One week to go - DONATE TO THE CATR GRANTS! Our generous membership has donated $1,350 thus far towards the CATR Grants campaign. With one week to go, we are hoping to fund two more scholars by raising an additional $650. Help us meet our target and join an illustrious [...]
Reimagine and Rebuild the Prairie Theatre Sector Taiwo Afolabi (University of Regina) and CATR e-initiatives 2021-2022 are proud to present "Re-imagine and rebuild the prairie theatre sector" - a web discussion series of 10 sessions that will focus on critical issues pertinent to advancing the ecology of theatre on the [...]
A University of Regina theatre professor and practitioner is inviting artists and theatrecompanies across the Prairie provinces to join him in reimagining theatre for the post-pandemicworld. Nigeria-born Taiwo Afolabi, whose career has seen him developing theatre in over a dozencountries across four continents, moved from British Columbia to Saskatchewan with [...]
Dear colleagues, We are writing to invite you and your students to join us this Fall in a durational reading of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report (TRC). In the wake of the horrific revelations of unmarked grave sites, and with more still likely to emerge, we feel that it [...]
DONATE TO THE CATR GRANTS!All donations collected through CATR's Canada Helps page until September 15, 2021, will help us fund new research work by emerging scholars. The aim of the CATR Grants program is to diversify the Association’s programming while extending its impact beyond the annual conference site and time. [...]
[Le français suit] Thank you to those who participated in Crisis and Recovery: Theatre and Performance Before and After the Global Pandemic, the 2021 online conference of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR/ACRT) and the Société québécoise d’études théâtrales (SQET). We are contacting you now to ask you to please fill out [...]
Call for Proposals Canadian Theatre Review Issue #192 “Ethics & Socially Engaged Theatre” Editors: Taiwo Afolabi (University of Regina) & Yasmine Kandil (University of Victoria) This issue will focus mainly on the interplay between our intellectual understanding of ethics and the practice of ethics in socially engaged theatre. Between those [...]
Dear members of CATR, It is my great pleasure as President of our organization to officially announce the winners of the 2021 CATR Awards. I would like to thank Keren Zaiontz and Kimberly Skye Richards for their leadership in gathering and spearheading the CATR awards team this year. Secondly, I [...]
Moira Day, University of Saskatchewan I have been asked to say a few words of tribute to a long-time friend and associate of our Association, Chris Johnson, who passed away suddenly at the age of 76 over the past week. My understanding is that colleagues from Winnipeg will be talking [...]
Dear CATR members, Thank you for attending our AGM on June 28, 2021. As promised, we share several important links and points of information: First, the representatives from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences have a couple links regarding their EDID initiatives that are posted here along with [...]