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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Silversides Theatre Artists Series 2016</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> presents Canadian actor and playwright
<b>Monique Mojica</b> in a talk, "Inscripted Earth: embodiment of place as research, process and performance."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Monique Mojica will describe her evolving process of creating an Indigenous dramaturgy rooted in land-based embodied research. This presentation looks specifically at work begun in
2011 (along with a collaborative team of Indigenous artists) and focuses on effigy mounds and earthworks as the first literary structures on this land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">DATE</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: Monday, October
17<sup>th</sup>, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">TIME</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: 11:30 a.m. –
1 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">VENUE</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Mojica</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">(Guna and Rappahannock nations)
is passionately dedicated to a theatrical practice as an act of healing, of reclaiming historical/ cultural memory and of resistance. Spun directly from the family-web of New York’s Spiderwoman Theater, her theatrical practice embraces not only her artistic
lineage through mining stories embedded in the body, but also the connection to stories coming through land and place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Monique’s first play<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Princess-Pocahontas-Spots-Monique-Mojica/dp/0889611653"><span style="color:#AC6100">Princess
Pocahontas and the Blue Spots</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was produced in 1990 and is widely taught in curricula internationally. She was a co-founder of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://performancewiki.ca/Turtle_Gals_Performance_Ensemble"><span style="color:#AC6100">Turtle
Gals Performance Ensemble</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with whom she created<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nativeearth.ca/the-scrubbing-project/"><span style="color:#AC6100">The Scrubbing Project</span></a>,
the Dora nominated <a href="http://www.nativeearth.ca/the-triple-truth/"><span style="color:#AC6100">The Triple Truth</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://artword.net/artwordlist/?p=299"><span style="color:#AC6100">The
Only Good Indian</span></a>. In 2007, she founded <a href="http://www.chocolatewomancollective.com/">
<span style="color:#AC6100">Chocolate Woman Collective</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to develop the play<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nativeearth.ca/native-earth-presents-chocolate-woman-dreams-the-milky-way/"><span style="color:#AC6100">Chocolate
Woman Dreams the Milky Way</span></a>, a performance created by devising a dramaturgy specific to Guna cultural aesthetics, story narrative and literary structure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Monique has taught Indigenous Theatre in theory, process and practice at the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://illinois.edu/"><span style="color:#AC6100">University of
Illinois</span></a>, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://iaia.edu/"><span style="color:#AC6100">Institute of American Indian Arts</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.mcmaster.ca/"><span style="color:#AC6100">McMaster
University</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and is a former co- director of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://indigenoustheatre.weebly.com/"><span style="color:#AC6100">Centre for Indigenous Theatre</span></a>.
She has lectured on embodied research and taught embodied performance workshops throughout Canada, the U.S., Latin America and Europe. She was most recently seen onstage in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://kahawidance.org/"><span style="color:#AC6100">Kaha:wi Dance
Theatre</span></a>’s world premiere of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Re-Quickening</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>choreographed by Santee Smith and with the
<a href="http://nac-cna.ca/en/orchestra/2016-2017"><span style="color:#AC6100">National Arts Centre Orchestra</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://nac-cna.ca/en/lifereflected/ilostmytalk"><span style="color:#AC6100">I
lost my Talk</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as part of the Life Reflected series.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The Silversides Theatre Artists Lecture Series</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> is presented by the Theatre and Performance program in the Department of Drama and Speech Communication. This series
commemorates the donations made by Brian Silversides to the Theatre and Performance program. Brian Silversides was a Canadian actor, stage technician and entrepreneur who passed away in 1996.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Any questions or comments, please contact Janelle Rainville at
<a href="mailto:jrainvil@uwaterloo.ca">jrainvil@uwaterloo.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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