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CURRENT PROJECTS
Bad Poetry : Live in [your town]!
Onstage Spring 2025
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...​
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.
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.