2025 Festival of New Dance: Paratopias by Pratibha Arts/Bageshree Vaze with Big Steppers NL as curtain raiser
September 25 at 7:30PM, doors at 6:30PM
General: $25.00
Child/Youth: $10.00
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PARATOPIAS by Pratibha Arts/Bageshree Vaze
with Big Steppers NL as curtain raiser
85 minutes
Family friendly, hybrid dance forms, cultural integration, Indian, live music
“Paratopias”
by Pratibha Arts/Bageshree Vaze
Inspired by Bageshree Vaze’s origin story of learning Indian classical dance in St. John’s, NL, ‘Paratopias’ imagines alternate realities in dancemaking. […]
2025 Festival of New Dance: Fourfold Mixed Program TUFF, Sara Porter, Hilary Knee, Rooted Dance Projects
September 27 at 7:30PM, doors at 6:30PM
General: $25.00
Child/Youth: $10.00
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This mixed bill brings together a bold range of choreographic visions—from jazz-driven physicality to poetic solo performance, street-informed inquiry, and seasonal embodiment rooted in place. Featuring work by TUFF (Toronto), Sara Porter Productions (Toronto), Hilary Knee (Corner Brook), and Rooted Dance Projects (Halifax), this […]
2025 Festival of New Dance: Echoes and Embers a Double Bill of Tendrils by Ziyian Kwan and Firewater Thunderbird Rising by Christine Friday
October 3 at 7:30PM, doors at 6:30PM
General: $25.00
Child/Youth: $10.00
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An evening of ancestral echoes and radical presence. In this powerful double bill, two solo works move through memory, mentorship, and multidimensional realms of being. Christine Friday conjures fire, land, and legacy in a dreamlike journey through Anishinaabek cosmology. Ziyian Kwan weaves a poetic […]
2025 Festival of New Dance: Altération by Kira Arts
October 4 at 7:30PM, doors at 6:30PM
General: $25.00
Child/Youth: $10.00
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Altération by Kira Arts
60 minutes
How do our lives intertwine? How do we manage to form prosperous balances? What happens when they break down? “Alteration” addresses the transformations that punctuate our lives and our ability, as human beings, to influence both our own destiny and […]
Closed
The LSPU Hall is closed from August 25th – September 1st.
The Englishman’s B’hoy: Thomas Butler Gunn, Mose of the Bowery, and New York Mass Culture in the 1840s: A Latter-Day Lyceum Lecture by Andrew Loman
August 24 at 7:00PM
Free admission
Before the Thing first clobbered and the Hulk first smashed; before Superman out-sped his first bullet; before Ignatz lobbed his first brick, Jiggs ate his first dinner, Nemo dreamed his first art nouveau dream, and the Yellow Kid broke his first fourth wall; before the whole blustering comics cavalcade, there […]
St. John’s Short Play Festival: The Crash by Townie Ballerinas | Disassembly Required by James Squires & Taylor Rae Groves | Bee on a Plane by Katie Vatour | I Don’t Blame You by Whadda Ya Call It? Productions
September 2, 4, & 6
Pick Your Price: $10.50-$30.50
Festival Pass: $70.00
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Note: Some plays contain mature themes. The recommended age is 13+
The Crash by Townie Ballerinas
The Crash is a peek into the lives of five neighbours in downtown St. John’s trying to survive the COVID pandemic. It all kicks off with a good old-fashioned St. […]
St. John’s International CircusFest: Edge of the World Cabaret
September 21 at 8:00 PM
General: $44.50
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St. John’s International CircusFest
Edge of the World Cabaret – MC: Kai Bryan Directed by Patrick Leonard
Directed by 7 Fingers co-founder Patrick Léonard and hosted by local drag star Kai Bryan, this cabaret brings together a dynamic mix of circus, drag, and variety acts. Featuring aerials, juggling, handstands, […]
St. John’s International CircusFest: Circus Incognitus
September 20 at 8:00 PM
General: $44.50
Student/Senior/Child: $29.50
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St. John’s International CircusFest
Circus Incognitus – Jamie Adkins (Ontario)
Jamie Adkins brings a modern vaudeville twist to Circus Incognitus, a hilarious and heartwarming one-man show. With echoes of Chaplin and Keaton, he battles everyday objects in a near-constant state of comic disaster. A delight for all ages—clever, […]