karen ancheta storyteller, actor, facilitator

During the pandemic, I learned how to connect and schedule intensely, I learned to reach out and reach in. I have NEVER been so busy in my career. I found out the importance of artistic life from being starved from it. It made things come alive on a different level. Digitally distanced I found myself connecting and creating a lot more with people from far away. The urge to connect and collaborate and ask questions and build something can’t be stopped, it’s always there bubbling underneath. I didn’t know I was capable of connecting in this way, through technology. It’s made connecting in person a bit more delicious.

Karen is a Hamiltonian Filipina artist and an original member of the Hamilton 7, co-founder of Porch Light Theatre and The Garden Project. Most recently Karen has worked on Fertility Monologues w/Light Echo Theatre, Decolonise Your Ears Festiva w/ redbettytheatre.org, Here and There Kwentong Bayan Collective, Conversationss Around the Table. with Open Heart Arts Theatre and Porch Light’s site-specific audio show: TIN CAN TELEPHONE at hamiltonfringe.ca and Tethered The Ghost at the In the Soil Arts Festival. Karen is a recent recipient of a City of Hamilton Arts Award 2021. Currently Karen is working on wwww.onesmallvisit.com with Dias Los Muertas 2021 and on The Safer Spaces Project with Industry.