CONFERENCE SCHEDULE | 25
Illuminating Hidden Histories of BIPOC TYA Artists and Drama Facilitators Tracks : College / University , Professional Theatre , Research / Scholarship Presenters : Shavonne Coleman , Kristala Smart , Meriah Sage , Elizabeth Brendel Horn & Joshua Rashon Streeter Location : The 5 th Avenue Theatre – Studio A
Join the conversation surrounding a national research project - to document unwritten and illuminate hidden history facts / experiences that have been pushed to the margins in order to maintain the status quo . We propose working together to find , document and share some of the BIPOC TYA artists , drama facilitators / practitioners and audiences . We hope to help move the field forward by digging into the past . This panel of practitioners will share our discoveries to date , and offer an invitation for others to join us in sharing knowledge from their own communities .
Recharge and Refresh : Using the Art of Play and Pretend to Restore the Artist Within Track : Applied Theatre Presenter : Valerie Baugh-Schlossberg Location : Crowne Plaza – Carlsbad – Lower Lobby Level
Over-scheduled , overworked , and overwhelmed ? Combat exhaustion , release stress and focus your mind through the practice of play . Participants in this 75-minute workshop will reconnect with inspiration and recharge their creativity through a variety of reflective and expressive activities . Theatre , dance , spoken word , writing , visual art , as well as simply being creative and laughing can become tools that can help heal and prevent the sluggishness that comes from burnout . Take away a set of exercises you can do for yourself and with your students every day to reinvigorate your joy and energize your mind .
Scenes from the Nanaimo Indian Hospital : Reawakening Languages Through Theatre Tracks : Applied Theatre , Playwriting , Research / Scholarship Presenters : Amanda Wager , Dr . Laura Cranmer , Daisy Elliot , Kymme Patrick , Tsatassaya White , Waka ( Mackenzie ) & ʔasmanaḥi ( Hannah Frank ) Location : ACT Contemporary Theatre – Lailie Black Box
The play by Dr . Laura Cranmer , Scenes from the Nanaimo Indian Hospital , will be read by actors who are also language learners of each of the main Indigenous language families of Vancouver Island , Hul ' q ' umi ' num ', Nuu- Chah-Nulth , and Kwak ' wala . The multilingual script is based on Laura ' s three-year stay at the Nanaimo Indian Hospital as a young child . While federal colonial laws greatly constrained Indigenous bodies and lives by corralling whole populations into federal institutions , such as residential schools and Indian hospitals , these spaces became meeting places for the great diversity of unique languages specific to their traditional territories . In this play , the Indian hospital is now re-imagined to be the confluence of the island ' s great linguistic diversity embodied by three young girls ' Dorothy Myth representing Kwak ' wala , Esther Williams representing Hul ' q ' umi ' num ', and Mary Robins representing Nuu-Chah-Nulth whose growing friendship in the hospital ' s Ward B consists of delight in language comparisons while sinister undercurrents are revealed in dialogue and action between the medical staff . This play script is the foundation of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant ( co-applicants Drs . Amanda Wager and Laura Cranmer ) to support the translation of the Hul ' q ' umi ' num ', Nuu-Chah-Nulth , and Kwak ' wala Languages by fluent Language Experts , who are Elders from each language family , as well as to support the hiring of language learners to be coached in the pronunciation and teachings of their languages .
Updated 7.26.23