Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Moderator: Michelle MacArthur Speakers: Michelle MacArthur (mod.) with Lois Adamson, Yasmine Kandil, Paulina Grainger, Krystal Cook.
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Assocation for Theatre Research, all CATR/ACRT Members welcome.
Location: Design Room Moderator: Robert Motum Laurel Green and Derek Manderson, "The Assembly: A Game of Civic Decision-Making & Future Thinking for Young Audiences" Would you rather raise the minimum wage, or build a new hospital? Allocate funding for a rooftop garden, or build new housing developments? If charged with [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Jessica Riley Selena Couture, "Guinness World Records: Dazzle Camouflage & British Imperial Inheritances" If you search the Lək̓ʷəŋən , Xʷsepsəm and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples lands (aka Victoria, BC where CATR will be convening this year) in the Guinness World Records database, 20 entries pop up. These [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: Mariló Núñez, a Canadian scholar of the María Irene Fornés method, will lead a workshop on The Fornés Playwriting Method—a unique approach to playwriting developed by the acclaimed Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (1930–2018). This session introduces participants to Fornés’s transformative pedagogy, which challenges the dominant pedagogical [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Aster Brae and Matt Jones Mythography is an opera about place, family legacy, and belonging to the landscape currently known as the Rocky Mountains. Written and composed by Aster Brae and dramaturged by Matt Jones in 2024, the opera features dramatic confrontations with family mythologies set [...]
Location: Movement Room Moderator: Marlis Schweitzer Rebecca Harries, "A theatre tool for all: Boal’s Sculptures in Youth Engagement Settings" The theatre methods and ideas of Augusto Boal provides community youth leaders with tools that support inclusive and egalitarian values even when participants don’t have the capacity or resources to develop [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Roberta Barker Bridget Baldwin, "Rita Reconstructed: The Queer Feminist Legacies of Rita MacNeil" Performer and songstress Rita MacNeil has long been dubbed “Cape Breton’s First Lady of Song”. Awarded both provincially and federally for her musical and cultural achievements, MacNeil’s performance career has tied her [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Andy Houston Kamrun Naher Liza, "Simple Theatre: A Space for Debate, Dialogue, Reflexivity, Dreaming the Impossible, and the Flight to Infinity" This panel paper presents a study in which my mentor envisioned a “simple theatre” that “allows debate, dialogue, reflexivity, dreaming the impossible” (Ahmed 218). This [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstracts: Kathleen Gallagher, "Theatre Workshops and Troubled Worlds" Paper #1 will introduce our 5-year SSHRC-funded ethnographic research project, The Drama Workshop: Collective discernment and artistic practice as relational pedagogies for an epoch of intersecting ecological, social, and economic crises (2025-2030), sharing its conceptual and theoretical grounding, [...]