<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><b style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;">THIS WEEK: 'Reimagining Intimacy: Immersive and Participatory Performance in the Era of Covid-19’</b><div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><div><b>14 - 17 December 2022</b></div><div><b>University of Calgary</b></div><div><a href="https://reimaginingintimacy.ca/"><b>https://reimaginingintimacy.ca/</b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><div><b><br></b></div><div>Join us for four days of <b>performances, workshops, laboratories</b> and <b>presentations</b> exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the place of intimacy in a broad range of immersive and participatory performance practices. All events are <b>FREE to access and available online</b>. </div><div><br></div><div><div><b>PERFORMANCES</b>: groundbreaking online performances from <b>ZU-UK (London)</b>, <b>Lundhal and Seitl (Stockholm) </b>and<b> This is Not a Theatre Company (NYC)</b> are available free of cost from Dec. 14 - 16. For details and registration information, visit the event <a href="https://reimaginingintimacy.ca/rii-performance/"><b>Performance</b></a> page.</div><div><br></div><div><b>ARTISTS FORUM</b>: on <b>December 14th,</b> prominent <b>professional artists</b> from across <b>Canada</b>, the <b>USA</b>, <b>England</b> and <b>Sweden</b> discuss how Covid-19 has affected the nature of intimacy in contemporary performance. For full details and registration information, visit the event <b><a href="https://reimaginingintimacy.ca/rii_artistsforum/">Artists Forum</a> </b>page.</div><div><br></div><div><b>WORKSHOP</b>: the online <a href="https://reimaginingintimacy.ca/rii-anonymousanimals/"><b>‘Anonymous Animals’</b> workshop</a> will explore fundamental performance questions of consent, autonomy, spectacle, and narrative, as well as the transformative possibilities of emotionally hacking online work spaces into places for play, fiction, and connection.</div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></div><div><br></div><div><b>SYMPOSIUM</b>: the event concludes with a full-day <b>Symposium</b> on <b>December 17th, </b>beginning with a<b> Keynote presentation </b>by <b>Adrienne Wong </b>and ending with a<b> Scholars Panel </b>with<b> leading international researchers </b>in the area of Immersive and Participatory Performance: <b>Adam Alston, Josephine Machon </b>and<b> Gareth White</b>. <b>ASL interpretation</b> and Closed Captioning available at all sessions. For full details and registration information, visit the event <b><a href="https://reimaginingintimacy.ca/rii-symposium/">Symposium </a></b>page.</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Partner Institutions: </b></div><div><b>Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London)</b></div><div><b>University of Greenwich (London)</b></div><div><b>Concordia University (Montreal)</b></div></div><div><br></div><div>Check out the full program of offerings at <a href="https://reimaginingintimacy.ca/"><b>Reimagining Intimacy</b></a>. Questions about the event can be sent to<b> <a href="mailto:info@reimaginingintimacy.ca">info@reimaginingintimacy.ca</a></b>.</div></div></div><div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><br></div><div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><br></div><div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><b>'Reimagining Intimacy'</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Performances/Workshops/Labs/Symposium</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">14 - 17 December 2022</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">https://reimaginingintimacy.ca/</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">info@reimaginingintimacy.ca</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><br></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><b>Convenors:</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Bruce Barton, University of Calgary</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Gareth White, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Natalia Esling, University of British Columbia</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><br></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><b>Event Coordinators:</b> Sage Cannon, Randi Edmundson & Cassie Holmes</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">University of Calgary</div></div><br><br></body></html>