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Hi all, please see below and attached - this is a call for contributions to an upcoming issue of Canadian Theatre Review on Black theatre and performance in Canada, titled Black Canons, Futures and Freedoms, edited by Dian Marie Bridge, Lisa Karen Cox, and
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1">Special Issue for CTR 198 Spring 2024 : Black Canons, Futures and Freedoms<o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1">Co-Editors:<i><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></i>Dian Marie Bridge, Lisa Karen Cox and Naila Keleta-Mae<o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1">Canadian Theatre Review</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1"><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span>is
pleased to invite contributions for a special issue on Black theatre and performance in Canada called Black Canons, Futures and Freedoms co-edited by Dian Marie Bridge, Lisa Karen Cox and Naila Keleta-Mae that will be published in Spring 2024.<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1">Contributions must range from 500 to 3,000 words. Contributors are encouraged to be imaginative in the form your contribution takes. Possible contributions ideas include, but are
not limited to: an article, panel discussion, email exchange, multi-authored work, manifestos and should respond to one of the co-editors following prompts from the co-editors:<o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></p>
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<li><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1">Prompt 1: The 2000's saw Black Canadian theatre increasingly favour narratives that re-centred Blackness as a dominant perspective. Inspired by African-American writers' unapologetic
depictions of Blackness, Canada’s canonical challenges to ideas of blackness as deficit emerge,<span class="ContentPasted1"> <span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span>inviting opportunity for unfiltered Black joy, rage, and being, on
stage.<span class="ContentPasted1"> <span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span>– Dian Marie Bridge,<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span><span lang="EN"><a class="ContentPasted1"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">dianmariebridge@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span><br class="ContentPasted1">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1">Prompt 2: As drivers of pop culture, what are the predictions of Black Canadian cultural performance workers for the future of performance? Often confused with African Americans,
Black Canadians bring a distinctive lens to their work as varied lived experiences are uncovered from the white lens to add a new dimension and new pathways to performance. Black Canadian artists and scholars will be invited to muse, and dream upon a changed
and expansive future of performance. - Lisa Karen Cox,<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span><span lang="EN"><a class="ContentPasted1"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">lisa.cox@ryerson.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span><br class="ContentPasted1">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1">Prompt 3: The pursuit of freedom has been a focus of Black life ever since the advent of the TransAtlantic slave trade in the 16th century when Europeans led the violent taking
of Africans from their lands. Black artists in Canada have long used theatre, performance, and other artistic forms to advocate for freedom.<span class="ContentPasted1"> <span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span>- Naila Keleta-Mae,<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span><span lang="EN"><a class="ContentPasted1"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">blackandfree@uwaterloo.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span><br class="ContentPasted1">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1">Interested contributors should submit the following by March 15, 2023, to to the Co-editor of the prompt they are responding: a 150-word abstract, the form the contribution will
take (ie. manifesto, article, interview), anticipated word count and a brief biography (75 words). Send submissions to Prompt 1: Dian Marie Bridge,<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span><span lang="EN"><a class="ContentPasted1"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">dianmariebridge@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1">;
Prompt 2:<span class="ContentPasted1"> <span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span>Lisa Karen Cox,<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span><span lang="EN"><a class="ContentPasted1"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">lisa.cox@ryerson.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1">;
or Prompt 3: Naila Keleta-Mae,<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span><span lang="EN"><a class="ContentPasted1"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">blackandfree@uwaterloo.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted1">.
If accepted, contributions will be due on June 1, 2023.<o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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