April 8, 2019

Women From Space Festival

March 8-11, 2019
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

By Ken Waxman

Although there were no obvious extraterrestrials in attendance and some of the performers were Cis Males, overall Toronto’s four-day Women from Space (WfS) Festival aptly showcased the unique skills and talents of the distaff side of the city’s improvising community. Involving four different mid-town venues, this inaugural festival, March 8 to 11, centred mostly on vocal and instrumental innovators, but there was also a place for electronics, dance, spoken word and notated compositions. MORE