<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Playwright/poet/teacher JAMES REANEY developed a unique and ground breaking course around 1970 at University of Western Ontario on Canadian Literature and Culture (course name English 138.) It was truly a team taught course (and not serially taught but with all 8 teachers present for each lecture.)</div><div><br></div><div>Each class was also supported with references to political and economic contexts (McLuhan/Morton/Innis etc) and slides of visual arts examples and musical references. There was also an extra hour tacked on to the class (a fourth hour called The Third Hour to disguise an unorthodox class length to the administration) where guests would come and lecture....and what guests: historians like Creighton, geographers such as Warkentin. Writers like Alice Monro, Davies, Atwood, Carrier. Playwrights such as Tremblay, Hardin, Ryga; poets like Jay McPherson, Birney, Purdy etc and visual artists like Jack Chambers and Tony Urquhart. </div><div><br></div><div>Imagine being a student in THAT course?</div><div><br></div><div>Donald Hair and Richard Stingle have an excellent article in Canadian Poetry about this and another course relating literature to myth that Reaney taught at Western...here</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://canadianpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Preface2.pdf">http://canadianpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Preface2.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to Susan Wallace for this link.</div><div><br><br><div>David Ferry<div>416-433-5826 <a href="mailto:appledor@sympatico.ca">appledor@sympatico.ca</a></div><div><a href="http://davidferry.workbooklive.com">http://davidferry.workbooklive.com</a></div></div></div><div><br>On Feb 9, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Rebecca Burton <<a href="mailto:becca_burton3@hotmail.com">becca_burton3@HOTMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="3">Hello Candramers,</font><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">I am sending out a reminder that this Thursday (February 11th) is the date for two different launch parties for <b>C</b><i><b>anadian Theatre Review's</b></i><b> most recent issue, "Equity in Theatre"</b> (Winter 2016, #165).</font></div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div><br></div><div><font size="3">If you are anywhere near <b><u>Calgary</u></b> that night, the event is being held at the Matthews Theatre (Craigie Hall F101), School of Creative and Performing Arts, U of C, from 7:30 - 9:00 pm.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">There will be presentations by Aylssa Bradac, Michele Decottignies, Cheryl Foggo, Kate Newby, Patti Pon, Jenna Rodgers, and a performance by Keshia Cheesman and Bianca Miranda.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">---</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">If you are anywhere near <b><u>Toronto</u> </b>this Thursday, the event is being held in the Backroom of the Imperial Pub and Library (54 Dundas St. East at Yonge St.), starting at 7:30 pm. Wheelchair accessible. See the Facebook event page here: </font><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/572417632924076/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://www.facebook.com/events/572417632924076/</a></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">The Toronto launch will be hosted by Sedina Fiati, and it will<span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> feature performances, readings, and </span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">videos </span></font><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">by </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">d’bi young, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Faduma Mohamed, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Falen Johnson, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gein Wong, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">nisha ahuja, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Raven Dauda, and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sunny Drake.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">---</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">Both events are <b>free</b> (though donations will be accepted at the door), and there will be a discounted rate available for the CTR issue. </font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">Please j<span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">oin us to help celebrate the incredible contributions artists and scholars have made to the issue. </span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you would like to learn more about the Equity in Theatre (EIT) initiative, please visit our website at: <a href="http://www.eit.playwrightsguild.ca">www.eit.playwrightsguild.ca</a></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thank you!</span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Best Wishes,</span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rebecca Burton and Laine Zisman Newman</span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 15.008px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Co-editors, and Co-Organizers of EIT</span></font></div> </div>
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