thanks for joining us fEB 14-15, 2025 for
object runway!
Created and performed by 2024/2025 GRT Artist in Residence ROBIN LEVEROOS.
object runwaY
FROM THE OBJECT DRAG DESIGN PROJECT
Robin Leveroos, Designer and Performer
Co-Presented by Ghost River Theatre and TRUCK Contemporary Art
Come and mingle for the whole evening! Your ticket grants you access to a one-of-a-kind party experience where fashion, art, and a touch of magic come together. Explore a fabulous art gallery featuring the work of Robin Leveroos, grab a drink at the bar, and get ready for a night of excitement!
The spotlight will be on Object Runway, where celebrated multidisciplinary artist and Ghost River Theatre artist-in-residence Robin Leveroos gives everyday objects a drag makeover, releasing them from their usual subservient roles to humans. Audiences will be treated to a thrilling blend of fashion, drag culture, and mechanical magic as objects fill the gallery and alarm clocks strut the catwalk. In this joyful, immersive micro-performance, the audience becomes the ultimate style influencer, and we celebrate our things stepping into their truest selves.
Choose your preferred fashion show at 8 pm, 9 pm, or 10 pm, and let the fun unfold. We encourage everyone to dress fabulously (sequins, feathers, all the glam!) or however you choose to express yourself!
2025 PRESENTATION CREDITS
Robin Leveroos – Designer and Performer
Sound Design – Electrosexual
Lighting Design – Aabir Mandel
Celina Vides – Interim Producer
Kat Andra Armstrong – Production Assistant
Jake Rose – Set Builder
Featuring vocals from Drag Artists - Anali Goldberg, Tchivett, PP Maus, Enta Omri, Anajaralaisa and Testa Steron
Co-Presented by Ghost River Theatre and TRUCK Contemporary Gallery
Robin Leveroos, GRT Artist-in-Residence 2024-25
Robin Leveroos (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and insatiable tinkerer. Her practice focuses on queer use of objects, experimental animation, and playfully questioning how we see and experience the material world around us. In addition to producing Macromatter works, she also collaborates with other artists and companies as a performer and scenographer.
Some presentation highlights include: Schaubude, Berlin, Festival de Casteliers, Montreal, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Vancouver, Macau Puppet and Object Theatre Festival, Macau, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design, Prague, World Stage Design ScenoFest, Taipei, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
She was the Puppets, Sets & Props Designer of Ghost River Theatre’s acclaimed production GIANT (2019) and the Set & Properties Designer of STRUCK (2023).
Originally from Minneapolis, MN, Robin immigrated to Canada in 2005. She graduated from The National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal and holds an MFA in Performance and Design from Simon Fraser University. She served three seasons running the youth programming at The Cultch in East Vancouver, and continues to work with youth and young artists of all ages. Now residing in Berlin, some passions include reading, cycling, farming, sewing, jewelry design, and rave dancing.
Celina Vides
Interim Producer
Celina Vides (she/her) is a Salvadoran-Canadian artist and arts administrator based in Mohkinstsis/Calgary with over 10 years of experience in the non-profit sector. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Mount Royal University and has completed the Rozsa Arts Management Program. Celina is currently the Features Programmer in Residence and Industry Specialist at the Calgary International Film Festival. She also serves as a board member for the Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation, an organization focused on creating and advancing opportunities for immigrant artists and art professionals looking to start careers in the arts sector in Alberta. In addition, she has worked and volunteered for various Calgary festivals and is passionate about promoting diversity and inclusion in the arts.
Kat Andra Armstrong
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Katherine! (she, her, hers) I’m a trans actress and artist working in Guts’ists’i, Wîcîspa, Moh'kinstsis; Colonial Calgary. Wild in constellations, demonic uni-debt I swear I won’t take to the grave (while U of C president Ed McCauley takes $492,275.62 yearly), and thrums of rain. Lately, when not brutalized by cops the uni sics on their student body: been Fringe-ing and dating audiences in DATE NIGHT, live-synthing at BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES, inciting hostage takeovers in TALKING TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT GUNS, crying over students’ writing at ATP, humming-birding in WAGONSTAGE, and video-producing with QUEST.
Recently wrote and illustrated a 56 pg. picture-fable: FREE TIME; about love, Imperial genocidal Canada, family, and doom.
Come be a clown and swim! Tell me scary stories of ghosts, dreams, love, and if you should take estrogen (yes).
Jake Rose
Set Builder
I am a multidisciplinary artist and a graduate of the University of Lethbridge’s dramatic arts program. With over 28 Design credits on productions in Calgary and Lethbridge, I specialize in scenic design and construction. My approach to design is centred around my enjoyment for creation. Most recently I have done scenic design and construction for seven of the Calgary Young People’s Theatre’s productions (2022-2024), facilitated the CYPT Community DreamShop expansion at the West Village Theatre as Project Manager, and self produced my own work. In 2022 I produced, designed, and co-directed The Nordegg Incident— an intertextual “Ted Talk” meets the Blair Witch Project.