Location: Zoom Room B / Salle Zoom B https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5324702280?pwd=yuo077u9YJNihv59FvXxbosHNeVpvv.1 • Sungwon Cho, “Eating the Other: Food-Performance Aesthetics in Asian Canadian Theatre” In the years following COVID-19 lockdown, there has been an emerging pattern in Asian Canadian performance which positions food as a central object across different works; dinner and a show [...]
Location: Zoom Room A / Salle Zoom A https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8075386377?pwd=QGMSB3uhyUxwIbvOIzkUanoMoqRkOX.1 • Julia Henderson and John Jack Paterson, “Ageing in the Performing Arts Test Kitchen: A Performance Analysis of Anti-Ageist Active Access Design” The number and quality of opportunities for theatre professionals (performers, directors, stage managers, designers etc.) diminishes as they age, limiting [...]
Location: Zoom Room A / Salle Zoom A https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8075386377?pwd=QGMSB3uhyUxwIbvOIzkUanoMoqRkOX.1 TRAPPED IN AMBER: The story of how a Mexican-American and Jewish-American Director got involved in writing a play about the history of Gdansk, Poland and how the play was first produced and given a staged reading in English, and subsequent full production [...]
Location: Zoom Room A / Salle Zoom A https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8075386377?pwd=QGMSB3uhyUxwIbvOIzkUanoMoqRkOX.1 • Sunita Nigam, "Governing Better Futures: Piloting New Approaches to Equitable Governance in Academia and Beyond"• Jeff Gagnon, "Community Driven Research at SBF/MSMA: Scaling Up Relational Ethics" • Luciano Frizzera, “Archiving Better Futures: Platform Governance and Data Sovereignty in Community-Driven Archive [...]
Location: Zoom Room C / Salle Zoom C https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2520107866?pwd=Z7R43MTNhjgQvzQPTQjuzkaQYq7H91.1 • Kara Flanagan and Joe McCoy, “Acting Curriculum to Travel Across Interior and Exterior Realities and Liminal States of Being” The practice of acting moves between interior and exterior realities and engages liminal states of being. However, working across such large [...]
Location: Zoom Room B / Salle Zoom B https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5324702280?pwd=yuo077u9YJNihv59FvXxbosHNeVpvv.1 • Session co-organizers: Christine Balt and Kathleen Gallagher This 90-minute roundtable session invites participants to grapple with the ‘discontents’ of teaching, learning, and creating in our climate emergency. Reckoning with an increasingly more emphatic turn towards authoritarianism in political life, and [...]
Location: Zoom Room C / Salle Zoom C https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2520107866?pwd=Z7R43MTNhjgQvzQPTQjuzkaQYq7H91.1 • Session co-organizers: Cameron Crookston, Lisa Aikman, and Matt Jones This round table will examine how elements of theatre training and practice can be applied to pedagogical and teacher training contexts beyond the world of theatre and invite theatre artists in [...]
Location: Zoom Room C / Salle Zoom C https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2520107866?pwd=Z7R43MTNhjgQvzQPTQjuzkaQYq7H91.1 • Session co-organizers: Amanda Wager, Laura Cranmer, Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta, and Tara Morris, In Canada geographical categories pinned First Nations populations to defined areas, subject to federal laws seemingly sprung whole cloth from the settler imagination of the alien other informed by [...]
Location: Zoom Room B / Salle Zoom B https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5324702280?pwd=yuo077u9YJNihv59FvXxbosHNeVpvv.1 • Sarah Ashford Hart and Janneth Aldana, “Community Theatre in Colombia: Origins and Trajectories” There has been renewed national interest in socially-engaged arts since Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement, but the legacy of community theatre is largely ignored in pedagogy and scholarship. This [...]
Location: Zoom Room B / Salle Zoom B https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5324702280?pwd=yuo077u9YJNihv59FvXxbosHNeVpvv.1 • Megan De Roover and Kim McLeod, “A Space of Possibility: Theatre’s Place in the Landscape of Experiential Learning” Experiential Learning (EL) can be construed as a liminal space, bridging the classroom and the community, the academic and the professional, the personal [...]