Theatre Projects Manitoba invites you to join us for our first Art Party of the season!
When: August 19, 2025. 8:00pm – 10:00pm, doors at 7:30.
Where: Saddlery on Market, 114 Market Ave.
On August 19th, Theatre Projects Manitoba is partnering with We Quit Theatre and Cluster Festival to host a night of fun experimental performance and music to celebrate TPM’s upcoming production of The Only Good Indian by Pandemic Theatre, and WQT’s production GLORY!
Inspired by the intersection of personal and political themes that power both shows, Bodies Politic is an interdisciplinary Art Party featuring an interactive digital performance “The Offices That Are Yet to Come” by WQT and an original musical performance curated by Cluster Festival director Ashley Au.
Also featuring: Free refreshments, and cash bar throughout the night!
Tickets are $5 (or FREE for Season Pass Holders) and can be purchased at the door;
Advance tickets are on HERE and will close at 7:00pm day-of.
Bodies Politic
The Offices That Are Yet to Come
A come-and-go, come-as-you-are collective performance — in a Google Doc. We Quit Theatre hosts an existential office-work simulator where anonymous animals post links to their favourite YouTube videos and nobody can remember who wrote what. We are pleased to inform you that no experience is required and we look forward to seeing you on your first day at The Offices That Are Yet to Come.
An original music performance
In partnership with Cluster Festival, curated by Ashley Au. Artists TBA!
Free refreshments from Saddlery, sponsored by the Exchange District Biz, and cash bar open throughout the night!
Meet the Artists!
We Quit Theatre is a performance collaboration between transsexual artists Dasha Plett and Gislina Patterson. We are Canada-based, on Treaty 1 land aka Winnipeg, Manitoba. In a tradition of Winnipeg artists like Guy Maddin, Primus Theatre, or Venetian Snares, the art world has left us to our own devices, and in the absence of supervision, things have gotten weird. Dubbed “the hottest collective to come out of Winnipeg since the Royal Art Lodge” by Kelly Nestruck for the Globe and Mail, we’ve made quitting an art unto itself. We love to quit. We always do, and never will.
Founded in 2009, Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts is a small (but mighty!) annual festival consisting of concerts, installations, and workshops. Cluster is committed to the production and presentation of risk-taking, boundary-pushing, meaningful art of the highest integrity, with a focus on art created in the last five years. Cluster’s open and uniquely collaborative atmosphere encourages artists to create both as individuals and ad-hoc collectives, often producing unforeseen collaborations and surprising results. Cluster operates out of Treaty 1 Territory, home of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene peoples, and the national homeland of the Red River Métis.”