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FREE Application Writing Workshop
June 25, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Dance Victoria welcomes Residency Artist Impulse Theatre | Andrew Barrett, who will use his time at DV Studios to develop his project, The soft spaces. As part of his residency, Andrew will be offering a free Application Writing workshop.
Register here beginning 11am June 11
What to Expect
In this workshop geared towards dance and/or movement artists, Impulse Theatre’s Artistic Producer, Andrew Barrett, facilitates skill-building and knowledge sharing around preparing, writing and submitting applications. How do we talk about our art? What are we trying to articulate to funders or presenters? What are ways to make this process easier? Join Andrew and other artists in a gentle 90-minute conversation with a sprinkle of practical tips and things to consider.
• Class level: All levels
• Led by: Andrew Barrett, Impulse Theatre
• Pre-registration required.
• Please arrive at 12:45 am for sign-in.
PLEASE NOTE: Photos will be taken during the workshop. A photo release form will be available to sign. It is NOT mandatory to consent to photos in order to participate. If you are under 18 years of age, a parent or guardian must sign the waiver and photo release form.
About Impulse Theatre | Andrew Barrett
Impulse Theatre creates and presents contemporary interdisciplinary theatre and dance performances, cultivates a community of artists, and empowers artists, emerging creative producers, and arts workers as leaders.
Impulse has created over 20 works of embodied contemporary performance. Locally, they have been presented at the Belfry Theatre’s Spark Festival, Theatre SKAM’s SKAMpede, and Intrepid Theatre’s Incoming Festival, OUTStages, UnoFest, Winterlab, and Victoria Fringe. In Vancouver, the company has been presented at Upintheair’s rEvolver Theatre Festival and the Firehall’s BC Buds Festival. They have participated in residencies with Dance Victoria, Peek Fest, Leña Artistic Residency and Research Centre, and the nationally acclaimed VideoFag.
The company is a mainstay in Victoria as an incubator and instigator that supports the development of performing arts workers, both their process and new work. They have presented their arts worker festival, Peek Fest, since 2017.
Andrew Barrett (he/him) is a queer multidisciplinary performing artist based on the traditional territories of the Lekwungen Peoples/Victoria, BC. He is a creator, choreographer, performer, director, emerging arts leader, administrator, and founding Artistic Producer of Impulse Theatre.
Barrett received his BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria and studied Arts and Cultural Management at MacEwan University. He attended One Yellow Rabbit’s Summer Lab Intensive in 2016. He was one of Dance Victoria’s 2020/21 Artists-in-Residence and his solo project, the soft spaces, was one of the Belfry Theatre’s New Incubator Projects.
Barrett has worked as a producer, choreographer, operations manager, and a variety of other roles with such companies as the Intrepid Theatre, SNAFU, Theatre SKAM, Atomic Vaudeville and Puente Theatre, over the past eight years. Barrett was awarded the 2022 City of Victoria Creative Builder Award for his work in supporting new performance and arts workers within the region.
Dance Victoria’s Artist Residency Program is generously supported by Victoria Foundation’s Community Grants Program, RBC Foundation – Emerging Artists, and Canada Council for the Arts; with individual underwriting support from Helen McDonald, and two anonymous donors.
