A Work in Progress – PACTcon2019 Keynote Address by Marcus Youssef
Morning. 9:15 am, best time for a keynote. Good thing everybody was in bed by 10. Sorry, just before I start, are there some kind of negotiations going on? My name is Marcus Youssef, I’m a playwright and Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre, which I have led since 2005.…
PACT Testimony for CHPC’s Study on the Canada Council for the Arts
Presented by: Boomer Stacey, Interim Executive Director Nick Tracey, Chair of the Advocacy Committee Study summary: That the committee study how the Canada Council for the Arts is managing their increase from Budget 2016 and their transition to a modernized funding model to ensure that artists no matter where they…
An Alternative Vision of Existence
Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage presentation Co-written Ravi Jain, Artistic and General Director, and Owais Lightwala, Managing Director at Why Not Theatre Delivered by Ravi Jain on Thursday, June 6th via teleconference from Miami, FL. When I returned to Toronto in 2007 after living and training abroad for many years,…
Finding New Ways to Collaborate
By Katie German, Artistic Associate, Manitoba Theatre for Young People When we got the email to speak about a transformation in MTYP’s artistic practise, our Artistic Director Pablo Felices-Luna and I brainstormed. As wrapped up our season, we celebrated our final week of the spring tour of our premiere production…
Intimate, Optional Theatre for Teens
The Importance of Intimate, Optional Theatre for Teens By Bronwyn Carradine, Education & Outreach Coordinator, Green Thumb Theatre We recently opened Cranked by Michael P Northey, a multi-award winning one-man hip-hop play first produced in 2004 in the wake of the meth epidemic. For the past two years we’ve been…
Change is on the Menu
PACTcon2019 is coming and if you think for a second that this year’s conference is going to be same-o, same-o – well think again! This year’s conference, aptly titled A Work In Progress, takes us as a community to the grey zone; a terrifying place where everything is in flux, and…
