DIGITAL volcano

Volcano’s digital offerings are collected below – from podcasts to video to conversations about the nature of life, justice and art. Feel free to dig in…

SHORTS

SHORT WORKS IN VIDEO, AUDIO & TEXT: Transformations – artists from across Canada respond to the question: “How do we transform society for the betterment of all?”

Kate Alton & Dawn Jani Birley

Tatanniq Idlout

Natasha Adiyana Morris

Luke Reece

Charlotte Qamaniq

David Yee

documentaries

MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Goodness in Rwanda, directed by Gord Rand and John Westheuser (Small Boy and Rand Ink)

10 Canadians tour to Rwanda with a play about genocide. What they learn changes them forever. This copy of 'Goodness in Rwanda' is for screening purposes only, copyright Smallboy Productions & Rand Ink, All Rights Reserved. To request permission for other uses, or to screen 'Goodness in Rwanda' for groups or educational purposes, please contact goodnessinrwanda@gmail.com

DOCUMENTARY SHORT: The Reinvention of 1911 Opera, Treemonisha, by April Aliermo (CBC)

CONVERSATIONS

The Possibilities of Performance in Physical Distance (May 2021) with:

- Lisa Karen Cox

- Leslie Ting

- Adrienne Wong

- Moderated by Nikki Shaffeeullah

Stage Managing Digital & Hybrid Projects (May 2021) with:

- Kat Chin

- Neha Ross

- Dustyn Wales

- Moderated by Ada Aguilar

Where do we go from here? Fostering Resilience and Justice in the Performing Arts (September 2020) with:

- Jacob Boehme, from Melbourne, Australia

- Lisa Karen Cox from Toronto, Canada

- Monique Mojica, from Toronto, Canada

- Sayde Trujillo, from Roswell, New Mexico

- Moderated by Marjorie Chan, from Toronto, Canada

Featuring: Lisa Karen Cox, a Black Canadian theatre artist, actor, teacher, and mother joining us from Toronto Jacob Boehme, a multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, dancer and artistic director, of the Narangga and Kaurna Nations, South Australia, joining us from Melbourne Monique Mojica, an actor, teacher and playwright of the Guna and Rappahannock nations, and former co-director of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre. Monique is dedicated to theatrical practise as an act of healing, reclaiming historical/ cultural memory and of resistance, joining us from Toronto Sayda Trujillo, a Guatemalan/Canadian/American devising artist and theatre educator specializing in decolonizing performing arts practice and training, joining us from New Mexico Join these visionary artists, with moderator Marjorie Chan (artistic director of Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille), in a conversation about how to shift things – possible pathways from where we are right now into a better system – and what might be needed to do that.

Performance in a Time of Upheaval (July 2020), with:

- Hope Azeda, from Kigali, Rwanda

- Jacob Boehme, from Melbourne, Australia

- Deborah Pearson from London UK

- Shoshana Polcano, from Buenos Aires, Argentina

- Moderated by Marjorie Chan and Ross Manson, from Toronto, Canada

a global check-in with colleagues on four continents: Hope Azeda, founding artistic director of the Ubumuntu Arts Festival and Mashirika Performing Arts in Rwanda, joining us from Kigali Jacob Boehme, a multidisciplinary artist of the Narangga and Kaurna Nations, South Australia, joining us from Melbourne Deborah Pearson, a UK-based Canadian and founding co-director of the UK artist collective Forest Fringe, joining us from London Shoshana Polanco, former General Producer of the Buenos Aires International Festival, and current international producer of La Teatreria in Mexico, joining us from Buenos Aires Join these visionary artists and producers, with moderators Marjorie Chan (artistic director of Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille) and Volcano’s AD, Ross Manson, in a conversation about how performance practice is adapting to the world of the moment Performance in a Time of Upheaval was held on Saturday, July 25 as part of the 2020 Digital Volcano Conservatory.

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