Location: Zoom Room C https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2520107866?pwd=Z7R43MTNhjgQvzQPTQjuzkaQYq7H91.1 Moderator: Robin C. Whittaker • Marcia Blumberg, “Staging the Liminality of Exile in Janusz Glowacki's Antigone in New York” Staging the Liminality of Exile in Janusz Glowacki’s Antigone in New York (1992).Liminality is a state of transition or in-between-ness, marked by disruption, uncertainty, or disorientation. It acknowledges [...]
Location: Zoom Room A https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8075386377?pwd=QGMSB3uhyUxwIbvOIzkUanoMoqRkOX.1 Online Session • Christine Balt, “How to Thrive in a Crisis: Generating the ‘Conditions of Possibility’ for Living Well (Enough) in Drama Spaces” This paper engages with ‘thriving’ as a productive concept for thinking about ‘living well’ amid the many ‘economies of abandonment’ of our [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Location: Zoom Room B / Salle Zoom B https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5324702280?pwd=yuo077u9YJNihv59FvXxbosHNeVpvv.1 • Michelle MacArthur, “Making a Stink: Feminist Killjoy Criticism and the Case of Women Against Sexist Humour” In April 1977, just a week into Tamahnous Theatre’s Vancouver run of Eunuchs of the Forbidden City, local area feminists raised a stink. Protesting the [...]