Waching daily Sep 28 2017

Hi, my name's Michelle Cyr. I'm a co-founder of

Bread is Not Enough. I will be playing

Martha and performing a number of other roles

And I'm Julian Legere I'm also

a co-founder of Bread is Not Enough

and I'm also co-producing and directing

the show, A Piece of My Heart.

I was really tired of

not being adequately represented

I think that one of the most important

ways that we can fight against

the silencing of women and the silencing

of people of colour and the silencing of

queer people that's happening in the world right now

is to tell their stories. We want to

change everything, and that's

really what theatre can do.

It changes the dialogue

a huge amount

and it changes

the story to a large degree as well.

It shows the strength

the vulnerability, the humanity,

the compassion, the anger,

the ambition, the complete

experience of the women around

me that I see

fighting this fight that's going on

in the world right now. Personally I

have struggled with a number of

life-altering events, shall we

say, and having that

presented on stage

with a number of true stories that

don't get told very often

is a really big deal for me.

The value of theatre is people seeing themselves

and their experiences onstage. If all the

experiences onstage or most of the

experiences onstage are the experiences of

middle to upper class, straight,

cis, white men

then theatre has failed.

Town hall after town hall after panel after panel

and seeing things not really changing.

We're calling Vancouver to action,

with great love and hugs,

put your money where your mouth is

give us a shoutout

it's gonna be glorious!

Hi my name's Michelle Cyr and I'm a cofounder