The Department of Dramatic Arts at Brock University invites you to the first online presentation of Transformation and Adaptation in Theatre Pedagogy and Training, a new series presented as part of the 2021-22 Walker Cultural Leaders Series: BLACK CANADIAN THEATRE LEADERSHIP: EMBRACING TRANSFORMATION AND ADAPTATION Sept. 20, 2021 — 6:30 to [...]
We are happy to announce that Rebels and Revels: A Photo Exhibit of the Theatre of the Middle East has been extended through December 2021! The exhibit offers access to 58 rare photos from six countries. The collection shows the link between traditional performance and the avant-garde sensibilities of the 1950s [...]
One week to go - DONATE TO THE CATR GRANTS! Our generous membership has donated $1,350 thus far towards the CATR Grants campaign. With one week to go, we are hoping to fund two more scholars by raising an additional $650. Help us meet our target and join an illustrious [...]
Reimagine and Rebuild the Prairie Theatre Sector Taiwo Afolabi (University of Regina) and CATR e-initiatives 2021-2022 are proud to present "Re-imagine and rebuild the prairie theatre sector" - a web discussion series of 10 sessions that will focus on critical issues pertinent to advancing the ecology of theatre on the [...]
A University of Regina theatre professor and practitioner is inviting artists and theatrecompanies across the Prairie provinces to join him in reimagining theatre for the post-pandemicworld. Nigeria-born Taiwo Afolabi, whose career has seen him developing theatre in over a dozencountries across four continents, moved from British Columbia to Saskatchewan with [...]
Dear colleagues, We are writing to invite you and your students to join us this Fall in a durational reading of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report (TRC). In the wake of the horrific revelations of unmarked grave sites, and with more still likely to emerge, we feel that it [...]
DONATE TO THE CATR GRANTS!All donations collected through CATR's Canada Helps page until September 15, 2021, will help us fund new research work by emerging scholars. The aim of the CATR Grants program is to diversify the Association’s programming while extending its impact beyond the annual conference site and time. [...]
[Le français suit] Thank you to those who participated in Crisis and Recovery: Theatre and Performance Before and After the Global Pandemic, the 2021 online conference of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR/ACRT) and the Société québécoise d’études théâtrales (SQET). We are contacting you now to ask you to please fill out [...]
Call for Proposals Canadian Theatre Review Issue #192 “Ethics & Socially Engaged Theatre” Editors: Taiwo Afolabi (University of Regina) & Yasmine Kandil (University of Victoria) This issue will focus mainly on the interplay between our intellectual understanding of ethics and the practice of ethics in socially engaged theatre. Between those [...]
Dear members of CATR, It is my great pleasure as President of our organization to officially announce the winners of the 2021 CATR Awards. I would like to thank Keren Zaiontz and Kimberly Skye Richards for their leadership in gathering and spearheading the CATR awards team this year. Secondly, I [...]