of Photography:

Our event might involve snapping photos, recording audio, and shooting videos. By joining us, you're giving us the green light to share, publish, display, or make copies of these recordings. If you have any worries, just let our friendly photographer know – they're here to help!

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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MT Space brings different communities together to create a community of difference

MT Space was created to centralize marginalized and racialized artists and stories, to fill what seems to be a great void in a community of many different peoples.

MT Space (Multicultural Theatre Space) was founded in 2004 by Lebanese-Canadian Majdi Bou-Matar, who was a trained director, actor, and dancer. Majdi relocated to Canada when his wife was accepted to University of Waterloo to pursue a PhD. Thinking that Majdi would continue his career in Canada as a multi-talented artist, he auditioned with various theatre companies in Southern Ontario. After receiving the same criticism over and over, hearing that his accent was too thick or that he “didn’t look the part”, Majdi decided to create a company that would become a platform for all artists that felt marginalized, racialized, and displaced. This is how MT Space was born.

For the past 20 years, MT Space has been fulfilling its mandate by creating, producing, touring, and presenting artistic work that reflects Canada’s cultural diversity. Since 2004, MT Space has become a conduit for internationally trained immigrants and newcomer professionals across all disciplines. In July 2016, Pam Patel – who had been an artistic associate with MT Space since 2008 and mentored with Majdi – stepped into the role of Artistic Director and looks forward to ushering the organization into its next decade of powerful artistic work, bringing with her a South Asian background and Canadian upbringing.

MT Space has grown from being a company that produces one show every year to an organization that brings culturally and socially relevant work from across the country and around the world to our community of Kitchener-Waterloo. We have challenged the preconceptions of theatre to create, produce, and present work that is accessible and affordable to low-income families while creating a space for Indigenous, immigrant, refugee, and marginalized voices to be heard.

MT Space challenges the definition of theatre to include all disciplines such as dance, music, multimedia, and circus performing arts. As such, MT Space is becoming a presenter of artists and arts organizations across many disciplines.

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