Lethbridge Symposium: Widening the River (June 11)

Widening the River: Communicating Performance Research Beyond Scholarly Communities

Friday, June 10 – Saturday, June 11

This two-day symposium will be held at the University of Lethbridge (U of L, also known in the Blackfoot language as Iniskim) on 10 and 11 June 2022. It will gather scholars of performance, public historians, and artists from across Canada who share an interest in performance history and a desire to have their academic and artistic work reach communities beyond already established networks of academics and fellow artists. Through formal presentations, roundtables, and networking activities these presenters will exchange skills, strategies, and best practices gained in working with and disseminating research to the diverse communities they address, with an aim of building capacity among these scholars and artists. Participants will be exposed to a variety of media, practical approaches, and theories through which they can approach the dissemination of their academic and artistic work outside of University communities and beyond networks of scholars and fellow artists.

Lethbridge Symposium: Widening the River (June 10)

Widening the River: Communicating Performance Research Beyond Scholarly Communities

Friday, June 10 – Saturday, June 11

This two-day symposium will be held at the University of Lethbridge (U of L, also known in the Blackfoot language as Iniskim) on 10 and 11 June 2022. It will gather scholars of performance, public historians, and artists from across Canada who share an interest in performance history and a desire to have their academic and artistic work reach communities beyond already established networks of academics and fellow artists. Through formal presentations, roundtables, and networking activities these presenters will exchange skills, strategies, and best practices gained in working with and disseminating research to the diverse communities they address, with an aim of building capacity among these scholars and artists. Participants will be exposed to a variety of media, practical approaches, and theories through which they can approach the dissemination of their academic and artistic work outside of University communities and beyond networks of scholars and fellow artists.



Centre for Spectatorship and Audience Research: Nina Penner

October 22nd, 12:00 - 2:00 EST
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Special Guest: Nina Penner, Brock University

Nina Penner (Assistant Professor of Music at Brock University) will discuss her new project “Exploring IBPOC Experiences in Opera in Canada,” a mixed methods project conceived in partnership with Amplified Opera in Toronto that seeks to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion in the opera industry. As this is her first foray into empirical methods, she’ll discuss the motivations, challenges, and things she has learned along the way.

October Zoom Link

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