with Joel Bernbaum, and Yvette Nolan
English
Concordia’s Acts of Listening Lab & COHDS, & IMAGO theatre invite you to a climate change verbatim theatre workshop led by Yvette Nola and Joel Bernbaum.
Like live documentaries, these plays are made from interview transcripts, joint us to fine-tune your tools and skill to make a verbatim theatre play.
Joel Bernbaum is a theatre artist and journalist. He is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts and Carleton University, where he completed his Master’s Thesis on Verbatim Theatre’s Relationship to Journalism. Joel’s produced plays include Operation Big Rock, My Rabbi (with Kayvan Khoshkam), Home is a Beautiful Word, Reasonable Doubt (with Yvette Nolan and Lancelot Knight) and Being Here: The Refugee Project (with Michael Shamata). Joel is currently an interdisciplinary PhD student at the University of Saskatchewan investigating the potential of theatre to strengthen cities.
Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director and dramaturg who makes theatre across Turtle Island. Her works include the play The Unplugging, the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto Shawnadithit, and the verbatim play Reasonable Doubt (with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight). From 2003-2011, she served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts.
REGISTRATION
You can register for the event here.
In-person in Concordia University Dance Studio, 1600 Blvd De Maisonneuve West
COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
