The Happiness Collectors need YOU! The world’s supply of happiness is running low, and your help is needed to top them up. Pop on your headphones and join The Happiness Collectors on a journey of sounds and silliness to learn the best ways to collect happiness – and most important of all, how to pass it on!
Each audience member will be given a set of wireless headphones to wear for the duration of the performance. There is one live performer known as SAM (Special Agent M), who is your Happiness Collector Instructor and will guide you through your Happiness Collector Training. The show is interactive and invites group audience participation as you visit the jungle, the Antarctic, New York City, a beach, an Olympic stadium and the circus.
The Audio Story Company originally developed Happiness Collectors with Tron Theatre. The Happiness Collectors is friendly for all neurodiverse people and families with children aged 5+
This experience is part of the free, outdoor events at #FestofAuthors22. The 20-minute event will take place in the South Lawn Tent at Harbourfront Centre. It is free to attend with registration. Find the venue on the #FestofAuthors22 map here.
TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.
Image by Eoin Carey & AMD Studios.
The Happiness Collectors need YOU! The world’s supply of happiness is running low, and your help is needed to top them up. Pop on your headphones and join The Happiness Collectors on a journey of sounds and silliness to learn the best ways to collect happiness – and most important of all, how to pass it on!
Each audience member will be given a set of wireless headphones to wear for the duration of the performance. There is one live performer known as SAM (Special Agent M), who is your Happiness Collector Instructor and will guide you through your Happiness Collector Training. The show is interactive and invites group audience participation as you visit the jungle, the Antarctic, New York City, a beach, an Olympic stadium and the circus.
The Audio Story Company originally developed Happiness Collectors with Tron Theatre. The Happiness Collectors is friendly for all neurodiverse people and families with children aged 5+
This experience is part of the free, outdoor events at #FestofAuthors22. The 20-minute event will take place in the South Lawn Tent at Harbourfront Centre. It is free to attend with registration. Find the venue on the #FestofAuthors22 map here.
TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.
Image by Eoin Carey & AMD Studios.
Meet storytellers from unique communities around the world and across the local neighbourhoods of Toronto in the World in Other Words. Bertsolaritza is the art of singing a spontaneous verse to different melodies in Basque is a thriving art form and an important oral tradition. With bertsolari schools and championships, the beloved discipline enraptures audiences in their thousands through the combination of poetry, humour and current affairs. Discover more and be enthralled through this captivating performance with music, singers poetry and more.
Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 28 at 6pm ET
Where: Brigantine Room in Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass
The Happiness Collectors need YOU! The world’s supply of happiness is running low, and your help is needed to top them up. Pop on your headphones and join The Happiness Collectors on a journey of sounds and silliness to learn the best ways to collect happiness – and most important of all, how to pass it on!
Each audience member will be given a set of wireless headphones to wear for the duration of the performance. There is one live performer known as SAM (Special Agent M), who is your Happiness Collector Instructor and will guide you through your Happiness Collector Training. The show is interactive and invites group audience participation as you visit the jungle, the Antarctic, New York City, a beach, an Olympic stadium and the circus.
The Audio Story Company originally developed Happiness Collectors with Tron Theatre. The Happiness Collectors is friendly for all neurodiverse people and families with children aged 5+
This experience is part of the free, outdoor events at #FestofAuthors22. The 20-minute event will take place in the South Lawn Tent at Harbourfront Centre. It is free to attend with registration. Find the venue on the #FestofAuthors22 map here.
TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.
Image by Eoin Carey & AMD Studios.
The Happiness Collectors need YOU! The world’s supply of happiness is running low, and your help is needed to top them up. Pop on your headphones and join The Happiness Collectors on a journey of sounds and silliness to learn the best ways to collect happiness – and most important of all, how to pass it on!
Each audience member will be given a set of wireless headphones to wear for the duration of the performance. There is one live performer known as SAM (Special Agent M), who is your Happiness Collector Instructor and will guide you through your Happiness Collector Training. The show is interactive and invites group audience participation as you visit the jungle, the Antarctic, New York City, a beach, an Olympic stadium and the circus.
The Audio Story Company originally developed Happiness Collectors with Tron Theatre. The Happiness Collectors is friendly for all neurodiverse people and families with children aged 5+
This experience is part of the free, outdoor events at #FestofAuthors22. The 20-minute event will take place in the South Lawn Tent at Harbourfront Centre. It is free to attend with registration. Find the venue on the #FestofAuthors22 map here.
TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.
Image by Eoin Carey & AMD Studios.
The Happiness Collectors need YOU! The world’s supply of happiness is running low, and your help is needed to top them up. Pop on your headphones and join The Happiness Collectors on a journey of sounds and silliness to learn the best ways to collect happiness – and most important of all, how to pass it on!
Each audience member will be given a set of wireless headphones to wear for the duration of the performance. There is one live performer known as SAM (Special Agent M), who is your Happiness Collector Instructor and will guide you through your Happiness Collector Training. The show is interactive and invites group audience participation as you visit the jungle, the Antarctic, New York City, a beach, an Olympic stadium and the circus.
The Audio Story Company originally developed Happiness Collectors with Tron Theatre. The Happiness Collectors is friendly for all neurodiverse people and families with children aged 5+
Due to weather conditions, this event will take place inside Harbourfront Centre in the South Bays.
TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.
Image by Eoin Carey & AMD Studios.
The Happiness Collectors need YOU! The world’s supply of happiness is running low, and your help is needed to top them up. Pop on your headphones and join The Happiness Collectors on a journey of sounds and silliness to learn the best ways to collect happiness – and most important of all, how to pass it on!
Each audience member will be given a set of wireless headphones to wear for the duration of the performance. There is one live performer known as SAM (Special Agent M), who is your Happiness Collector Instructor and will guide you through your Happiness Collector Training. The show is interactive and invites group audience participation as you visit the jungle, the Antarctic, New York City, a beach, an Olympic stadium and the circus.
The Audio Story Company originally developed Happiness Collectors with Tron Theatre. The Happiness Collectors is friendly for all neurodiverse people and families with children aged 5+
Due to weather conditions, this event will take place inside Harbourfront Centre in the South Bays.
TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.
Image by Eoin Carey & AMD Studios.
The Happiness Collectors need YOU! The world’s supply of happiness is running low, and your help is needed to top them up. Pop on your headphones and join The Happiness Collectors on a journey of sounds and silliness to learn the best ways to collect happiness – and most important of all, how to pass it on!
Each audience member will be given a set of wireless headphones to wear for the duration of the performance. There is one live performer known as SAM (Special Agent M), who is your Happiness Collector Instructor and will guide you through your Happiness Collector Training. The show is interactive and invites group audience participation as you visit the jungle, the Antarctic, New York City, a beach, an Olympic stadium and the circus.
The Audio Story Company originally developed Happiness Collectors with Tron Theatre. The Happiness Collectors is friendly for all neurodiverse people and families with children aged 5+
This experience is part of the free, outdoor events at #FestofAuthors22. The 20-minute event will take place in the South Lawn Tent at Harbourfront Centre. It is free to attend with registration. Find the venue on the #FestofAuthors22 map here.
TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.
Image by Eoin Carey & AMD Studios.
Poets from Ukraine, Toronto, and other parts of the world come together across borders and boundaries to present readings and reflections on each other’s poems as a catalyst for dialogue, healing, connection and community.
The Waste Land Project is a live, hybrid exchange to help frame a powerful, global discussion about some of the timeless themes of T.S. Eliot’s 100-year-old poem The Waste Land, including the impact of war on families and communities, environmental and societal collapse, colonial violence and pandemics.
Originally published in 1922, following the devastation of both WWI and the Spanish Flu, The Waste Land reflected the challenges of its time. With its clear present-day parallels, such as growing inequality, the war in Ukraine, the ongoing impact of the pandemic, and the ever-present threat of climate change, the poem resonates deeply with the challenges of the present moment.
This free, public event, presented by Theater of War Productions and Toronto International Festival Authors, will feature dramatic readings of selections from The Waste Land by prominent actors, followed by a group of poets, in person and on screen, reading poems in response to the poem, culminating in a guided audience discussion, facilitated by Bryan Doerries (Artistic Director, Theater of War Productions), aimed at cultivating healing, connection and community.
The Waste Land Project will feature readings by Madhur Anand (Canadian poet and professor of ecology and sustainability), A.F Moritz (poet laureate of Toronto), Erin Robinsong (poet and interdisciplinary artist), Kathleen Chalfant (award-winning actor), Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk (poet, translator, professor of Medieval Literature at Lyviv State University), Alex Averbuch (poet, translator) and Iryna Shuvalova (poet).
Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 25 at 4pm ET
Where: Harbourfront Centre Theatre & Online (via Zoom)
Duration: 90 minutes
This event is free to attend with registration.
This event is presented as part of the Here + There Project.
The Happiness Collectors need YOU! The world’s supply of happiness is running low, and your help is needed to top them up. Pop on your headphones and join The Happiness Collectors on a journey of sounds and silliness to learn the best ways to collect happiness – and most important of all, how to pass it on!
Each audience member will be given a set of wireless headphones to wear for the duration of the performance. There is one live performer known as SAM (Special Agent M), who is your Happiness Collector Instructor and will guide you through your Happiness Collector Training. The show is interactive and invites group audience participation as you visit the jungle, the Antarctic, New York City, a beach, an Olympic stadium and the circus.
The Audio Story Company originally developed Happiness Collectors with Tron Theatre. The Happiness Collectors is friendly for all neurodiverse people and families with children aged 5+
This experience is part of the free, outdoor events at #FestofAuthors22. The 20-minute event will take place in the South Lawn Tent at Harbourfront Centre. It is free to attend with registration. Find the venue on the #FestofAuthors22 map here.
TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.
Image by Eoin Carey & AMD Studios.