a ground breaking course and James Reaney pioneer visionary artist

[Louise Forsyth]

I was a young teacher at Western around 1970 who frequently slipped into that fabulous course just to soak it up. I also considered myself a friend of James Reaney and Colleen, was a member of the Alphabet Centre and even dared for a bit to consider myself a potential playwright – it was a heady time in London Ont.

 

Louise Forsyth

 

From: Canadian Theatre Research [mailto:CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA] On Behalf Of Appledore
Sent: dimanche 21 février 2016 07:36
To: CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
Subject: Re: CTR Equity in Theatre Launch Parties

 

Playwright/poet/teacher JAMES REANEY developed a unique and ground breaking course around 1970 at University of Western Ontario on Canadian Literature and Culture (course name English 138.) It was truly a team taught course (and not serially taught but with all 8 teachers present for each lecture.)

 

Each class was also supported with references to political and economic contexts (McLuhan/Morton/Innis etc) and slides of visual arts examples and musical references. There was also an extra hour tacked on to the class (a fourth hour called The Third Hour to disguise an unorthodox class length to the administration) where guests would come and lecture....and what guests: historians like Creighton, geographers such as Warkentin. Writers like Alice Monro, Davies, Atwood, Carrier. Playwrights such as Tremblay, Hardin, Ryga; poets like Jay McPherson, Birney, Purdy etc and visual artists like Jack Chambers and Tony Urquhart. 

 

Imagine being a student in THAT course?

 

Donald Hair and Richard Stingle have an excellent article in Canadian Poetry about this and another course relating literature to myth that Reaney taught at Western...here

 

http://canadianpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Preface2.pdf

 

Thanks to Susan Wallace for this link.

 

David Ferry

416-433-5826 appledor at sympatico.ca <mailto:appledor at sympatico.ca> 

http://davidferry.workbooklive.com


On Feb 9, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Rebecca Burton <becca_burton3 at HOTMAIL.COM <mailto:becca_burton3 at hotmail.com> > wrote:

Hello Candramers,

 

I am sending out a reminder that this Thursday (February 11th) is the date for two different launch parties for Canadian Theatre Review's most recent issue, "Equity in Theatre" (Winter 2016, #165).

 

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If you are anywhere near Calgary that night, the event is being held at the Matthews Theatre (Craigie Hall F101), School of Creative and Performing Arts, U of C, from 7:30 - 9:00 pm.

 

There will be presentations by Aylssa Bradac, Michele Decottignies, Cheryl Foggo, Kate Newby, Patti Pon, Jenna Rodgers, and a performance by Keshia Cheesman and Bianca Miranda.

 

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If you are anywhere near Toronto this Thursday, the event is being held in the Backroom of the Imperial Pub and Library (54 Dundas St. East at Yonge St.), starting at 7:30 pm. Wheelchair accessible. See the Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/572417632924076/

 

The Toronto launch will be hosted by Sedina Fiati, and it will feature performances, readings, and  videos by d’bi young, Faduma Mohamed, Falen Johnson, Gein Wong, nisha ahuja, Raven Dauda, and Sunny Drake. 

 

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Both events are free (though donations will be accepted at the door), and there will be a discounted rate available for the CTR issue. 

 

Please join us to help celebrate the incredible contributions artists and scholars have made to the issue. 

 

If you would like to learn more about the Equity in Theatre (EIT) initiative, please visit our website at: www.eit.playwrightsguild.ca <http://www.eit.playwrightsguild.ca> 

 

Thank you!

 

Best Wishes,

 

Rebecca Burton and Laine Zisman Newman

Co-editors, and Co-Organizers of EIT

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