COVID-19: Cultivating Creativity in a Time of Crisis

Springboard Performance, as always, is dedicated to the safety of its artists, audiences, and other members of our creative community. In our support of aesthetic risk-taking that challenges both artists and audiences with new ways of seeing, Springboard Performance is dedicated to working creatively within current circumstances with our focus on the near horizon. We are ever more (com)passionately resolute that community health includes the need to connect, exchange, and create in communion with others in safe ways that take into account current physical needs.

Due to COVID-19 and the need for social distancing, Springboard Performance’s operations team is working remotely, and we remain active and digitally engaged with our community and partners. All of Springboard’s in-person events that require physical gathering have been postponed. We are working on plans to revive our activities and programs as soon as it is safe to do so and are working to reimagine viable platforms for connection.

We continue to work optimistically, and with the understanding that our programming needs to be responsive to the Government of Canada and provincial health recommendations. All decisions for realizing events will be made with the safety and wellbeing of everyone that participates in activations as the highest priority.

We hope to resume programming this summer with safe events at the containR Art Park, a large, outdoor space to support aesthetic risk without compromising physical health and look forward to realising plans for the Fluid Fest and educational programming in the early fall.

We look forward to resuming our public activities when it is safe to do so and, in the meantime, we encourage you to create, lead, and inspire in the face of adversity.