Broadleaf Creative creates fun, accessible, and contemporary artworks about little-known and urgent topics.
Founded in 2014, Broadleaf Creative creates and tours multidisciplinary art works, films and performances based on local, national and global issues. We make little-known topics entertaining, accessible, and emotionally resonant. We also offer dramaturgy and artistic consultation for socially engaged artists and projects. In 2024, Broadleaf Creative became the inaugural recipient of Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore Awards’ “Innovative Experience Award”.
Our projects have been presented and toured widely and we have collaborated with organizations like Why Not Theatre, Luminato Festival, Festival Theaterformen (Germany), Gardarev Center (USA), Blooming Ludus (South Korea-UK-Canada), Toronto History Museums and more.
Broadleaf Creative is led by Artistic Director Kevin Matthew Wong.
Broadleaf Creative Presents:
Benevolence
Intimate, personal, and playful,
Kevin Matthew Wong presents a Dora Award-winning new universe of artistic works about legacy, identity, and the preservation of stories. Benevolence examines and celebrates the history of the Hakka (客家) diaspora in Canada - from their 2000-year migration, to their struggles and triumphs as early Chinese-Canadians, to their present struggles with cultural preservation.
The Benevolence series is developed in collaboration with Why Not Theatre.
Chemical Valley Project
A unique collaboration between Broadleaf Theatre artists Kevin Matthew Wong and Julia Howman, with Aamjiwnaang First Nation Water Protectors Vanessa Gray and Beze Gray, The Chemical Valley Project blends multi-media storytelling and small scale spectacle to explore Indigenous relations and environmentalism in Canada.
Benevolence Hall
Experience Broadleaf’s Dora Award-Winning “Innovative Experience” Benevolence Hall, an art installation and public space that invites audiences to consider their own journeys and relationships to Canada through the lens of guest-host relationships and the global Hakka migration. Open until August 4 at Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market’s Market Gallery.
What You Won’t Do For Love
Experience a special evening with award-winning renowned environmentalists David Suzuki and Tara Cullis in Why Not Theatres What You Won’t Do For Love, a unique and intimate theatre experience that asks whether the love we have for each other can inspire us to take action for the planet. Broadleaf Creative provided the dramaturgy for the film, book and theatre adaptations of the work.