Postmarginal Laborarium 2019: Vancouver
Toronto-based Modern Times Stage Company announces The Laborarium: a two-day experiential learning event bringing together artists, audiences, and scholars interested in reshaping contemporary theatre into a more inclusive space
Date/Time: Jun 1 2019, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Vancouver, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | Event calendar149 W Hastings St
P: (778) 782-9286
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Cost: $60.00
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Postmarginal is an artistic movement that sees diversity as a creative opportunity for Canadian theatre. All of our differences in cultural backgrounds, physical/mental abilities, and gender identities are a source of artistic expression. We believe there are new discoveries to be made in the exploration of the intercultural creative process.
The Postmarginal Laborarium series was launched by Modern Times Stage Company in Montreal in 2018 as a new physical space for rethinking inclusiveness in Canadian theatre. On June 1-2, 2019, Postmarginal comes to Vancouver communities for the first time.
To create in an inclusive manner, we need mental, online, and real-life spaces where the dialogue about identity and artistic freedom can take place in safe, equitable, and respectful ways.
We seek to collectively discover, test, and propose new work ethics and creative strategies for exploring differences in the rehearsal hall. The specific context of the host city, Vancouver, will be considered through collective intelligence, Indigenous forms of communication, and practical workshops. There are no experts in the room. We are all participants. ASL Interpretation will be offered.
Registered participants will share a broad range of perspectives as they are guided through a series of group conversations, storytelling about intercultural creation experiences, and creation workshops, led by Iranian-Canadian theatre director Soheil Parsa, and esteemed choreographers Karen Jamieson and Henry Daniel. Invited storytellers, who will speak about their own experiences with inter-cultural creation processes, will include Savannah Walling (Vancouver Moving Theatre), Landon Krentz (Jesse - an ASL Opera) and Soheil Parsa.
Lead facilitators for the Vancouver Laborarium are Pawa Haiyupis (Ahousaht First Nation / Victoria), a specialist in Art of Hosting techniques, and Lisa Ndejuru (Montreal), researcher at Concordia University and specialist in resiliency through the arts, in collaboration with Anne-Laure Mathieu, innovation strategist (Montreal), and Modern Times Stage Company's Soheil Parsa, Peter Farbridge, Sue Balint.
Registration is limited to 60 people.
$60 Institutions | $35 Artsworkers | Free for students, but pre-registration required
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