In the Soil Arts Festival

Name: In the Soil Arts Festival
Address: Saint Catharines, ON, CA
Telephone: 2894771025
Rating: 4.8

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In the Soil Arts Festival

An explosion of creativity in downtown St. Catharines 27-29 April 2018.

06/20/2025

TONIGHT = THE GRAND FINALE of In the Soil: Tilling the Soil 🔥

We’re closing it out with laughs, chaos, and serious dancing. Here’s what’s up:

🎤 8 PM – DEEJAY EMCEE

Improv duo. Dream team. Fully unhinged.

🤡 9 PM – SUITCASE COMEDY CABARET

It’s not ITS without them - you already know.

🪩 10:00 PM – MELT DANCE PARTY

DJ will bring the heat.

🎟 Come through with your full fest pass, Friday pass, or grab an individual ticket for just one show. DANCE PARTY PWYC

https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/in-the-soil-festival

Let’s goooo 🔥🌀

06/18/2025

Meet Kosar Dakhilalian ✨

A theatre artist, writer, director, and educator, Kosar’s work explores space, story, and community. Her practice is rooted in collaboration and shaped by the people and places around her. As a 2025 Nest Resident, she’s been developing new, locally grounded work through a nine-month creative incubation with Suitcase in Point.

🔍 Her work:

POMEGRANATE AND FEATHERS is a free adaptation of the Greek myth of Persephone, set in Niagara and about Niagara. The play is the fruit of Kosar Dakhilalian and Michael Anthony’s collaboration as they take this opportunity to discover and learn about the rich history of Niagara Region

🌀 Her process:

Kosar collects words like shiny objects. Fragments gathered on train rides, in conversations, and across shifting cityscapes. She writes in motion and creates through community.

Catch it at the Nest Artist Resident Scratch Night

📅 Thursday, June 19 | 7:00–10:00 PM

🎟️ $15 single ticket, $25 Thursday pass, $40 weekend pass

06/18/2025

🌱 Tilling the Soil kicks off TOMORROW!

Come for a single show or stay for the whole ride - there are multiple ways to dig in:

🎟️ $40 full festival pass

🎟️ $25 single day pass

🎟️ $15 single event ticket

Art. Music. Clown. Parade. Dancing. All in downtown St. Catharines. Let’s let our hair down and get our hands dirty.

https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/in-the-soil-festival

06/17/2025

Meet Sahar Saeidi ✨

A poet and plainspeaker, Sahar writes to connect. With her roots, her body, her people, and the world around her. She’s drawn to pattern, consequence, and the emotional truth hiding in ordinary language. As a 2025 Nest Resident, she’s been developing new, locally rooted work through a nine-month creative incubation with Suitcase in Point.

🎧 Her work:

An audio-visual set that asks more questions than it answers. Sahar explores luck, taboo, cliché, and the strange comfort of shared uncertainty. It’s curious, intimate, and full of “I don’t know but I know” energy.

🌀 Her process:

She speaks in feeling and writes in plainness. Sahar documents the moment, traces its patterns, and cross-checks it with history. Her words bridge difference through the soft clarity of saying what’s true.

Catch it at the Nest Artist Resident Scratch Night

Check out Sahar's playlist! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/23BPWbFZNHGz42ob25hUqj?si=1163be06aa054bd9&pt=a3f4410cb5463fd42d65fb4afc135f57

📅 Thursday, June 19 | 7:00 to 10:00 PM

🎟️ $15 single ticket, $25 Thursday pass, $40 weekend pass

06/16/2025

Meet Michael Cicchini ✨

A believer in everyday magic - the kind found in food, art, and breath. Michael is a multidisciplinary storyteller working across theatre, music, visual art, and writing. He is one of our 2025 Nest Residents and part of a nine-month creative incubation at Suitcase in Point, supporting the development of new, locally rooted work.

🔮 His work: The Journey of Chance

An intimate tarot-reading performance that opens a pocket of space for reflection and possibility. Thoughtful. Mysterious. Full of quiet magic.

🌀 His process:

“Create quickly, make decisions slowly.”

Michael builds outward from a single image or feeling, following instinct over outcome. It’s a slow unfolding; an invitation to listen, adjust, and keep going.

Catch it at the Nest Artist Resident Scratch Night

Check out Micheals spotify playlist! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/36CIEICuF0jFLaV1eux1iG?si=K3YChAJrRJaAA4Zvft_bzA&pi=eiBxBh3uSMGQg

📅 Thursday, June 19 | 7:00–10:00 PM

🎟️ $15 single ticket • $25 Thursday pass • $40 weekend pass

06/16/2025

BAND-EMONIUM is going to be wild 🎸💫 Thursday night. Late-night. Full volume.

Two genre-defying Niagara acts take the stage for a sweaty, soulful, sonic explosion of a show.

🎤 Zach Bury

Raw, heartfelt, and full of soul. Zach’s music moves from folk to blues to R&B, with lyrics that grab your hand and don’t let go. Expect stomps, claps, and a lot of feeling.

🎶 Sunshine Express (S.EX)

It’s rock, it’s noise, it’s ambient chaos. A full-band spectacle where flashing lights and fuzzed-out sounds collide with emotion and intensity.

⚠️ Flashing lights + explicit language

📅 Thursday, June 19

🕙 10 PM – Midnight

🎟️ $15, or included in your Thursday Pass ($25) or Weekend Pass ($40)

https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/in-the-soil-festival

06/15/2025

Meet Ren Reid ✨

A lover of chaos, comedy, and all things offbeat, Ren creates work that is physical, political, and never quite what you expect. Their creative world blends clown, drag, and curiosity. As a 2025 Nest Resident, they’ve been developing new, locally rooted work through a nine-month creative incubation with Suitcase in Point.

🎭 Their work: Menace to Society

A clown struggles to survive under the rule of a ruthless King. Will they end his reign of terror, or crumble under the weight of the oligarchy? Join us for a night of absolutely no nonsense, as Ren and company share an excerpt of their play-in-process.

🌀 Their process:

It starts with a walk and a playlist. Movement comes first, then montage, then meaning. Ren builds from music and mood (e.g. “Money” from Cabaret).

🎧 Listen to the OFFICIAL Rennis the Menace playlist through the link in our bio.

Catch an excerpt of Ren's work at the Nest Artist Resident Scratch Night

📅 Thursday, June 19 | 7:00–10:00 PM

🎟️ $15 single ticket, $25 Thursday pass, $40 weekend pass

06/14/2025

Lester Trips is coming to In the Soil 🎬🐛

An experimental performance duo known for their genre-defying, form-bending, delightfully strange work. If you like your film and "digital not otherwise specified" with a side of existential earwigs, you’re gonna want to catch this.

🎞️ Their latest: DAYGAMERS

Part earwig pavilion, part screening room, this 7-minute mixed media short dives into the weird world of 2010s online dating and daytime pick-up artistry. Animated, awkward, and a little bit obsessed.

📍 June 19 + 20
⏰ Ongoing between acts!
🎟️ Included with your Thursday or Friday pass ($25) or Two-Day Pass ($40)

Get tickets now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/in-the-soil-festival

Stop by. Stay for 7 minutes. Leave questioning everything.

06/13/2025

Sketch comedy. Extra unhinged. Extra funny.

Suitcase in Point’s annual comedy cabaret is coming in hot with an all-new lineup of sketches that are just the right amount of chaos, smarts, and just a little bit feral.
Plus, improv duo Deejay Emcee (Deanna + Mark) are jumping in to stir the pot with some on-the-fly mayhem.

📍Friday, June 20
⏰8PM Deejay Emcee // 9PM Suitcase in Point Comedy Cabaret
📍The Robby (85 Church St)
🎟️$15 or included with Friday or full festival pass

Get tickets through the link in our bio.

06/10/2025

Fresh work. Big ideas. Unfiltered magic.

Four incredible Nest Artist Residents have been cooking up something wild since January, and this is your chance to see it first. From tarot theatre and myth-making to clown chaos and musings on luck, Scratch Night is where art gets bold, weird, and personal.

Featuring new work from:

✨ Michael Cicchini

✨ Kosar Dakhilalian

✨ Ren Reid

✨ Sahar Saeidi

📍 Thursday, June 19

🕖 7–10 PM

📌 The Robby (85 Church St)

🎟️ $15 or included with Thursday or full festival pass

🎫 Get your tix: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/in-the-soil-festival

06/06/2025

Hot soil, hot lineup 🔥 Tickets are LIVE for IN THE SOIL: TILLING THE SOIL (June 19 & 20)

Two jam-packed days of live music, sketch comedy, art-fuelled weirdness, and a joy parade to kick it all off. Think rooftop energy, basement prices, and absolutely zero chill.

From our iconic Massive Band Parade to Nest Artist sneak peeks, late-night bangers, and a closing dance party to melt your stress away. This is downtown St. Catharines like you’ve never seen it before.

🎟️ Passes are priced to keep things accessible:

Individual events: $PWYC–$15

Day Pass: $25

Full Festival Pass: $40

Snag yours now and come celebrate the strange, the bold, and the joyful: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/in-the-soil-festival

Let’s get weird. Let’s get wonderful. Let’s till the soil.

06/25/2024

Join us for the last Scratch Night of the season and help us celebrate the end of our 2023/2024 season! 🎉

Featuring incredible performances by Alex Ring, ADRIFT (A LA DERIVA) by Ana Sanchez Vimo (one of this year’s In the Soil Arts Festival volunteers!), and Geopatra.

Oh - and did we mention we’re taking this special volunteer-appreciation edition of Scratch Night on the road to King and Victoria Winery?! Entry is Pay-What-You-Choose at the door (suggested $10). Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

A huge thanks to our venue hosts, Joe and Tracey Schenck and Rob and Liz Harold. ❤️

AND - a GINORMOUS THANK YOU to our sponsors at Loewen Design Studios for supporting this year's entire season of Scratch Nights! ❤️

Address

Saint Catharines, ON

Telephone

2894771025

Website

http://inthesoilfest.com/

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