Workshop | Future Worlds: Green Screen Performance

This event took place on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026 at 9:00 amSPYA Studio

Storytelling, art, and imagination create worlds.

In your wildest imagination, what future worlds can you dream up? What worlds do you wish for and what kinds of futures do you worry about? What sort of people, landscapes, creatures, and things might be found there? What relationships and laws of nature make up these possible realities?

In this four hour, one-day workshop for youth aged 10 to 15, participants will work in small groups to create imaginary worlds set in the future. They will work together improvisationally, using performance, green-screen video, visual art and sound-making. Be prepared to let your creativity flow and merge with others in play, experimentation, and collaboration. By the end of the day, each group will produce a green-screen performance, a handmade world for their performance (created with coloured pencils, markers, crayon, collage materials), and an audio-collage or musical piece. At the end of the workshop, each group will tell the facilitators how they imagine these elements will go together. We will put it together as a video, and send it to you later that week. 

The aim of the workshop is for participants to have fun and learn about new and old technologies and ways of telling stories with art.

This workshop series is part of the SSHRC funded Pluriversal Worlding with Extended Reality project, jointly led by Mary Bunch and Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning. This project uses media arts to explore the decolonial concept that the world is composed of many worlds, that worldviews create reality, and that all existence is interrelated. 

Mary Bunch is an Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University, and Canada Research Chair in Critical Media Arts Ecologies. Her research develops socio-political concepts through critical theory and media arts creation, informed by decolonizing, critical disability and queer frameworks. She has published articles in such journals as Psicanálise, Gênero, Fronteiras, Culture, Theory and Critique, the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Public, and Feminist Theory. Her SSHRC funded project Pluriversal Worlding with Extended Reality, develops a methodology of transition worldmaking that engages ‘world’ as a frame of reality, as well as being a narrative and aesthetic element of media arts works.