The Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA) is proud to announce its lineup for the 2025 festival, running from June 4-7, 2025 in Kingston, ON. This year’s program amplifies diverse Canadian voices, showcasing performances that reflect the changing social and political landscape. FOLDA’s eighth edition continues its mission of uniting audiences through innovative, thought-provoking live performances that challenge conventions and spark conversation.
With five unique productions, this year’s festival explores migration, identity, inclusion, technology, and the bonds of kinship—offering a space for reflection in a time of global disruption.

WindRush by Marcel Stewart reclaims family and history after generations of displacement through spoken word and projected visuals in an immersive concept album exploring Caribbean migration, identity, kinship, and home.

Reflections & Refractions by Kingston-based PeerLess Productions showcases the talents and identities of a group of creators and performers who have mixed abilities, in defiance of how they are more often seen and underestimated.

2021, by Cole Lewis, Patrick Blenkarn and Sam Ferguson, is a live video game played by the audience to untangle one father and daughter’s journey through living—and dying—in our increasingly technological world. 2021 examines the place between memory and simulation.

The MaryRobin Show, created by Kingston’s Deaf Spirit Theatre, is entertaining showcase featuring comedy skits, dancing, visual vernacular, monologues, and ABC storytelling (a form of ASL performance art that consists of telling a story using the handshapes of the ASL fingerspelled alphabet in sequence).

Kinnomics, by UK artist Iman Datoo, a playful interactive art exhibit that shifts from matters of economics (management of the house, oikonomikos) to ways of finding kinship between one ecosystem and another. Presented in partnership with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

FOLDA’s 2025 program features dynamic events that attract adventurous culture enthusiasts from Kingston and beyond. With a mission to lead a revolution in live performance, FOLDA’s programming unites, provokes, and inspires audiences. Performances occur in real-time, creating shared, memorable experiences; FOLDA delivers empowering moments that foster connection.



Programming across Kingston… and beyond!

FOLDA events activate venues across Kingston’s Inner Harbour: the Broom Factory, Theological Hall on Queen’s campus, the AGNES Garages Exhibition Space on Stuart St, and central hub at The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.

Audiences can also select FOLDA events via livestream. Details to be announced soon.

Audiences participate in the artistic process

Audiences play a crucial role at FOLDA. The Festival is programmed with live performance works at different stages of development; we call them ALPHA, BETA, GO. This means that the audience plays an important role as artists use feedback to guide how they will refine the show.
Audience Participation in the Artistic Process FOLDA is unique in its commitment to fostering audience engagement as a key element of the creative process. Each performance is classified into one of three stages: ALPHA, BETA, or GO, reflecting the stage of development and the role the audience plays in shaping the final performance.

- ALPHA: Early-stage performances, ready for testing with live audiences.

- BETA: Works nearing completion, where audience feedback helps fine-tune the experience.

- GO: Fully developed performances where the audience’s input contributes to final refinements, much like a software “bug fix.”

Seeds of solidarity

“We are yearning for something more: connection, conversation, engagement, generosity, care,” write FOLDA co-curators Adrienne Wong, Marcel Stewart, and Michael Wheeler. “And we get the sense that you might be feeling the same way. When we gather in Kingston this June it will be the eighth edition of FOLDA. We want to make connections with you—our neighbours, fellow citizens, colleagues—as co-creators of the future. Within these circles of connection the seeds of resistance and solidarity are sown. We see artistic expression as central to a future that is inclusive, progressive, and pro-social — where offers are made without expecting anything in return.” Posted: May 7, 2025