Merch

1. Choose: Take home a piece made by a student or another participant.
2. Make a Digital Donation to support the cause.
3. Get Creative: Join us and craft your own.
4. Contribute: Add your creation to our collection for others.

Join us in supporting the next generation of artists!

The event is being recorded, filmed and/or streamed. 

Isabelle Sain is an artist whose work delves into the sensory experiences of body and space, exploring how these interactions shape our understanding of the world. By creating experimental wearable objects, textiles, and interactive sculptures, Isabelle seeks to represent the tactility of these experiences and examine human interaction within physical, political, social, and spiritual contexts.

Isabelle earned her BFA in Textiles and Fashion from NSCAD University. Her work has been showcased in exhibitions across Toronto, Halifax, and Copenhagen. Isabelle has also engaged in research projects on the future of fashion with KEA University and collaborated with brands and organisations such as Samsøe & Samsøe, Fashion Revolution, and Threading Change. Her art practice emphasises developing textile-based design processes and solutions that promote a more environmentally and socially conscious industry.

Nadia Ross is the 2016 recipient of the Siminovitch Prize, Canada’s most prestigious prize in Theatre. She has also been awarded a Contra-Guy Award, a Dora Mavor Moore Award (ensemble), and is a co-winner of the Chalmers’ award. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals in Canada and across four continents. Ross has chosen to create her work on the periphery:  born, raised and returned to the rural Outaouais region of Quebec, Ross often engages the residents of her small town as inspiration for STO Union’s national and international touring productions. Recognized for her fierce vision, Ross’ projects consistently challenge what we think a stage is and what kinds of stories are being told on it. Under Ross’ direction, the company produces completely unique creations bringing together amateurs and professionals, rural and urban, anglophone and francophone, and a kaleidoscope of art forms to create public experiences that resonate with realness and intimacy.

HARRI THOMAS (they/them) is a Trans/nonbinary, multi-disciplinary live artist working as a director, dramaturg and performance maker, as well as mixology and visual arts. Their work is driven by a curiosity around the possibilities of hybrid performance forms, and is especially devoted to marginalized histories, the inventive use of bodies and objects, and the performance of memory. They are a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Directing program, and a founding member of Other Hearts. www.otherhearts.ca

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STO Union is an award-winning company that was founded by Nadia Ross.  This artist-driven company aspires to understand how the arts are changing and to share insights about these fundamentals transformations in creative and engaged ways. Founded in 1993, the company has produced prolifically and has shared live productions, videos, and other types of creations at theatres, galleries, festivals and other types of live and digital places around the world. Projects connect artists of all levels of experience and engage all art forms to create public experiences that resonate with realness and intimacy. Projects come in many sizes, from larger mainstage touring shows or large community collaborations to much smaller intimate black box performances or small community engaged actions. STO Union is located in the Outaouais region in western Quebec on unceded Algonquin territory.