Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract Convened by Jessica Riley and Heather Davis-Fisch, this roundtable considers the formation of Canadian theatre studies as a discipline, with emphasis on the values that informed its founding and foundations. Like the foundations of a house, the formative values and assumptions of our discipline [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Moderator: Robin Whittaker (Co-Organizer) Participants: Jenn Boulay (Co-Organizer), Alan Filewod, Thea Fitz-James, Jess Riley, Shelley Scott Abstract This roundtable examines the evolution of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) through the perspectives of graduate students then and now. A multigenerational discussion, the roundtable will feature graduate students [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract Over the last five-plus years, Canadian theatre and performance studies has seen a surge of collaborative, often large-scale research projects focused on EDDI issues. These projects share several important goals, including: to centre voices from historically marginalized communities across the artist/scholar spectrum; to uplift [...]
Location: Vicious Poodle - 726 Johnson Street, Victoria BC www.viciouspoodle.com https://maps.app.goo.gl/uMAzPx1X8PeNbBHo9 8pm - onwards
The participation of the Git Hayetsk Dancers is sponsored by the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences EDID Initiatives Fund. Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Please join us at this performance of internationally renowned Northwest Coast First Nations mask-dancing group, led by Mike Dangeli, and Sm Łoodm 'Nüüsm (Dr. Mique’l [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Jenny Salisbury Kelsey Jacobson, "Theatre People: Constructions of Audiences as Consumers, Co-Creators, and Curators in Memory and Archive" Recollections from audience members suggest that audiencing, and the personal archiving of theatrical experiences, can be a deeply impactful process of identity-creation, one that is rooted in [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Sara Schroeter Islay Burgess, "(Trans)substantiation and Monstrosity: Consecrating Theatrical Liminality as Additional Liveness" A longstanding investigatory fixation and debate of theatrical scholarship is that of the precise nature of “liveness” in its relation to theatre. This paper argues that if theatrical text is framed as living [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: Page to Stage is a workshop facilitated by Tara Morris (Suwsiw), a PhD student in Theatre and hul'q'umi'num'. This offering invites participants into a transformative educational framework where knowledge is shared through story, and tools are rooted in Indigenous cultural knowledge and language.Grounded in hul'q'umi'num' language reawakening [...]
Location: Movement Room Moderator: Julia Henderson Chantal Bilodeau, "Daring to Be Solarpunks" British philosopher Mark Fisher wrote, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” In the theatre, this translates into a failure to envision a thriving post-capitalist, post-colonial, post-climate future; instead, offerings on [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstract: Recent PhD graduates, Dr Taylor Marie Graham and Dr Lauren McLean have solicited and compiled a series of important personal essays focused on the graduate student experience in the theatre in Canada. Graduate school can often be an isolating experience; however, those feelings of isolation [...]