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: Movement Room Moderator: Julia Henderson Chantal Bilodeau, "Daring to Be Solarpunks" British philosopher Mark Fisher wrote, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” In the theatre, this translates into a failure to envision a thriving post-capitalist, post-colonial, post-climate future; instead, offerings on [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstract: Recent PhD graduates, Dr Taylor Marie Graham and Dr Lauren McLean have solicited and compiled a series of important personal essays focused on the graduate student experience in the theatre in Canada. Graduate school can often be an isolating experience; however, those feelings of isolation [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Moderator: Michelle MacArthur Speakers: Michelle MacArthur (mod.) with Lois Adamson, Yasmine Kandil, Paulina Grainger, Krystal Cook.
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Assocation for Theatre Research, all CATR/ACRT Members welcome.
Location: Design Room Moderator: Robert Motum Laurel Green and Derek Manderson, "The Assembly: A Game of Civic Decision-Making & Future Thinking for Young Audiences" Would you rather raise the minimum wage, or build a new hospital? Allocate funding for a rooftop garden, or build new housing developments? If charged with [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Jessica Riley Selena Couture, "Guinness World Records: Dazzle Camouflage & British Imperial Inheritances" If you search the Lək̓ʷəŋən , Xʷsepsəm and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples lands (aka Victoria, BC where CATR will be convening this year) in the Guinness World Records database, 20 entries pop up. These [...]
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: Roger Bishop Theatre Aster Brae and Matt Jones Mythography is an opera about place, family legacy, and belonging to the landscape currently known as the Rocky Mountains. Written and composed by Aster Brae and dramaturged by Matt Jones in 2024, the opera features dramatic confrontations with family mythologies set [...]
Location: Movement Room Moderator: Marlis Schweitzer Rebecca Harries, "A theatre tool for all: Boal’s Sculptures in Youth Engagement Settings" The theatre methods and ideas of Augusto Boal provides community youth leaders with tools that support inclusive and egalitarian values even when participants don’t have the capacity or resources to develop [...]