Blackbox Foundation

Blackbox Foundation is actively supporting local teen and adult improvisational comedy troupe, EXiT 185 Improv Comedy, which currently performs monthly in historic downtown venues.
In addition, Kid’s Club is our 8-12 year group that meets weekly to learn improv and theatre games.
Creative performing arts have been an emerging development for several years in our rural community. Our mission is cultivate a sustainable and vital community theatre and creative arts scene.
Our goal is to continue and improve the efforts most recently made by BlackBox Theatre by obtaining our 501c3 status which will allow funding through grants and local donors.

“Rural arts are different from urban arts, but in unexpected ways.
We often are predisposed to think that rural arts are smaller-scale
versions of arts activities in larger towns and cities, or that they are
not professional in a mainstream sense. But in fact rural arts have
a richness and complexity congruent with anything seen in larger
centres, and have distinct characteristics that arise precisely because
these activities happen in particular rural or community settings.”

— John Brotman, Ontario Arts Council, at a Canadian Cultural Observatory workshop

Ken Ferguson,
BlackBox Foundation
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