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
