bcHub: The core of b current, providing a physical artistic home and network for "Core Griots" (multi-faceted professional storytellers). It builds on the 15-year "rAiz'n the Sun Training Program." The inaugural bcHub Core Griots are Jeff Ho, Joseph Recinos, Lilia Leon, Marcel Stewart, Rehaset, Sébastien Heins, Shaista Latif, and Sherry Hsu.
rock.paper.sistahz Festival (14th Edition, May 2016): Spotlighting new works focusing on "Higher Power." This year's lineup includes:
Collaboration: The Human and the Divine by Nasra Adem (Edmonton, AB)
my essence by Ashley Colours Perez
The Midnight Birth by Oliver Koomsatira (Laval, QC)
Monstrous by Sarah Waisvisz (Ottawa, ON)
dark diaspora... in dub REVISIONED: The company's inaugural production, reimagined for the 25th anniversary with new artistic contributors, a participatory mas-style parade, and a retrospective visual art installation curated by Michael Chambers, helmed by b current Founder & Artistic Director Emeritus ahdri zhina mandiela.
Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera (On Tour 2016-17): Created and performed by Sébastien Heins, this one-man show uses original music and physical theatre to tell a parodied story of two brothers.
Artistic Team: Sébastien Heins (Creator/Performer), Karin Randoja (Director), Anahita Dehbonehie (Set/Costume Designer), Jacynthe Lalonde (Lighting Designer), Miquelon Rodriguez (Sound Designer & Co-Composer), Jonathan Inksetter (Projection Designer).
Collective Edge: A new program offering customized theatre-based training for businesses and organizations to promote pluralism and foster creative collaboration.
b current's 25th Anniversary Season in 2016, highlighting their artistic vision rooted in the Black Diasporic experience, their commitment to training artists, and developing and producing new works by Black People and People of Colour. The season draws inspiration from the West African Sankofa teaching, looking to the past to strengthen the future.
Staff:
Jajube Mandiela (Artistic Director), Alison Wong (Artistic Producer), Mamito Kukwikila (Programming Coordinator), ahdri zhina mandiela (Artistic Director Emeritus).
Board of Directors:
Karim Morgan (Chair), Zach Smadu (Vice Chair), Aaron Furfaro (Secretary-Treasurer), Eliza Albano, Charlene Challenger, Wilson Ho, Lana Novikova, Charles O'Brien.