Founders and Past Presidents Cocktail Party
University Club
Longtable: Futures of the Field: Student Respondents to CATR50
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre
Paper Panel 27: Pedagogies for Change
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: [TBA] Claire Fogal, "Relational Performance Pedagogy as Creative Inheritance" This paper shares the key findings of my 2024 UBC dissertation “Relational Performance Pedagogy: Decroux and Grotowski based innovations in Western Canada.” The project was personal, investigating the entwined training inheritance I’ve received from my father [...]
Paper Panel 26: Assembly, Authority & Encounter
Location: Design Room Moderator: [TBA] Tracy Ross, "ART/IF/ACTS: Rehearsing Embodied Futures in University Space" From my overlapping positions as lecturer, doctoral student, artist, and parent, I trace the worn paths of a corporate university where exhaustion, disconnection, and “hope circuits” are frayed. My doctoral work asks: how might we re-map [...]
Praxis 11: Dementia and Performance: Creative Co-Creation Method
Location: PNX140 Abstract: Over the past decade, participatory arts initiatives involving people with dementia have grown significantly across North America and Europe. Recent scholarship emphasizes the importance of involving people living with dementia as active, creative consultants and co-creators, rather than positioning them as passive recipients of arts-based programming. In [...]
Curated Panel 9: Staging Better Futures/Mettre en scène de meilleurs avenirs: Transforming the inheritances of Canadian theatre higher education
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstract: This curated panel will present the ongoing work of Staging Better Futures/Mettre en scène de meilleurs avenirs, a cross–Canada, industry-academic partnership fostering decolonization, anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and access (DC/AR/EDIA) in post-secondary theatre education and funded by a SSHRC Partnership Grant (2023-30). SBF/MSMA responds [...]
Seminar 4: Theatre as Service
Location: PNX141 Abstract This working group gathers artists and academics around the provocation that theatre is a form of service. Inspired by Audre Lorde’s well-known contention that “poetry is not a luxury”, this working group asks what theatre does in the larger cultural and economic landscape. Drawing from Alex Sarian’s [...]