language: Fr / En
Valise Theatre
Board of Directors:
President: Lida Aghasi
General Director at CSAI (Social Assistance Center for Immigrants)
Secretary: Ghazaleh Moradiyan
Actress, Puppeteer, Service Quality Coordinator at CSAI
Treasurer: Mojtaba Moaf
Actor, Puppeteer, Artistic Director, Coordinator of Communication and Collective Activities at CSAI
Mission
Founded in 2017 in Montreal, Valise Théâtre, OBNL, has the mission to create, produce and broadcast theater and puppet theater performances for audiences of all ages.
Mandate
- Creating a bridge between different cultures by Arts, and that by languages, the aesthetics and respective traditions.
- Sensitizing people of all ages to different situations that other cultures live through active participation and cultural mediation.
- Bringing puppet theater out of the conventional theater, giving everyone access to this artistic discipline.
- Establishing an interactive and multidisciplinary status for puppeteers.
Goals
- Valise Theater privileges the puppet theater as a main language that allows us to bring viewers into a metaphorical world full of imagination and fantasy.
- Creation, production and dissemination of activities putting interculturalism and cultural mediation at the center of social approaches by using Arts as a medium of choice.
- Art Workshops: Reach out to different audiences through schools, community centers, libraries and more to diversify and develop audiences for the organization.
- The integration of various artistic disciplines such as drawing, music, photography, sculpture, film-video and others are essential in the creation of the shows.