Event Info
SmartSmart
Presented by the Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA) 2024
3:00pm
$20–$25
Event Description
SmartSmart
By Adrienne Wong
Take your phone to the theatre! Join Adrienne Wong for coffee, crafts, storytelling, and surprises. Leave your phone on.
SmartSmart combines audience participation and a modular script where the storytelling is predetermined, but the order is improvised based on you, the audience. The experience is a meditation on mediation.
Smartphones are one of many ‘modifications’ humans make to themselves in the name of advancement. Early cybernetic devices have ranged from contact lenses to cochlear implants. Now haptics on our phones remind us to drink water, notifications urge us to get enough sleep, and our senses are extended by a web of computers accessible from the pocket-sized terminals we tuck under our pillows at night. This is a new work that explores pervasive media and our relationships to our devices, how they extend our senses, and affect our relationships with other humans and ourselves.
Ways to Watch
IN PERSON: Friday, June 14th at 7:00pm ET or Saturday, June 15th at 3:00pm ET.
LIVESTREAM: Friday, June 14th at 7:00pm ET
Please note Saturday’s performance of SmartSmart is a family-friendly relaxed performance. Audiences of all-ages are welcome! All in-person tickets for SmartSmart are JOINT TICKETS that include entry into LUCY AI!
Access Notes
Watch/Listen Party for Blind/Low Vision hosted online – Friday, June 14 from 6:45pm
ASL Interpretation – Saturday, June 15 at 3:00pm ET
Captions – Livestream – Friday, June 14 at 7:30pm ET online
Relaxed Environment – Noises, movement, devices, snacks permitted and a private space to relax in if you need it.
Service animals always welcome – Visual Guides available in person
Wheelchair Accessible Venue
Visit the FOLDA Access Table before you go into a show to borrow various accessibility supports, blankets, pillows, earplugs and other things to support your comfort.
For more information on Accessibility and Parking at our shows and venues, visit folda.ca/accessibility.
Contact FOLDA’s Access team to reserve seats, services or spaces.
For more info at access@spiderwebshow.ca / 1-877-FOLDA-24
Credits
Directed and Performed by: Adrienne Wong
Digital Designer: Andie Lloyd
Developer: Nicole Goertzen
Set Design: Barbara Clayden
Venue
Morton Way
Open / Operational
In-Person Event
Sat. June 15th 2024 + Add to Calendar
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
