PCC TORONTO: APRIL 2 – 5, 2009

PCC Toronto asks the question “What has changed?”. The Images Festival, Harbourfront Centre, Small Wooden Shoe, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Dancemakers, and SummerWorks Festival come together to host the 11^th meeting of the Performance Creation Canada Network.

WHAT IS PCC?

Performance Creation Canada (PCC) is a nationwide network dedicated to the nourishment, management and study of performance creation in Canada, and the ecology in which it flourishes. The meeting is aimed at creating a discussion between artists in dance, theatre, music, film, and visual arts who are interested in the well being of Canadian performance creation. The conference is designed to open conversation, and open minds.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

REGISTRATION/OPENING RECEPTION

5:00pm – 7:00pm – Meet & Greet, refreshments and cash bar.

Location: Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Tallulah’s Cabaret

PERFORMANCES

Choose between:

8:00pm – LIVE IMAGES I: Opening Night Gala! Notes on Composing: 5 collaborations in film and music (Images Festival)

Location: Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West

8:00pm – Territoires Féminins by Marie-Claude Rodrigue (Native Women in the Arts) – ONE NIGHT ONLY

Location: The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen St. West

8:00pm – Dedicated To The Revolutions (Small Wooden Shoe)

Location: Mainspace, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.

8:00pm – Fishbowl: a concise, expansive theory of everything by Mark Shyzer (Buddies In Bad Times Theatre)

Location: Tallulah’s Cabaret, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.

IMAGES FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT PARTY

10:00pm – 1:00am DJ Isabelle Noël

Location: The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West

11:00am- Waffle Breakfast

Location: Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation, Distillery District

Can we slow down and just enjoy the coffee and strawberries? An exercise in our ability to not always be doing something. Why shouldn’t good waffles and great company be enough reason to travel across the country or the city? What might or might not happen if we just enjoyed our time together.

1:00pm- Show And Tell

Location: Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation, Distillery District

Show and tell for grown ups. Bring us something, an object, an idea, or anything you think we might find interesting. Show us and tell us all about it in 10 minutes.

6:00pm- Keynote Speaker: Jillian Mcdonald

Location: Harbourfront Centre, Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay West

One of the main topics on the table for this event is the examination of performance as it crosses over into other mediums and forms. What changes when performance takes place in a photograph? Or a video? In non-traditional sites? Mcdonald is wrestling with these questions in her work: from questions of pop culture and celebrity identity to the blending of the self and fictional characters in performative videos and photographs. To launch the discussion for PCC Toronto, this keynote will address how a multidisciplinary practice works across the blurry lines between performance, visual, and media art from Mcdonald’s perspective as an artist.

Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian artist, currently living in New York. She is Associate Professor of Fine Art at Pace University, where she also curates and co-directs the Pace Digital Gallery. Works in progress include video installations Slasher Cycle and Zombie Field; and an upcoming forest performance in Sweden called Zombies vs Vampires. For more info about Jillian Mcdonald visit her online at www.jillianmcdonald.net.

PERFORMANCE:

8:00pm – Dedicated To The Revolutions (Small Wooden Shoe)

Location: Mainspace, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.

8:00pm – Fishbowl: a concise, expansive theory of everything by Mark Shyzer (Buddies In Bad Times Theatre)

Location: Tallulah’s Cabaret, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.

8:00pm - LIVE IMAGES III: In the Room 3 by Sung Hwan Kim (Images/Gallery TPW)

Location: Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Ave.

8:00pm – LIVE IMAGES II Make Me Stop Smoking by Rabih Mroué (Images/World Stage)

Location: Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West

12:30pm – 1:30pm- OPEN STUDIO: HUM -The Bacon Project

Location: The Citadel, 304 Parliament Street

Hum artistic Director Susanna Hood and Producer Erika Hennebury host an Open Studio presentation of her new work in progress, The Bacon Project. Refreshments will be provided. Seating is very limited. RSVP to admin@humdansoundart.ca.

2:00pm – 3:30pm – PANEL: What Has Changed?

Location: LOT – Studio B (Lower Ossington Theatre 100a Ossington Ave.)

Moderator: Evan Webber

Panelists: Sarah Stanley (Theatre Director), John Kameel Farah (Musician), Carl Wilson (Author/Journalist), Ross Manson (Theatre Director, Artistic Director of Volcano Theatre)

What role does the artist play in relationship to major current events?
Things are changing.  In the past year, America has welcomed its first black president, Israel has invaded Gaza, and the world-wide economy has been thrust into a recession. Does the artist have a responsibility to address these issues, and, if so, how?

3:30pm – 5pm - PANEL: Dancing With My Parents: a practical guide to intercultural creation

Location: LOT – Studio B (Lower Ossington Theatre 100a Ossington Ave.)

Moderator: Darren O’Donnell (Mammalian Diving Reflex)

Panelists: Beatriz Pizano (performer, writer, director), Oliver Husain (performance and video artist) & Julika Rudelius (performance and video artist)

Using “Family” as a metaphor for the global community, artists describe the process of creating new performances with strangers in different cities and/or different countries and relate that experience back to family dynamics. Artists will share their experiences in bringing together people from different backgrounds and working with unfamiliar communities

5pm – 6:00pm – SOAPBOX

Location: LOT – Studio B (Lower Ossington Theatre 100a Ossington Ave.)

Stand up and tell us what you’re working on in under 10 minutes.

PERFORMANCE:

2:00pm- LIVE IMAGES II: Make Me Stop Smoking by Rabih Mroué (Images/World Stage)

Location: Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West

6:00pm - LIVE IMAGES IV: Talking Points and Talking Ponies, Ben Coonley

Location: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West

8:00pm – Dedicated To The Revolutions (Small Wooden Shoe)

Location: Mainspace, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.

8:00pm – Fishbowl: a concise, expansive theory of everything by Mark Shyzer (Buddies In Bad Times Theatre)

Location: Tallulah’s Cabaret, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.

8:00pm – LIVE IMAGES III: In the Room 3 by Sung Hwan Kim (Images /Gallery TPW)

Location: Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Ave.

8:00pm – LIVE IMAGES II: Make Me Stop Smoking by Rabih Mroué (Images/World Stage)

Location: Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West

9:00pm - BLOCK IN ONE SPOT

Location: The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen Street West.

Theatre Centre’s 30 years expressed as a fashion show with surprise performances and archival film montage.

PCC SATURDAY NIGHT PARTY

9:00pm – Late- BLOCK IN ONE SPOT

Location: Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen Street West

11:00am – 1:00pm- PCC Steering Committee

Location: Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.

An informal post-mortem of the current conference with the focus being on passing on information to the next organizers of PCC.

4:00pm- PANEL: Diverse Curiosities

Location: Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.

Small Wooden Shoe hosts a post-show conversation about why we should think about things that aren’t strictly in our field and why that might be good for making art and performance.

4:00pm- IMAGES TALK: Talk to the Pie #3: In the Room

Location: Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West

Artists Sung Hwan Kim and David Michael DiGregorio will discuss the performative impulses in their multi-disciplinary practices. Moderated by Helena Reckitt.

AFTERNOON PERFORMANCE:

2:30pm – Dedicated To The Revolutions (Small Wooden Shoe)

Location: Mainspace, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.

2:30pm – Fishbowl: a concise, expansive theory of everything (Buddies In Bad Times Theatre)

Location: Tallulah’s Cabaret, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.

APRIL 2 – 5, 2009

April 2 – 5, 2009, Toronto, ON…PCC Toronto asks the question “What has changed?”. The Images Festival, Harbourfront Centre, Small Wooden Shoe, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Dancemakers, and SummerWorks Festival come together in April to host the 11^th meeting of the Performance Creation Canada Network.

WHAT IS PCC?

Performance Creation Canada (PCC) is a nationwide network dedicated to the nourishment, management and study of performance creation in Canada, and the ecology in which it flourishes. The meeting is aimed at creating a discussion between artists in dance, theatre, music, film, and visual arts who are interested in the well being of Canadian performance creation. The conference is designed to open conversation, and open minds.

KEYNOTE & SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

The PCC Toronto Networking Event will feature keynote speaker: video and performance artist Jillian Mcdonald. Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian artist, currently living in New York. She is Associate Professor of Fine Art at Pace University, where she also curates and co-directs the Pace Digital Gallery. Works in progress include video installations Slasher Cycle and Zombie Field; and an upcoming forest performance in Sweden called Zombies vs Vampires. For more info about Jillian Mcdonald visit her online at www.jillianmcdonald.net . A full schedule of panels, performances and events will be available soon at pcctoronto.wordpress.com.

The PCC Toronto Networking Event will be hosted/presented in conjunction with The Images Festival, Small Wooden Shoe’s production of Dedicated to the Revolutions, Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage/Images co-presentation of Make Me Stop Smoking by Rabih Mroué, Native Women in the Arts in association with The Theatre Centre’s presentation of Territoires Féminins by Marie-Claude Rodrigue, hum’s open studio showing of The Bacon Project, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre’s presentation of Fishbowl: a concise, expansive theory of everything, by Mark Shyzer and The Theatre Centre’s 30th Anniversary Celebration: BLOCK ON ONE SPOT.

TO REGISTER:

To register for PCC Toronto, send an email with your name, title & organization (where applicable) address, email address and phone number to pccregistration@theatrecentre.org. Registration fee is $10 and will be payable in cash at the registration table at all PCC events. Discounted tickets for The Images Festival, Dedicated to the Revolutions, Make Me Stop Smoking, Territoires Féminins, The Bacon Project, Fishbowl and BLOCK ON ONE SPOT will be made available to all conference participants upon registration.

For more information and to register visit: pcctoronto.wordpress.com

Or email: pccregistration@theatrecentre.org

www.performancecreationcanada.ca

PCC TORONTO ASKS: WHAT HAS CHANGED?
SAVE THE DATES: APRIL 2 – 5, 2009

April 2 – 5, 2009, Toronto, ON…Performance Creation Canada Toronto asks the question “What has changed?”. The Images Festival, Harbourfront Centre, Small Wooden Shoe, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Dancemakers, and SummerWorks Festival come together in April to host the 10^th conference of Performance Creation Canada.

What Has Changed?

There is a lot of talk about change right now, from Obama to our own political scrimmage. Politically, economically, environmentally and culturally, there’s been a lot going on since the last time PCC came to Toronto three years ago. We are interested in looking at what has changed, what hasn’t, and how these changes (or lack thereof) are manifesting in the way art is made locally, provincially, nationally and internationally.

The election in October 2008 brought together the arts community with other like-minded communities in a way that has never been seen before in our history. For the first time, culture was on the agenda. Part of the question of What Has Changed is to find out what difference that groundswell had in terms of uniting Canada’s diverse performance community – geographically, culturally and across disciplines. What kind of diversity existed in 2004 at the first PCC and how have things changed since then?

Performance Creation Canada (PCC) is a nationwide network dedicated to the nourishment, management and study of performance creation in Canada, and the ecology in which it flourishes. The meeting is aimed at creating a discussion between artists in dance, theatre, music, film, and visual arts who are interested in the well being of Canadian performance creation. The conference is designed to open conversation, and open minds.

The PCC Toronto conference will be in conjunction with The Images Festival, Small Wooden Shoe’s production of Dedicated to the Revolutions, Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage/Images co-presentation of Make Me Stop Smoking by Rabih Mroué, Native Women in the Arts in association with The Theatre Centre’s presentation of Territoires Féminins by Marie-Claude Rodrigue, hum’s open studio showing of The Bacon Project, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre’s presentation of Fishbowl: a concise, expansive theory of everything, by Mark Shyzer and The Theatre Centre’s 30th Anniversary Celebration: BLOCK ON ONE SPOT. Discounted tickets will be made available to conference participants.

For more information visit: www.performancecreationcanada.ca

For registration info email: pccregistration@theatrecentre.org