DIY Theatre

🎭 Let OUR audience become YOUR audience! 🎭

With prominent logo placement depending on your sponsorship level, our theatre audience could turn into your new customer! DIY Theatre is gearing up for an amazing new season and we're on the lookout for sponsors to join our journey. 🌟

Partner with us and become a key part of bringing innovative, thought-provoking performances to our community. Whether you're a business looking to increase visibility or an individual who loves to support the arts, we have sponsorship packages tailored just for you.

Benefits include eye-catching logo placement, VIP tickets, exclusive rehearsal access, and more! 🎟️✨ Let's collaborate and make this season one to remember!

Interested? Drop us a message or email at [email protected]. Let's make magic happen together! 🌟

🎭✨ Passionate about the arts? Love theatre? Here's your chance to make a difference! DIY Theatre is on the lookout for enthusiastic individuals to join our volunteer board. 🌟

As a board member, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of our vibrant theatre community. Whether you're a seasoned theatre aficionado or just love supporting local arts initiatives, we welcome your unique perspective and skills. 🎨💼

Join us in championing creativity and fostering a welcoming space for all. Drop us a message or click the link below if you're interested or know someone who might be!
https://www.diytheatre.org/get-involved

Let's build something magical together! 🌟🎭

🎭 Calling all supporters of the arts! 🎭

Are you passionate about fostering creativity and community through theatre? DIY Theatre is on the lookout for sponsors for our 2024/2025 season to help us bring engaging and thought-provoking performances to our audience!

As a grassroots theatre company, we thrive on creativity, collaboration, and inclusivity. With your sponsorship, you'll be directly contributing to the vibrant cultural tapestry of our community while gaining exposure to our diverse audience.

From supporting our productions to sponsoring specific elements like set design, costumes, or venue rental, there are numerous ways to get involved and make a meaningful impact.

If you're interested in partnering with us to support local talent and bring inspiring stories to life, send us a message or email at [email protected]. Let's create something unforgettable together! 🌟

We would like to take this time to acknowledge and thank Alberta Foundation for the Arts! 🎉 👏

We recently received operational funding from them to help support the day to day and growing operations of DIY Theatre!

Thank you so much AFA!

We are shining the light on our amazing volunteers for National Volunteer Week! 🎉

We want to give a huge shoutout and thank you to our volunteer board members, ushers, bartenders and everyone who has ever volunteered for DIY Theatre!

Theatre is about community and without our amazing volunteer community, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do. 🎭

THANK YOU! 💕

🎭 🌎 Happy World Theatre Day! 🎭 🌎

Today we are celebrating the importance, value and immense benefit theatre has on society and our lives! 🤩

Thank you to our board of directors, fellow creators, performers, production teams, supporters and of course audience members who passionately advocate and show up for DIY Theatre, we wouldn’t be here without all of you!

This World Theatre Day we would especially like to thank Alberta Theatre Foundation for the Arts for recently awarding a grant to DIY Theatre! This will go a long way towards supporting our artistic endeavours.

If you are feeling generous this World Theatre Day, we are currently fundraising for our next show, Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy by Kate Hamill. Click here to donate ➡️ https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/diy-theatre-society/

If you want to make an even bigger impact, message us about our sponsorship opportunities!

📸: Alexander James Slobodian

DIY Theatre is Female Founded. DIY Theatre is Female Run. DIY Theatre is proudly Feminist and today we are celebrating International Women's Day! ♀️ 🎉

We encourage you to take some time today to reflect on some of the inspiring female presenting & identifying women you have in your life and the amazing power you hold within YOURSELF! ✨

So, here's to all our women board members, colleagues, supporters and audience members! 🥳

"There are no limits to what we, as women, can accomplish." - Michelle Obama

With ONE day left until OPENING NIGHT, meet the creative team behind Bumbles's Big Christmas Adventure! 🎄

⛄️ Kaleigh Richards - Director
⛄️ Alexa Parker - Stage Manager
⛄️ Giana Chaalan - Assistant Stage Manager
⛄️ Shelby Reinitz - Music Director
⛄️ Alix Cowman - Sound Designer & Assistant Music Director
⛄️ Vanessa Taylor - Costume Designer

These folks have been busy as elves making sure everything you see & hear on stage is as full of Christmas Magic as possible!

Don’t miss out on Bumbles’ Big Christmas Adventure running December 21 to 24 at Bert Church Theatre in Airdrie!

Tix at: https://bit.ly/3Tn8ovW

The set was loaded into the the theatre with care, in hopes that Bumbles' Big Adventure soon would be there...

We are three days away from OPENING NIGHT and we'd like you to meet the incredible cast of Bumbles' Big Christmas Adventure!

🎁 Colleen Bishop - Bumbles
🎁 Rico Pfeiffer - Dave
🎁 Robin Mckittrick - Santa & Easter Bunny
🎁 Christian Daly - Tinkles & Magician
🎁 Shelby Reinitz - Bingles & Tooth Fairy
🎁 Linnea Laubenstein - Jingles & Magician's Assistant

Don’t miss out on Bumbles’ Big Christmas Adventure running December 21 to 24 at Bert Church Theatre in Airdrie!

Tix at: https://bit.ly/3Tn8ovW

Bumbles' Big Christmas Adventure opens on THURSDAY! 🎄

A big thank you to Kyle Gould from the On Staging Podcast who chatted with Bumbles' Big Christmas Adventure director Kaleigh Richards, Music Director Shelby Reinitz & Bumbles herself, Colleen Bishop! 🤩

So take a break from the Christmas music and listen to our conversation about Bumbles' Big Christmas Adventure! ➡️ https://bit.ly/3NqHKhF
Or wherever you get your podcasts!

🎟: https://bit.ly/3Tn8ovW

GIVING TUESDAY IS HERE! 🤩

Help us reach our goal of raising $7,000 today, any amount you can contribute goes a long way to helping our small but mighty theatre company. For those who already donated, thank you so much!

And as a thank you, when you donate $200 you can get your choice of a DIY Theatre baseball hat, coffee traveller, or tote bag! When you donate $300 you get ALL 3!

Donate now: https://bit.ly/DIYDonate

Photography by Rawd Almasoud. Pictured (Taylor's Version), a co-production with Baker Miller Pink featuring Chelsea Howell-Fellows, Grace Fedorchuk & Donna Ng.

There are so many ways you can give! Here is where you can donate to DIY:

⚫️ Canada Helps: https://bit.ly/DIYDonate
⚫️ Giving Tuesday: https://bit.ly/DIYTheatreGivingTues
⚫️ Directly through our website: https://www.diytheatre.org/donate-1

Don't forget that when you donate $200 you can get your choice of a DIY Theatre baseball hat, coffee traveller, or tote bag! When you donate $300 you get ALL 3!

When you give to DIY Theatre you can get a little something in return! ✨

When you donate $200 you can get your choice of a DIY Theatre baseball hat, coffee traveller, or tote bag!
When you donate $300 you get ALL 3! 🤩

Who says you don't get anything for being generous!

Donate now: https://bit.ly/DIYDonate

When you give to a small organization, charity, or in our case, theatre company, that donation goes directly to funding upcoming projects and most cases keeping the lights on and the company running.

When you donate to DIY, you will be helping us:
🎭 Rent rehearsal space
🎭 Costume our performers
🎭 Purchase props and set pieces
🎭 Continue to pay our performing artists and creative teams
🎭 Hire a publicist
🎭 Pay for marketing to grow our audience
🎭 Cover printing costs for our posters, handbills and programs
🎭 And so much more!

If you have ever attended a DIY Theatre performance and enjoyed the work that we do, please consider donating to us this Giving Tuesday. We would love to continue creating theatre for you!

Give us a chance to survive: https://bit.ly/DIYDonate

Giving Tuesday is 8️⃣ days away! 📆

We are calling on all of our generous friends & supporters to donate to DIY Theatre next Tuesday! We have a lot of goals we want to achieve and can only do it with your financial support.

Keep your eyes peeled to our page over the next few days as we announce our fundraising tiers and what you can get in return for your generous support (besides those warm, fuzzy feelings). 🥰

Can't wait until Giving Tuesday? Donate now! https://bit.ly/DIYDonate

🚨 FLASH AUDITION CALL 🚨
We are looking for performers for our upcoming production of Ingrid Hansen Smythe’s “Bumbles’ Big Christmas Adventure”, produced in partnership with Bert Church Theatre in Airdrie.

Synopsis
It's an exciting time in Santa's workshop as the elves get ready for Christmas day. Bumbles - the happy, snappy, never-nappy elf - is especially excited as he helps to make the toys and clean the workshop in preparation for Santa's big arrival. It's a thrill for elves and children alike when Santa arrives, and all is well until that fateful moment when Santa entrusts Bumbles with the all-important jar of Christmas magic. When everything goes awry it appears that Christmas is doomed, but Santa has confidence in Bumbles' ability to fix his mistake. The question is, can Bumbles get the magic back in time to save Christmas? Join Santa and his elves (plus the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy!) for a gripping adventure, in which Bumbles learns that the key to big success is found in just one little word - persist!

Roles to be Cast
(Actors ages 10 and up are invited to audition)
BUMBLES - an energetic, child-like elf — preferably good at tumbling/movement
DAVE - the wise-guy — a slightly cynical elf
SANTA + THE EASTER BUNNY
There is no age range set for these characters. If you think you can play an elf (or Santa), then you can audition! This show is a high energy show, which uses music, improvisation, and physical comedy.

Audition Requirements
For all roles, please prepare 32 bars of a musical theater song or Christmas carol, and a one minute comedic or TYA monologue. We are asking for video submissions for the auditions.

Performance Dates are December 21st to 24th, 2023
Actors will receive an honorarium of $900.00 for their work. Rehearsals will take place in Calgary Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Performances will be at Bert Church Theatre in Airdrie.

Please submit your headshot and resume to [email protected] for casting consideration. Submissions will close Saturday, October 14, auditions are due Monday, October 16. Successful applicants will be contacted with video audition information.

Is Taylor Tuesday a thing? We think it should be a thing. 💋

We are taking a look back at some of our favourite moments from (Taylor's Version). Thank you to all that came out to support this fun, heartfelt, powerful, and of course, Taylor Swift filled show! 💕

💜 Choreographer/Director - Samantha Ketsa
💜 Playwright/Director - Cayley Wreggitt
💜 Stage Manager - Megan Jovie
💜 Apprentice Stage Manager - Olivia Dunow
💜 Production Designer - Nicole Logan
💜 Sound Designer - Joy Robinson
💜 Callie - Chelsea Howell-Fellows
💜 Josie - Grace Fedorchuk
💜 Abigail - Donna Ng

📸 Photography by Rawd Almasoud

3️⃣ SHOWS LEFT! 🤯

Audiences are RAVING about (Taylor's Version)! You don't want to be the one that misses out, do you?

🎟: https://bit.ly/3sc3GFI

📸: Lizzie Rajchel

We are a few hours from night #2 of (Taylor's Version) and we have some amazing reviews to share with you! 🎭

"...I had an absolute blast watching the show. Definitely a fun night out." - A L Couch, Calgary Critic (https://calgarycritic.wordpress.com/author/mxalc/)

"... this production is a must see." - Kyle Gould, On Staging podcast (S2,E7 - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5RbjX4xy9qln8v0PCgQsXj?si=7dea1ec54e97477b&nd=1)

With only 4 performances left, you don't want to miss out! Get your tickets right here ➡ https://bit.ly/3sc3GFI

✨ IT'S OPENING NIGHT! ✨

It's finally here! (Taylor's Version) opens tonight at Big Secret Theatre! 🎶
Congratulations to the entire cast & creative team for their incredibly hard work getting to this point, we can't wait to show you the magic! 🤩

🎟: https://bit.ly/3sc3GFI

We're (not so) patiently waiting for opening night happening TOMORROW NIGHT! 🤩

You'll find us counting down the hours until we release this From The Vault version of (Taylor's Version) for your viewing pleasure! 👀

Come on now, get those tickets! What are you waiting for?! https://bit.ly/3sc3GFI

"It's not all glitter gel pen lyrics & shaking it off. There's some deeper stuff in there" 🎶

We are just a few days away from (Taylor's Version) opening! Part ode to female friendships, part Taylor Swift conspiracy theories, (Taylor’s Version) has something for non-Swifties and Swifties alike. 💕

🎟: https://bit.ly/3sc3GFI

(Taylor's Version) opens in 4 DAYS! 🤩

Kyle Gould from the On Staging Podcast sat down with (Taylor's Version) director & playwright Cayley Wreggitt and Sound Designer Joy Robinson to chat about the show & Taylor Swift! 🎙

Take a listen right here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3EHw2L5
Or wherever you get your podcasts!

🎟: https://bit.ly/3sc3GFI