Content Advisories at the 2026 SummerWorks Performance Festival

This webpage lists Content Advisories for many SummerWorks 2026 projects. Please take care as you review this list. Further information for each project can be found on the individual project webpages and within Access Guides for select projects. As well, this webpage will be updated regularly, to ensure accuracy with works-in-development.

If you require any additional information, we invite you to email  access@summerworks.ca.

Blood Brothers

• Foul language and profanity, sexual content, mentions of homophobia, misogyny, sexual assault, death and abuse, with depictions of physical and mental violence, depictions of hazing and drug and alcohol abuse.

Body Story

• Discusses experiences of coming out and adolescent sexual experiences

Collision Project: Good Boy, Bad Girl

• Contains partial nudity

Collision Project: Spin and Click

• Contains partial nudity

Date of Performance

• Mentions of torture, execution, solitary confinement, imprisonment and suicide. It also references artistic practices under restriction in Iran, which may connect to ongoing international discussions around freedom of expression and political repression.

Every Day of Peace in the Last Hundred Years

• Mentions of war and ongoing border conflicts

Golden Rez Dog

• Mention of inter-generational trauma

GPO Box No.211

• Mentions of political censorship

Hello Sunshine!

• Contains full nudity

Little White Room

• Strong language

No(body)

• Mentions of grief and loss

Our Other Organ

• Mentions of war and genocide

PROVISIONS

• Includes depictions of suffocation and enclosed spaces, profane language, bodily fluids, sexual content, brief depiction of injection, depictions of partial bodily decomposition, partial nudity, behaviour resembling addiction and dissociation, extensive discussions of suicide-adjacent thoughts and behaviours.

Retina Maneuver

• Themes of war

Rot Hat

• Mentions of suicide

Tandava

• Mentions of civil war and genocide

Writing to Home: A Spoken Word Workshop for Beginners

• This workshop will involve emotionally reflective creative writing and optional sharing related to identity, diaspora, belonging, intergenerational experiences, and lived experience. Participation in sharing is always voluntary.