Eyes on Beginnings: Spring 2026

Saturday March 14, 2026
2:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Doors open at 1:30 PM
at the Winchester Street Theatre Winchester Street Theatre , 80 Winchester Street (VIEW MAP)

Accessibility Info: Unfortunately the Winchester Street Theatre is not currently wheelchair accessible. There are three steps outside of the front entrance, a small platform, and then three more steps to the lobby (a straight hallway that then leads you to the theatre). To access the private gender-neutral restrooms, there are five additional steps at the end of the lobby. The seats in the theatre are on risers with stairs; please contact info@tdt.org if you have any questions regarding accessing our space.

Spring 2026 Edition

It is always an inspiring moment when a new creative idea sparks, and with our Works-In-Progress Series, you can be in the studio where it happens. Occurring once in the fall and spring, Toronto artists have the chance to share 10 minutes of new material followed by a facilitated audience feedback session. Come to discover fresh choreographic propositions and play an important role in the development of artistic works in our community by offering your perspectives!

This is a free event, RSVP is recommended.

Featured Artists: Brigita Gedgaudas, lo bil, Siwar Soria with collaborator Driftnote

Artist Participants

Photo by Mia Czartoryski

Brigita Gedgaudas

Brigita Gedgaudas is an emerging protean, trans*, diasporic-Lithuanian artist working in so-called Toronto weaving together a life-long engagement in Lithuanian folk culture and training in Punking/Whacking/Waacking, vertical dance, and new media art techniques. Reconciling the dissonance between their restrictive cultural and expansive gender identity, Brigita’s work finds home in glitching as a generative error to imagine a future-queer-Lithuanian tradition. Trans*muting between the physical/human and the digital/alien, Brigita explores the abject — embodying the everything-nothing potentials of voids.

Working rhizomatically, Brigita’s speculations have been screened/exhibited/performed at FADO, The Bentway, F-O-R-M, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, T.Q.F.F., Whippersnapper Gallery, SummerWorks and more. An artist in-between, Brigita has worked with Hercinia Arts Collective, Chimerik 似不像, PriXm, and more in myriad capacities ranging from designer, collaborator, artistic associate, programmer etc. They are continuously building relations as if building charges between electrons before a lightning strike.

Photo by Francesca Chudnoff

lo bil

A second-generation Canadian born in Toronto/Tkaronto, Dish with One Spoon Territory, thankful to the Indigenous people who stewarded this land before colonization.

I am a cis-queer Interdisciplinary artist working with movement, object relations, language, and the energy between things. My performances generate intuitive research and unique responsive behaviors through spontaneous utterance, impulse-based scores, unexpected humor, and inter-relational proposals with audiences.

I have an MFA from OCADU, was awarded the FADO Live Art Award at Summerworks 2015 and a Kathy Acker Award in 2019. I teach Performance-based Art at Sheridan College, facilitate independent workshops, and am part of the nomadic performance art venue Scrape.

I have performed at festivals including 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, LEGS, Rhubarb! and Nuit Blanche; and at conferences including Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro (Mexico), Performance Philosophy (Amsterdam), Northwestern University (Chicago), Canadian Association of Theatre Research and Sick Theories Conference at the University of Toronto.

https://lobil.art/

Siwar Soria

Siwar Soria (pay/they/he) is a dancer, multi-disciplinary artist and personal support worker. Through his tata, he is Andean from the Charcas province in Norte Potosi in what is currently known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Through their mother, they are of Irish and Slovakian settler descent. He enjoys practicing and learning the regional differences of the Quechua language and tries to keep up in conversation with his abuelita, Margarita. His work aims to question western frameworks of the gender binary, by prioritizing indigenous perspectives on recovering sexual and gender diversities to make room for his own “deviances”. They have completed residencies in Whitehorse, YT (the Heart of Riverdale) and in Oaxaca, Mexico (Pocoapoco) and have presented work in CAMINOS 2021 produced by Aluna Theatre. They are one of the 2024 recipients of the Buddies in Bad Times Queer Emerging Artists Award alongside Jessica Zepeda and Isi Bhakhomen.