Gailey Road's 10th Anniversary

Gailey Road is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a party on January 22, 2017!

Please join us to celebrate 10 years of research-informed theatre.  

All the best,
Tara

Sunday January 22, 2017
2:30-4:00 pm
Nexus Lounge
12 floor
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
St. George and Bloor (St. George subway)

Food, wine, beer and, of course, birthday cake!
Plus a performance of Out at School a verbatim play about the experiences of LGBTQ families at school by Pam Baer, Tara Goldstein and Jenny Salisbury.

Gailey Road Events: Fall 2016

Hi Everybody:

This fall Gailey Road teams up with the Women's Caucus of the Playwrights Guild of Canada to host a Women Writing Letters Fundraising Event for The Casa Award. 

Please join us for 

A Letter to My 15-Year Old Self featuring:
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Seana McKenna (reading for Ann-Marie MacDonald)
Anusree Roy
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Djanet Sears
Pamela Sinha
Colleen Wagner

Details:

Women Writing Letters: A Letter to My 15-Year Old Self
Sunday October 16, 2016
2:30-4:00 pm
Nexus Lounge
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
252 Bloor Street West
Tickets:  $25.00

Reserve tickets at: gaileyroad@gmail.com

The CASA Award

The CASA Award provides financial support and mentorship for a mid-career woman playwright living and working in South Africa.  While playwrights everywhere struggle and juggle their chosen careers, women playwrights in countries such as India, Afghanistan, and South Africa have obstacles much bigger than ours in Canada.  In many countries, theatre is a vital tool to advocate for change, and it is important that women’s voices are heard.  

We're very excited about our fundraising event and are looking forward to seeing our Gailey Road friends and patrons there.

Gailey Road Road Events in Winter and Spring 2015

Gailey Road Events 

in Winter and Spring 2015

January-March 2015

Sunday January 18, 2015 

Women Writing Letters Literary Event @ Nexus, the 12^th Floor Lounge, OISE

A Letter to My Grandmother

Louise Boltbee, Writer
Elizabeth Cinello, Blogger
Stacy Gardner, Playwright
Helen Picard, Writer, Journalist
Shelley Sanders, Fiction Writer
Samantha Vakiener, Playwright

           

Saturday February 7, 2015

Staged reading of Castor and Sylvie by Tara Goldstein @ The Festival of Original Theatre, University of Toronto

Pam Baer (Director)
Briony Glassgo (Beauvoir)

Severn Thomson (Sylvie)

Thursday March 26, 2014

Staged reading of Hong Kong, Canada by Tara Goldstein @TESOL 2015, Toronto

Pam Baer (Director)

April 2015

Sunday April 12, 2015

Women Writing Letters Literary Event @ Nexus, the 12^th Floor Lounge, OISE

A Letter to My 18-Year Old Self

           

Hill Chan, Writer
Ann Eyerman, Writer
Tara Goldstein, Playwright
Tanya Neumeyer, Poet, Educator
Dryden Rainbow, Writer
Paulina Rousseau, Writer
Myna Wallin, Poet, Fiction writer

Join us for the launch of our publication of Women Writing Letters-Season 3 and 4 featuring the letters written in our third and fourth seasons (2013-2014 and 2014-2015).

By April 2015, there will be a total three volumes of Women Writing Letters that have been published.  In total, these three volumes will contain 67 letters and will have provided 61 different writers (some writers have written two letters for Women Writing Letters) a chance to have their writing published.

Fall 2014 at Gailey Road

Hello Everyone:

I hope your fall has been productive and fun.  This fall Margot Huycke, Amanda Greer, Emma Smith and I set up a booth at Word on the Street at Queen's Park to promote Gailey Road's Season 4 of Women Writing Letters and sell our books from Season 1 and 2.  Although the day began in the pouring rain, by the time the festival actually opened up the sun was shining and we had a great time talking to folks who stopped by our booth and catching up with our letter writers who came by to sign the books we were selling.

On October 19, 2014, the fourth season of Women Writing Letters began with "A Letter to the Road I Didn't Take" which brought together four very different letter writers who shared intimate stories of the road not taken.  It was one of the most moving Women Writing Letters yet.

Looking forward to the new year, Season Four of Women Writing Letters will continue on January 18, 2015 with "A Letter to My Grandmother", and in February, a reading of my new play Sylvie and Castor about a moment in the lives of feminist Simone de Beauvoir and her companion Sylvie Le Bon will be staged as part of the Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) at the University of Toronto.  The Festival's theme this year is Queer(ing) Performance.

Have a wonderful holiday season.  We hope to see you at one of our events in the new year!

All the best,

Tara

Events at Gailey Road Summer 2014

Hello Everyone:

I am delighted to report on the June and July events at Gailey Road.  It was an exciting spring and summer.

All the best,

Tara

Gailey Road Events-Summer 2014

June 2014

Sunday June 22, 2014

2:30-4:00

Women Writing Letters Fundraiser @ Nexus, the 12^th Floor Lounge, OISE

A Letter to My Queer Family:  A World Pride Affiliated Event

The last Women Writing Letters event of the season and a celebration of Toronto’s World Pride Festival with letter writers:

Karleen Jimenz Pendleton 

Katie Cook 

Brian Rigg  

 

Mary Ellen MacLean 

Farzana Doctor   

Anand Mahadevan

As always, there will be lots of doorprizes and cake and socializing after the event.

Tuesday June 24, 2014

5:00-7:00 pm

Screening of Harriet’s House @ Media Commons Theatre, Robarts Library, U of Toronto

Gailey Road’s celebration of World Pride continued with a free screening of Harriet’s House, a research-informed theatre piece about growing up in a transnationally adopted LGBTQ family  , 

July 2014

In July 2014, Gailey Road brought La Casa de Harriet (Harriet’s House) to Bogotá, Colombia.  The company provided a

1. Performance of La Casa de Harriet (Harriet’s House) at La Festival Rosa

    hosted by Barraca Teatro in Bogotá, Colombia, Thursday July 24, 2014,

    7:30-9:00 pm (25 spectators).

2.  Workshop about the experiences of adoptive same-sex families in

     schools using scenes from La Casa de Harriet for 80 teachers from the

     Bogotá District School Board, Friday July 25, 2014, 8:00-12:00 pm.  The

     workshop was hosted by IDEP (the Research Institute for Pedagogical

     and Educational Development which is part of the School Board) in

     Bogotá, Colombia.

3.  Performance of La Casa de Harriet at the theatre at 

     the Universidad Distrital Franciso José de Caldas in Bogotá, Colombia, hosted by Gailey

     Road Productions Friday July 25, 2014, 7:30-9:00 pm (150 spectators).

4.  Performance of La Casa de Harriet (Harriet’s House) 

Bogotá District School Board, hosted by IDEP Tuesday July 29, 2014, 5:00-6:30 pm.  This performance was presented after my return to Toronto (80 spectators).