producing art in Canada and Australia

In Australia, we acknowledge and pay respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of the nation, and to the continuation of the cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

In Canada, six hundred and eighteen First Nations are recognized by the government. Those Nations speak more than sixty different languages, and practice different religions. We acknowledge and pay respect to the Nations who care for the land, as the caretakers of traditional territories both ceded and unceded.

Acknowledgements of Country and Land are about building a future: that if we repeat the truth often enough, publicly enough, that this will lead to reconciliation. For those of us who are settlers, it is also an attempt to atone for a crime we are still in the midst of committing: we exist at point of tension between our intentions, our personal agency, and the histories that continue to create privilege today. These Acknowledgements are not a solution, they are the beginning of a process.

Community Engagement since 2014

TOO QUEER: A BI VISIBILITY CABARET

Tender Container’s longest-standing project, Too Queer: A Bi Visibility Cabaret is an arts-based community engagement project created in response to an absence of community events organized for and about bisexuality and pansexuality.

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Published by playwrights Canada Press

CHARISMA FURS

Episodic, bizarre, nostalgic, and candid, this is a solo performance that visits everything from a first time submitting to a dominatrix, a surprise win in a schoolyard soccer game, a barely-attended poetry reading that changes everything, and a party that plays Ginuwine’s Pony every hour, on the hour.

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News

Mx. Sly’s debut memoir, TRANSLAND, published by Arsenal Pulp Press and ECW Press in 2023

The idea for TRANSLAND dates back to 2016, when Mx. Sly wrote an Xtra magazine article called, “When queer sexual mentorship comes in the form of cling wrap”. This article told the story of a mummification scene, where Sly allowed a young, self-absorbed woman to immobilize them completely in cling wrap, and then let the woman rip into Sly’s sausage-cased body with her nails and teeth.

At the time, Sly wasn’t sure if there was a market for queer sex stories about fetish practice; to Sly’s surprise, the article was a finalist for the Best Personal Essay award at the 2017 Digital Publishing Awards in Canada, alongside award-winning authors including Vivek Shraya and Heather O’Neill.

This DPA nomination led to Sly continuing to write for Xtra, beginning to write for FASHION magazine, and in 2019 they were published in an anthology which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.

Sly’s first memoir picks up where their essays for Xtra and FASHION magazines left off.

Sexy, gutting, graphic, and existential, TRANSLAND explores that beyond kinky fashion, looking for a place to fit in, and dom/sub dynamics, that BDSM can simply be a personal drive to be in the moment, to have creative control over one’s own body, and to be free.