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Based on a six-year ethnographic research study taking place with teachers, artists, community leaders, and young people globally, and taking its lead from the following provocation —can performance become a site for new imaginaries for socio-ecological justice? —this book examines how artful engagement through drama pedagogies can open up more collective, critical, and hopeful forms of thinking and being.
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Harnessing speculative fiction to reimagine and rewrite our relationships to the climate crisis and the future of our local environments.
In this article, Dr. Kathleen Gallagher, Ashleigh Allen, and Dr. Christine Balt examine how a virtual, speculative fiction writing and performance workshop nurtured a deeply situated yet expansive aesthetics in which youth can imagine more hopeful futures in their worlds.
In this article, Dr. Kathleen Gallagher, Ashleigh Allen, and Dr. Christine Balt examine how a virtual, speculative fiction writing and performance workshop nurtured a deeply situated yet expansive aesthetics in which youth can imagine more hopeful futures in their worlds.
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Finding hope and deep learning in the drama classroom.
Dr. Kathleen Gallagher and Dr. Christine Balt interviewed by @InnovationCA for an article about the team’s ethnographic and creative research projects, past and current; finding hope and deep learning in the drama classroom.
Dr. Kathleen Gallagher and Dr. Christine Balt interviewed by @InnovationCA for an article about the team’s ethnographic and creative research projects, past and current; finding hope and deep learning in the drama classroom.
Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen Gallagher &
Dr. Christine Balt!
Congratulations to CDTPS Director and School of Cities affiliate, Professor Kathleen Gallagher, and her Postdoctoral student, Christine Balt, who have just won a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for research and research dissemination from the School of Cities for the 2023/24 academic year.
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We are a research ensemble of diverse collaborators committed to exploring the power of drama to create social change.
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New Book from theatre-makers Andrew Kushnir & Khari Wendell McClelland
Moving the Centre explores the work of two theatre-makers who simultaneously dare, fumble, and persist in bringing audiences into a space where complicity, authority, and authentic listening are met anew. The two plays it includes — Small Axe and Freedom Singer — lean into the possibilities of verbatim theatre to approach questions of justice, identity and the complex history all around us. Originally developed and produced by Toronto’s socially engaged theatre company Project: Humanity, these plays explore the power of recorded “real-life” encounters as a way for artists and the public to re-examine our defining narratives.
Why is Canadian theatre so Russian right now?
Andrew Kushnir's new article is an invitation to consider the near-absence of Ukrainian stories on Canadian stages in the year since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.
Rethinking Democracy And Citizenship
What does it mean to be democratic? What’s the difference between being a citizen in a democracy and a subject in an empire? Dr. Urvashi Sahni answered these pressing questions and more in her inspiring and truly engaging TEDtalk.
Creators for Change Documentary Wins Emmy for Outstanding Daytime Non-Fiction Special
Dr. Urvashi Sahni and Study Hall Education Foundation (SHEF) are featured in Michelle Obama's "Creators for Change" Documentary showcasing how education can transform girls’ lives and create a ripple effect for communities.
CODE Conversations
See here the launch of CODE Conversations with Matthew Sheahan, secondary teacher from Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board and President of the Council of Ontario Dance and Drama Educators interviewing Andrew Kushnir and Zorana Sadiq on their experiences with the Radical Hope research, the Towards Youth production, and their poignant thoughts on why Verbatim theatre is an especially important aesthetic with young people in these times.
Project: Humanity supporting youth & artists through COVID-19
P:H's COVID-19 Artist Partnership Program (CAPP). provides essential support to youth in shelters by pairing participants with artists for weekly 1:1 online mentorship sessions in a discipline of their choosing.
Tiny Tuna Big Bee: motivating climate action through music
Introducing our friends Bebe, Oona and Tutu of homegrown Toronto band ‘Tiny Tuna Big Bee’, all 12 years old and writing music as a call to action about climate change.
