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Please see below the CFP for the 2022 Watershed Music Theatre Festival Symposium. More info about Watershed can be found here: <a href="https://www.watershedmusictheatre.com/" target="_blank">https://www.watershedmusictheatre.com/</a><br />
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Warmly,<br />
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Kelsey<br />
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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 16px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">We welcome submissions for the </span><strong style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">2022 Watershed Music Theatre Festival Symposium</strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">, planned for </span><strong style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">May 24-29, 2022</strong><span style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px"> </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The Symposium will feature a combination of virtual and in-person sessions, allowing for engaging face-to-face workshops and collaborative sessions at the stunning Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts on the shores of Lake Ontario, as well as sessions that allow us to gather across borders and time zones online. </span><span style="font-size: 16px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 16px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">The Symposium aims to bring together artists, scholars, and artist-scholars in a celebration of all things music theatre. We hope to push the boundaries of the genre by exploring ideas that cross generic boundaries; asking difficult questions of works, practices, or principles; and considering creative and empowering ways forward for those of us working in this field. We are interested in dissolving disciplinary, subdisciplinary, and academic/professional boundaries and forming new circles of conversation around the possibilities for music and theatre to speak truth, connect communities, and tell new stories. Acknowledging the fraught colonial legacies of opera and musical theatre vis-à-vis the stories they have told and the practices they have adopted, we are interested in inviting new voices into conversation with one another through a shared interest in music, theatre, and story. We invite practitioners, actors, singers, dancers, fans, academics, technicians, designers, directors, and any others invested in the many branches of this art form to join us to explore the following questions: What brilliant genre-defying work is being done in music theatre, and what is at stake in this work? What threads need to be pulled at in order to unravel the harm that has been caused by work in music theatre? What new stories need to be told, and how might they be told differently or more impactfully through music theatre? How might widening or re-organizing our circles of conversation change our practices and field for the better?</span><span style="font-size: 16px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">We welcome proposals from artists, practitioners, junior, mid-career, or senior scholars, as well as students, for the following types of sessions:</span></div>
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<li style="font-size: 16px"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">Papers (15-min.)</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 16px"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">Lightning Talks (5 min.)</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 16px"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">Workshops (45 min. or 90 min.) </span></li>
<li style="font-size: 16px"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">Curated Panels (45 min.)</span></li>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">We also welcome sessions that combine some of the above elements. We encourage topics, questions, and presentation styles that challenge traditional academic boundaries and that might engage practitioners, performers, and professionals in conversation. We will also host a Student Salon Program, which will celebrate student engagement in music theatre, and will foster conversation and community through daily spaces and events geared towards rising and emerging voices in the field. </span><span style="font-size: 16px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">Please submit questions and abstracts of 300 words to </span><strong style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">Dr. Colleen Renihan </strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">at </span><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px" href="https://mailto:colleen.renihan@queensu.ca" target="_blank">colleen.renihan@queensu.ca</a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px"> by March 1, 2022. Indicate session type (paper, workshop, etc.) and whether you would prefer to join us in person or online.</span><span style="font-size: 16px"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align:center;font-size: 16px"><strong style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px"><em>Queen</em></strong><span style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">’</span><strong style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px"><em>s University is situated on the territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek.</em></strong></div>
<div style="text-align:center;font-size: 16px"><strong style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px"><em>Ne Queen</em></strong><span style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">’</span><strong style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px"><em>s University e</em></strong><span style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px">’</span><strong style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px"><em>tho nońwe nikanónhsote tsi nońwe ne Haudenosaunee tánon Anishinaabek tehatihsnónhsahere ne óhontsa. </em></strong></div>
<div style="text-align:center;font-size: 16px"><strong style="color:#16315b;font-family:Open Sans;font-size: 16px"><em>Gimaakwe Gchi-gkinoomaagegamig atemagad Naadowe miinwaa Anishinaabe aking.</em></strong></div>
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