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DISCOCAB & Hamilton Cold Reads

February 13, 2025

HFTco's Frost Bites festival is back for ONE NIGHT ONLY with a one-two punch of live on-stage fun! A packed night of performance spotlighting what’s urgent and emergent in Hamilton’s live arts scene. Plus craft beer from Grain & Grit, and warm bevvies & snacks from Vintage Coffee Roasters!


“I laughed, I cried—it was the feel-good hit of the winter.”
– You (in the future)


ACT 1 – DISCOCAB: Disability Connection Cabaret 4.0
Your favourite Disability Connection Cabaret is back! Join your hosts Carlyn Rhamey (The ADHD Project) and Kit Simmons (Bimbos in Space) with an all new line up of dazzling, daring and disabled artists. From Hamilton and beyond, enjoy live performances of all kinds. Let's get weird Hamilton!


Producers: Kit Simmons and Carlyn Rhamey


ACT 2 – Hamilton Cold Reads
HFTco brings you the boldest new stories from Hamilton’s next great writers – performed live for the first time! Hamilton Cold Reads is where audiences get to see actors of all stripes performing unrehearsed (or “cold”) staged readings of new scripts by local playwrights. It’s a relaxed and entertaining event that brings audiences and artists together to celebrate some great new work.


Inspired by Jane Spence’s historic and much-loved Toronto series, Cold Reads finally comes to Steeltown! Between 2003 and 2019, the Toronto iteration showcased new works by authors like Drew Hayden Taylor (God and The Indian) and helped spark the careers of now-established writers like Kate Hewlett (The Swearing Jar, Malory Towers), Marcia Johnson (Serving Elizabeth), and Brendan Gall (Blindspot, Keep Breathing).

The selected scripts and playwrights for the first Hamilton Cold Reads are:


- "Gateway of Flux" by Ryan Sero
- "Jingwei and Robin and the Wardrobe at Sea" by Carol Chen
- "Six Forty-Nine" by Justin Shaw
- "Untitled" by Kristen Da Silva
- "Walls of Freedom" by Megha Raina


Actors who would like to sign up as readers should arrive at the venue at 5:00pm.


Doors open to the public at 6:30pm. 

Event Details
Pay-What-You-Can-Afford: $5, $15, $40
Age Suitability: Parental Guidance (ages 13+)
Genre: Theatre
Run Time: 180 mins

February 13, 2025 @ 7.00pm

Hamilton Artists Inc

General: $15

180 mins

Venue details including accessibiity, parking, and transit information is available at www.theinc.ca/about/accessibility.


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