Sunday, November 3, 2013

Fall 2013 at Gailey Road


Hi Everyone:

I hope this note finds you well!  It's been a busy fall at Gailey Road and there are several more activities and events to come this winter. Here are the events and projects we've been working on since our last blog last summer.

August 2013
Harriet's House in Colombia

In August, Margot Huycke and I traveled to Bogotá, Colombia, for two staged readings of Harriet’s House in Spanish in Bogotá directed by Jorge Arcila.  The first reading was at Teatro Jorge Eliecer Gaitan while the second reading was at Bogotá's LGBTQ theatre Teator Barraca.  We had strong attendance at both readings and excellent discussions of the themes brought out in the play.  I am currently working on a POV article about our experience of performing Harriet's House for the Playwrights Guild of Canada.  Look for it on the PGC website at the end of November: www.playwrightsguild.ca

September 2013

My Performed Ethnography and Research-Informed Theatre Graduate Course

In September I began teaching my graduate research methodology course on Performed Ethnography and Research-Informed Theatre at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto.  It is the second time this course has been offered and once again the course has attracted students from several departments at OISE as well as students from the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies.  Our classes have featured a number of research-informed theatre practitioners including Magda Kazubowski-Houston, Pamela Snell, Jenny Salisbury, Julia Gray, Heather Sykes, and Diane Conrad.

Professor Catherine Doherty from the Queensland University of Technology came to spend some time working with us in September and October and discussed her  upcoming research-informed theatre project on teacher-student relationships in Australian secondary schools.

The Research-Informed Exchange

In September OISE MA student Pam Snell opened the second year of OISE and Gailey Road's Research-Informed Theatre Exchange (RiTE).  Held once a month, the Exchange provides an opportunity for research-informed theatre artists and academic to come together to exchange ideas, discuss their work and share best practices. Professor Cathie Doherty from the University of Queensland joined the Exchange discussion in October and Professor Manal Hamzeh from the University of New Mexico will join the Exchange discussion in November.

October 2013

 Women Writing Letters: A Letter to the Teacher I'll Never Forget

The first Women Writing Letters event of our third season took place on October 27, 2013 and featured:

Joan Burrows, Playwright 
Beverley Cooper, Playwright
Joan Green, Educator and writer
Marcia Johnson, Playwright
Carolyn Peters, Storyteller

Zero Tolerance and Other Plays:  Disrupting Xenophobia, Racism and Homophobia in School

An anthology of three of my plays, Zero Tolerance, Lost Daughter, and Ana's Shadow has just been published by Sense Publishers in Patricia Leavy's Social Fictions Series.  Gailey Road will be hosting a book launch for the anthology in April 2014. 

It's been an exciting fall at Gailey Road.  We hope to see you at one of our events this winter!  The next Women Writing Letters event will be held on January 19, 2014.  Panelists will write A Letter to My Hometown

All the best,
Tara

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Spring and Summer 2013 at Gailey Road


Hi Everyone:

I hope this note finds you well!  It's been an exciting spring at Gailey Road and there are more activities and events ahead of us this spring and summer.  Here are the events and projects we've been working on since our last blog last December.

January 2013

Performed Ethnography and Research-Informed Theatre

From January to April 2013, I offered a new graduate research methodology course called Performed Ethnography and Research-Informed Theatre at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto.  Twenty graduate students participated in course and the group included students from all the departments at OISE as well as students from the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies.  Our discussions focused on questions of research, aesthetic, and pedagogical design of research-informed theatre projects.

Women Writing Letters:A Letter to My 12-Year Self

The second Women Writing Letters event of the season took place on January 20, 2013 and featured:

Maria Meindl (fiction writer)  
Karleen Pendleton (memoirist) 
Hailee Morrow (screenwriter)
Michele Coleman (theatre artist)
Sarah J. Roebuck (poet)
Talia Zajac (historical fiction writer)

February  2013

Workshop hosted by EmcArts and the Metcalf Foundation

In February, Pam Snell, Austen Koecher and I attended a workshop hosted by EmcArts and the Metcalf Foundation on innovation and new practices for a new era in the arts.  Our work in the workshop has begun to inform our planning for the rest of the year.

April 2013

Harriet's House @ The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography Conference

At the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography Conference hosted by York University, Pam Snell and I presented an overview of Gailey Road’s work on the Harriet’s House/Ana’s Shadow project and showed a scene from the digital recording of Harriet's House.

Women Writing Letters: A Letter to My First Boss 

The third Women Writing Letters event of the season took place on January 21, 2013 and featured:

Ronna Bloom, Poet
Ann Eyerman, Writer
Bassima Hendrickson, Poet, Fiction Writer
Karen Mock, Human Rights Activist, Educator

Angels in Performance:Documenting LGBTQ Lives in Theatre and Performance 

Later this week, Pam Snell  and I will have an hour to talk about the Harriet's House/Ana's Shadow project and show scenes from the digital recording at the Angels in Performance Conference hosted by The University of Missouri.  The conference runs from April 25-28, 2013.

May 2013

The Draft Reading Series

In May, Margot Huycke, Audrey Lowitz and I will be reading scenes from Harriet’s House @ The Draft Reading Series.

The Draft Reading Series
May 5, 2013
3 pm
The Paint Box Bistro
555 Dundas St. East

Public screening of Harriet's House at the AGO

And the following week, we will hold a public screening of the digital recording of Harriet’s House @ The Art Gallery of Ontario (St. Patrick subway)

Reception 6:00
Screening 7:00-8:30
The recording was filmed by Pam Snell and directed by Jocelyn Wickett.
Reserve your seat gaileyroad@gmail.com

June 2013

Women Writing Letters:  A Letter to the Best Present Ever

In June, we'll hold the last Women Writing Letters event of the season:

Women Writing Letters Fundraiser @
The Nexus Lounge, OISE
A Letter to My Best Present Ever
Sunday June 9, 2013

The event will feature:

Sarah E. Truman, Writer
Joanne Latimer, Performer and Playwright
Suzanne Robertson  
Shelley Richardson  
Jen Cook  
Yaya Yao, Writer and Educator

Reserve your seat at gaileyroad@gmail.com

August 2013

Harriet's House in Colombia

Finally, in August, Margot Huycke and I will travel to Colombia for a staged reading of Harriet’s House in Spanish in Bogotá directed by Jorge Arcila.

It's an exciting spring and summer at Gailey Road.  We hope to see you at one of our events!

All the best,
Tara