Location: PNX138 (This session is closed to general attendance) 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 [...]
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 [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Moderator: Robin Whittaker (Co-Organizer) Participants: Jenn Boulay (Co-Organizer), Alan Filewod, Thea Fitz-James, Jess Riley, Shelley Scott Abstract This roundtable examines the evolution of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) through the perspectives of graduate students then and now. A multigenerational discussion, the roundtable will feature graduate students [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract Over the last five-plus years, Canadian theatre and performance studies has seen a surge of collaborative, often large-scale research projects focused on EDDI issues. These projects share several important goals, including: to centre voices from historically marginalized communities across the artist/scholar spectrum; to uplift [...]
Location: Vicious Poodle - 726 Johnson Street, Victoria BC www.viciouspoodle.com https://maps.app.goo.gl/uMAzPx1X8PeNbBHo9 8pm - onwards
Location: Vicious Poodle - 726 Johnson Street, Victoria BC www.viciouspoodle.com https://maps.app.goo.gl/uMAzPx1X8PeNbBHo9
The participation of the Git Hayetsk Dancers is sponsored by the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences EDID Initiatives Fund. Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Please join us at this performance of internationally renowned Northwest Coast First Nations mask-dancing group, led by Mike Dangeli, and Sm Łoodm 'Nüüsm (Dr. Mique’l [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Jenny Salisbury Kelsey Jacobson, "Theatre People: Constructions of Audiences as Consumers, Co-Creators, and Curators in Memory and Archive" Recollections from audience members suggest that audiencing, and the personal archiving of theatrical experiences, can be a deeply impactful process of identity-creation, one that is rooted in [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Sara Schroeter Islay Burgess, "(Trans)substantiation and Monstrosity: Consecrating Theatrical Liminality as Additional Liveness" A longstanding investigatory fixation and debate of theatrical scholarship is that of the precise nature of “liveness” in its relation to theatre. This paper argues that if theatrical text is framed as living [...]