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 [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Moderator: Nicole Nolette 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 [...]
Location: PNX138 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 [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Alex Ferrone Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, "Randia’s Quiet Theatre: Performing Care and Activism with a Romani Elder" Drawing on my book, Randia’s Quiet Theatre: Performing Care and Activism with a Romani Elder, this paper examines performance ethnography and autofiction as political sites for imagining alternative futures, more-than-human [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Jennifer Roberts-Smith Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, "Playing Race Critically: Towards Exploring Embodied Negotiation of Racialized Theatrical Space" At an existential level, I have been undone by the colonial inheritance we call Canadian theatre. As a working professional of colour, I have been made through innocuous and injurious ways [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: Trans theatre challenges reified, cisnormative discourses that currently dominate media, political, and health contexts. While these prevailing discourses promote a single, unified version of transness, often filled with misinformation (Billard, 2024), trans theatre offers opportunities to embody alternative perspectives through genre agnosticism, fiction-as-autobiography, and non-hierarchical models of [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract: A birch bark canoe repair, feminist ephemera rekindled, scattered leaflets in a Quebec village, Edmonton in beadwork, Indigenous Passion plays and Chinese opera furnishings in the Pacific Northwest, Shakespeare and spitballs at Stratford, scripts of care for Disability performance, traces of labour and love [...]
Location: PNX138 Abstract The tradition of collecting data from and shared by audiences has been a key factor in the growth and development of audience studies in theatre and performance (Sauter 2019, Snyder-Young and Omasta 2022, Freshwater 2009). And yet, there is still much work to be done, particularly in [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract Failure is a primary part of any learning process, and many students are more concerned with getting a good grade vs. engaging in the process of learning, which must leave room for mistakes and failure. Rather than putting learning first, students make grades their priority and are [...]
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 [...]