This is not an attempt to elbow, or “claw” our way into Toronto’s Indie theatre landscape. This is a label for the art we make that won’t make us rich. It’s an attempt at a bat signal to other artists who just need a place, a purpose, or people. We are enablers of art for art’s sake: existing as proof that we care enough about life to imagine it in a better, more purposeful way. This is a home for the centuries of theory on connection and artifice, and the equal opportunity to contradict or disregard it entirely. We want to create a privilege for underserved artists; the same liberation that a financial stockbroker carries around in their pocketbook. By creating this space and common ground for the creation of theatre, we are slowly clawing our way to having the same opportunities and quality of life as a citizen in this city who is… a little more valued by capitalism. This is our work. Artwork is work! Stock brokers need their Bay Street office buildings to do their jobs, we need this company and your ongoing support. The theories and canon that we attempt to confront and recontextualize have only been immortalized because they were funded. We can’t do your taxes, but we can remind you of what the world could be like with better systems, or with no systems at all. We have big, auspicious ideas the same way an executive boardroom does, but we’re young, broke, female, and/or queer. We as artists ask that you grant us the permission to unapologetically invade and reclaim a culture that has attempted to subdue us entirely.

(written by maggie)