WHO WE ARE
The Sky is the Limit Theatre was born out of a need for artistic self-actualization in a small group of immigrant, racialized and disabled student-artists: Danielle Bourjeily, Banafsheh Hassani, Damien Lovejoy and Sarah Larmony. Since its formation in 2022, we have been composed mostly of seasonal artistic collaborations sparked by urgent conversations about the experiences that have brought us together in Montreal. We have been dedicated to an ever growing conversation about the things that are ours, that make us laugh, make us cry, make us feel unsafe, our hopes for what the world could be, our desire to belong, and what community means when built by all of us. TSLT recognizes that besides financial means, art-making requires curiosity, love, friends and hope, and works to nurture such foundations above all.
MISSION & VALUES
TSLT is committed to telling stories with and about people living in the margins, with a specific focus on immigrant, racialized and queer identities, histories and experiences.
Our mission is to amplify diverse perspectives, to develop skills and methods for engagement and connection based in friendship, perseverance and resistance and to showcase the incredible wealth of knowledge that exists within the margin. In our process, we value devised creation, new works, horizontal collaborative workspaces, and multi-disciplinary creative expression. We hope to fabricate a collection of new frames by which we can experience our environments with a deeper sense of solidarity, experimentation, and activism.
We refuse to remain silent in the face of the genocide, war crimes, and imperial violence perpetrated by the fascist governments of Israel and the United States, and enabled by their allies, including Canada—violence that actively undermines and sets back the peoples’ struggles against the dictatorship and regressive forces around the world.
The future we envision is not built on the ruins and corpses left from wars imposed by reactionary forces, but forged through the people’s just struggle, grounded in the principle of Jin, Jîyan, Azadî. Woman–Life–Freedom.
(Statement borrowed and modified from “Against War, In Defense of Life” by Feminists for Jina @feminists4jina)
Friends and Peers
Check out the work of our friends and peers, other independent theatre groups based in Montreal, with diverse focuses, styles and commitments.
