Ontario South Regional Festival 2023

This site contains all the important information for the Ontario South Regional Festival, taking place April 24-26, 2023. 

Contact Info:

Venue:

• Westdale Secondary School, 700 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 1A5

Mailing Address: !!NEW ADDRESS!!

• NTS Festival Hamilton District, c/o 802 Sawmill RdAncaster, ON L9G 3L1

Email Address (this address is monitored 24/7 during the festival and the run-up to it):

• hamiltondramafest@gmail.com

Registration

Registration Form:

The registration form is available here: https://forms.gle/gxSzk4qzgia8U2Uu6. 

To preview the form, see here: sites.google.com/view/ntsf-ham-reg-form-preview

Through the registration form, you can submit ALL of the other documents for the festival; e.g. script, programme page, artistic statement, etc. Our adjudicator has requested electronic versions of the script; high-quality PDFs are preferred. Please submit the registration form and all attachments by Thursday, 13 April. We will send out a proof copy of the programme and a finalized schedule on  Friday,14 April.

Registration Fee:

The registration fee for this year's regional festival is $500 flat-rate. There is NO per-student fee. Please bring a cheque with you to your tech rehearsal. We will email you an invoice once the registration form is completed.

Artistic Statement:

A 250-word artistic statement outlining your group's artistic reasoning. Guiding questions for the artistic statement can be found at https://ent-nts.ca/c/ecolenationaletheatre/uploads/zva_bank_docs.file/NTSDF_AdjudicatorsGuide-March2020.pdf on page 2 at "What Adjudicators will Receive from each Company in Advance".

Other Festival Info:

Please review the tech specs with your crew, as needed. There is a programme page template below, you can use it if you want but it is not mandatory (but you can at least use it to get the correct page size). Please make sure that you follow the programme page guidelines on the "programme page info" document. (You can download the template by clicking the "pop out" arrow in the top-right corner of the preview, then clicking "download" in the top-right corner of the new window.) PROGRAMME PAGES THAT ARE INCORRECTLY SIZED WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED - THE CORRECT SIZE IS 5.5 x 8.5 INCHES (SOMETIMES CALLED "STATEMENT").