Speaking Vibrations

🎭🤟Exciting news! Speaking Vibrations is back in Ottawa! Speaking Vibrations is an award-winning, multidisciplinary performance featuring signed music, ASL song/poetry, spoken word, song, percussive and contemporary dance 📅October 2, 3, 4 2025 at 7:30 PM 📍ODD Box | 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa 🎟️Ticket info coming soon! This production is possible because of the generous support of Ottawa Dance Directive, Ottawa Fringe Festival, and the arts funding bodies. [Page 1 Image Description: An image of four performers against a black background. From left to right: A Black woman, with short fro, wearing a bright green shirt and matching pants., a Filipina woman with long black hair, wearing a black shirt, red pants, and sash. Right of centre, a Vietnamese woman with black hair tied in a high bun, wearing a dark blue robe. Far right: a white woman with long brown hair in a ponytail, wearing a white, Grecian-style dress. Text Reads: SPEAKING VIBRATIONS. A multidisciplinary performance. Awards: April Hubbard Creative Access Award: Halifax Fringe Festival 2023; Outstanding Ensemble Performance: Ottawa Fringe Festival 2021; Best Direction & Design Nomination: Prix Rideau Awards 2022. October 2, 3, 4 2025 | 7:30 PM; ODD Box | 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa. Page 2 Image Description: Two performers standing on stage facing one another. Both are wearing tap shoes. One is in a red pants and sash, the other in a white wrap dress. The photo is set against a black background. Yellow and white text reads: SPEAKING VIBRATIONS. Shows October 2, 3, 4 2025 | 7:30 PM. Location ODD Box | 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa. Creators Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit, Jordan Samonas. Direction Jacqui Du Toit, Pamela Witcher. Lighting Design Emilio Sebastiao. Video Design Lesley Marshall. Stage Management Kat Wong, Drea. Genres: ASL song/poetry, spoken word, song, percussive and contemporary dance. Features vibrotactile, audio description, tactile interpretation, video projections. Tickets Coming soon!] #OttawaTheatre #OttawaArts #CanadianTheatre #Ottawa #OttawaLife #MyOttawa #ThingsToDoInOttawa #SignLanguage #DeafArt #ASL #OttawaEvents #OttawaMusic #OttawaPoetry #OttawaDance

The origin story of Speaking Vibrations signed by ASL storyteller, Jo-Anne, as she sits in a chair. Missed day 1 and 2? No problem, just visit the link in our bio and come through on Sunday for our final day of workshops, featuring: • What’s Your Story? • Intro to Visual Vernacular • Deaf & Hearing Collaboration • Artmaking in Ottawa: Barriers & Solutions

Tonight's show is sold out! Thanks for all the love, Ottawa! ❤️💚💙🤍 There is still space on Saturday night if you want to join us. Get your ticket on Eventbrite at the link in our bio. 🔗 ID: Yellow font on black background reads: Speaking Vibrations, a co-presentation with Ottawa Dance Directive, Oct 2,3,4 2025, 7:30PM, ODD Box, 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa. Fri Oct 3 SOLD OUT! Logos: City of Ottawa, Ontario Arts Council, Government of Ontario, Ottawa Dance Directive, Ottawa Fringe Festival.

Reminders! Get your ticket on Eventbrite! Spots are limited. Participating in tactile demo? Arrive at ODD Box 6:45 pm. Getting hooked up for audio description? Arrive at ODD Box at 7 pm. Show starts at 7:30 pm. Latecomer policy: Doors close at 7:45 sharp. If you want, you can download program, access guide, audio preshow note and transcripts at the link in our bio. We look forward to meeting you! ❤️🤍💚💙

It's opening night, and we can't wait to have you! 😍 Here are some wayfinding videos to help you navigate to the ODD Box. 👉👉🏽👉🏿 Please ensure you arrive early to be able to navigate to ODD Box in case the elevators are in use when you arrive. For more information on wayfinding: shorturl.at/GPX2H or head to our Eventbrite page: link 🔗 in bio.

One of many reasons our production is unique is that we have two amazing directors: Jacqui Du Toit and Pamela Witcher! ✨️✨️✨️ For this rehearsal process, Pamela has joined us remotely from Vancouver. She works with our group to ensure and refine the authentic and culturally accurate representation of ASL, hand shapes, signed music and poetry, and Deaf culture, while Jacqui leads most of our rehearsals in person, ensuring our blocking, emotions/emoting, themes and stories are clear, consistent and well communicated. Jacqui is also the show's audio describer! We could go on and on: about their skills and creative vision, their ability to work together to understand our intentions and stories, and bring out the best in the performers… Instead we suggest you come experience their work for yourself! Speaking Vibrations: a co-presentation with @ottawadancedirective   📅October 2, 3, 4 2025 at 7:30 PM 📍ODD Box | 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa 🎟️Tickets available on eventbrite! 🔗Link in bio Image Description: Yellow and white text on a black background reads: Speaking Vibrations, Directors, Jacqui Du Toit, Pamela Witcher. Images, top left: A brown skinned woman in front of black backdrop and wearing a black dress. She has wavy black hair and dark brown eyes looking at the camera with a slight hint of a smile. Bottom right: A black and white image of Pamela, a caucasian female who is depicted with short wavy hair and wide dark-rimmed glasses, with a slight smile. Shoulders show her wearing black strapped top #ottawatheatre #ottawaarts #canadiantheatre #ottawa #ottawalife #myottawa #thingstodoinottawa #signlanguage #deafart #ASL #ottawaevents #ottawamusic #ottawapoetry #ottawadance

Accessibility in the arts is too often an afterthought. In performance, we rarely pause to ask: who is being left out, and how can we invite them in? @speakinvibrations challenges that by centering inclusivity at its core. This unique, multidisciplinary performance has everything — dance, music, spoken word, ASL, and signed music — brought to life by Deaf and hearing artists. And it’s truly accessible: with captions, vibrotactile devices to feel sound as vibration, audio description devices (generously donated by @ottawafringe ), tactile demonstrations, and wheelchair accessible seating. ✨ Co-presented with @ottawadancedirective 📅 October 2, 3, 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM 📍 ODD Box | 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa 🎟️ Tickets available on Eventbrite 🔗 Link in @speakinvibrations bio Come experience performance reimagined — where accessibility isn’t added on, it’s the heartbeat of the show. 💫

ACT1_SC5_V2 This was one of our test videos for our creative caption video development in 2022. We were working with video designer Lesley Marshall @mavnetwork and deciding which fonts looked best for this scene. Poetry by @kingkimbit Captions in various coloured fonts (ex: purple karaoke, white cursive) against a black background read: Stolen away from home Never too late to make ammendments. We've grown so far away Disconnected become distant Trying to convince us If we don't know we won't miss it The soul is only whole once you go back and visit You have to go back and get it Wherever you come from The truth from our roots From there we can never run Whether or not you know What it is will always be So don't you think it's better If you check on it and see? Check on it and see Checking my story... 📖 📖 📖 Come check out our caption videos (and which fonts we chose!) in person! Speaking Vibrations: a co-presentation with @ottawadancedirective Directed by Jacqui Du Toit and Pamela Witcher 📅October 2, 3, 4 2025 at 7:30 PM 📍ODD Box | 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa 🎟️Tickets available on Eventbrite! 🔗Link in bio #ottawatheatre #ottawaarts #canadiantheatre #ottawa #ottawalife #myottawa #thingstodoinottawa #signlanguage #deafart #ASL #ottawaevents #ottawamusic #ottawapoetry #ottawadance

There are so many cool elements in our show, and one of them is our CREATIVE CAPTIONS ✨️ Our captions appear on a screen at the same time as performers speak, sign or sing. They have lives and stories of their own - dynamic and moving visual art pieces that not only improve accessibility but are beautiful in their own right. Come check them out in person October 2-4 at ODD Box, Arts Court! Speaking Vibrations: a co-presentation with @ottawadancedirective Directed by @storiesbyjacquidutoit and @pamelawitcherarts 📅October 2, 3, 4 2025 at 7:30 PM 📍ODD Box | 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa 🎟️Tickets available on eventbrite! 🔗Link in bio Videos by Lesley Marshall @mavnetwork Photos by @understudystudio_ #ottawatheatre #ottawaarts #canadiantheatre #ottawa #ottawalife #myottawa #thingstodoinottawa #signlanguage #deafart #ASL #ottawaevents #ottawamusic #ottawapoetry #ottawadance

What happens when I come into contact with a body in all its forms? When I see in my feet, hear in my hands and speak in vibrations? Speaking Vibrations: a co-presentation with @ottawadancedirective 📅October 2, 3, 4 2025 at 7:30 PM 📍ODD Box | 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa 🎟️Tickets available on Eventbrite. (Discount until Sep 5! Get yours now.) 🔗Link in bio Image Description: A Black Bajan woman  with short fro, wearing a bright green shirt and matching pants. Her hands are making the shape of a sphere. Text reads: SPEAKING VIBRATIONS. A co-presentation with Ottawa Dance Directive. October 2, 3, 4 2025 | 7:30 PM; ODD Box | 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa. Images of City of Ottawa, Ontario Arts Council, Government of Ontario, Ottawa Dance Directive and Ottawa Fringe Festival logos. Photo 📸: Andrew Alexander #ottawatheatre #ottawaarts #canadiantheatre #ottawa #ottawalife #myottawa #thingstodoinottawa #signlanguage #deafart #ASL #ottawaevents #ottawamusic #ottawapoetry #ottawadance

Ode to Palestine 🤲🏽🇵🇸✨❤️‍🔥 🤟🏽 @kingkimbit and @carmellec of @speakinvibrations will be present and presenting at Ode to Palestine. 🗓️Friday August 29, 7PM - 10PM 📍Club SAW, 67 Nicholas Street 🎟️ Free admission: door donations to @waterislifegaza 🤝 Organized by @dawood.arts with @don_cubeprojects @cubegallery Follow @dawood.arts for more announcements! 🍉 ✨ Ode to Palestine 🇵🇸 is a one-evening art exhibition and cultural event at Club Saw, 67 Nicholas St. in Ottawa. The event will feature an exhibition by a number of fine Ottawa artists including: Christi Belcourt, Rana Nazzal (video), Margot Denis, Hadi Abdullah, Eleanor Doran, Opal Dunbar, Dawn Dale, Maryam, Yar, Selma, Murray Dineen, Mohamed Alhaboob, Lynda Cronin, Laura Janet Ward, Lainie Towell, Bernard Vigier, Paula Zoubek, Laura D’Alessandro, Aishah Vakily, Yasmen Abuzaid, Don Monet, Noura Dawood (Curator)! Some art will be for sale at the event. There will also be merch, poetry, and beats by DJ Yuck! Curated by Palestinian Artist Noura Dawood, this fundraiser has donations going to: Water Is Life Gaza: From Turtle Island To Palestine. For more information, please contact Noura by email: [email protected] [Image description: Graphic by Noura Dawood with event details stated above. The graphic features cool hues (a variation of blues) in a painting of a veiled woman with her eyes closed facing to the side. Her veil has subtle details pertaining to Palestinian identity, such as parts of keffiyeh patterns.]

20% OFF TICKETS for Speaking Vibrations at ODD Box October 2-4! 🤟🏽🫶🏿 Discount ends September 5th. Grab yours now - link in bio. 🎟️🎫🎟️🎫🎟️🎫🎟️🎫🎟️ Video Description: Jo-Anne describes our upcoming show for Speaking Vibrations: a co-presentation with Ottawa Dance Directive (ODD). Jo-Anne is Black Bajan woman with a short fro and she is wearing a jean jacket. She is standing inside the Arts Court building in Ottawa, in front of the elevator that would take you to the ODD Box. Jo-Anne describes in ASL that the show will happen at ODD Box, on the second floor at the Arts Court at 2 Daly Avenue. There is a 20% discount on tickets until September 5th, purchase tickets on eventbrite. Our shows are October 2,3,4 at Arts Court. 🤟🏽Speaking Vibrations: a co-presentation with @ottawadancedirective Created by Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit and Jordan Samonas Directed by Jacqui Du Toit and Pamela Witcher 📅October 2, 3, 4 2025 at 7:30 PM 📍ODD Box | 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa 🎟️Tickets available on eventbrite! 🔗Link in bio #ottawatheatre #ottawaarts #canadiantheatre #ottawa #ottawalife #myottawa #thingstodoinottawa #signlanguage #deafart #ASL #ottawaevents #ottawamusic #ottawapoetry #ottawadance