Dance Studies Association  October 14-17, 2021 Rutgers University/Hyatt Regency New Brunswick New Jersey, USA Adanna Kai Jones and Jeff Friedman (program co-chairs), Julia M. Ritter (local arrangements chair) The DSA 2021 Program Committee collectively re-imagines this international conference as a vessel that builds, explores, collaborates, performs, and agitates current practices [...]

21 Black Futures  Call for Student Participants Seeding the Future A partnership between Obsidian Theatre Company, CBC Arts, York University, Brock University ** As part of Obsidian Theatre Company’s 21 Black Futures season, we are seeking 21 Black theatre students from across Canada to offer creative responses to 21 monodramas [...]

Call for Panelists: Pandemic Pedagogy Pop-Up If it were safe to return to face-to-face teaching tomorrow, how would the past year inform your pedagogy? The pandemic has forced a great deal of creativity and an increased level of collaboration between colleagues, between institutions, and between faculties and their university’s centres [...]

Dear CATR members, A gentle reminder that the deadline for nominating 2020 CATR Lifetime Achievement Awards and Honorary Memberships is fast approaching. Honorary membership is awarded annually by the Association to a person who has made a significant and sustained contribution to Canadian theatre. Typically, the person selected is affiliated [...]

Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) 2021 Scholarly Awards The Richard Plant, Jean-Cléo Godin, Ann Saddlemyer, and Patrick O’Neill Awards Guidelines & Call for Nominations Each year, CATR recognizes the accomplishments of its members and others in our field with a number of scholarships and awards. Nominations for the Richard [...]

OTTAWA, ON – January 21, 2021 – Since 1988, the Ottawa Arts Council has awarded more than $340,000 to exceptional artists and to those who have shown outstanding commitment to the arts in the Ottawa community through a program that has grown to seven awards. For the fourteenth edition of [...]

Elections for the CATR/ACRT Board of Directors for 2021 will take place this March 1st to 15th, 2021. Nominations are sought for a two-year term (2021-2023) for the following positions:Atlantic Region Ontario Prairie Region British Columbia 1X Graduate Student Representative Francophone Representative   Members of the Board are responsible for determining [...]

You’re Invited to the Virtual Launch of Theatre Research in Canada 41.2! Join us Thursday, January 21 at 6pm EST for the virtual launch of Theatre Research in Canada’s special issue Performance for/by/with Young People in Canada! Enjoy readings from the authors of five articles in the issue who will be answering the question “Why does [...]

Call for Papers A Special Issue of Dance Chronicle: Critical Institutional StudiesEdited by Olive Mckeon and Clare LidburyDeadline for submissions: June 1, 2021Contact email: omckeon@smith.edu, C.Lidbury@wlv.ac.uk We will be editing a special issue of the journal focused on the systematic inquiry into the workings of dance institutions. “There is more to dance than meets [...]

January 2, 2021 Dear members of the CATR, MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! January 8th, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) *see link below* CATR E-roundtable on Indigenous Theatre and Research Methods Organizer and Moderator Deneh'Cho Thompson  The guests are Jill Carter, PhD, Assistant Professor (Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies; Transitional Year [...]