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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From
Stephen Johnson, President, Canadian Association for Theatre Research / Association
canadienne de la recherche théâtrale </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>After a
year of excellent publications and rewarding scholarship, the Canadian
Association for Theatre Research / Association canadienne de la recherche
théâtrale (CATR/ACRT) is pleased to announce the results of the following
awards competitions.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>These prizes were awarded at the annual banquet, held at the Perimeter Institute on May 28, 2012, during our
conference in Waterloo:</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>The
Patrick O’Neill Award for Editing was awarded to Nina Lee Aquino and Ric
Knowles, eds. <i>Asian Canadian Theatre</i>
(Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 2011).</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>The Ann
Saddlemyer Award for a Book in English or French was awarded to Alan Filewod. <i>Committing Theatre: Theatre Radicalism and Political
Intervention in Canada</i> (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2011).</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>The
Jean-Cléo Godin Award for an article in French was awarded to Nicole
Côté. “Représentation de la minorisation dans “L’année du Big Mac, de Marc
Prescott” in (<i>Se) raconter des histoires:
histoire et histories dans les littératures francophones du Canada</i>, dir.
Lucie Hotte (Sudbury: Éditions Prise de paroles, 2010).</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>The
Richard Plant Award for an article in English was awarded to Glen Nichols.
“Identity in Performance in Carol Shields’s Stage Plays” from <i>West-Words: Celebrating Western Canadian
Theatre and Playwrighting</i>. Ed. Moira Day. <br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Honourable
mention went to Christine Kim for “Performing Asian Canadian Intimacy: Theatre
Replacement’s Bioboxes and Awkward Multiculturalism” in <i>Asian Canadian Theatre</i>, edited by Nina Lee Aquino and Ric Knowles.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>The
Heather McCallum Scholarship was awarded this year to Helene Vosters for
research at the Canadian War Museum and its Military History Research Centre in
Ottawa, and into the public ceremonies commemorating the bicentennial of the
War of 1812.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>CATR/ACRT
Awards were presented to the following:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>The
International panel: Kimberly Richards</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>The
Intercultural panel: Jointly awarded to Majdi Bou-Matar, Rahul Varma, and
Donna-Michelle St.Bernard</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>The
Performance and Practice panel: Helene Vosters</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>The
French/Francophone panel: Michelle MacArthur</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>These
new awards are the result of our successful fundraising campaign. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><u>The
2012 CATR/ACRT Honorary Membership was awarded to Nina Lee Aquino for her outstanding
contribution to Canadian theatre.</u></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>After deliberations
at the end of the conference, the 2012 Robert Lawrence Prize for outstanding
conference paper by an emerging scholar was awarded to Helene Vosters for
her paper, “Between Two Worlds: Reflections on a Year of Falling.”<span> </span>Honourable mention went to Jessica Riley for
her paper, “The Dramaturge and/as Hyphen-ated Artist-Scholar.”</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Congratulations
to all!</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Special
thanks are due to Kathleen Irwin, the Scholarly Awards Coordinator, and to all
the members of the selection committees. Full details, including the membership
of each committee and citations for the selections, will appear in the Fall
Newsletter, which may be accessed on the Association website, <a href="http://www.catr-acrt.ca">www.catr-acrt.ca</a>,
where more information about the awards and lists of previous winners can also
be found.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Un mot de Stephen Johnson, président de l’Association
canadienne de la recherche théâtrale / Canadian Association for Theatre
Research</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Nous avons connu une année faste en publications et de
grande qualité en recherche. L’Association est donc heureuse de diffuser le nom
des lauréats des divers prix annuels.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Les prix ont été remis durant le banquet de fin
d’année, qui a eu lieu au Perimeter Institute le 28 mai dernier lors de notre
colloque à Waterloo :</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Le prix Patrick O’Neill pour la direction d’un recueil
de textes a été attribué à Nina Lee Aquino et Ric Knowles pour <i>Asian
Canadian Theatre</i>
(Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 2011).</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Le prix Ann Saddlemyer pour un livre en français ou en
anglais a été attribué à Alan Filewod pour <i>Committing Theatre:
Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada</i> (Toronto: Between the Lines,
2011).</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Le prix Jean-Cléo Godin pour un article en français a
été attribué à Nicole Côté pour “Représentation de la minorisation dans
“L’année du Big Mac, de Marc Prescott” dans (<i>Se) raconter des histoires : histoire et histoires dans les
littératures francophones du Canada</i>, dir. Lucie Hotte (Sudbury : Éditions
Prise de parole, 2010).</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Le prix Richard Plant pour un article en anglais a été
attribué à Glen Nichols pour “Identity in Performance in Carol Shields’s Stage
Plays” dans <i>West-Words: Celebrating
Western Canadian Theatre and Playwrighting</i>, dir. Moira Day.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Une mention honorable est allée à Christine Kim pour “Performing Asian Canadian
Intimacy: Theatre Replacement’s Bioboxes and Awkward Multiculturalism” dans <i>Asian Canadian Theatre</i>, dirs. Nina Lee
Aquino and Ric Knowles.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>La bourse Heather McCallum a été remise cette année à
Helene Vosters pour sa recherche au Musée canadien de la guerre et à son Centre
de recherche sur l’histoire militaire à Ottawa ainsi que lors des cérémonies
commémorant le bicentenaire de la Guerre de 1812.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Les prix de l’ACRT/CATR ont été attribués ainsi :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Prix de la recherche internationale : Kimberly
Richards</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Prix de la recherche interculturelle : Majdi
Bou-Matar, Rahul Varma et Donna-Michelle St.Bernard, conjointement</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Prix pratique et performance : Helene Vosters</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Prix théâtre, dramaturgie et performance en
français : Michelle MacArthur</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Ces nouveaux prix ont pu être remis grâce au succès de
notre campagne de financement.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><u>Le titre de membre honoraire de l’ACRT/CATR pour 2012
a été attribué à Nina Lee Aquino pour sa contribution exceptionnelle au théâtre
canadien.</u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Après délibérations, à la fin du colloque, le prix
Robert Lawrence 2012 récompensant une communication exceptionnelle donnée par
un ou une jeune chercheur(e) a été attribué à Helene Vosters. Sa
communication s’intitulait “Between
Two Worlds: Reflections on a Year of Falling.” Une
mention honorable est allée à Jessica Riley pour sa communication “The
Dramaturge and/as Hyphen-ated Artist-Scholar”.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Toutes nos félicitations à tous les récipiendaires !</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Nous remercions particulièrement Kathleen Irwin,
coordonnatrice de la remise des prix, et tous les membres des jurys. Tous les
détails concernant la sélection des récipiendaires, les membres des comités et
les finalistes vous seront communiqués dans notre prochain bulletin de liaison.
Ce dernier sera accessible sur le site Web de l’Association au <a href="http://www.catr-acrt.ca"><span lang="FR-CA">www.catr-acrt.ca</span></a></font></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="FR-CA"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>,
tout comme de nombreux autres renseignements à propos des prix ainsi que la
liste des lauréats des années antérieures.</font></span><a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p>