Collectif White Wash Productions is at the heart of a new universe of creation inspired by their mixed Indigenous and Black backgrounds.

“Art never exists outside of its context.”

First inspired by documentary theatre, the collective has explored a range of creative languages and practices as diverse as the performers themselves. By occupying public space, they are connecting with those seen as different or other, and whose otherness is seen as disturbing to some, but with whom we ultimately share more common ground than differences.

“In an increasingly diverse country we aspire to question our certainties, build bridges, spark dialogue, and help develop new creative universes that can only make us richer, individually and collectively.”

Katherine Adams, Kattia Thony, and Catherine Dagenais-Savard are mixed-race women from Black and Indigenous communities telling the often little-known stories of Canada’s cultural mosaic. In everything they do, Collectif White Wash celebrates cultural mixing.