Shows & Tickets

The Annual Season Launch Celebration and Fundraiser is coming Friday, September 23rd at 6:00pm at Westside Kings Church (3939 69 Street SW, Calgary).

Be the first to sneak-a-peek at next season's shows, plus a silent auction, a live auction...lots of ways to give us money!

The only thing more blinding than snow...is greed.

When a couple in financial distress discover GPS coordinates that promise to lead to stolen gold they must partner with a pair of mysterious hitchhikers to enter the remote winter wilderness and recover the coins.

Written and Directed by Jason Goode
www.numbmovie.com

Fire Exit Theatre and Centre Street Church are pleased to bring the feature film NUMB to The Globe Theatre on Saturday October 8th at 7pm.

Numb is a Canadian thriller about four strangers on the quest for stolen gold in the chilling cold of winter.

After its world premiere in Korea, the film has travelled around the world on the festival circuit, and has just premiered on iTunes and video on demand. It’s been award Official Selection at the Beijing, Shanghai and Whistler Film Festivals.

The director Jason Goode will be joining us for a Q & A afterwards.

This show is not included in the season ticket price.

 

The Business of Film Making Workshop

Are you film buff?
An emerging film maker?
Come and hear Jason’s unlikely path to film making and hear advice from someone in the biz.

The workshop will hosted by Centre Street Church at 2pm on October 8, 2016.
Cost: $25
To register, email val@fireexit.ca

 

Jason Goode’s feature directorial debut, NUMB, made its World Premiere as part of the Midnight Passion program at the prestigious Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. It was the Closing Gala presentation at the Whistler Film Festival, before continuing on to an international festival run including screenings in Beijing, Shanghai, Belgium, Bali and Cambridge. NUMB has been commercially released in multiple territories around the world including Spain, the Middle East, North Africa, and will soon be be available in Scandinavia, China, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Eastern Europe, as well as the UK and USA. Numb was released in Canada through A71 Entertainment and is repped by Cinema Management Group in Los Angeles.

Before directing NUMB, Jason’s short films included The Hitchhiker, Pop Switch, The Planting and Late, which was selected by Telefilm Canada for its Perspectives Canada program at the Cannes Marché du Film. He also directed a production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley, for which he received a “Best Director” nomination at the Vancouver Theatre Awards (“The Jessies”).

Jason’s eclectic background includes a B.Sc. in Biology and an M.A. in Theological Studies from Regent College. He lives in White Rock, B.C. Canada with his wife and three daughters.

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Written a performed by Susan E. Issacs

Disillusioned, disenfranchised, and disinterested in anything churchy, Susan knew of only one thing to do when she hit spiritual rock bottom at age 40.... She took God to couples counseling.

In this cuttingly poignant memoir, she chronicles her rocky relationship with the Almighty--from early childhood to midlife crisis – and all the churches where she and God tried to make a home. Originally staged as a solo show in New York and Los Angeles, Angry Conversations with God is a cheeky, heartfelt memoir that, even at its most scandalous, is still an affirmation of faith.

Read Susan's bio

 

Talk Amongst Yourselves...

We hope that Angry Conversations with God sparked a bunch of new thoughts and maybe even brought up some questions for you. We don't want the conversation to end in the lobby. We want you to keep talking; in the car, in the coffee shop, and around the kitchen table. So here are some questions to help guide your discussions (PDF). Get talking!

A presentation of Chemainus Theatre Festival

Written by Gary Kirkham
Directed by Mark DuMez

One starry night the body of a young man, still strapped into his airplane seat, falls from the sky into the yard of Harold and Elsie’s farm. As the night unfolds, their mysterious guest effects a profound transformation in his hosts.

Falling: A Wake is a haunting and surprisingly funny play about love, loss, and the redemptive power of letting go.

* Content Warning – Strong Language
Please note the change of theatre.

 

      

This presentation takes place at the Lantern Community Church located at
1401 10th Avenue SE, Calgary, AB.

Talk Amongst Yourselves...

We hope that Falling: A Wake sparked a bunch of new thoughts and maybe even brought up some questions for you. We don't want the conversation to end in the lobby. We want you to keep talking; in the car, in the coffee shop, and around the kitchen table. So here are some questions to help guide your discussions (PDF). Get talking!

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Written by Catherine Trischmann
Directed by Mark Lewandowski

Faith and science collide in a small room when a science teacher from Manhattan starts work in a small rural Kansas town that's been ripped apart by a tornado. When one of her pupils – Micah – takes offence at an off-the-cuff remark about how life on Earth began, Susan is thrown into an ethical firestorm about evolution and creation.

A thoughtful, compassionate drama.

 

Talk Amongst Yourselves...

We hope that How the World Began sparked a bunch of new thoughts and maybe even brought up some questions for you. We don't want the conversation to end in the lobby. We want you to keep talking; in the car, in the coffee shop, and around the kitchen table. So here are some questions to help guide your discussions (PDF). Get talking!

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A Evening of Arts & Disability – a partnership with Special Needs Dept. at Centre Street Church.

Featuring the short documentary, “We Regret to Inform You” with Dr. Heidi Janz,
In-Definite Arts,
Inside Out Theatre,
Dubasov Dance & Wellness,
& a Panel Discussion.

Art, in all it's mediums, is about communication. Artists seek to tell stories that reflect the world around them and the world inside of them; to connect, to create empathy, to generate change, to ask questions, to seek answers, and often to bring healing. The disability community is often a disadvantage when it comes to communication; either because of the challenges brought on by their disability or because of a world that is unwilling to take the steps to listen to them.

Join us for an evening of stories that aren't being told and stories being told in new and unique ways.

This is an evening for everyone. As we are all full of limitations and possibilities.

Written by Heather McDonald
Directed by Royal Sproule

Samuel Gentle, the groundskeeper for The Church of the Holy Comforter, has heard God's call three times. The first was in a field while accompanying his father on a walk; the second was in the aftermath of a terrible bus accident while he was minister of a small adobe church about forty miles outside of Albuquerque and the third was the birth of his daughter, Ariel, covered all over in a white-gold swirl of hair. Samuel has heard this voice but struggles to comprehend its mystery and his own rage and bewilderment at loss. He wants to believe that "grace enters the soul through a wound." As Ariel grows into a child of transcendent inner beauty and strength, Samuel regains his own faith and discovers what is most holy.

Run time: 105 minutes + 15 minute intermission

 

Talk Amongst Yourselves...

We hope that How the World Began sparked a bunch of new thoughts and maybe even brought up some questions for you. We don't want the conversation to end in the lobby. We want you to keep talking; in the car, in the coffee shop, and around the kitchen table. So here are some questions to help guide your discussions (PDF). Get talking!

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Come listen to the staged reading of “Sacrament” by Glibert da Silva and Directed by Peter Church.

Father Caleb opens his church in the heart of a city gripped by a deadly epidemic. He works to offer people hope, but soon there’s more: people taking Mass are no longer suffering the sickness. As the church’s legend grows, Dr. Laynie Unwin, lead scientist on the search for the cure, comes to investigate this miracle. Is the cure in the wine, or in the faith of the people? Through this unlikely reunion, old friends Caleb and Laynie will fight over their past, their divergent world views, and the very lives of the city itself: all to prove what they believe to be true.

One night only!

* Strong language and adult content.