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CURRENT PROJECTS

Bad Poetry : Live in [your town]!

Onstage Spring 2025

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performers Jessie Garon, Sara Porter | photo by Fran Chudnoff

Bad Poetry is a Thing of Delight!

It's not something you should try to get right

But if you feel you really must do it

I've organized something to help you get through it...​

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Bad Poetry:

Live in [your town]!

It's a dance piece.

It's a support group.

It's a worldview.

performers Jessie Garon, Sara Porter | photo by Fran Chudnoff

​​Bad Poetry : Live in [your town]!  is a full evening event that incorporates set and improvised material, created and performed by professional dancers and musicians. The event provides an open forum for poetic play, between audience and live performing artists​​.​

performers Jessie Garon, Sara Porter | photo by Fran Chudnoff

Sara discovers meaning in a poetic foot. 

Jessie explores the power of cognition

Created with support from

The Toronto Arts Council

Production in Development

Hello Sunshine!

Sara Porter is developing a new memoir-based solo about living with sun allergy. 

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Working with long time collaborator Katherine Duncanson, and bio-artist Elaine Whittaker, lighting designer Rebecca Picherack, Sara explores grief, absurdity, science and bikinis in a new work about Polymorphous Light Eruption and living her life in the shade. Sound design by Stephen Joffe. 

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This project is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

 

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photography of Sara Porter by Omer Yukseker

Thank you to Dr Sally Ibbitson and Dr Ewan Eadie at Ninewells Hospital Photodermatology Unit in Dundee, Scotland where she undertook research into PMLE and its treatment.

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