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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Correction: year in subject line changed to 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">You're invited to </span>t<span style="color:black">he 34th Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) Conference: Encountering the Threshold<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">When: February 5 & 6, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Where: Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79 St. George Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://forms.gle/whzGkvs9owQDYmMX7" title="https://forms.gle/whzGkvs9owQDYmMX7">Register in advance!</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We are thrilled to invite you to the
</span><a href="https://www.cdtps.utoronto.ca/conferences/foot34" title="https://www.cdtps.utoronto.ca/conferences/foot34">34th annual Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) Conference</a><span style="color:black">, hosted by the University of Toronto’s Centre
for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies and organized by CDTPS graduate students. This year’s theme, “Encountering the Threshold,” explores moments of passage, suspension, and transformation—spaces where oppositions meet and new meanings emerge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black">📅</span><span style="color:black"> Dates: Thursday, February 5 – Friday, February 6, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Join scholars, practitioners, and artists for two days of presentations, panels, workshops, and performances that critically engage with performance and its power to reshape our relation to the present. Learn more
about the conference in the </span><a href="https://linktr.ee/FOOT34" title="https://linktr.ee/FOOT34">FOOT 2026 Conference Agenda</a><span style="color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Highlights of FOOT34:</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"><img border="0" width="400" height="500" style="width:4.1666in;height:5.2083in" id="image_0" src="cid:image001.png@01DC860D.959F3C90"></span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Keynote Performer: Jose Miguel ‘Miggy’ Esteban<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thursday, Feb 5 at 4 PM, Playhouse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Miggy is a dance/movement artist and educator whose work navigates mad and queer routes to embody Filipinx (un)rest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Keynote Speech & Book Launch: Power Moves: Dance, Culture, Politics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Friday, Feb 6 at 1 PM, Hart House (Music Room)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Featuring Seika Boye and MJ Thompson, this event celebrates their essay collection published by Playwrights Canada Press. Stay for the Book Fair and connect with authors and new publications in dance and performance
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The full program will be available soon.
</span><a href="https://forms.gle/whzGkvs9owQDYmMX7" title="https://forms.gle/whzGkvs9owQDYmMX7">Register now</a><span style="color:black"> to receive conference details and updates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Follow FOOT34 on Instagram for updates:
</span><a href="https://linktr.ee/FOOT34" title="https://linktr.ee/FOOT34">linktr.ee/FOOT34</a><span style="color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We look forward to seeing you at </span>
<a href="https://www.cdtps.utoronto.ca/conferences/foot34" title="https://www.cdtps.utoronto.ca/conferences/foot34">FOOT34</a><span style="color:black">!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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