Leader: Emily Rollie Location: ONLINE - TBA Online Session The field of intimacy choreography and direction has evolved and veritably exploded in recent years as more and more theatre artists, companies, and institutions recognize the import and necessity of creating a culture of consent in rehearsal spaces. While much of [...]
Leader: Lib Spry Location: Studio II, Concordia University In-Person Session As a practical, playful way to look at how to activate settlers to think about justice here on Turtle Island, I am proposing the playing of ¡Unsettling! which was my research-creation thesis in Cultural Studies at Queens and built on [...]
Curator: Taiwo Afolabi Location: Room 0028 - Pavilion de la Faculté de l’aménagement - 2940 ch. de la Côte Ste-Catherine - Université de Montréal (Building 36 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Panelists: Garrett and Kimberley Richards Sponsored by the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET) and Department of Utopian [...]
Moderator: Kathryn Bracht Location: Room 0028 - Pavilion de la Faculté de l’aménagement - 2940 ch. de la Côte Ste-Catherine - Université de Montréal (Building 36 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session In launching a new BFA in Devised Performance & Theatre Creation in 2022 “designed to support and encourage [...]
Moderator: Kelsey Blair Location: Room 1411 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour- Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Sponsored by the Department of Theatre - University of Ottawa Performing in Response to the Anthropocene In this presentation I argue that there [...]
Moderator: Conrad Alexandrowicz Location: Room 1411 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour - Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Sponsored by the Department of English - McGill University Queer characters on the Maltese stage in the 1970s and 1980s This presentation [...]
Moderator: Fraser Steven Location: Room 443 (Room C) In-Person Session “Twenty-two. Copypasta is meant to ruin every last bit of originality. Twenty-three. Copypasta is meant to ruin every last bit of originality”: tracing the technology of posthuman opposition through Royal Court dramaturgy In his forward to Tim Price’s Teh Internet [...]
Curator: Naila Keleta-Mae Location: Room 1175 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour - Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Sponsored by the Department of Communication Arts - University of Waterloo We live in a world where institutionalized anti-Black racism is troublingly [...]
Moderator: Location: Room 1175 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour - Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Sponsored by the Department of Theatre - York University Performative Activism and the Anti-theatrical Prejudice The question of what constitutes legitimate expressions of progressive [...]
Co-Conveners: Sasha Kovacs, Heather Davis-Fisch, Matthew Tomkinson, and Laurel Green Location: Room 1177 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour- Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) Sponsored by the Department of Theatre - University of Victoria Participants: Crystal Chan and Peter Farbridge (Concordia): The Centre [...]