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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Calibri" size="2">What was PANAMANIA? Hemispheric community and local belonging at the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games’ arts festival</font></p>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="2">Panels, 2016 Conference of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Calgary, May 28-31, 2016.</font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Calibri" size="2">Co-convenors: Susan Bennett (Calgary) and Karen Fricker (Brock)</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font size="2">The always-vibrant summer arts scene in Canada was amplified in 2015 by PANAMANIA, a 35-day arts and cultural festival staged as part of the Toronto Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. The festival
brought together over 200 free live events with a program of multidisciplinary performances, including 28 commissioned world premieres. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We invite proposals for two panels addressing the breadth and diversity of programming at PANAMANIA. We are interested in receiving proposals that address individual performances, whether
staged in a theatre or public space, as well as “big picture” discussions of the festival’s presence and reception in the city. Topics and questions that proposals might address include: the relationships between the communities hailed by the programming and
how, in reality, these communities participated and/or engaged the event; the festival’s aspirations to reflect the plurality of the Americas and Toronto’s diversities; the place of landmark Canadian/Québécois commissions within the broader Canadian and transnational
performing arts landscape; and the integration of questions and realities of ability/disability into the festival.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We encourage potential participants to consider the festival
and Games from performance studies perspectives and as such, proposals involving consideration of the sporting events themselves, and the impact of the Games and Festival on the lived experience of Toronto and the GTA are welcome.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="2">Please send 300-500 word proposals to Susan Bennett (<a href="mailto:sbennett@ucalgary.ca">sbennett@ucalgary.ca</a>) and Karen Fricker (<a href="mailto:kfricker@brocku.ca">kfricker@brocku.ca</a>) by 15th January
2016. As co-convenors, we will share the duties of session chairs and provide short response papers; for this reason, full draft versions of papers will be due no later than 10<sup>th</sup> May 2016. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><font size="2">** With apologies for cross posting ** </font></span></p>
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<div>Karen Fricker, PhD</div>
<div>Assistant Professor of Dramatic Arts</div>
<div>Brock University</div>
<div><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way</span></div>
<div><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">L2S 3A1</span></div>
<div>(905) 688-5550 x 5780</div>
<div>blog: <a href="http://karenfricker.wordpress.com/">karenfricker.wordpress.com</a></div>
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