Thursday, December 20, 2012

Fall Events at Gailey Road: December 2012

Hi Everyone:

It's been a busy fall at Gailey Road.  Here are the events and projects we've been working on since our last blog in July 2012.

August 2012

Margot Huycke and I attended the 2012 Women Playwrights’ International Conference in Stockholm, Sweden where we promoted Gailey Road's new online journal Women in Theatre and I presented a seminar on research-informed theatre with playwrights Beverley Cooper (author of Innocence Lost which will be performed at the Centaur Theatre in Montreal in January and February 2013) and Sally Stubbs, the new Women's Caucus Chair for Playwrights Guild of Canada.   The next WPI Conference will be in South Africa in July 2015.

September  2012

At the beginning of the month Gailey Road  published the second issue of its new online journal Women in Theatre (WiT). The theme of the issue was the status of women in theatre and the sponsor of the issue was Playwrights Press Canada.  Women in Theatre can be downloaded for free from: http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wit/index

Two weeks later, on September 15, 2012, we launched the Discussion Guides to my plays Harriet’s House and Ana’s Shadow (which we were working on last summer) at the 10 Years of Inqueeries Conference.  The conference was held at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Helen Kennedy from EGALE and about 60 educators attended the conference and the launch.  Both Discussion Guides as well as the scripts can be downloaded for free from: www.gaileyroad.com

October-November 2012

In October and November the original cast from Harriet's House reunited to digitally record their performance Harriet’s House and a reading of the play's sequel Ana’s Shadow. Harriet's House director Jocelyn Wickett and film director Pamela Snell co-directed the recording session with the support of production manager Misha GallagherRebecca Applebaum who has played Ana in both plays performed all three songs composed for Ana's Shadow by Chantelle Pike and Hannah Dean. The recordings will be edited this winter and Gailey Road is planning a screening of both recordings sometime next spring.

Later in October, we held the first Women Writing Letters of the season A Letter to God featuring


Rabbi Elyse Goldstein
Kate Dickson
Michelle Sutherland
Jasmin Zine


In November Jocelyn Wickett and Amy Gullage, who led the 12-member team that designed the two discussion guides for Harriet's House and Ana's Shadow, graduated with their MA and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto.  

Jocelyn's MA thesis is called Queering for Social Change:  An Arts-Based Autoethnographic Study of the Role of Drama in Creating a Transformative Practice With At-Risk Youth.

Amy's PhD thesis, which used a research methodology she calls "embedded performed ethnography" is named Teaching with the Flesh:  Examining Discourses of Fitness and their Implication in Teachers’ Professional and Personal Lives.

December 2012

Earlier this month Gailey Road published the third issue of Women in Theatre (WiT). The theme of the issue was women, politics and theatre and the sponsors of the issue were Canadian Theatre Review and Scirocco Press.  This latest issue of Women in Theatre can be downloaded for free from: http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wit/index

Looking Forward to January 2013

From January to April 2013, I will be offering a graduate research methodology course called Performed Ethnography and Research-Informed Theatre at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto.  The course is filled to capacity which bodes well for offering it again next year.

On Sunday January 20, 2013 Gailey Road will be hosting the second Women Letters Event of the season, A Letter to My 12-Year Old Self, featuring:

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

Have a wonderful holiday season and a happy, healthy new year.

All the best,
Tara Goldstein


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