Soundscaper and Deep Soulstirrer Catsilk Mountain spins up with Psychedelic Video Projection Artist B. A. Miale for an out-of-the-galaxy, extra-sensory evening like no other you’ve experienced on Earth.

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Soundscaper and Deep Soulstirrer Catsilk Mountain spins up with Psychedelic Video Projection Artist B. A. Miale for an out-of-the-galaxy, extra-sensory evening like no other you’ve experienced on Earth.

Writer-composer Rima Fand and puppet master Erin Orr are developing “A Fishing Line Sings” a new shadow puppet play about fish, and fishing, and what we fish for. Work in progress presentation at NACL, August 9th at 7:30pm.

North American Cultural Laboratory invites you to sit in on the creative process with The Hinterlands, from Detroit, as they share their nearly completed work-in-progress, “Sunset: A Techno Elegy,” a modern take on the story of Orpheus.

Shed your winter skin and re-ignite your vernal flame through LUMINESCENCE at NACL, an immersive sensory experience, that begins with a centering sound bath and spirals to an illuminated “dance-state” of ecstatic awareness.

On Friday, November 22nd, NACL presents a staged reading (with music and dance) of a new work-in-progress by Camille Thomas, titled “Sweet Blood.” “Sweet Blood” focuses on three free Black Maroon/Taino women in Jamaica 1727 struggling to thrive in a world that will soon endure hundreds of years of chattel slavery due to the emerging […]

God Is In Your Typewriter is a new work in development created by BREAD member artist and NACL Director of Artist Experience, Lyndsey Anderson. BREAD Arts Collective members join Lyndsey at NACL to present the first workshop of God Is In Your Typewriter, a dramatized glimpse into the lives of the Confessional poets and novelists […]

Jane Wells is an actor, writer, and director based in Toronto. She describes How to Live with Dread as “a show about family, about death, and about the work of creation… But in a fun way!” Having recently lost her brother Ker (who directed and performed in numerous NACL original productions), she grapples in this […]

MIGRATIONS – Long Story Short & Dutch Kills Theater This wordless play with original sound design explores journeys of displacement and migration. It is drawn from interviews with displaced people and personal stories of the international performance collective. It is performed in ‘Larval Masks’ (a folk tradition from Switzerland) which portray human characters in the “state […]