Helene Vosters: “Performing Peace: A thread-by-thread, deconstructing militarism (un)sewing circle”
Saturday February 4, 6.30 – 7.30pm, lobby of Robert Gill Theatre
Part mourning ritual and part mediation on the warp and weft of militarism’s fabric, Performing Peace is an embodied inquiry into the loss and fragmentation that results from the violence of war and into the ways global industrialization alienates us not only from the products of our labour, but form its geopolitical consequences as well. Performing Peace invites participants into a conscious reengagement with the consequences of our collective labour and through the task-based performance of its (un)production. Participants may enter and exit the (un)sewing circle as they wish. They may choose to unravel, or witness, to speak, or remain silent.
Checkpoint.Notes. by Samya Kullab
Saturday February 4, 7.30 – 8.30pm, lobby of Robert Gill Theatre
Checkpoint.Notes is a solo performance piece that I began developing early last year. Inspired in part from my time in the Middle East in the summer of 2009, and recently, during the Fall of 2011, it is the story of one traveler and the impassioned characters that cross her path.
Sunday February 5, 1.30pm – 2.30pm, Robert Gill Theatre
Written by Beatriz Pizano and directed by Andrew Lamb, La Maleta is the story of Roca, a ten-year old refugee who escapes her native Colombia with her mother. Their future is uncertain. Roca doesn’t know if they will be able to stay in Canada and whether they will reunite with her father. Through her friendship with Paz, Roca finds hope and the strength to adapt to her new home.
La Danza Del Venado by Ari Belathar presented by Alameda Theatre Company
Sunday February 5, 2.30pm – 3.30pm, Robert Gill Theatre
Inspired by Ari Belthar’s experience of illegally crossing the border into the United States as a child, La Danza Del Venado is a multidisciplinary play, exploring the deep contradictions generated by the migration and displacement of human beings who are forced to cross the oceans, the rivers and the deserts of this world. It tells the story of a group of migrants whose clandestine journey into the north is hindered when they find themselves lost in the middle of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona —a harsh and desolated area that for hundreds of years has stolen the souls of its travellers. Reading directed by: Marilo Nuñez
Gailey Road Productions: Scenes from “Harriet’s House” and “Ana’s Shadow”
Sunday February 5, 3.30pm-4.30pm, Robert Gill Theatre
Written by Tara Goldstein and directed by Jocelyn Wickett, Harriet’s House and Ana’s Shadow are two research-informed plays about the lives of an adoptive same-sex family. The plays address a variety issues facing Canadian families including issues of social acceptance, culture, and race. Harriet’s House was performed for 450 people at Hart House Theatre during the Toronto Pride Festival in July 2010. Ana’s Shadow was performed as a public reading at the 519 Church Community Centre in August 2011. Cast: Rebecca Applebaum, Julie Burris, Estée Feldman, Joanne Latimer, Jorie Morrow, and Supinder Wraich.
“Canada Road”
Sunday February 5, 4.30pm-5.30pm, Robert Gill Theatre
The Trans Canada Highway was built to make connections. In 1949, after Newfoundland joined Canada, a national highway was funded to connect the new province to the rest of the country. By 1970, Canada had the Trans Canada, the world’s longest national highway. From St. John’s Newfoundland to Victoria British Columbia, it traverses nine provinces, Appalacians, Canadian shield, prairies, Rockies, two national languages, seven NHL hockey teams, hippies, cowboys, farmers, suburbanites, city-dwellers, Aboriginals, Anglophones, Francophones, immigrants, nationalists, separatists, soverignists, Maritimers, Liberals, Conservatives, and those who fall somewhere between all of it.
This is the story of some characters I encountered while traveling along that road. Written by Natalie Frijia.
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