Saturday, January 12, 2008

Unleashed and Unruly: Staking Our Claims to Place, Space and Culture

Reception Room, Green College, 4 to 7 pm

4:00-4:30 
Welcomes, Prof. Leslie Roman, Educational Studies, Unruly Salon Creator/Producer, Professor Stephen J. Toope, President, and Vice-Chancellor, UBC, Associate Vice President of Equity, Tom Patch and Ruth Warick, Senior Diversity Advisor-Disability, Disability Resourse Centre, Access and Diversity, Dr. Steven Taubeneck, Principal pro tem, Green College.

4:30-5:00
Catherine Frazee, Co-director, Ryerson RBC Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education, live from Toronto via telecast, Catherine will offer evocative and moody reflections she calls, “Unleashed and Unruly: Staking to our Claims to Place, Space and Culture”.

5:00-5:50
Bonnie Klein, film-maker, screens Shameless: The Art of Disability

5:50-6:15 
Geoff McMurchy, dancer, Artistic Director S4DAC and Unruly Salon, screens, Wingspan Three.

6:15-7:00    
Discussion/reception. Reception Room, Green College.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Glo/cal Citizenship, Music and Inclusive Education

Great Hall, Green College, 7:30 to 10:30 pm

7:30-7:45      
Welcomes

7:45-8:30      
Distinguished Morse Prof. Alex Lubet, University of Minnesota

8:30-8:50      
Iris Misae Shiraishi, Musician, Taiko Programs Director of Mu's Taiko drumming program in Minnesota.

8:50-9:45
Randy Rutherford, writer, humorist, musician who lives in the San  Francisco Bay-area, solo performer will perform from his play, Singing At The Edge Of The World, critically acclaimed as the 2007 Fringe Festival pick-of-the-year. Singing at the Edge of the chronicles his folk singer days in Alaska in the 70s when he was a budding musician, who's deeply in love and discovers he's losing his hearing. Will he destroy all that he holds dear or will he find a way to sing? 

9:45-10:30
Discussion/reception in Great Hall, Green College

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Troubling ‘Normalcy’

Reception Room, Green College, 7:30 to 10:30 pm

7:30-7:45
Welcomes

7:45-8:15
Prof. Tanya Titchkosky, University of Toronto, OISE, presents a paper, “Disability Studies and the Art of Theorizing the Normality Genre” .

8:15-8:45
Prof. Rod Michalko, New College, Equity Studies, Disability Studies, Equity Studies, University of Toronto, presents a paper, “Too Much and Not Enough:  Disability and the Problem of Excess”.

8:45-9:45
Lynn Manning, Actor, Los Angeles, CA, performs excerpts from his critically-acclaimed play, Weights, which he has performed at the Kennedy Center. Lynn Manning is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, and former Blind Judo Champion of The World.  He accomplished all of this after being shot and blinded in a bar fight at age twenty-three.  In WEIGHTS, his autobiographical play, Manning brings the listener into a world of sound through storytelling, poetry, music and the rhythms of life around him.

9:45-10:30
Discussion/reception. Reception Room, Green College.

 

Thursday, Feburary 14, 2008

Highway of Tears-- No Time for Nostalgia: Asylum-making and Segregated Residential Schools in British Columbia

Reception Room, Green College, 4:30 to 7:30 pm

4:30-4:45
Welcomes

4:45-5:30
Prof. Leslie G. Roman, Sheena Brown, MA candidate, EDST and Alannah Earl Young, MA, EDST. Alannah is from the Cree/Anishnabe Nations in Manitoba and is a counselor at the First Nations House of Learning, UBC. Leslie, Alannah and Sheena present a co-authored paper, entitled “No Time for Nostalgia: Asylums, Residential Schools in British Columbia and Artistic Praxis for Social Transformation.”

5:30-6:00
Tania Willard, Visual artist, Red Willow Designs, from the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation in the Interior of BC, Visual Artist, exhibits her woodcuts from “Crazymaking”. Through the exhibit of “Crazymaking”, Willard tells us about the historical traumas that frame mental health issues for First Nations people, particularly those that are hidden or erased such as stories about “Indian Insane Asylums, Mohawk Saints and Native Veterans”.

6:00-6:45
Chin, celebrated musician, multi-instrumentalist, producer, talented song-writer and co-founder of the pop/funk/soul group Bass is Base, Chin will be performing songs from his upcoming CD.  

6:45-7:30
Discussion/reception. Reception Room, Green College.

 

Saturday, March 8, 2008

International Women’s Day: Mothering Work and the Performances of Daily Life Care-giving

Reception Room, Green College, 1 to 4:30pm

1:00-1:15
Welcomes

1:15-2:00
Prof. Claudia Malacrida, University of Lethbridge, gives her paper, “Home Care Services for Mothers with Disabilities: Ironies of Surveillance, Gender Performances, and Infantalization”.

2:00-2:45
Max Fomitchev, internationally-acclaimed mime and physical actor in the persona of Max-i-mime, one of Canada's most expressive artists uses the classic mime techniques of flexibility and strength, combined with physical comedy and expression. Fomitchev transports his audience into a world of laughter and pathos using only his body, his face and a few props.

2:45-3:15
Prof. Jody Berland, York University, gives her paper, "How about:  The Elephant in the Classroom: Forgetting and Remembering with Invisible Disabilities".

3:15-3:45
TBA, performer. A phenomenal surprise guest appearance.

3:45-4:30
Discussion/reception. Reception, Green College Reception Room.

 

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Mad Bodies and Minds:  Theatre as Knowledge

Reception Room, Green College, 4:30 to 7:30 pm

4:30-4:45
Welcomes

4:45-5:30
Prof. Kirsty Johnston, Theatre Department, UBC gives her paper, "New Strategies for Representing Mental Illness on Canadian Stages".

5:30-6:30
Victoria Maxwell, Actress, Playwright performs her Crazy For Life. Crazy For Life is a ‘tour-de-force’ one-woman show of Victoria's roller-coaster ride with bi-polar disorder.

6:30-7:30
Discussion/reception. Reception Room, Green College.

 

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Transforming the Face and Reception of Dis/ability

Reception Room, Green College, 7:30 to 10:30 pm

7:30-7:45
Welcomes

7:45-8:15
Stefan Honisch, M.Mus, classical pianist, twice awarded the Rick Hansen Man-in-Motion Fellowship, presents a paper, "The Road to Marginalization is Paved with Good Intentions: In pursuit of the re-humanization of Physically Impaired Musicians".

8:15-8:45
Stefan Honisch/piano performs select classical piano pieces relevant to his paper. These pieces include Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita in A minor, Cesar Franck's Prelude Chorale and Fugue and Richard Strauss' Five Piano Pieces.

8:45-9:45
David Roche, world-renowned humorist and author, performs his “Church of 80% Sincerity”, his award-winning solo show which tracks the inspiring, poignant, wickedly funny and sometimes heart-breaking story of David's journey from shame to self-acceptance. David's powerful vignettes and keen observations invite the sweet (and sometimes raucous) laughter that flows from the recognition that we are all flawed and struggling beings.

9:45-10:30
Discussion/reception. Reception Room, Green College.

 

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