Moderator / Animé par: Robin C. WhittakerLocation: Golden Room, Atlas Hotel • Leah Decter, “Remains: The Implicated Body, Collective Action and Stepping into Spaces of Monumental Absence-Presence” This paper discusses my performance, remains (2024), part of a series commissioned by Métis curator Erin Sutherland in which artists responded to the site [...]
Moderator / Animé par: T. Erin GruberLocation: Silver Room, Atlas Hotel • Nick Fangzheng Wang and Billy Kairan Guo, “Humanized Machine, Dehumanized Us: Exploring the Creation of an AI-Collaborated Scene” This paper explores the use of an AI platform in the bilingual play "They Must Have Smoked," performed at the Calgary [...]
Location: Shu Box (Riddell Centre, University of Regina) • Jonathan Seinen, Arthur Milner, Weyburn 1959 We would like to present a workshop staging/reading of Arthur Milner’s new play Weyburn 1959, set at the Weyburn Mental Hospital in Weyburn, Saskatchewan when it was world centre for research into the use of LSD in [...]
Location: Shu Box, University of Regina • Andrew Denton, Jennifer Nikolai, “Live and Digital Performance Processes: Choreographic Camera Dramaturgy” As creative collaborators in moving image and dance processes and performance/exhibition outcomes, our process departs from a dyadic relationship between moving subjects with recording devices; in the hands of the actor/dancer [...]
Location: RCMP Heritage Centre 5907 Dewdney Ave, Regina SK https://g.co/kgs/Hz5832j • Taiwo Afolabi, “Histories of (In)Justice in Canada. A Site Visit to the RCMP Museum” RCMP Heritage Centre Delivered under the “Staging Justice” research project, this site-specific praxis workshop will offer participants the opportunity to visit the RCMP Museum and [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Marie - Diane Clarke, Henri BiahéLocation: Imperial Room, Atlas Hotel Participants: Mamadou Bah, Jennifer Dawn Bishop, Gabrielle Dufresne, Émilie Lebel, Bruce McKay, Elom Kokou Nyonato Biographies Marie-Diane Clarke Directrice du Département des Langues, littératures et études culturelles à l’Université de laSaskatchewan, MARIE-DIANE CLARKE a produit de [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Carla OroszLocation: Silver Room, Atlas Hotel • Dawn Tracey Brandes, “The Beckettian Puppetry of Josh Rice's Kayfabe” In many ways, Samuel Beckett’s short 1957 play Act Without Words I is a rumination on action and inaction. A man in a desert is taunted by a mysterious offstage force, and [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Fraser StevensLocation: Golden Room, Atlas Hotel • Mélanie Binette, “Trading Interiorities: A One-on-One Audiowalk on Bereavement” Errances is a one-on-one audiowalk that I created and performed in 2019 at the site where my father died of a heart attack in 2002: the underground entrance of a [...]
Location: Imperial Room, Atlas Hotel • Kara Flanagan and Cameron Crookston, “Perspectives from Emerging to Emeriti: Innovating and Adapting Canadian Theatrical Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Training to New Interior and Exterior Landscapes in Theatre and Non-theatre Education” Our working group is concerned with applications of theatrical principles and pedagogy to (1) non-theatre [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Moira DayLocation: Silver Room, Atlas Hotel • Amanda Attrell, “‘This new idea now appears impossible’: Maria Campbell, Jessica, and Linda Griffiths in Conversation” Yvette Nolan discusses the collaborative relationship between Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths during the 1980s in Medicine Shows: Indigenous Performance Culture: “I do not [...]