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<span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 105, 176); font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(41, 105, 176);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">Open Heart Surgery Theatre believes in fair wages to artists and sustainable practices in design.  Help make this happen! <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">We’re thrilled to announce our world premiere of <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">ERASED <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">happening this Fall 2024!  However, due to the precarious funding landscape in this country, we did not get our full funding from the arts councils to make this project possible – and so – we need your help to fill this gap if we’re going to make this project a success.  <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">ERASED,<span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit"> a new work by COLEEN SHIRIN MACPHERSON, is a thrilling, absurdist physical theatre piece that brings us into the uncanny world of a greeting card factory, where workers negotiate their relationship to a system of power only to learn that people are being "disappeared".  Set in a post-climate collapse landscape, it is a play that speaks to our addiction to production in late-capitalism and is a call to look deeper into the state of our planet and the structures that have entrapped us.  Credits for ERASED include: original music by AMY NOSTBAKKEN and movement direction by ALIX SIDERIS; set and lighting design by NICK BLAIS; sound design by RICHARD FEREN and costume design by JUNG IM.  ERASED is performed by SOCHI FRIED, ERICKA LEOBRERA, ROSE TUONG and 7 recent grads from York University as the CHORUS. <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit"> We are excited about creating a sustainable design for our production and will be working with York University to host two post-show talking circles with food and invited guests. <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">Fundamental to the performance is the CHORUS of the DISAPPEARED, a group of young people who represent the revolutionaries in the play. In April 2023, Open Heart Surgery Theatre worked with York University students to explore how the chorus could tell the story of a revolution in progress, and now, we’re bringing select interns and recent grad students from York to join our professional ensemble for <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">ERASED<span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">. This play cannot exist without the CHORUS, who are a group of female-identifying and gender non-conforming folx: the marginalized people whom the regime have consumed and erased for the system to function: dreamers, revolutionaries and thinkers.  <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">This is an ambitious piece, bringing together a large creative team of 18 performers, designers, and artists who are essential in bringing this story to life.  ERASED is an urgent call in a time of global crisis,, to imagine another possible future and to ignite our desire for a better world. <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">It’s important to us that we fairly compensate all the artists we work with, offering Equity and ADC rates. With this in mind, the total personnel cost of <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">ERASED <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">for a four week rehearsal process and two week run at a professional theatre in Toronto before costumes, set, and other costs is $99,482. And we are looking to you to help us raise one-quarter of this total amount.  <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(41, 105, 176); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(41, 105, 176);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">Help us create sustainable arts careers in Canada and bring our new generation artists onto the stage by donating today. <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">The first ten donations above $500 will receive a special gift of two tickets to the Opening Night of <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">ERASED<span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit"> in November 2024. If you would like a charitable tax receipt, please contact Callan Forrester before donating: callanforrester@gmail.com<span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">  <span fr-original-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">COLEEN MACPHERSON & OPEN HEART SURGERY THEATRE

Hi <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name, Thank you so much for your generous contribution. Thanks to you, we're one step closer to realizing the full vision of ERASED with an intergenerational ensemble of emerging and established artists. We can't wait to share ERASED with you this fall! Coleen MacPherson and the Open Heart Surgery Theatre team ohsurgerytheatre@gmail.com

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Open Heart Surgery Theatre believes in fair wages to artists and sustainable practices in design.  Help make this happen! We’re thrilled to announce our world premiere of ERASED happening this Fall 2024!  However, due to the precarious funding landscape in this country, we did not get our full funding from the arts councils to make this project possible – and so – we need your help to fill this gap if we’re going to make this project a success.  ERASED, a new work by COLEEN SHIRIN MACPHERSON, is a thrilling, absurdist physical theatre piece that brings us into the uncanny world of a greeting card factory, where workers negotiate their relationship to a system of power only to learn that people are being "disappeared".  Set in a post-climate collapse landscape, it is a play that speaks to our addiction to production in late-capitalism and is a call to look deeper into the state of our planet and the structures that have entrapped us.  Credits for ERASED include: original music by AMY NOSTBAKKEN and movement direction by ALIX SIDERIS; set and lighting design by NICK BLAIS; sound design by RICHARD FEREN and costume design by JUNG IM.  ERASED is performed by SOCHI FRIED, ERICKA LEOBRERA, ROSE TUONG and 7 recent grads from York University as the CHORUS.  We are excited about creating a sustainable design for our production and will be working with York University to host two post-show talking circles with food and invited guests. Fundamental to the performance is the CHORUS of the DISAPPEARED, a group of young people who represent the revolutionaries in the play. In April 2023, Open Heart Surgery Theatre worked with York University students to explore how the chorus could tell the story of a revolution in progress, and now, we’re bringing select interns and recent grad students from York to join our professional ensemble for ERASED. This play cannot exist without the CHORUS, who are a group of female-identifying and gender non-conforming folx: the marginalized people whom the regime have consumed and erased for the system to function: dreamers, revolutionaries and thinkers.  This is an ambitious piece, bringing together a large creative team of 18 performers, designers, and artists who are essential in bringing this story to life.  ERASED is an urgent call in a time of global crisis,, to imagine another possible future and to ignite our desire for a better world. It’s important to us that we fairly compensate all the artists we work with, offering Equity and ADC rates. With this in mind, the total personnel cost of ERASED for a four week rehearsal process and two week run at a professional theatre in Toronto before costumes, set, and other costs is $99,482. And we are looking to you to help us raise one-quarter of this total amount.  Help us create sustainable arts careers in Canada and bring our new generation artists onto the stage by donating today. The first ten donations above $500 will receive a special gift of two tickets to the Opening Night of ERASED in November 2024. If you would like a charitable tax receipt, please contact Callan Forrester before donating: callanforrester@gmail.com  COLEEN MACPHERSON &amp; OPEN HEART SURGERY THEATRE

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