WOOMcollaborative

A Waterloo Region multidisciplinary arts incubator serving as a research and development hub for the Kitchener-Waterloo cultural sector by providing space, subsidy, and mentorship to new generations of performance creators. WOOMcollaborative's mission is to nurture artists, invest in ideas, and support new work and new ways of working — fostering a culture of innovation by embracing risk and questioning traditional notions of artistic practice and disciplinary boundaries. It pursues a bi-directional relationship between arts practitioners and scholars, manifesting material representations of abstract scholarly work through experimental and alternative performance creation that embraces music, dance, visual art, and new media alongside scholarship. The name (no space) joins the propelling sound of 'WOOM' with the loving labour of 'collaborative'. Supported by the Waterloo Region Arts Fund, the University of Waterloo, and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.