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The Leaky Heaven Performance Society fulfilled a long-held objective to mentor a group of emerging performers in popular theatre traditions. Its Satellite Circus project, which also cultivated relationships between professional and emerging artists, was comprised of two unique events: the casting of young artists in a production of Salome, and Grotesque Realism workshop auditions. This provided the foundation for a six-member ensemble, the Giant Consortium. The new group of young artists worked with veteran theatre performers and directors to create a short piece entitled War Lover, which premiered at the 2006 Vancouver Folk Music Festival. More than 800 people enjoyed the production at the Festival, with a further 100 people seeing the production at Langara College, and another 100 at the World Urban Forum. Introducing the program in a compact and highly-mobile format in public spaces helped to capture people not typically familiar with the theatre. Thanks to $6,900 in Innovations funding, the young, emerging artists involved in this project were able to receive theatrical training from artists well-established in the theatrical community.
