One Week Until Kisses!

That’s right! There’s just one week left until our Kisses Fundraiser for Stop Kiss! With an amazing team of local artists ready to delight, as well as some very special presentations from the Stop Kiss team, this will be an amazing evening!

Click here for the Facebook event!

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Happy International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

It is sad that such a day is necessary, but a wonderful thing if it can be used to initiate change.

“up to 70% of women will experience violence in their lifetime” – truly unacceptable.

Read more at: https://www.un.org/en/events/endviolenceday/

As we prepare to produce Stop Kiss, which explores themes of violence and love, we are thinking very much of the victims of such violence. For an explanation as to why we think Stop Kiss is so important story to tell in Saskatoon, please visit:

https://embracetheatre.ca/upcoming/stop-kiss/

Tonight is the night!

Our Famous Love Stories Costume Party Fundraiser will kick off in just over 3 hours!

It will be a wonderful night of dancing with a photobooth, mad lib love poetry and more!

Prizes have also been donated by The Broadway Theatre, Mawson Health and Fitness, State and Main, O’Sheas Irish Pub, The Yard and Flagon, and Museo Coffee.

It will be an amazing evening! See you all at Louis at 8pm tonight!

Love Stories Costume Party Fundraiser

This event will be a tonne of fun! We’re raising money for our production of Stop Kiss and we’re going to have a blast doing it!

Dress as your favourite love story (real or fictional), and come dance all night long! We’ll have a costume contest with prizes for the best individual and couples’ costume, mad lib love poetry, a photobooth, dancing, and more!

Wednesday, October 9th, 8pm, Louis’ Pub (U of S Campus)

For the Facebook event click here!

Saskatoon and Area Theatre Award Nomination

Embrace Theatre received exciting news on Sunday: the ensemble of Bottome’s Dreame was nominated for a Saskatoon and Area Theatre Award for Achievement in Sound Design. Apparently the original soundscapes created live by our ensemble impressed the jurors!

Embrace Theatre’s founding director, Charlie Peters, was also nominated for a SATAward for Outstanding Emerging Artist.

The Gala will take place on Monday, September 30th at 8pm at The Refinery (the same theatre where Embrace will produce Stop Kiss by Diana Son in March, 2014).