Phoenix the Fire

03/18/2026

HOT TRAPP IS BACK!!! 🔥🔥🔥

We took a moment to honor our very special soul Roger Mars we lost but now it’s time to rise, bring the energy, and come back stronger than ever.

AUDITIONS ARE OPEN! 🚨
Join us on Zoom or in person (depending on your location).

Get ready… big vibes, big talent, and something you do NOT want to miss.

Stay locked in for audition details dropping soon. 👀🔥

03/02/2026

Meet the incredible ASL Team set to bring the magic of music to life through sign language at this year's JUNOS Awards!

03/02/2026

Born Between Wave

Born Between Wave is a Deaf-led performance exploring identity, ancestry, and the in-between. Performed by Gaitrie Persaud as Rohenee, the piece follows her journey of connecting with her ancestors while grappling with her identity as a Deaf Indo-Caribbean woman. Moving between sound and silence, past and present, Rohenee confronts inherited histories, displacement, and belonging—searching for grounding in a world that often demands singularity.

Through movement, visual language, and embodied storytelling, Born Between Wave transforms struggle into rhythm and remembrance, honouring ancestral resilience while carving space for Deaf futures.

Created and performed by:
Gaitrie Persaud, James Balchand, Dhunmoon Balchand, Raveena Persaud, Michael Persaud, Aria Persaud and Ritchie.

The schedule will be on SOUND OFF: A Deaf Theatre Festival website

03/02/2026

The Fire Within

Facilitated by

The Fire Within is a Deaf-led creative workshop exploring healing through movement, improvisation, and visual storytelling.

Participants will engage in guided exercises that transform personal experiences and emotional challenges into artistic expression. Through embodied performance and collective reflection, this workshop offers a supportive space to reconnect with inner strength and creative power.

No acting experience required , just a willingness to explore and create.

ASL/English accessible

IN-PERSON WORKSHOP

Sunday, March 8, 2026, 6 PM to 7:30 PM

Studio B, Fringe Arts Barns

Cost: Pay-What-You-Can

Presenters: Gaitre Persaud

03/02/2026

We’re headed to the JUNOS! Phoenix The Fire ASL team will be interpreting this year’s awards! 🙌🏽✨

09/19/2025

09/19/2025

Ocular Occurrences: Sites of Perception
Pam Patterson

September 19 - October 31, 2025

Ocular Occurrences: Sites of Perception experientially captures my multilayered visual (low distorted vision and unpredictable visual processing) reality while also touching on the mental health challenges I experience while attempting to cope in a profoundly ableist society.

The images ̶ made of eye scans,
topographical maps, photos I have taken, and using stills from video performance
sequences shot by Hri Neil (video/audio editor and videographer) ̶ speak to my
vulnerability and perception.

These images capture a curious performative action: I cover my eyes with my
hands and then open them. In performing this action repetitively, I investigate any
possibility for perceptual change. As this is recorded and reenvisioned visually,
my body in action becomes transformed reflecting how my sight operates.

This “perception" is lifelong and will eventually (as my eye disease progresses) lead to
my seeing only grey. This body of work indirectly addresses the fact that for many of us living in pain, isolation, and poverty, MAID, rather than seeking social/community support, becomes the solution.

This is untenable. In resistance, I have been looking at “Crip Mad mutual aid" and acknowledging the unique skills and robust strategies that we ̶ as disability creatives ̶ have acquired by hacking existing normalized
objects, situations, places, and environments for access and use ̶ as acts of persistence, resilience, and resistance. The images we create that spring from disability experience have the potential to disrupt, extend, and expand cultural aesthetic perceptions and creative practices.

Patterson gratefully acknowledges funding support from the Ontario Arts Council.

09/17/2025

Phoenix The Fire will provide ASL interpretation service at IMPACT 25!

Phoenix The Fire ASL vlog:

Hi! I share important event—IMPACT 25, International Theatre Festival. Happens in Kitchener, Waterloo.

Dates: September 23 to 28, 2025.


Festival celebrates Indigenous, Black, Racialized artists. From around world—Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Canada. Performances exciting—dance, play, art.”

“Six days, over twenty shows, more than one hundred artists. Countries: Colombia, Mexico, Lebanon, Palestine, UK, Canada.
Performances: plays, installations, youth programs.

Also, industry conference—talk about collaboration, accessibility, decolonize theatre.

After shows, come to Tamasha Bar. Food, drinks, conversation.
Nighttime, music, community. Festival energy continues—fun, inspiring.

Early-bird ticket—$125, until August 31.
Regular ticket—$175.
Single ticket—$10 to $30.
Indigenous—free, contact us.

Join us! Exciting theatre, global community, inspiring.
Ask questions—contact us.

Hope to see you there! Powerful, unforgettable event.

09/17/2025

We would like to inform you that, due to a high volume of requests, we have decided to postpone the upcoming event to November. We believe this will allow us to create a more welcoming and enjoyable space for everyone.

We look forward to seeing you in November! We will be sure to send you an email with all the details soon.

Please note, the event will be held in person.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

09/10/2025

Phoenix The Fire invites you to join us for a powerful and necessary conversation between Deaf artists and interpreters.

For too long, hearing agencies have created division in our community. This panel is about reclaiming our space, listening to one another, and building real connections. Together, we’ll share experiences, welcome new interpreters, and work toward stronger collaboration rooted in trust and respect.

I have attached the poster below. Please invite new interpreters as well. We will provide snacks and drinks as well.

Event Details:
September 18th, 2025 (in person and Zoom)
7 pm - 9:30 pm
1 Wiltshire Ave, Toronto

Food and drinks are provided.

This is not just a panel; it’s an opportunity to strengthen our community, learn from each other, and connect with Phoenix The Fire’s mission of unity and creativity.

We would love for you to be part of this conversation.

Please RSVP by emailing me and the team at [email protected]

09/08/2025

DEAF ACTORS WANTED!

NOVEMBER 8TH AND 9TH
2025

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

IN ATLANTA, GA

LEARN ACTING TECHNIQUES, IMPROV &
MASKING WITH GAITRIE PERSAUD- KILLINGS AND COURAGE BACCHUS.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR NEW DEAF FACES READY TO GROW, PLAY AND EXPLORE PERFORMANCE.

NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED!

Email us at [email protected] for more details

08/01/2025

Everyone loves a bad girl. Deaf wealthy serial killer, Enchante (Gaitrie Persaud), favors a Chinese cleaver to prey upon those who dare abuse young women. With her beauty and cunning charms, she entices her lovers to their deadly fate. Enter her mind of tasting blood as she welcomes you into her red rose world of secret stories. Haunting, powerful, and deeply personal, The Red Rose Bleeds is a poetic solo performance that explores inherited trauma, silence, and resilience through the body of a Deaf woman reclaiming her ancestral past.

Performers, Creators: JP Arami, Gaitrie Persaud-Killings, Raveena Persaud
Director: Ebony Gooden
Dramaturg: Chris Dodd
Deaf Consultant: Jaideep Goray

This work was originally developed and performed a work-in-progress presentation at the Sound Off Festival in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the country’s premier Deaf theatre festival.

*ASL Interpretation is integrated into all performances. ASL Interpreters will be present before and after the performance, to support audience members with box office and front-of-house procedures.

The Red Rose Bleeds is not suitable for audiences under 18 years old.

Advisories
Content: Nudity, mature language and subject matter, strong language and mentions of r**e and child abuse.
Sensory: Large volumes of fake/stage blood in close proximity to the audience.