August 11, 2020 Dear Members of CATR, The 2020 conference has just concluded. It has been an unprecedented event and a remarkable success, a huge undertaking, and an impactful achievement! I personally learned so very much, and for this I am deeply grateful. I would like to invite everybody to [...]
August 9, 2020 Last day of Partition/Ensemble: Lucky #13 (en français ci-dessous) Dear P/E Participants, It’s hard to believe that the Partition/Ensemble symposium comes to an end today. Our collaborator and advisor, Peronik Hébert Basile, does us the honour of closing this symposium in a silent presentation that ushers us into her [...]
August 8, 2020 Dear participants, Did you get a chance to read about the plays that Playwrights Canada Press and Talonbooks have put on display for us? If you haven’t done so, check out the Symposium Workbook to discover inspiring works by Bilal Baig, Pascal Brullemans, Marie Clements, Dave Deveau, [...]
August 7, 2020 Hello everyone, The symposium is almost over! Until then, have you paid a visit to Jean-Paul Quéinnec, Andrée-Anne Giguère, and Pierre Tremblay-Thériault’s Habitaciones: Amazonian Phonography? Sponsored, for the occasion, by the Cole Foundation, their 'cylinder’ will allow you to create your own heterogeneous partitions by positioning yourself [...]
August 6, 2020 Dear participants, The symposium is what it is thanks to people working "backstage." Among them, Linna Qin, our super assistant who describes here the making of the event workbook. Good job and thank you, Linna! Two live events will take place tomorrow: 1) While Anand Rajaram’s performance had [...]
August 5, 2020 Hello everyone,First, please note that Julie Sermon's keynote, entitled "Partitional Regions and the Distribution of the Sensible," is now available in three formats: video (French and LSQ), transcript (French and English), and podcast (English). You can access these documents here:https://partitionensemble2020.com/contrees-partitionnelles-et-partages-du-sensible-partitional-regions-and-the-distribution-of-the-sensible/ Also, the session "Performing Feminism in Networked [...]
August 5, 2020 Over the past few months the CATR board has been having important and long overdue conversations about race and racism within our organization, the institutions within which we work, and our respective communities of practice. In light of our discussions, CATR president Yana Meerzon has struck a [...]
August 5, 2020 Playwright and poet, Daniel David Moses, was born on February 18, 1952. Moses, who was Delaware, grew up on a dairy farm on Six Nations of the Grand River in southern Ontario. He died on Monday, July 13. He was 68 years old. Annie: As I ponder the [...]
August 4, 2020 Good day Partition/Ensemble participants! How can we trace the dialogue between sound, light, play, and video? How can we transcribe the space left to the unpredictable, the unsayable, the sensitive, in the creation of a work? In what ways and to what degree can we evolve the [...]
August 3, 2020 Time obviously flies: the second week of the symposium is already well on its way! Emerging scholars, take note that the following three events are organized especially for you: Panel "Careers Beyond the Academy / Table ronde sur les parcours alternatifs" (bilingual, with same-language captioning) and two [...]