Megan Blythe Stewart: Recent Episodes
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This past fall, The River Clyde Pageant joined the Art for Social Change Network (ASCN), a national network of organizations practicing community-engaged, art for social change work across the country. ASCN is a project of the International Centre of Art for Social Change and Judith Marcuse Projects. The Pageant is representing Prince Edward Island as…
Music and lyrics by: Leah Abramson in collaboration with Antoine Bédard, J.J. Ipsen, Andrew Lee, Aidan O’Rourke, Sandro Perri, Arliss Renwick, Marten Timan Written by: Leah Abramson Director & Dramaturg: Megan Stewart, with additional dramaturgy from Barbara Adler Visuals: Mind of a Snail Narration: Barbara Adler Produced by: Leah Abramson, Megan Stewart, Joanna Dundas Band:…
In the summer of 2020, I started having conversations with my friends Tom Young and Clare Waque about an outdoor, travelling performance that would move through the fields and intertidal spaces of Soley Cove, on the Bay of Fundy, near E’knomi (Economy), in the District of Sipekne’katik, Nova Scotia, in Mi’kma’ki Territory. We were dreaming…
The fifth edition of The River Clyde Pageant, in New Glasgow, PEI, July and August 2021. Directed by: Megan Stewart and Jane Wells with Ian McFarlane, Sébastien Labelle, Elizabeth Mair-Grant Musical Director: Marti Hopson Choir Director: Andrea Ellis Puppet, Mask & Site Designer: Ian McFarlaneLead Puppeteer: Evan Medd Choreographer: Reequal SmithStilt Director: Laura Astwood Stage Manager:…
In October 2020, I was cast as the lead in a new TV series from Slippy When Wet Entertainment. We shot the five episode series, called Aww Shucks, over five days in Victoria-by-the-Sea, with an all-Island cast and crew. Aww Shucks is now airing on Bell Fibe TV1! Watch the trailer: Aww Shucks tells the…
In the hours before sunset, the flock searches for their final roost. Towering, mischievous and raucous, their flight through the streets can’t be missed. Created by Megan Stewart, Ian McFarlane & Laura Stinson in association with The River Clyde Pageant.
Undercurrents was the first touring performance from The River Clyde Pageant, created for the 2019 Lumière Festival in Sydney, Cape Breton.
The fourth year of The River Clyde Pageant, in New Glasgow, PEI. Co-directed by Megan Stewart, Ker Wells, Jane Wells, Ian McFarlane & Annie Therrien-Boulos Artistic & Production Support from: Emily Wells, Joanna Caplan, Marti Hopson, Andrea Ellis, Evan Medd, Dominique Hat, Kyla Gardiner, George Rahi, Robyn Jacob, Arnold Smith, Sebastien Labelle, Sue Leblanc, Laura…
This Saturday, March 2, at the Gold Saucer Studio, I’ll be performing with an ultra-talented group of people, sharing the first songs from Mermaid Spring, a new musical created by my dear pals and collaborators Barbara Adler, Kyla Gardiner, and James Meger. My song is a superfast patter song in which I spit mouthfuls of words…
My dear friend from Montreal, Ashley Duong, dropped in on the River Clyde Pageant process this past July to shoot two short documentaries for the CBC Arts’ series The Exhibitionists. Both videos were released this fall…the first one is about the impetus to create The River Clyde Pageant in the face of increasing environmental degradation,…
Catch a River by the Tale was the third iteration of The River Clyde Pageant in New Glasgow, PEI. The 2018 Pageant was directed by Ker Wells and I, in collaboration with over 140 incredible people – 60 performers, over 70 volunteers, and an 18-person creative team. This year’s Pageant maintained the production process that has…
When it comes to making the River Clyde Pageant every summer, it often feels like we put our heads down and dive into creation work at the beginning of June and don’t come up for air until the end of July, when the first weekend of performances end. There’s never enough time spent documenting the…
Last weekend we got our lovely American and Canadian Pageant pals together for Backstabbers! An Evening of American/Canadian Reconciliation & Solidarity Salon at The Mill. Our countries can transcend trade wars and questionable government leaders, right?! All we need are some good tunes. The event was organized by Marianne Rendon with Kathy Randels and Sean…
Ten Thousand Wolves performed Decoy at the Fox Cabaret, amidst 72 bedazzled duck decoys and an audience of humans, at the end of February as part of the 2018 Chutzpah Festival. Ashley Aron styled us into fabulous wood nymphs. Dan O’Shea created badass projections, and Barbara Adler brought us all together in the spirit of musical collaboration…
Here are a couple shots from The Future Show, performed on Tuesday, January 30th at the Gold Saucer. I had the pleasure of performing to a full house, with unexpected accompaniment from the rattling furnaces of the studio. The furnace rattle has become so rare on Sawdust Collector evenings that I actually cut a line in…
This month, a performance! A performance I have been thinking about and wanting to do for a long time is finally happening! I am writing it, I am performing it, and yes, I am nervous about it. It’s called The Future Show, and it was created by Canadian/UK theatre artist Deborah Pearson. She toured internationally…
A couple photos from last month, co-hosting the Underdog Instrument Grudge Match (and playing the role of snappy Accordion Publicist) with Barbara Adler for Accordion Noir 2017. We gave scores on grassroots iPads, cheered for accordion supremacy, and were absolutely, totally not biased (we love you, team Musical Theatre!!!!!!!). Photo credit: Roman Kralovic
Wake the River Clyde was the second edition of The River Clyde Pageant, created and performed in New Glasgow, PEI in July and August 2017. I produced and co-directed Wake the River Clyde with Ker Wells. Over the course of two months, the 2017 Pageant came to life thanks to a team of over 125 artists, community members and…
Nine travellers enrobed together, navigating the stages and spaces of an unfamiliar territory. A roving performance in costume. Five garments for multiple people to wear at a time – hats, capes, and a very large dress. Created for AfterImage 2017 at Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Art in the Open 2017. For AfterImage, garments were…
I’m doing some fun projects this spring in Vancouver and Charlottetown before the wonderful madness of the River Clyde Pageant hits. April 11 – New Works Residency at Sawdust Collector in Vancouver – I’ll be singing sparkly vocal harmonies with Ashley Aron & Shannon Scott for Barbara Adler & Ron Samworth’s third show as part of their…
I’m leading a workshop this weekend with Ashley Aron, a fierce style queen & theatre maker, at the Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood house. This workshop is building on research I started while in residence at Elsewhere this past August, and eventually, it will inform a new performance that I’m starting to create. There will be clothing! crafts! storytelling!…
Project created in residence at Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, August 2016 Elsewear takes Elsewhere Museum’s collection of vintage thrift as the starting point for a series of interactions based on clothing and memory. Over 25 different outfits were taken from Elsewhere’s wardrobe to be worn by the artist throughout the duration of the residency.…
I’ve just started a month-long residency at Elsewhere museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. I arrived on Thursday morning and have been silently and not-so-silently squealing with glee at every moment. Elsewhere is my kind of heaven. It’s an artist/community space housed in a former thrift store, and it is absolutely chock-a-block FULL with stuff –…
In the golden hour before sunset, on a summer evening in New Glasgow, a group of children run down to the River Clyde to go fishing. Arriving at the riverbank, they find no fish, but instead, a Singing Oysterman. The Oysterman teaches them a secret fish song, which draws out a colourful cast of wildlife…
An interactive installation that digs into the failure and uncertainty of a small group of people who were absent from the 2014 Burnaby Mountain protests against Kinder Morgan. Set within the Pandora Park Field House, the installation presents a selection of fragmented, fictionalized stories of boreholes and incorrect coordinates told through songs, objects and ephemera. Borehole (Corbin…