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Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address/Mot de bienvenue et conférence invitee – Jill Carter

Robin Whittaker2025-05-17T10:02:38+00:00May 17, 2025|

Location: Zoom Room A https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8075386377?pwd=QGMSB3uhyUxwIbvOIzkUanoMoqRkOX.1 Online Session Working Title: When They Left the Dust Remembered: Indigenous Land-Based Dramaturgy / Connection / Disconnection / Cellular Memory/ Metis performer-playwright P.J. Prudat’s latest work in development kiskisiwin nimihko/my blood remembers is a throbbing meditation on the dizzying constellation of cells that feed, form, [...]

Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address – /Mot de bienvenue et conférence invitee – Moira Day

Robin Whittaker2025-05-16T13:29:30+00:00May 16, 2025|

Location: Imperial Room, Atlas Hotel

Keynote: Yasmine Kandil

Robin Whittaker2024-04-13T00:38:06+00:00April 13, 2024|

Location: Room 1140 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour- Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session CATR 2024 Conference Keynote Dr. Yasmine Kandil Relational Models of Staging Justice through Celebratory Theatre This presentation is about research that addresses the immediate needs of [...]

Welcoming Remarks & Keynote – Joel Bernbaum

Robin Whittaker2024-04-11T10:40:04+00:00April 11, 2024|

Location: Zoom Room A Link to Zoom Room A Online Session Sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre and the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, C-SET Joel's presentation will explore the potential of verbatim theatre to be used as a community development tool. It examines how social [...]

Shauntay Grant: “Finding Her”: On Wom❤️nhood, Blackness, and the Solo Play

Robin Whittaker2023-06-05T21:17:42+00:00June 5, 2023|

“FINDING HER”: ON WOM❤️NHOOD, BLACKNESS, AND THE SOLO PLAY Location: Joseph Strug Concert Hall, Dalhousie Arts Centre Live English/French Translation will be provided Hybrid Session Sponsored by the University of Toronto, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies In this performative keynote, playwright and performance artist Shauntay Grant moves between [...]

Mike and Mique’l Dangeli – Dancing Sovereignty

Robin Whittaker2023-06-05T20:55:23+00:00June 5, 2023|

Location: Keynote Zoom Room Live English/French Translation will be provided ASL Interpretation will be provided Mike Dangeli Affiliation: Git Hayetsk Dancers Mique’l Dangeli Affiliation: Git Hayetsk Dancers/University of the Fraser Valley Dancing Sovereignty In this keynote presentation, Mike and Mique’l Dangeli will show examples of Git Hayetsk Dancers’ performances. They [...]

shalan joudry – KOQM and Talkback

Robin Whittaker2023-05-18T14:25:38+00:00May 18, 2023|

Moderators: Roberta Barker, Heather Davis-Fisch, and Kailin Wright Location: Keynote Zoom Room Live English/French Translation will be provided ASL Interpretation will be provided. Image credit: shalan joudry Conference Welcome and Land Acknowledgements, followed by a streamed performance of KOQM by shalan joudry (https://www.shalanjoudry.com/koqm) and a talkback with joudry. shalan joudry [...]