NEWS & EVENTS

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.

HHG is thrilled to be supporting the workshop and staged reading of Sanita Fejzić’s new text Our Lives Inseparable. This beautiful script considers the effects of class difference in a time of escalating social and climatic crisis, and will be workshopped August 7 to 12th, with a stage reading at the GCTC’s Studio Theatre on August 12 at 4pm. Text by: Sanita FejzićDirected by : Manon St JulesRead by: Margo MacDonald, Dillon Orr, Caroline Reynaud, Puja UppalDramaturgy by: Eric Coates […]