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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Those of you who are planning to attend ACTR’s “The
Electronic Archive” panel presentation plus 45-minute Question and Answer period
on Sunday, May<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>28<SUP>th</SUP> at 9
a.m. in Accolade East 004, might find it helpful to explore the websites that
will be displayed, with aspects of them explained, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">before</I> the
conference.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Although the speakers will be presenting their websites
in vivid technicolour, the larger object of the panel is to examine a number of
research, pedagogical, and theoretical issues (see
below).<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><STRONG>**</STRONG>Daniel Fischlin, who is the Director
of the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project at the <?xml:namespace prefix
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w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Guelph</st1:PlaceName>, will be talking about “Virtual Archives:
Re-Making Shakespeare in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the Canadian Adaptations
of Shakespeare Project.” His website address is </FONT></FONT><A
href="http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">www.canadianshakespeares.ca</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">CASP is the first research project of its kind anywhere
in the world.devoted to the systematic exploration and documentation of the ways
in which Shakespeare has been adapted into a national, multicultural theatre
practice. On the site you will find a wealth of learning, teaching, and research
resources related to how Shakespeare has been adapted into (and out of) Canadian
theatre. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>You
might also wish to examine a related website, </FONT><A
href="http://www.shakespearemadeincanada.com/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">www.shakespearemadeincanada.com</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">It is about the planning for the Shakespeare--Made in
Canada Festival Exhibit that the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Guelph</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> is sponsoring next year. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Over 30 community groups will be
involved.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>**Kate Barris is the President of the Board of Directors for
<st1:City w:st="on">Theatre Museum</st1:City> <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region> / Musée Théâtre <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>. She will
be talking about “Why is it Taking So Long?: The Winding Road to
TheatreMuseumCanada.ca”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>TMC’s <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>website address is </FONT><A
href="http://www.theatremuseum.canada.ca/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">www.theatremuseum.canada.ca</FONT></A><FONT
color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Available in English and French, it has
links to exhibitions (and from there to a virtual exhibit, “Divas of Design:
Leading Ladies of operatic, set, and costume design”), collections, the legend
library, news and events, supporting the TMC, and research links to, among
other<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>sites and venues, theatre
museums around the world and performing arts organisations in Canada.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you know from the email that Michael
Wallace, the Executive Director of the TMC, sent us on May 15<SUP>th</SUP>, the
TMC site has just been launched and, as he asks, “please let us know what you
think.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>**Ed
Mullaly is a retired ‘Honorary Research Professor’ at the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">New Brunswick</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He runs the Atlantic Canada Theatre Site
which, despite its name, has information on theatre across <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>, not only
in the Atlantic region. His topic is “Delivery language in a binary universe.”
ACTS’s website address is </FONT><A
href="http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Theatre/index.html"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Theatre/index.html</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-CA
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Among its many features, this site includes the
Ball-Plant bibliography, which is regularly updated; the electronic version of
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Theatre Research in Canada</I> (and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Theatre History in Canada</I>), whose
abstracts can be searched with a keyword function; 19<SUP>th</SUP>. C. theatre
playbills; Canadian Texts from Victorian to Modern which, so far, includes “The
Worlds of Herman Voaden” and “The Worlds of Patricia Joudry,” both
conceptualised, organised, and edited by Anton Wagner; a Chronology of Canadian
Theatre during the 1800s with contributions from Patrick O’Neill, Richard Plant,
Mary E. Smith, Kevin Longfield, Denyse Lynde, and Ches Skinner; a collection of
Prologues and Epilogues as Performed on English Canadian Stages, edited by
Patrick O’Neill; a 19<SUP>th</SUP>. Century performance calendar which is home
to Patrick B. O’Neill’s Halifax Newspaper Archives database of all references to
theatre contained in the Halifax newspapers from 1759 until 1900 (and beyond);
and links to the production histories of Theatre New Brunswick, Neptune Theatre,
and the Confederation Centre in
Charlottetown.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">Each presenter will speak for 25 minutes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This will leave us with a 45-minute
Question and Answer period.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of
the possible questions with preliminary answers might include: Why was the site
set up? What are the structures and ideas that lie behind its public pages? How
do the theories that inform it create meanings? How does it serve the needs of
the scholarly community and other stakeholders? What advantages does it have
over print media? Will it bring about the end of the book and the print journal
or, as a commensurate technology, will it in fact enhance our preoccupation with
books and other forms of print / visual culture? Does it change the ways both
abstractly and concretely about how we think / perceive an “artefact”? What
copyright / ethical issues does it raise? Should it be regularly peer-reviewed
by a team of experts? What will the site be like in, say, ten years: will it
have not only audio and video links, as many sites do now, but also talk-back
and even olfactory features as many theorists are predicting they will? What
does it mean, perceptually and conceptually, when we consider that the site is
going to be used by a global 'readership'? And how will it change not only the
empirical knowledge that we possess but the ways in which we think and perceive
theatre / performance / indeed the world, past, present, and
future?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">I look forward to seeing you at this
session.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">--Denis Salter. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>____________________________________<BR>"In 2005, the world . . .
pass[ed] the trillion-dollar mark in the expenditure, annually, on arms. We're
fighting for $50 billion annually for foreign aid for Africa: the military total
outstrips human need by 20 to 1. Can someone please explain to me our
contemporary balance of values?"--Stephen Lewis.
<BR>__________________________________________________________________________________________________________<BR>"To
celebrate this award, and the work it recognizes of those around the world, let
me recall the words of Gandhi: 'My life is my message.' Also, plant a
tree." Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for
Peace.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>__________________________________________________<BR>Denis
Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill University<BR>853 Sherbrooke St.
West<BR>Montréal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6<BR>Tel (514) 487 7309<BR>Regular Fax (514) 398
8146<BR>Computer Fax (309) 294 0444<BR><A
href="mailto:denis.salter@mcgill.ca">denis.salter@mcgill.ca</A><BR><A
href="mailto:d.salter@videotron.ca">d.salter@videotron.ca</A><BR>__________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>