Location: Room 0030 – Pavilion de la Faculté de l’aménagement – 2940 ch. de la Côte Ste-Catherine – Université de Montréal
(Building 36 on the UdM Map)
In-Person
In its final year, the Environmental Stewardship in Theatre and Performance Education Working Group will create a Guidebook on Fostering Environmental Stewardship in Theatre and Performance Training Programs. It will include recommendations on ecologizing syllabi, forging strategic partnerships across the university, and advocating for climate and ecological responsibility in short and long-term departmental planning.
In our first two year working together, the working group identified many resources for greening theatre and performance practices, as well as broader epistemic shifts that could be implemented in order for theatre and performance makers to become more responsible environmental stewards. In order to disseminate our research to date, and support curricular adjustments across theatre and performance training programs, we would like to launch the Guidebook at the 2024 CATR conference.
We are open to discussing with conference organizers how to best fit an event or launch of the Guidebook into the conference schedule. The ideal would be to have an opportunity to talk about the Guidebook and point to some of its key ideas to the full conference gathering. It could be a lunch event or part of another larger conference event. If there is not time in the schedule for a full event, then even a 10-minute pitch/announcement about the Guidebook at a time when all attendees are gathered would be appreciated, and then a 60-90 minute working group slot in the schedule for those who want to join us to explore the Guidebook in more depth.
The Environmental Stewardship in Theatre and Performance Education working group has a mission to re-imagine how we teach, document, and prepare students for sustainable practices in theatre and performance that respond to the unfolding climate crisis.