November 3
Perimeter Airways terminal in Winnipeg is a dingy den with mostly stoop-shouldered elders and unfettered children enjoying last-minute sprints amongst the waiting passengers before they are tethered to tiny seats on the bush planes heading into the...
November 3
*Disclaimer: They will probably not change your life forever; title is for clickbait purposes only. *** ‘I love to laugh’, famously sang Mary Poppins’ Uncle Albert, floating up to the ceiling with mirth, and it’s not long before the...
November 3
This project wasn’t my idea. I wish it was but it was inspired by an Art-Recreation challenge reviewed by Kay Kelleher of the New York Times as the ‘only good Instagram challenge’ during quarantine. Kelleher wrote: At a time when museums...
November 3
Tossing in his day job promoting the arts and returning to actually making art. ‘Idiocy. Great word,’ says Mike Caemmerer. ‘I'm good at it.’ Hands covered in drying clay, Mike sits with a potter's wheel spinning quietly between his...
September 30
ARRRGH! BIFF! CRRAAACK! KAPOW! OOOOFF! When my colleague Carrie Grev and I were looking to reinvent our middle school classes we were discussing ways to increase the uptake of boys in Drama and the thought of adapting a physical theatre unit into...
September 30
Gwendolyn VanSant, Kristen van Ginhoven, Dawn Simmons and Lee Mikeska Gardner on co-producing Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline while prioritising equity. Originally published at gwendolynvansant.com in June 2020. Republished with permission by...
September 30
In April of 2020 I accepted a place on the Doctor of Educational Theatre programme at New York University. I have spent many years studying and immersing myself in theatre, exploring it from different perspectives and contexts while focusing on ways...
September 30
‘What I learned is that ISTA magic will change you in ways you will forever be grateful for. ISTA has instilled in me the importance and value of how the performing arts is a powerful platform, which essentially, has helped shape who I am...