In- Person Location: Teesri Duniya Theatre, Cité-des-Hospitalières building, 251 Pine Ave W https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cit%C3%A9-des-Hospitali%C3%A8res/@45.512113,-73.5778369,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x1564ff48cdb1382c?sa=X&ved=1t:2428&ictx=111 In-Person Session 14:00 EDT Meet and Greet 14:30-17:00 EDT Special Board Meeting
Performer: Alexander Lazaridis Ferguson Location: Zoom Room B Link to Zoom Room B Online Session This performance is an online listening and discussion around an excerpt from my theatre company's podcast series, 'The Refrain: Getting in Sync with the World.' The series examines the philosophical and spiritual discourse and practices [...]
Moderator: David Fancy Location: Zoom Room A Link to Zoom Room A Online Session ‘Accidentally’ Decolonizing Theatre: Notes from an Experience of Directing a Non-Verbal Play In this paper, I aim to show how restrictions on the availability of resources can often lead to pleasant and surprising dramaturgical discoveries, and [...]
Moderator: Michelle Macarthur Location: Zoom Room A Link to Zoom Room A Online Session Crowdsourcing the Canon: (Re)Imagining Global Performance Art Histories Against the Grain Since 2019, we have been coediting a new textbook for Routledge’s 50 Key series: 50 Key Performance Artists. While it was easy enough initially to [...]
Curator: Taiwo Afolabi and Deniz Ünsal Location: Zoom Room B Link to Zoom Room B Online Session Sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre and the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, C-SET This curated panel brings three distinct yet connected research papers focusing on justice, ethics of [...]
Moderator: Shelley Liebembuk Location: Zoom Room A Link to Zoom Room A Online Session Exploring human-elephant conflict through playwriting in Kenya Set against the backdrop of apparent human disconnect from nature as a cause for degradation of the planet, this article focuses on the human-elephant conflict in areas of rural [...]
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Committee Chair & Convenor: Robin Whittaker Location: Zoom Room C Link to Zoom Room C Online Session Open to all conference participants. CATR's Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression (ARAO) Committee discusses CATR's recent ARAO actions and seeks input on future activities. For an overview of the CATR ARAO Committee’s work and future [...]
Moderator: Location: Zoom Room C Link to Zoom Room C Online Session Immersive Theater as Leadership and Leading Social Justice Goat in the Road Productions has staged three immersive theater pieces set in historic houses in New Orleans’ French Quarter, the first opening in spring of 2018 and the most [...]
Convenors: Yana Meerzon, Sheetala Bhat and Stephen Elliot Location: Zoom Room B Link to Zoom Room B Online Session This working group aims to bring together Canadian and international specialists in theatre and performance studies and other disciplines to examine the complex impact of global migration and to critique the [...]