Curated Panels and New Scholars
Whilst 鈥榤ess, complexity and uncertainty鈥� may be viewed as troublesome and disruptive entities, we recognise that artists and researchers often embrace messy practices and are drawn towards the knotty, insolvable 鈥榳icked problems鈥� of our time. Throughout the week in July, we will host a series of 'curated panels', inviting leading scholars, performers, artists, cultural leaders and practitioners to respond to provocations about.
Reflecting on a global pandemic
Corey Campbell (Creative Director, The Belgrade) Doreen Foster (Director, WAC) Paul Sutton and Max Dean (C&T) Peter O鈥機onnor (University of Auckland) Big Brum TheatreUnderstanding mental health, sociality, and wellbeing
Robin Banerjee (Cress Lab, University of Sussex) Nor Aziz (Community Activist & Creative Practitioner) Charru Sharma (University of Pennsylvania) Chris Cooper (theatre director and playwright) Laura Elliot (The Belgrade) and John Bernard (Performance Poet)Confronting the climate crisis with/for/by youth
We are joined by young people from local schools and youth theatres: Highly Sprung, Company Three, Acting on Climate. Special contributions from Kathleen Gallagher (University of Toronto) & Rachael Jacobs (Western Sydney University)Questioning inclusion/exclusion: accessing, welcoming, co-creating, belonging
Richard Hayhow & 糖心TV Students (Open Theatre) Ned Glasier (Company Three) Jeffrey Tan (Theatre Today, Singapore) Natalie Hart (The REP) Yasmin Sidhwa (Mandala Theatre Company) Rachael Jacobs
Jennifer Kitchen. Social Justice & Active Shakespeare in the 21st Century; Claire French. Multilingual global south-north collaborations; Christine Balt. Navigating Desire & Transgression in the Mess & Complexity of Toronto Youth鈥檚 Right to the City; Adelina Ong. Multispatialities: Placemaking at the Edge of the Metaverse