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March 10 at 4pm and 8pm
Asper Centre for Theatre and Film (at U of W, 400 Colony Street)
Tickets $15 (plus $2.50 for on-line purchases) or cash at the door

Plus additional community performances available from March 4th to 9th*
Please Note: Adult Language and Content

We will again be producing and taking to the community our cabaret of monologues to celebrate International Women’s Week. The evening will offer a diverse line-up of monologues by Canadian playwrights as well as performance pieces. Our goal is to honour women by telling their stories and to explore multiple perspectives to represent the scope of women’s experiences.

Living through riots, learning to teach yoga as a senior, accepting your true self and conquering all odds. We truly will offer a wide array of work this coming March. People all over the world celebrate International Women’s Week every year and we are proud to be a part of the celebrations! This year’s theme is I Am Unstoppable, tackling obstacles, conquering challenges and living life to the fullest. Join us in the theatre to see the full line-up. Or if you are part of a community group looking for a way to celebrate, book a selection of pieces to host.

For the first time we are excited to be offering ASL interpreters. 

This year’s line-up will include:

• Saviour Self by Andrea Scott
  Performed by Reena Jolly
  Where were you in 1992 when Yonge Street exploded in riots? Josephine Benedict was a swaggering teenager looking to take care of herself, one tampon at a time.
• Flight 182 created and performed by Anjali Sandhu
  Where are you from? The Jungle Book, 20th century supermodels, ignorant politicians…nothing will stop Rani from being accepted as Canadian.
• I Got 99 Problems, My Penis is Just One created and performed by Cynthia Fortlage
  One transgender woman’s exploration of her journey to womanhood. This piece delves deep into Learning to be a Feminist, Loss of Privilege, and the Subtleties of Sisterhood.
• I Am Unstoppable created and performed by Joanna Hawkins
  Can you remember a time when nothing stood in your way? The innocence of childhood can make you feel unstoppable, but how do we persevere after the barriers and discrimination in the dominant world are fully perceived? Deaf artist, Joanna Hawkins explores this through mime.
• Captain of My Ship by Kathy France
  Performed by Ady Kay in collaboration with Victoria Hill and Emily Solstice
  A woman recounts her coming of age story, reliving the confusion and fear that define a young woman’s entry into sexual awareness.
• I’ve Never Been Very Good at Drawing Hearts, But I Keep Trying by A.b. Norris
  Performed by Monika Thurn und Taxis
  Using images captured during a lunar eclipse, this audio-visual media and collaborative performance piece explores (dis)connection between the persistent need to love/be loved and actually being good at either.
• I Am a Warrior by Sue Higgs
  Performed by Cheryl Soluk
  Cathy signs up for a course. Nothing unusual about that, except for the fact that Cathy is in her late 60’s in a class full of twenty-something’s.
• Sweet An Nice by Althea Cunningham
  Performed by Lorraine James
  Pregnant with a child, Jamaican immigrant Celestine seeks a better life in a new country. After getting a family to sponsor her, she moves thousands of miles across several oceans to discover it’s far from what she imagined it to be.
• ObScene created and performed by Kristy Janvier
  By holding onto our beliefs or judgements, how can we create connection? A performance art piece that explores healthy sensuality as a means of release.
• Perfect Pie by Judith Thompson
  Performed by Anna Binder
  When prompted by a long-estranged friend, Patsy explains what it’s like to have an epileptic seizure. From master playwright Judith Thompson’s ground-breaking play about how you cannot escape where you come from.

Emergent thinking about the relational nature of post-secondary disability access offers Canadian researchers and practitioners important opportunities to probe and discuss the links between specific accommodation practices and the student/faculty relationships they produce. This presentation will highlight the self-advocacy and accommodation experiences of disabled students and their professors from three Nova Scotia Universities; and Cynthia will discuss what their lived experiences reveal about the realities of post-secondary learning for disabled students and the faculty who work to support equitable access to university learning.

Cynthia Bruce has a PhD in Educational Studies from Acadia University, and she brings her extensive experience as a blind student and educator and as a systemic disability activist to her teaching and research in the area of Disability Studies in Education. She has been a part-time instructor in Education, music therapy, and community development at Acadia since 2004; and she is pleased to be joining the School of Education as a continuing full-time instructor in July of 2018.

Schools urged to provide training, goals for youth with disabilities

 

Spotted at York University

SPOTTED AT YORK UNIVERSITY:

The TEL building at York University with a disability washroom that is also designated for those who are non-binary or identify as transgender! So great to see accessible inclusive washrooms for everyone on campus. 

Breaking It Down: Dialogues on Removing Barriers for People with Disabilities in the Workplace
Fri. Jan 27 8:00 - 5:00
Richcraft Hall Conference Rooms (formally River Building)
*lunch provided

 

This event will be an all day event in collaboration with the National Education Association of Disabled Students. It will be filled with guest speakers, discussions and networking! If you're looking for a job, or will be in the future, be sure to come on out!