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Staging Sustainability at York U
Presented by: York University Faculty of Fine Arts
Arts | Community | Culture | Environment, an international conference in the Factuly of Fine Arts at York University.
Staging Sustainability is an opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue about the issues and challenges associated with sustainable arts practice and performance. The conference considers how the arts engage questions of sustainability from a dual vantage point: cultural and ecological. It encourages an approach to sustainability that encompasses aspects of subjectivity with respect to community and identity.
Staging Sustainability brings together more than 100 presenters from across North America and as far afield as Finland, Nigeria and Australia.
Artists and those who support the arts in a myriad of ways – from scholars, critics, producers and designers to policy-makers, industry and government – will gather for talks, hands-on workshops, panel discussions, screenings and staged readings.
Keynote presenters include:
• David Buckland, founding director of Cape Farewell, London/UK
• Gil Favreau, director of Social Action and Responsibility, Global Citizenship - Cirque du Soleil
• Ian Garrett, executive director of The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, Los Angeles
• Theresa May, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Oregon; artistic director of Earth Matters on Stage/Ecodrama Playwrights Festival
• Catriona Sandilands, Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University and choreographer and ecosexuality scholar Michael J. Morris, Ohio State University
• Performance artist Colette Urban and filmmaker Katherine Knight (Pretend not to See Me: The Art of Colette Urban)
The conference is open to the public.
For full program details and to register, visit www.stagingsustainability.com
Staging Sustainability is produced and presented by the Faculty of Fine Arts, York University with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Starts: Apr 20, 2011 Ends: Apr 22, 2011
At: Fine Arts Complex at York U's Keele Campus, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto
Playing: Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Times: full day
Cost: $80 - $100 | students $20 - $30
Getting there:
http://www.yorku.ca/web/maps/
For more information contact:
Amy Stewart
Phone:
416-650-8469
Email:
infoSPAMFILTER@stagingsustainability.ca
