Conversation Starters
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- In response to a recent story about the so-called “rise of evil clowns”, Morro and Jasp defended harmless clowns everywhere on the Acting Up Stage Theatre blog
- Kelly Thornton, Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre, issued an International Women’s Day challenge to Canadian theatres to “make it happen”
- Brad Fraser responds to a negative article about his new play Kill Me Now, exploring the responsibilities of playwrights and the need for nuanced conversations about playing characters with disabilities in "Did I get my play about disability 'wrong'? No, but we need to talk about this"
- Playwright Gwydion Suilebhan explores how provoking a powerful audience response manifests itself in theatre in “Storming the Court”
- Marcia Polas offers practical advice on managing audition anxiety on 2amtheatre
- The staff of the Guelph Arts Council continued their year-long annual “Artful Pledge” in February with the goal to “Create!”
- Mark Fisher wrote in his blog in praise of bias in arts criticism
- The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts showed some wonderful industry leadership with “Theatres Leading Change”, a partnership with ARTS Action Research to examine all aspects of theatre organizational culture. The final report “Seizing Permission” is now available online (scroll down to find it)
- The Toronto Arts Council announced the inaugural “TAC Cultural Leaders Lab Fellows” mobilizing Toronto’s arts leadership talent to tackle pressing challenges facing the sector and the City. It’s an impressive group
- Brendan Healy is stepping down as Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - and as people reflected enthusiastically (and deservedly) about his contribution to the community, I dusted off his insightful 2012 Facebook note “Four thoughts for my future self”
- The coalition of Provincial Arts Service Organizations, which includes Theatre Ontario, has made a pre-budget submission to the Ontario Ministry of Finance
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