Explores the early history of animal rights through the images and the people who harnessed their power.
The 7th issue of the newspaper is the first one to focus on a region; it commits to reconsidering Americas colonial stories and their marks on its present global condition. In multiple languages.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Anthology of scores, scripts, instructions, diagrams and documentation of art works that are meant to be heard.
Focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
How-to guide for people looking to make a stand. Included are solid pieces of advice, practical tips and inspirational stories from those who have already successfully stood up and made a difference.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
One of three catalogues published for thee exhibition As Public As Race, a series of performances organised in Summer 1992.
James Luna's performance was held on June 3rd.
A satire about a bug society and its most powerful family. 72 mins.
Catalogue to accompany a film series held at the Art Gallery of Ontario (1989).
Part of the Something Human Study Room Guide on Southeast Asian performance (P3334).
Festival publication.
Part of the Something Human Study Room Guide on Southeast Asian performance (P3334).
A community based Human Rights Education project that uses theatre to engage young people from culturally diverse populations in dialogue about human rights with the Montreal community. Includes promotional material and photos of phases 1 and 2 and evaluation of phase 2.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
On brest cancer and resistance.
Part of PSI 12.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Postcards with suggestions for public space performances. In English and French.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Presents a thematic history; every chapter explores a specific theme through pictures, offers explanations to contextualize them while offering additional bibliographic references in relation to the theme, for further research. In French and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Part courtroom drama and part social satire, the play presents an intelligent portrait of farming and scientific communities in conflict and at the same time penetrates the complex science of genetically modified crops.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Examines the frustrations and limitations of conventional Western academic research on social change and describes the struggle to fashion a new approach based on the principle that people have a universal right to participate in the production of knowledge that directly affects their lives.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Relying primarily on first-hand reports from educators themselves, supplemented by interviews with practitioners, the chapters describe popular education approaches to organizing, leadership development, and building labor-community alliances.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR).
On negotiating consent and ethics in autobiographical performance. With contributions from Mary Pearson.
Generally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr’acte delivers a fleeting new purpose and event to the otherwise sometimes inert space between stage and pit. This collection employs the entr’acte as a model for conceptualizing emerging formations of publics and of public space.
Includes performance description. From Centerfold.
Found in miscellaneous article folder #5B
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Catalogue from the first performance series held at The Banff Centre and in Alberta. 9-25 July 1982.
Volume largely focused on funding and the survival of the arts.
The author reviews the performances presented at PuSh Festival 2014, Vancouver.
This catalogue re-contextualises a series of public projects implemented between 1998 and 2002 within the city of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Publication charting the history, motivations, aesthetics, viewpoints politics of performance in Vancouver. Essays by Glenn Alteen, Warren Arcan, Ivan Coyote, todd David, Margaret dragu, Karen Henry, Kiss & Tell, Glenn Lewis, Aiyyana Maracle, Tanya Mars, Archer Pechawis, Judy Radul, Paul Wong.
Six international performance artists collaborate on a project exploring invisible disability through ‘living art’ practice. CAUTION includes one DVD of video works and one CD of talking text.
Excerpts from performances Still/Desire (2005), Imbolc (2008) and Raven (2010).
Put yourself in Lone Twin’s shoes as they take you on a journey that’s slightly scruffy, very funny, and even mystical in its wandering logic.
This documentation has since been presented with the permission of the artist as part of the Performance Matters, Performing Idea, Performance Lecture Archive; an interactive video archive housed at the Whitechapel Gallery between 2-9 October 2010. The archive looked at examples of the performance lecture as a form of artistic and critical expression and its potential to address a broad range of cultural issues and philosophical ideas. This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964) and the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
Issue 7 of liveartwork DVD, a publication showcasing contemporary live art.
Considers the history of Lepage’s success in Toronto and the complex position and positioning of the artist and his global theatre with respect to this audience.
BIOBOXES are a collection of one-person shows for one-person audiences that take place in an intimate theatre: a box worn on the actors’ shoulders. BIOBOXES: Artifacting Human Experience are six bilingual boxes in both English and another language. Six artists of diversity created performances drawn from interviews with six first-generation Canadians of the same culture. Originally co-produced by Theatre Replacement and the High Performance Rodeo, BIOBOXES is directed by Maiko Bae Yamamoto and James Long and built by Kofu Yamamoto, with video design by Candelario Andrade, dramaturgy by Kris Nelson and featuring the talents of: Anita Rochon, Marco Soriano, Paul Ternes, Cindy Mochizuki, Donna Soares, and Una Memisevic.
A guide and presentation for emerging dance artists in Montreal. Unbound photocopies
Produced for Spasm II public art festival /XXXmissing/
Performance exchange between Trace in Cardiff and Le Lieu in Quebec.
Retrospective look at Performance Art in Vancouver, 1965 – 2000.
The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).