Select writers will present their true tales based on the theme “Killing Time.” Dedicated to the art and craft of story, Yarnslingers was founded in 2012 by writer/musician Ramona Jan. She believes that, “Everyone has a story…or two,” and encourages people from all walks of life to spin their spellbinding tales. 

Inspired by Euripides’ The Trojan Women, this new performance from Farm Arts Collective asks a haunting question: what do women carry with them when they are forced to leave home? Reimagining Hecuba, Andromache, Cassandra, and Helen through a contemporary lens, Scattered Seeds of Troy explores migration, survival, and the search for agency in a broken world. Seeds become both literal and symbolic—food, memory, inheritance, resistance. Created through Tannis Kowalchuk’s devised theatre process, the piece blends movement, text, music, and visual spectacle into a timely meditation on displacement and hope.

The FarNear is a durational performance exploring intimacy through reading, writing, and shared authorship. Tethered to each other by a 25-foot clothesline, the artists send edible notes back and forth, creating and consuming poems that transform language into physical points of connection and separation. Drawing from love letters between women artists and writers, the piece invites reflection on how intimacy and boundaries evolve, reshaping identities, words, and space in an ongoing dialogue.

For three continuous days, Thomas Bosket will inhabit a temporary “drawing cave”—a raw shelter built from cardboard, scrap wood, and duct tape—where he will receive one visitor at a time. Each encounter is a moment of deep listening. He will not speak. He will draw. This is not about likeness or representation. It is about perception, change, and the subtle shift that occurs when someone is truly seen. Emerging in the context of the Deep Water Literary Festival, this work leans into the theme of metamorphosis—not as spectacle, but as a quiet unfolding. Each drawing a trace of transformation. Each encounter, a shared moment in flux.

Select writers will present their true tales based on the theme “Metamophosis” Dedicated to the art and craft of story, Yarnslingers was founded in 2012 by writer/musician Ramona Jan. She believes that, “Everyone has a story…or two,” and encourages people from all walks of life to spin their spellbinding tales.