DBLSPK hosts up to three multilingual artists per year and highlights the linguistic and cultural diversity of our theatre community.

By collaborating with artists who work with elements of translation and/or multilingual creation, we examine the relationship between language and culture within performance. During DBLSPK, resident artists have the opportunity to work in the studio with a team of collaborators and then present excerpts of their new multilingual/translated work at a workshop-setting public performance. The artist then engages with the audience in a conversation post-show, taking a deep dive into the research topics related to their project.

Since its inception, DBLSPK has featured 17 languages, such as Cantonese, Spanish, Punjabi, Hungarian and more!