THEATRE PASSE MURAILLE PRESENTS: The Shipping of Souls and the Reception of Cultures

The Shipping of Souls and the Reception of Cultures:
Staging Migration in Intercultural Performance

(Toronto) Following last winter's successful conference on Canadian
collective creation, Theatre Passe Muraille is pleased to announce a
second three-day artist/scholar conference. The Shipping of Souls and
the Reception of Cultures runs February 26-28, 2007 at Theatre Passe
Muraille. It focuses on the staging of migration in intercultural
performance.

The conference will provide all those interested in the performing
arts at the local and international levels a unique opportunity to
engage in discussion with leading Toronto-area theatre artists,
historians, theorists and commentators.

The Shipping of Souls and the Reception of Cultures features
presentations and papers by speakers whose work involves and
challenges intercultural performance. Presenters include Judith
Rudakoff (YorkU) and the "Common Plants: Cross Pollinations in Hybrid
Reality" Web Project, fu-GEN Theatre, Carlos Bulosan Theatre,
Guillermo Verdecchia (theatre artist), Damiano Pietropoalo (CBC
Radio), Ato Quayson (UofT), Alan Filewod (UGuelph), Holly Lewis
(theatre artist), Naila Keleta Mae (theatre artist) and Aktina
Stathaki (UofT).

Keynote Addresses will be given by theatre artist, producer and
cultural advocate Jean Yoon and University of Guelph Professor Ric
Knowles.

Accompanying the presentations is a Roundtable Discussion on
"Producing Intercultural Theatre" moderated by Kathleen Gallagher
(UofT OISE) and featuring some of Toronto?s leading theatre producers
and instructors: John Van Burek (Pleiades Theatre), C. Derrick Chua
(independent producer), Soheil Parsa (Modern Times Stage Company),
Michal Schonberg (UTSC) and Jovanni Sy (Cahoots Theatre Projects).

The Shipping of Souls and the Reception of Cultures expands on themes
raised by Theatre Passe Muraille's second show of the season,
The Sheep and the Whale (Feb 20 - Mar 11, 2007), a co-production between
Cahoots Theatre Projects and Modern Times Stage Company, in
association with Theatre Passe Muraille. The conference features a
special matinee performance of the play, with post-show talkback, on
Wednesday (2pm).

February 26 - 28, 2007 at Theatre Passe Muraille. 16 Ryerson Ave., Toronto
3-Day Conference Registration: $20 ($15 for students)
Order in advance at the Bell Arts Box Office: 416.504.7529 or visit
artsboxoffice. ca
For more information, please contact Bramwell Pemberton at 416.504.7529 x2140