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April 2024

Masks strongly encouraged for all in-person events

April 15: Velvet hosts A Very Fine Improv Show at Live on Elgin! (Eventbrite)

April 17: Join The Midweek Late Night Show online at Plauzzable! Create an account to enjoy stand up comedians Kelly Zemnickis and Lindsey Loon, with The Velvet Duke sitting musically in the “2nd Chair”

May 2024

May 10: The WordPlay Jamnasium (RSVP)

Learn or refresh your improv and theatrical game play style! The second Friday, monthly

Studio I - Create everyone's new favourite made up song All Request Radio "Playing your favourite made up songs" Images of The Velvet Duke mid-song performance (Curtis Perry)

May 24: Velvet is offering an express session of the Studio I workshop to help you create everyone’s favourite new made up song! This session will use backing tracks (Ticket Tailor)

Studio II - Amplify your made up concert performance All Request Radio "Playing your favourite made up songs" Images of The Velvet Duke mid-song performance (Curtis Perry)

May 24: Velvet is offering Studio II workshop to help you amplify your made up concert performance! This session will feature a live musical director (Ticket Tailor)

“Velvet’s wonderfully joyful infectious energy stays long after the sessions are done”

Athira Vidyadhar
The Velvet Duke is the 2023 Laureate IBPOC Emerging Artist Ottawa Arts Council

Velvet Wells (they/them) is the multi-award winning creator of “All Request Radio Live on Location”, “(Re)Tired Magical Black Man”, and “Djinn Joint”.

In addition to being the Strategic Partnership Lead (Black Pledge Collective) and the North America East Regional Representative (International TheatreSports Institute), Velvet is the Playwright mentor for the 2024 Youth Infringement Festival

ID: Velvet was the 2023 Laureate IBPOC Emerging Artist (Ottawa Arts Council). Photo: Curtis Perry Photography

All Request Radio – Live on Location (ARRLOL) launched its live show at the 2022 Fresh Meat Festival in Ottawa. In 2023, the musical improv show travelled across North America, hitting the Ottawa Fringe Festival, Capital Pride Festival, Halifax Fringe Festival, San Diego’s Impride Festival and the Baltimore Improv Festival. Audience suggestions (made up song titles) and backing tracks are randomized before each set so everyone discovers the song at the same time. “Ottawa’s monthly BFF” apt613

Velvet Duke Productions

The Velvet Duke Productions logo and watermark is a white line drawing of a crown resting on the shoulders of three performers, incorporating their heads as bigger jewels. Below the logo are the words Velvet Duke Productions. All centered on a black background. The crown and performers represent the "I is We" nature of community, and creative energy within the world

Velvet Duke Productions is an award-winning transmedia hybrid company featuring the work of Velvet Wells — the award-winning Black, autistic, queer, disabled professional devised theatre artist living in Ottawa