Why It’s Important to Think About Theatre Positionality and Disclaimer: I’m an aging, white, cisgender male. Living in Alberta for the greatest part of my life, I’ve been socialized into a colonizing, white supremist system. Through close personal relationships I’ve been introduced to the impacts of marginalization and exclusion on others, but I haven’t experienced…
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DISCLAIMER and RECOGNITION I’ve been involved in projects and organizations dealing with housing, homelessness, and poverty for fifteen years, but that is very little compared to the many people in Edmonton who spend every day providing shelter, food, counseling, housing, and support for those suffering from poverty and lack of adequate housing. Those needing the…
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Postmarginal Edmonton 2.0: Imagining Inclusive Performing Arts Edmonton, Alberta, Canada May 21-24, 2024 In this post you’ll discover: What Postmarginal Edmonton 2.0 (PME 2.0) was and where it came from A variety of my perspectives on relationality, working styles, and self-awareness DISCLAIMER This text is from my perspective, about me. I understand the limited value…
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This Is Where We Live is a video project that aired at the Garneau Theatre on Nov. 22, 2022 and is available for viewing at the link below This Is Where We Live began as a theatre pilot project, with the intent of piloting a process for interviewing people experiencing homelessness, creating monologues from those…
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This post relates to a number of projects – specifically a video project called This Is Where We Live that aired at the Garneau Theatre on Nov. 22, 2022 and is available for viewing at the link below, and a playscript also called This Is Where We Live (just to confuse people) that is in…
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Writing in the Digital Sphere Alberta Street News is a monthly street newspaper started in 2003 by Linda Dumont of Edmonton to give voices to people who otherwise go unrecognized and unremarked in society. You can find out more on its website here Alberta Street News (ASN). As a volunteer board member and writer for…
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In September of 2021 40-50 theatre artists and culture workers gathered to investigate what it takes to honour difference in the creation process. This was part of a process begun with Walterdale Theatre in Edmonton, at the initiative of my wife and myself. However, it branched out much further than Walterdale, created relationships that span…
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I acknowledge that I and many other non-Indigenous people have benefited from this land and I want to show it with more than words. This is my land acknowledgement. Like many non-Indigenous people in Alberta, I’ve benefited greatly from the land and from the resources under the land. Many Indigenous people have not benefited,…
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