Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: Jenn Cole and Cara Mumford share three drafts of collaborative dance-oriented films oriented towards Indigenous futures arising from ancestral teachings and Land-based relationships. As artists share and talk through films with audience attendees, they curate a conversation about how performance can keep [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: In many Euro-Western cultures, modern reality causes disruption of emotional, physical and behavioural equilibria. Minds and bodies are constantly under stress, due to phenomena such as the degradation of the environment; the modification of food, and addiction(s) to technology. Hegemonic neoliberal capitalism [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: Over the past decade, participatory arts initiatives involving people with dementia have grown significantly across North America and Europe. Recent scholarship emphasizes the importance of involving people living with dementia as active, creative consultants and co-creators, rather than positioning them as passive recipients of arts-based programming. In [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: Trans theatre challenges reified, cisnormative discourses that currently dominate media, political, and health contexts. While these prevailing discourses promote a single, unified version of transness, often filled with misinformation (Billard, 2024), trans theatre offers opportunities to embody alternative perspectives through genre agnosticism, fiction-as-autobiography, and non-hierarchical models of [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: Page to Stage is a workshop facilitated by Tara Morris (Suwsiw), a PhD student in Theatre and hul'q'umi'num'. This offering invites participants into a transformative educational framework where knowledge is shared through story, and tools are rooted in Indigenous cultural knowledge and language.Grounded in hul'q'umi'num' language reawakening [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: Mariló Núñez, a Canadian scholar of the María Irene Fornés method, will lead a workshop on The Fornés Playwriting Method—a unique approach to playwriting developed by the acclaimed Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (1930–2018). This session introduces participants to Fornés’s transformative pedagogy, which challenges the dominant pedagogical [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: This hands-on praxis workshop explores how Kwak’wala language learning can be activated, embodied, and sustained through applied theatre processes grounded in both verbatim practice and local stories. Drawing inspiration from Augusto Boal’s emphasis on rehearsal as a site of transformation and from Michael Curtin’s work with drama [...]
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: PNX140 Abstract: Facilitated by Laurel Green with Derek Manderson. At CATR 2025, we convened a well-attended roundtable which invited panellists to model unique experimental play frames through which a collective of observers was transformed into an enthusiastic community of players. For CATR 2026, we propose facilitating a game design [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: It was a combination of of receiving difficult feedback from former students and a strong desire to integrate training and understandings of social justice education in tangible ways which led University of Windsor, School of Dramatic Art, Professors Meaghen Quinn and Lionel Walsh, in collaboration with independent [...]