Big Thinking at Congress 2019
Storytelling and strength: Voices from Indigenous theatre in Canada
This panel discussion brings together award-winning performers, writers, and directors to explore how their artistic process reconnects them with self, family and their cultural heritage and illuminates sometimes difficult questions. Panelists discuss their artistry as a way to help express their identity and cultural practices, how they negotiate the inclusion of personal experiences in their projects, and how their work manifests their connections to their homelands and ancestral knowledges.
Panelists:
Sylvia Cloutier, Performing artist, producer and director
Margo Kane, Performing artist, Founder and Artistic Managing Director of Full Circle: First Nations Performance
Lindsay Lachance, Artistic Associate of Indigenous Theater at the National Arts Centre
Corey Payette, Playwright, actor, composer and director
Shift in thinking: It all begins with decolonization
‘Unworlding’ – Jack Halberstam Keynote
In a keynote address to the Canadian Communication Association, Dr. Jack Halberstam (Professor of Gender Studies and English, Columbia University) gave a detailed examination of the concept of ‘unworlding.’ Halberstam considered the Congress 2022...
Shift in thinking: It all begins with decolonization
Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva's Big Thinking lecture challenges us to consider a shift in thinking, to transform how we understand and address global catastrophes.