Nightwood Team

This Monday we share the first statutory holiday since the second wave began in Ontario, and we recognize that celebrating a holiday that is embraced by many as a moment to give thanks and share in the abundance of harvest while in the midst of a destabilizing pandemic can feel… challenging. Whether you hold Thanksgiving …

Chalk it up to the draw of the calendar, or to our deep systemic conditioning, but something about September can incite a craving for freshly sharpened pencils and big ideas. While this time of social distancing has certainly had many of us questioning the toxic hyper-productivity of the “before time”, there is something that feels …

The globe has experienced a collective wake up and feminists are expressing a call to lead the way to a re-imagined future. Please click here to view our Social Distancing Care Package for week twenty-three.

What is the best way to go about education during a global pandemic? How do we even talk about it outside of facts and recommendations? How do we really discuss it without delving deeply into fear or swinging too far into willful blindness? As a company led by two mothers of school-aged children, contending with …

2020 has brought a great deal of sudden, immense change. There is the feeling of a massive paradigm shift as we challenge the way the world has operated and what we have prioritized up until now. This kind of tidal change is unstoppable and innately incites growth. It demands that we keep up. It is …

We are living in a time of tremendous energy and vital action. We are emboldened by the Black Lives Matter movement and though much of the world pushes to resume life as it was before the pandemic, we must remain vigilant in our desire for social justice and to prioritize human safety and dignity. Endurance …

This time of social distancing has asked us to live so outside of the well-worn grooves of “normal life” that it has transformed our expectations of what can and cannot be done. Please click here to view our Social Distancing Care Package for week fifteen.

Revolution Many of us across the globe are in the midst of confronting, challenging, tearing down and re-imagining the oppressive systems that have allowed racism to thrive. It is painful, overwhelming, immediate and vital. Many are listening and change is happening. Please click here to view our Social Distancing Care Package for week thirteen.

A Message to Artists from Nightwood’s Artistic Director We held a gathering last week for all of the artists associated with this past season’s productions – it ended up being about a twenty person Zoom-gathering with friends from our casts, creative and production departments. And we just checked in one by one. Some of us …