Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Roberta Barker Bridget Baldwin, "Rita Reconstructed: The Queer Feminist Legacies of Rita MacNeil" Performer and songstress Rita MacNeil has long been dubbed “Cape Breton’s First Lady of Song”. Awarded both provincially and federally for her musical and cultural achievements, MacNeil’s performance career has tied her [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Andy Houston Kamrun Naher Liza, "Simple Theatre: A Space for Debate, Dialogue, Reflexivity, Dreaming the Impossible, and the Flight to Infinity" This panel paper presents a study in which my mentor envisioned a “simple theatre” that “allows debate, dialogue, reflexivity, dreaming the impossible” (Ahmed 218). This [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstracts: Kathleen Gallagher, "Theatre Workshops and Troubled Worlds" Paper #1 will introduce our 5-year SSHRC-funded ethnographic research project, The Drama Workshop: Collective discernment and artistic practice as relational pedagogies for an epoch of intersecting ecological, social, and economic crises (2025-2030), sharing its conceptual and theoretical grounding, [...]
Location: Oak Bay Marina Restaurant - 1327 Beach Dr, Victoria, BC Sponsored by the Professional Association of Canadian Theatre (PACT) Please join us at the Oak Bay Marina Restaurant for a banquet event serviced by Songhees Events and Catering. Recognitions and awards presentations will be delivered at this banquet. This [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Yasmine Kandil Emilia Hillyer, "The Fantasy of Antiseptic: Performing Rubbish Theory and Critiquing Monumental History via Community-Engaged Gender-Diverse Puppetry Practices" The “negative privilege” of low art forms like puppetry call out to the scapegoats of the modern moment: gender-diverse people. At a time when community-engagement [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Jill Carter Claire Borody, "Backwards into the Future: Observation of Past Performance-making Practice as a Means Forward" The conference theme Inheritance in Transition: Rehearsing Change for Theatre and Performance Futures aptly identifies the present as a time of shift and revision within the field of theatre [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: The Creative Community Experience (CCE) is an ensemble of actor-creators with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) affiliated with the non-profit organization Community Living Windsor. This praxis workshop introduces participants to the devising methodologies employed in the creation of The Big Production, a collaboratively devised performance developed by [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Moderator: Cassandre Chatonnier Pierre-Olivier Gaumond Alexandre GauthierTaylor Marie GrahamErin HurleySasha KovacsJean Murray-TanguayNicole Nolette
Location: Movement Room Abstract The last 50 years have been formative for Canadian theatre and performance studies and CATR. As we contemplate the next 50, we find ourselves facing multiple crises, both within our field and beyond: the increased precarization of work, the threat of funding cuts and attacks on [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Moderator: Carmen Alatorre Yasmine Kandil and Jena Mailloux, "Reimagined Places of ‘Home’ through Newcomer Immigrant Queer Journeys" Places, locations and experiences from the past are embodied and brought to life in places of the present, creating a reimagined hopeful future for newcomer queer immigrants and refugees. [...]