NEWS & EVENTS

HHG is partnering with the Ottawa Fringe to produce New Play Tuesday at the 2025 Undercurrents festival. This year, NPT will feature 4 excerpts of new texts, at least one in each official language, read to an audience by professional actors, followed by a discussion with the playwrights. NPT will be at Arts Court on Feb 11 2025!More Details:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1thOSLpbu–YgvT-3jtr-p2VNWg9Nw7xhRFA1r2zDBGY/edit?usp=sharingTo Submit: https://forms.gle/hGYQ7sVMmk3h1R9TA

MEDIA RELEASE                                                                                           June 24th 2024 $32,000 Ontario Government Grant Supports Theatre Creation in Ottawa Ottawa, ON – On Monday, June 24, local MPP Lucille Collard met with artists from 5 projects supported by Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (HHG) to hear more about how the $32,000 Resilient Communities Grant from the provincial government’s Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) that was used to help HHG seek stable funding and support Ottawa’s theatre artists in creating new work. The project has allowed HHG […]

Our Artistic Director Mary Ellis is working with Vishesh Abeyratne during a week-long workshop and stage reading of his text The Agony Market. We are hosting a staged reading on October 28th. Vishesh submitted The Agony Market to our open call for projects last summer, and his critique of capitalism and Canadian industry’s complicity in war is compelling and highly relevant. You can get your tickets on Eventbright.