Spring and Summer Events at Gailey Road

Hi Everyone:

Here is a list of Gailey Road’s summer announcements and events:

June 2012

1. Director Jocelyn Wickett completes her MA thesis: Queering for Social Change: An Arts-Based Autoethnographic Study of the Role of Drama in Creating a Transformative Practice with At-Risk Youth 
2. Curriculum Designer Amy Gullage leads a team of 12 to design two discussion guides for Harriet’s House and Ana’s Shadow. 
3. Songwriters Chantelle Pike and Hannah Dean record their first album in Vancouver. “Heaven,” the last song in Ana’s Shadow, is on the album. (See www.myspace.com/eyesforgertrude to listen to Chantelle and Hannah’s music.) 

  July 2012

1. Publication of Ana’s Shadow in Canadian Theatre Review (Issue 151). 
2.  Tara is invited to guest teach at the Drama Education Institute at the University of British Columbia. 

August 2012

1. Tara and Women Writing Letters producer Margot Huycke attends the 2012 Women Playwrights’ International Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. 
2. Gailey Road’s on-line open source journal Women in Theatre publishes its second issue. You can download the second issue on August 31, 2012 at: http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wit 

September 2012

1. Discussion Guides for Harriet’s House and Ana’s Shadow launched at the 10 Years of Inqueeries Conference on September 15, 2012, and will be available at www.gaileyroad.com.

All the best,
Grace Pak (Gailey Road Intern 2012 -2013)

Women Writing Letters June 10, 2012

Gailey Road held its fourth Women Writing Letters fundraising event on June 10, 2012. The theme for this event was “A Letter to My Nemesis.” A nemesis is “something that a person cannot conquer, achieve.”

Our warm thanks to the panelists for sharing their letters and demonstrating that even the process of exploring who or what we cannot overcome is an achievement in itself. 

TERRI FAVRO, Comic Book and Fiction Writer
JANET LOOKER, Historical Fiction Writer
MARY ELLEN MACLEAN, Theatre Artist
TRACEY ERIN SMITH, Playwright
ELAINE SMOOKLER, Cabaret Performer

The next WWL will be on Sunday, October 28, 2012. Theme: A Letter to God (which will be hosted in collaboration with City Shul)

All the best, Grace Pak (Gailey Road Intern 2012-2013)

Spring and Summer Events at Gailey Road 2012

Hello Everyone:

 I am delighted to introduce you to Gailey Road's newest intern Grace Pak who will be writing our blog over the next year. In Grace's spring and summer update blogs, you'll find out about our June Women Writing Letters event and a list of other events we're undertaking this spring and summer. Have a wonderful summer and we'll be back with another update in the fall.

 All the best, Tara