Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Alex Ferrone Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, "Randia’s Quiet Theatre: Performing Care and Activism with a Romani Elder" Drawing on my book, Randia’s Quiet Theatre: Performing Care and Activism with a Romani Elder, this paper examines performance ethnography and autofiction as political sites for imagining alternative futures, more-than-human [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Jennifer Roberts-Smith Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, "Playing Race Critically: Towards Exploring Embodied Negotiation of Racialized Theatrical Space" At an existential level, I have been undone by the colonial inheritance we call Canadian theatre. As a working professional of colour, I have been made through innocuous and injurious ways [...]
Location: PNX140 Facilitators; Christina Cook and Joanna Garfinkel 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 [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract: A birch bark canoe repair, feminist ephemera rekindled, scattered leaflets in a Quebec village, Edmonton in beadwork, Indigenous Passion plays and Chinese opera furnishings in the Pacific Northwest, Shakespeare and spitballs at Stratford, scripts of care for Disability performance, traces of labour and love [...]
Location: PNX138 (This session is closed to general attendance) Abstract The tradition of collecting data from and shared by audiences has been a key factor in the growth and development of audience studies in theatre and performance (Sauter 2019, Snyder-Young and Omasta 2022, Freshwater 2009). And yet, there is still [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract Failure is a primary part of any learning process, and many students are more concerned with getting a good grade vs. engaging in the process of learning, which must leave room for mistakes and failure. Rather than putting learning first, students make grades their priority and are [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract Convened by Jessica Riley and Heather Davis-Fisch, this roundtable considers the formation of Canadian theatre studies as a discipline, with emphasis on the values that informed its founding and foundations. Like the foundations of a house, the formative values and assumptions of our discipline [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Moderator: Robin Whittaker (Co-Organizer) Participants: Jenn Boulay (Co-Organizer), Alan Filewod, Thea Fitz-James, Jess Riley, Shelley Scott Abstract This roundtable examines the evolution of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) through the perspectives of graduate students then and now. A multigenerational discussion, the roundtable will feature graduate students [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract Over the last five-plus years, Canadian theatre and performance studies has seen a surge of collaborative, often large-scale research projects focused on EDDI issues. These projects share several important goals, including: to centre voices from historically marginalized communities across the artist/scholar spectrum; to uplift [...]
Location: Vicious Poodle - 726 Johnson Street, Victoria BC www.viciouspoodle.com https://maps.app.goo.gl/uMAzPx1X8PeNbBHo9 8pm - onwards