Blyth Festival Young Company

The Young Company has been an important part of the Blyth Festival for over forty years. It offers young people from Huron/Perth a chance to create their own performance piece in collaboration with each other and professional artists.

This program accepts 20 young people (ages 13-19) every year and is TOTALLY FREE!

Young Company Program 2023

This year’s program has three parts:

Part 1: Preparatory Workshops

These sessions offer a variety of skills that the Company will build on in the longer two-week intensive in August. Taking all three workshops is recommended but not essential.

Saturday, May 13th 11am-3pm
Topic: What the heck is collective creation?!

Saturday, June 3rd noon -3pm
Topic: Movement and Dance Workshop

Saturday, July 8th 11am-3pm
Topic: Designing for Theatre with Blyth Festival costume designer, Jennifer Triemstra-Johnston

Part 2: August Intensive

Monday, August 14 – Friday, August 18 10am-4pm

and

Monday, August 21 to Friday, August 25 10am-4pm

Over the course of 10 days, the Young Company and their mentors will work together to build a piece of theatre using collective creation. In past years the Young Company has created theatre experiments about climate change, selfie culture and local ghost stories. Each season the Young Company decides the theme of the show and how they are going to tell it.