Projects

Created in collaboration with Yarrow Collective for the 2025 Ottawa Children's Festival. 

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We need a meadow, but can’t remember. 

Our participatory installation invites young people to consider how to imagine and care for landscapes that they have never seen. Through poetic invitations and getting our hands dirty, we will explore, imagine, and plant micro meadows where future generations of people and pollinators can thrive.

Created by Emily Pearlman and Laurel Green

Created and presented in collaboration with 3rd year BFA students at The University of Ottawa.  

Adapted from Eleanor Farjeon's wonderous  1937 text, with skipping ropes and original music, this piece reminds us that resistance can take many forms.

Adapted and directed by Emily Pearlman

Music direction and composition by Nick Di Gaetano

Performed by  Ananya Anthony, Ana Clara Bouffard Lima, Kat Brett, Max Cull, Bry Siri, Kamilah Khan, Megan Maclean, and  Lauren Sanchez

Photo (c) Marianne Duval

Created in partnership with Climate Change Theatre Action and SPARC.

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5 original short plays about the Climate Crisis created by locals, paired with 4 international script offerings from Climate Change Theatre Action. Presented at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum with a cast of 50 community members age 10-55, in conversation with 15 local environmental organizations.

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A project of the Ottawa Children's Festival 

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A Community of Practice which culminated in the presentation of INTENTS -  7 new short works for young people.

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Co-Producers and Facilitators: Emily Pearlman and Drea 

Participating Artist: Rebecca Benson, Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson, Maryse Fernandes, Alli Harris,  Ludmylla Reiss, Mitch Rose, Caity Smyck

Part storytelling, part concert, this is a tale of love heard best through a tin can telephone. Countries premiered in 2009 and has been performed hundreds of times across Canada to audiences of all ages. 

Created and Performed by Nick Di Gaetano and Emily Pearlman

Directed by Patrick Gauthier

An audio tour in development about Almonte's Augusta Street Park.

Created in collaboration with Crichton Community Centre Youth with the support of the Banff Playwrights Lab

A play about a flood, and the violence of decision making. A chorus of young people perform alongside professional performers in a design world created collaboratively out of recycled materials

Written and co-directed by Emily Pearlman

Co-directed by Mado Boyes Manseau

Dramaturgy by Laurel Green

Performed by Andy Massingham, Sarah McVie and Katie Swift and young performers age 6-10.