Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Performance was recently successful in its application for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Grant.
Going forward, this allows our project to greatly expand its goals, along with the number of research participants, and the artistic, archival and institutional partners. All those who have been involved in the project continue, and look forward to an additional seven years of working together.
Researchers from across the country will contribute indispensibly to the project, including the following Co-Investigators and Collaborators: Roberta Barker, Justin Blum, Amy Bowring, Seika Boye, Jill Carter, Jenn Cole, Heather Davis-Fisch, Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, Annie Gibson, Gabrielle Houle, Kelsey Jacobson, Stephen Johnson, Matthew Jones, Sasha Kovacs, Martin Julien, Allan Lindgren, Christine Mazumdar, Maria Meindl, Jimena Ortuzar, Jenny Salisbury, Mark Turner, Michael Wallace, Jessica Watkin, and Sanja Vodovnik.
Project Co-Directors include Stephen Johnson (Professor Emeritus, UoT), the Principal Investigator as well as Sasha Kovacs (University of Victoria), Seika Boye and Jill Carter (both University of Toronto). The Centre for Drama Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto, will provide the project's administrative home.
Affiliated Academic Institutions supporting the project include: University of Victoria; University of Lethbridge; MacEwan University; University of Toronto; Trent University; Queen's University; and Dalhousie University.
Our Heritage and Artistic Partners include: Canada's Theatre Museum; Playwrights Canada Press; Dance Collection Danse; the Art Gallery of Ontario; Fort Edmonton Park; Elgin County Museum and Archives; Directors Lab North; Inuit Art Foundation; Nanaimo Museum; OkâlaKatiget Society; Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space; Deep River Schoolhouse Museum; the ArQuives. The project anticipates adding additional partners as the project develops. More on these below.
You can find out more about our new project from from the dropdown, about our Project's Goals; our Partners; and our Governance.
