Vigile 1914-1918 -- Re: CANADA AND THE THEATRES OF WAR -- AGAIN

[Kathy Chung]

[apologies for cross-posting if you've heard about this...]

Further to Jerry's message, I just heard R.H. Thomson on CBC Radio, 
Sunday Edition, yesterday (2 Nov).  He spoke of producing a very 
interesting and imaginative event: Vigile 1914-1918 to be enacted  
between 4-11 November, started at Canada House in London and then across 
Canada from province to province.  The statement on their website 
describes the project as:

"At sunset November 4th through to sunrise November 11th, this site will 
present a vigil commemorating the 68,000 Canadians who lost their lives 
in WWI.  The names of the 68,000 war dead will be projected over a week 
of nights onto the National War Memorial in Ottawa, buildings in other 
regions of Canada and onto the side of Canada House in Trafalgar 
Square in London, England."

Thomson spoke of metaphorically bringing the dead home (the dead from 
WWI were not allowed to be repatriated) and the projection of their 
names, moving across the country, as the dead walking across the whole 
country, back home.  A very moving image.  Families and friends can go 
the the website and search for their dead, find when their names will be 
projected and follow the movement, on-line, site to site from London and 
across Canada.

You can still hear the interview on the Sunday Edition website 
http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/  and the Vigile 1914-1918 website is 
at http://www.1914-1918.ca/

Cheers, -- Kathy.



On 02/11/2008 6:55 PM, Jerry Wasserman wrote:
> Please forgive the repetition.  I forgot to attach the program here it is--and the message again ...
>
> Canada and the Theatres of War: A Symposium
>
> In conjunction with Theatre at UBC’'s productions of Billy Bishop Goes to War (Oct. 29-Nov. 
> 11) and 
> Unity (1918) (Nov. 13-22), the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British 
> Columbia in Vancouver presents a symposium bringing major Canadian theatre artists together 
> with award-winning scholars and historians to examine the dramas of Canada at War in lectures, 
> panels, and theatrical presentations.  CANADA AND THE THEATRES OF WAR will take place 
> November 18-19 in the Frederic Wood Theatre on the UBC campus.
>
> Distinguished participants include Canadian war historian and York University Emeritus Professor 
> J.L. (Jack) Granatstein, Governor-General’s Award winning playwrights John Gray and Kevin 
> Kerr, 
> Theatre Calgary artistic director Dennis Garnhum, UBC English Professor Sherrill Grace, University 
> of Guelph theatre historian Alan Filewod, theatre directors Sarah Rodgers, Stephen Drover and 
> Katrina Dunn, UBC Theatre professors and designers Alison Green and Robert Gardiner, designer 
> Kevin McAllister, performers Ryan Beil, Zachary Gray, Damon Calderwood, and BFA acting students 
> from the UBC Theatre program.
>
> All events are open to the public and all except the production of Unity (1918) are free.  See the 
> attached program for details, go to www.theatre.ubc.ca, or email UBC.theatresofwar at gmail.com. 
>
>
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