Sometimes Artists need just a few weeks to explore a work ... test out staging ideas; lighting, projections, sound, or figuring out a technical set up.
If the artist has the ability to find local accommodation, then we can offer Mini-Residencies (1 or 2 weeks) outside of our regular Month Long Residencies.
Weekly Winter Residency Rates (we do not provide accommodation)
* $700 per week (6 days- Monday to Saturday)
* 8 hours/day- 10am to 6pm (exact hours open to negotiation)
* Exclusive use of the Barn for your project
Gwenyth's services as outside eye/dramaturg are included in the Weekly Winter Residency rate (max 8 hours/per week) Anything over 8 hours will be negotiated separately.
A basic lighting hang is also included in the Weekly Winter Residency rate. If you want to have William do projection design, this will be negotiated separately.
Write to [email protected] if you have an interest in a Mini-Residency at Woodland Farm.
If the artist has the ability to find local accommodation, then we can offer Mini-Residencies (1 or 2 weeks) outside of our regular Month Long Residencies.
Weekly Winter Residency Rates (we do not provide accommodation)
* $700 per week (6 days- Monday to Saturday)
* 8 hours/day- 10am to 6pm (exact hours open to negotiation)
* Exclusive use of the Barn for your project
Gwenyth's services as outside eye/dramaturg are included in the Weekly Winter Residency rate (max 8 hours/per week) Anything over 8 hours will be negotiated separately.
A basic lighting hang is also included in the Weekly Winter Residency rate. If you want to have William do projection design, this will be negotiated separately.
Write to [email protected] if you have an interest in a Mini-Residency at Woodland Farm.
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Mini Residency 2026 with Christie Roome
Christie Roome (she/her) abandoned her formal theatre training in 1991, redirecting her energy toward academic work during a time when making art felt more vulnerable than making arguments.. Years later, she returned to performance through community theatre, yoga, and storytelling, bringing a deepened curiosity about the body, memory, and inherited narratives. She is currently developing Brainstorm: A Comedy of Errors in the Left Lobe, a one-woman show that blends memoir, humour, and embodied practice to explore intergenerational restoration, neurological illness, and creative reclamation. Christie is a proud ensemble member of Shakespeare On Salt Spring Island, with performances in Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare Battle Royale, and The Tempest. She has also performed in two original rock musicals with Good Company Theatre Group. Alongside performing, she enjoys prop-making, backstage work, and fabricating specialized costumes. Christie works at the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga, where her yogic path and creative practices continue to inform one another. Christie is seeking the Woodland Farm Artist Residency as a focused container for the next phase of development of her solo show, Brainstorm: A Comedy of Errors in the Left Lobe. During the residency, she will refine the work’s direction while integrating movement, sound, and lighting with the support of trusted collaborators. Photo credit: Sriranjini Raman |
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Mini Residency 2025 with Kathryn Ricketts
Kathryn Ricketts, PhD, is a Full Professor and Chair of Dance in the Education Department at the University of Regina. For the past 40 years Ricketts has been researching and practicing dance and visual arts performing and teaching throughout Europe, South America, Africa, Australia and Canada. Ricketts has articulated the methodology Embodied Poetic Narrative which is focused on developing individual and collective ‘voice’ through poetic performances and writing with vulnerable populations using artifacts and personal narratives. She has 4 performative research characters which she performs regularly. |
Mini Residency 2024 with Peter Hatch
Composer and music curator Peter Hatch has composed works in a large number of genres, from orchestral and chamber music to instrumental theatre, electroacoustics and installations. Known for his interest in revitalizing the listening experience, Hatch's compositions are both heady and playful, profound and humorous. His works are performed and broadcast internationally and has been featured at festivals such as the ISCM World Music Days, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik, Montreal's Espaces Improbable, the Vancouver New Music Festival, the Vancouver Early Music Festival, and by organizations such as Aventa, Soundstreams, Arraymusic, the Winnipeg, Vancouver,
Edmonton, Windsor, Victoria and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphonies and by members of the Berlin Philharmonic. Hatch's music been recorded on numerous compact discs under the CBC Musica Viva, CMC Centrediscs, Conaccord, CBC and Artifact labels. Theatrical and multi-media elements have been incorporated into many of his works, an interest that has grown from extending traditional concert music performance practices and from collaborations with director David McMurray Smith, architect Dereck Revington, choreographers David Earle and Bill James and writers John Sobol and Adam Cowart. The writings of Gertrude Stein have played an important role in his compositions and this influence has resulted in compositions ranging from the full evening instrumental theatre piece 'Mounting Picasso' to his very short opera 'Asks Alice'.
As well as his compositional work, Peter has been very active as the artistic director of new music ensembles and festivals. He founded NUMUS Concerts in 1985, and the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound in 1998, two organizations that have continued to thrive years after their beginnings. Peter was Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony from 1999-2003 and Arts and Culture Consultant with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics from 2011 to 2013. From 1985 to 2017 Peter was a Professor at the Faculty of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University, where he was University Research Professor for the 2006-07 academic year and is now Professor Emeritus. Peter now makes his home in the Gulf Islands on the west coast of Canada.
Composer and music curator Peter Hatch has composed works in a large number of genres, from orchestral and chamber music to instrumental theatre, electroacoustics and installations. Known for his interest in revitalizing the listening experience, Hatch's compositions are both heady and playful, profound and humorous. His works are performed and broadcast internationally and has been featured at festivals such as the ISCM World Music Days, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik, Montreal's Espaces Improbable, the Vancouver New Music Festival, the Vancouver Early Music Festival, and by organizations such as Aventa, Soundstreams, Arraymusic, the Winnipeg, Vancouver,
Edmonton, Windsor, Victoria and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphonies and by members of the Berlin Philharmonic. Hatch's music been recorded on numerous compact discs under the CBC Musica Viva, CMC Centrediscs, Conaccord, CBC and Artifact labels. Theatrical and multi-media elements have been incorporated into many of his works, an interest that has grown from extending traditional concert music performance practices and from collaborations with director David McMurray Smith, architect Dereck Revington, choreographers David Earle and Bill James and writers John Sobol and Adam Cowart. The writings of Gertrude Stein have played an important role in his compositions and this influence has resulted in compositions ranging from the full evening instrumental theatre piece 'Mounting Picasso' to his very short opera 'Asks Alice'.
As well as his compositional work, Peter has been very active as the artistic director of new music ensembles and festivals. He founded NUMUS Concerts in 1985, and the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound in 1998, two organizations that have continued to thrive years after their beginnings. Peter was Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony from 1999-2003 and Arts and Culture Consultant with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics from 2011 to 2013. From 1985 to 2017 Peter was a Professor at the Faculty of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University, where he was University Research Professor for the 2006-07 academic year and is now Professor Emeritus. Peter now makes his home in the Gulf Islands on the west coast of Canada.