Festival of Art and Discourse

The Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, located in the Faculty of Media, Arts and Performance at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, invites you to a Festival of Art and Discourse. It a research showcase of the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre program holding from 25 to 29 November, 2024. This free event will include exhibitions, talks, debates, and also feature panels on policing, justice and socially engaged theatre practitioners, artists, and scholars. 

 The five-day event is scheduled to take place at the Centre (RC 180).  According to the centre’s Director, Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, who is the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre and interdisciplinary artistic scholar, the event will also showcase and celebrate various projects on policing.  

Dr Afolabi stated that the projects included highlights of “Staging Justice: People, Places, Planet, and Practice,’’ echoing the CATR/ACRT 2024 conference theme held earlier in the year, research presentations by the centre's graduate students and display of the play, “Past Shadows, Present Shades,’’ reflecting on migrants’ past and present experiences and imaging new futures staged in Regina for two days during the Cathedral Village Art Festival in May.