Trophy

A stunning pop up tent city to explore
Overflowing with 1 to 100 light-filled tents
Hundreds of true stories of change
Featuring everyone we know ON TOUR!!

Trophy is an episodic performance and living installation built around stories of transformation. Audience members move through a pop-up Tent City of Stories, which contains 1-100 architectural tents, depending on the location. Inside each tent is a person telling a story of a turning point in their life. These are true stories about moments when they experienced real change. Stories of loss, love

, aging, careers and more fill the tents over the course of the production. The storytellers are community members who reflect the diversity of our city. Audience members circulate through the tents, visiting as many as they feel drawn to. Inside each tent, they can share their own stories of change by writing on small, colourful transparencies. These stories are attached to the tents, transforming them into multi-coloured translucent structures. How the installation evolves is determined by the public’s interactions with it. In this way, the experience of Trophy becomes an expression of all participants’ stories, and a compelling exploration and conversation about how we all experience change. Between performances, viewers can walk through the Tent City and experience its beauty as an installation. The tents will be in the Byward Market and lit from within, resulting in an architectural installation that brings the downtown region to life. Participants can read stories in each of the tents as they wander through, and share their own. The tents are being built with sustainability in mind, and a portion will be repurposed as seasonal greenhouses after the event. Created by STO Union, and presented in partnership with L’Atelier, the National Arts Centre’s Canada Scene and Ottawa 2017. Calgary // High Performance Rodeo // January 17-19, 2018

09/03/2021

The headline in Tages-Anzeiger today 📰🇨🇭

"As part of an art project, people from Zürich like Julia Bürgi talk about their personal milestones. Two topics dominate here..."

Im Rahmen eines Kunstprojekts erzählen Zürcherinnen und Zürcher wie Julia Bürgi von ihren persönlichen Meilensteinen. Dabei dominieren zwei Themen.

09/02/2021

On September 3, we'll be installing 15 tents in Altstetten ⛺ and transforming this beautiful public space. This is opening night of About Us.

Courageous and generous people from across Zürich and beyond will fill the tents with real and intimate stories 🗣️ about moments of profound change in their lives.

As stories are shared, the installation transforms ✨ becoming more vibrant and colourful. It'll be beautiful, heartwrenching, funny, flawed, simple, complex, and true.

On September 3, this Trophy is for you. 🏆❤️

We'd love to see you there 👉 https://about-us.ch/projects/trophy

08/31/2021

This Trophy is for you 💚🏆
Ce Trophée est à vous 🏆💙
Diese Trophy ist für Dich ❤️🏆

03.09.21 @ About Us Festival

08/28/2021

Thanks to the kind people of Saint John, New Brunswick 👋 and hello to Zürich, Switzerland!

THIRD SHIFT 🇨🇦 🛫🇨🇭 About Us

08/22/2021

TODAY | THIRD SHIFT Festival presents the Atlantic Canada premiere of our latest work! In , we’re *listening* for the sound of change... Find out more 👇

📅 facebook.com/events/1157725998039670

08/18/2021

Years in the making, gathers true stories from all over the 🌎 to explore how we instigate and navigate change in our lives, in our communities, and in the world.

The show is experienced at home with our custom web app 📲 your portal into the performance 🔮 and the pass to our listening party 🎟️

In , we’re listening for the sound of change, and we invite you to join us on August 22 when THIRD SHIFT presents the Atlantic premiere of this new work.

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This August, Trophy presents Remixed, an Interactive digital/physical performance at THIRD SHIFT: TRAVERSE, Saint John’s FREE festival of contemporary art.

08/16/2021

Our latest work, , is a listening party for one—performed across geography and time in a collective experience.

🔊 Each audience member receives their own playlist of stories and music, personalized by an algorithmic DJ—and a party gift for use in the performance.

📅 Experience via THIRD SHIFT art gallery this August 22 in Saint John, New Brunswick. For showtimes and registration visit: https://thirdshiftsj.com/TROPHY-REMIXED/

07/26/2021

A big thank you to programsound.fm x Outside the March theatre company 🙏 for sharing our work in your pilot broadcast of 📻

We have every reason to believe will be a success because yesterday's show was magic ✨

📢 Shoutouts to host Bahia Watson, broadcast technician Luca Capone, and everybody on PSFM's artistic advisory council 💞

Learn more about the project at www.programsound.fm

07/25/2021

📡 programsound.fm is a new web radio station for storytellers

📅 Tune into the pilot stream TODAY July 25

📻 We'll take to the air with a special presentation of

🕛 9AM Vancouver / 12PM Ottawa / 1PM Halifax / 5PM London

▶️ Listen live worldwide: https://bit.ly/3rmaRqj

07/23/2021

If you're as excited as we are, spread the word for programsound.fm 🌹 A new internet radio station for storytellers, streaming live and worldwide with the support of Outside the March theatre company.

⁠ by Trophy is one of many works being played in the first-ever broadcast of PSFM 📅 Tune in on July 25: https://bit.ly/3rmaRqj

07/22/2021

Hello friends, worldwide! On July 25, we'll be airing stories of change in an experimental digital theatre broadcast called programsound.fm 📻

Many of you will have visited our glowing tent cities to experience Trophy in your hometown. Criss-crossing 🇨🇦 x 🇨🇿 x 🇮🇪 x 🇬🇧 over the course of 15 tours*, our tents appeared in parks, closed down streets, overlooked oceans, tucked into city halls, and illuminated public squares...

Inspired by our growing collection of Trophy recordings, and the desire often expressed by audiences and storytellers to hear the stories from other Trophy performances... we began work on —a digital continuation of our investigation into change. In , we’re listening for the sound of change.

is a listening party for one, performed across geography and time in a collective experience. Each audience member receives their own playlist of stories and music personalized by an algorithmic DJ. A custom smartphone app 📲 is the portal into the performance 🎟️ and the pass to our listening party.

Audiences are not alone in this synchronous experience: each performative journey intersects in complete anonymity, reminding us that we are not alone and that change does not happen in isolation.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES OF

7/25 🌎 An excerpt will be part of programsound.fm's inaugural broadcast

8/22 🇨🇦 Saint John, NB via THIRD SHIFT art gallery

*spoiler alert: 🇨🇭 About Us is next for Trophy!!!

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Trophy is an episodic performance and living installation built around stories of transformation. Audience members move through a pop-up city of stories, which contains 1-100 architectural tents, depending on the location. Inside each tent is a person telling a story of a turning point in their life. These are true stories about moments when they experienced real change. Stories of loss, love, aging, careers and more fill the tents over the course of the production. The storytellers are community members who reflect the diversity of the city. Audience members circulate through the tents, visiting as many as they feel drawn to. Inside each tent, they can share their own stories of change by writing on small, colourful transparencies. These stories are attached to the tents, transforming them into multi-coloured translucent structures. How the installation evolves is determined by the public’s interactions with it. In this way, the experience of Trophy becomes an expression of all participants’ stories, and a compelling exploration and conversation about how we all experience change. Between performances, viewers can walk through the installation and experience its beauty as an installation. The tents will are lit from within, resulting in an architectural installation that brings the area to life. Participants can read stories in each of the tents as they wander through, and share their own. The tents were built with sustainability in mind, and a portion were repurposed as seasonal greenhouses and donated to community organisations including Parkdale Food Centre (Ottawa), AIDS Committee of Ottawa (Ottawa), Women Warriors- Healing Garden (Ottawa), the Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard (Ottawa), The Alex Youth Health Center (Calgary) Co-produced by STO Union. Developed with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. ON TOUR!! Victoria // Intrepid Theatre’s UNO Fest // May 11, 2019 Prague // Prague Quadrennial’s Site Specific Performance Festival // June 7-9, 2019 More dates to be announced.

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