Moderator / Animé par: Andy HoustonLocation: Silver Room, Atlas Hotel • Charlotte Peters, “‘All Doing the Same Nothing’: Ghost Lights and Covid-19” This paper is offered as an ethnographic exploration of ghost lights’ symbolic uses during Covid-19 in English-speaking Canada. Research methodology is guided by the field of folkloristics, and aims [...]
Location: Imperial Room, Atlas Hotel • Participants: Jonathan Seinen, Taiwo Afolabi, Shannon Holmes, Wes Pearce, and Andrew Manera This roundtable will present current research within the Department of Theatre, offered as a welcome to those joining us in our city and on our campus to learn more about our ongoing [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Barry FreemanLocation: Silver Room, Atlas Hotel • Gabriel Friday, “Ar(c)tivism: Examining the ‘R’ as a Catalyst for Justice in Postcolonial Contexts” Artivism, the fusion of art and activism, has emerged as a potent force for justice in postcolonial societies, challenging systemic oppression and fostering transformative change. This [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Signy LynchLocation: Golden Room, Atlas Hotel • John Mũkonzi Mũsyoki, “Black and Indigenous Dialogue at the Dis/Junctions of Relational Possibilities” A critical Black agency question and negotiation arises at the dis/junction between Black and Indigenous people. The notion of ritual archive (pro)posed by Toyin Falola, a Nigerian [...]
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Location: Shu Box (Ridell Centre, University of Regina) Jennifer Nikolai, Andrew Denton, Study #6 Sixth in a series of short dance films that respond to the early moving image pioneers; The Lumiere Brothers’ experiments. This piece flips the representation of the gendered dancing subject from its original, produced in 1896. [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Hope McIntyreLocation: Silver Room, Atlas Hotel • Colleen Renihan and Mariah Horner, “Liminal Legacies: Temporality and Relationality in Transitional Care” Creative arts-based practices have been recognized as having the potential to help people facing life-threatening medical issues cope with sudden and often long-term hospitalization, a changing sense [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Sara SchroeterLocation: Golden Room, Atlas Hotel • Barry Freeman and Rebecca Burton, “PLEDGE@10: Inequities in the Repertoire of Theatre Training Programs in Canada” If you are a woman, two-spirit, trans, or non-binary (W2STNB) student studying acting at one of the 77 post-secondary schools offering theatre training [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Jennifer NikolaiLocation: Silver Room, Atlas Hotel • Mike Griffin, “Staging the Internal: An Exploration of Brain Injury Through Physical Theatre” This presentation will examine the research and development of The Mysterious Mind of Molly McGillicuddy, a new play that explores brain injury and related mental health issues [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Colleen RenihanLocation: Golden Room, Atlas Hotel • Kayla McIntyre, “Sapphic Sonics: Vancouver’s Lesbian Auditory Legacy” Queer ecologies and hauntology can surface through expressions in liminal space. An example, I will elaborate on further is Vancouver Co-Op Radio 102.7 CFRO-FM's The Lesbian Show (TLS). TLS was a [...]