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fat fables is back

Support the next cohort of our storytelling, performance arts and creation program by and for fat queer and trans youth (18-29) as they get ready to reclaim space on and off the stage.

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AMY Creation Program Participants

The Creation Program’s 2024/2025 Cohort Takes the Stage

After nine exciting weeks, the 2024/2025 cohort shared their work on stage at the Creation Program Showcase. Learn more about our theatre and performance arts creation program for gender diverse youth and young women (ages 16-29) and follow us for more updates and information on how you can get involved.

Discover Our Flagship Initiative

Fostering Community and Creativity through Mentorship

We are committed to transforming the arts landscape by providing accessible, affirming performing arts training & creation programs for gender diverse youth and women from equity-deserving communities.

Artistic Excellence

We have an illustrious roster of artists, creators, storytellers and performers and strive for artistic excellence at each stage of the program.

Building Community

Through our programming, mentorship and storytelling, we strive to strengthen connectivity and collaboration across the broader community.

Equity & Accessibility

We are committed to embedding anti-oppression in our work as we continue to identify and eliminate barriers to participation and access.

Mentorship

We are committed to fostering supportive, constructive mentoring relationships and integrating them into all levels of the organization wherever possible.

building a Community of Creatives since 2005

Through our programming, we work to tear down barriers to access and build growing networks connecting emerging youth performance artists with experienced mentors, training and supports so they can take the stage and tell their stories with artistic rigour.

Discover Our Story

Here’s What Our Participants Have to Say

I am so unbelievably grateful to have had this experience. This program is so important. Not only has it given me more confidence in sharing my work, but it has also given me the confidence to claim my space and find my voice in any given situation. A lot of this is due to the leaders who created such a respectful and welcoming space for the group. They are incredibly understanding, loving, and generous which I know was why the whole group offered the same in return. I will always treasure my memories here.
2018 Participant
AMY has held space for me, made me more confident, and made me feel like I can claim that space. That I am good at what I do…. AMY also shaped me through community, through the people I’ve met. The co-directors, facilitators, participants. Being able to go every week to witness the work that these amazing young woman and non-binary folks share, to learn their experiences. Sharing a meal every week is amazing. It gave me community that I was lacking for a while.
A.A
AMY for me was life-changing in a lot of ways. I learned a lot about myself. I grew as a writer, as a performer, I made really good friends. I feel more and more confident when I’m with the group, stronger when I’m with the group… it was just a really great way to get your feet wet in this field of performance.
Morgan
To make a show from scratch was incredible. You feel like you really accomplish something, that you actually did something, you can own it and call it your own. It’s a great feeling!
Kaitlynn
AMY has taught me how to be more honest with myself and in my work. Our fantastic leadership and fellow participants helped me feel safe and welcomed to take these leaps together. It has made me a braver version of myself.
Bessie
Being around so many artistic people who are just so free, and who are so supportive of other women, and people of colour, and people of all genders and sexualities – it really changed me. I’m way more open minded, way more accepting, and I’ve learned things that I never even knew before.
Whitney
The AMY Project has been one of the best things I could have done as a female artist in Toronto. The AMY Project provided an inclusive space for a level of creativity and self discovery that has opened so many doors for me, as well as a lasting mentorship and a network of brilliant artists.
Julia