This package features 2 mini-shows bundled for convenient viewing. The best part is you buy only ONE ticket for each package! Choose your package, pay-what-you-can, and experience all the creativity these artists have to offer. Support-the-artist ticket pricing of $20 will also be offered.

Please keep in mind that ticket proceeds go back to pay the artists! 

Performance 1: Malunderstood: A Virtual Performance Experience

Filmed at Kenny’s childhood home on his family’s dairy farm, this experience offers a taste of comedy, puppetry and storytelling - an ode to the original Malunderstood.

A grandmother should spoil you from time to time, no? Well, not Kenny Streule's grandmother. Immerse yourself in a collection of memories that explain how Kenny was raised by a wild beaver.

About the Artist

From humble beginnings growing up on a Brome Lake dairy farm southeast of Montreal, Kenny always aspired to be an actor. His passion for creating has led him to establish his own theatre company which produced his first play, City Boy, based on his cousin’s relationship with the country lifestyle. He performed in his first solo autobiographical show, Malunderstood at MainLine Theatre, where he is Artistic Producer of MainLine and the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival. Kenny currently chairs the Touring Artist committee for the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals and is the secretary for the Quebec Drama Federation.

A Montreal English Theatre Awards’ (META) nominated choreographer, Amy’s recent credits include direction for Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show (MainLine Theatre) and Malunderstood (KS Presents), and co-direction for Gratitude by Oren Safdie. Amy is the Executive and Artistic Director of MainLine Theatre and the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival. She recently premiered an excerpt of her latest work-in-progress Is there anything else I can do for you? at Centaur Theatre. Inspired by the uncertainty of waiting for a thyroid cancer diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic, this was presented as a part of the inaugural Portico Project.

"Déambulations" (“strolls”) reflects on the business of visual arts, galleries, exhibitions as a commercial construction. By taking the artwork outside and wearing it, Michaud creates a new viewership that relies on chance encounters with the work. The drawings/paintings are transported, taken on strolls or walks, and brought back to be sanded off. The ephemeral quality or impermanency of the work provides further questioning of the value of artwork as a product. What is valued in these short performances is the sharing of the work, free to the viewer, and without any other demands than to be in the presence of one another.

About the Artist

Marie Noëlla Pauline Isabelle Michaud (1967-)

Originally from Québec City, Isabelle Michaud moved to Toronto in 1987 where she met her husband, Psychology Professor David Brodbeck. They are the proud parents of two amazing children, Madeleine and Jonathan.

Michaud earned a BFA at Algoma University (2018.) She was awarded her first grant by the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) in 2018 to create paintings with her son Jonathan Brodbeck. In Dactylografies Jonathan used a typewriter to write stories chronicling his life and thoughts which Michaud interpreted in paintings to express her relationship to her son’s Autism. In 2019, Isabelle won an Artist in Communities and Schools grant from the OAC to teach abstract painting to Special Needs Youth. In 2020, Michaud curated and led a first all francophone exhibition titled (dé)coupure showcasing four local francophone artists. Michaud is a strong advocate of the Visual Arts and of the Francophone and the Autism communities. She has worked with the Arts Council of Algoma, 180 Projects, the Centre francophone de Sault Ste. Marie, and the Sault Museum.

Michaud is currently finishing work on a Residency at the Sault Museum uncovering a lost neighbourhood: French Town. Her latest work J’écoute / Listening has led her on walks in the streets of Sault-Sainte-Marie/Baawaating while carrying a painting and a ribbon. By tying the ribbon to various natural features in town, Michaud brings attention to her surroundings.

Isabelle Michaud is the Sault Ste. Marie Museum's inaugural artist in residence. http://www.saultmuseum.ca/store/c2/Discovery_Gallery.html

To see more of her work, visit the museum:

690 Queen St E, Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 2A4