Dinner (on your own) / Souper (à vous)
5:30–6:30pm CST / 17h30–19h30 HNC
Performance in a Stormy Age
Moderator: Natalie Alvarez Hybrid Session Location: Room 409, Dalhousie Arts Centre Performances of ‘Shoring up’: Infrastructural Imaginings of an Uncertain Future This presentation takes the “performing shores” prompt as an opening to explore how performance represents and engages with the infrastructural forms that “shore up” or support contemporary life. Performance, as [...]
Channeling Indigenous Stories Onstage
Location: Room 406, Dalhousie Arts Centre Moderator: Heather Davis-Fisch Sponsored by The Cole Foundation Remapping Blyth in 2017: Indigenous Performance Confronts Canada 150 My dissertation-in-process is a rural feminist and decolonial historical analysis of the Blyth Festival Theatre. Since 1975, Blyth has produced an entire summer season of Canadian plays (except [...]
Lunch and Launch – Hosted by Playwrights Canada Press
Location: Fifth Floor Atrium, Dalhousie Arts Centre Vegan, dairy-free, and gluten-free options will be available for each lunch. Please go here by Friday, June 9 to let us know of any dietary requirements or preferences you may have for your lunches, and we will strive to make sure they are in place [...]
Shauntay Grant: “Finding Her”: On Wom❤️nhood, Blackness, and the Solo Play
“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 [...]
Land Acknowledgment and Welcoming Remarks
Location: Joseph Strug Concert Hall, Dalhousie Arts Centre Live English/French Translation will be provided Hybrid Session
Frequencies – HEIST (Second Performance)
Location: Large Rehearsal Studio, Dalhousie Arts Centre HEIST is presenting their critically acclaimed performance work Frequencies at the Dalhousie Arts Centre (the main conference venue), exclusively for members of CATR. The show will take place from 19:00-20:15 on each night. There will be approximately 40 tickets available per show, free [...]
Frequencies – HEIST (First Performance)
Location: Large Rehearsal Studio, Dalhousie Arts Centre HEIST is presenting their critically acclaimed performance work Frequencies at the Dalhousie Arts Centre (the main conference venue), exclusively for members of CATR. The show will take place from 19:00-20:15 on each night. There will be approximately 40 tickets available per show, free [...]
CATR Welcome Pub Night
Location: East of Grafton Tavern, 1580 Argyle Street, Halifax, NS (Please drop by at any time!) Website: www.rcr.ca/restaurants/east-of-grafton-tavern/ Click here for the location on Google Maps The conference will kick off with CATR’s traditional pre-conference pub night, which will be held at the East of Grafton Tavern at 1580 Argyle [...]
Curating Safe Spaces (Plenary Session Part Two)
Location: Zoom Room A ASL Interpretation will be provided ALL CATR conference attendees warmly invited to participate