Naila Keleta-Mae, Assistant Professor with Theatre and Performance, has a busy summer ahead of her. Naila has begun researching black girlhood, performances of black girlhood, and what we can learn from it – as opposed to black womanhood, which Naila has traditionally researched.
Vershawn Young has published Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow. The official U.S. publication date is set for March 12, 2018.
The year was 1997. I sat in the Blyth Festival theatre in anticipation of seeing my very first production of a Norm Foster play, The Melville Boys. I was in my last year of high school preparing to attend the University of Waterloo Dramatic Arts program that coming fall. The house lights dimmed and I felt that familiar sense of excitement as I settled in to be entertained.
Dr. Vershawn Young has just been elected to the position of Assistant Chair for the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
When the politics and histories that shape students’ lives emerge in class, Naila Keleta-Mae sees an opportunity for deep learning - not an interruption to her lecture notes.
The Theatre and Performance program is excited to announce that Toronto-based director-designer-producer, Vikki Anderson, has been contracted to direct the fall production of Concord Floral by Jordan Tannahill. This is Vikki's first time working with the program.
And So, We Unravel: Standing In & Against Rape Culture
SPCOM 4th Annual Pop-Up Art Exhibit
Theatre of the Arts Gallery, Modern Languages Building
In conjunction with the performance the students of DRAMA/SPCOM 440 will create a series of collaborative installations in the Theatre of the Arts Gallery between March 14 -19. Students will provide creative reflections on the prevalence of gender-based violence within contemporary North American society. These installations will feature multi-disciplinary art works that critically examine how the rhetoric of rape culture is supported and circulated throughout institutions, social interactions and popular channels of communication.
"We need to create communities where we’re all helping each other,” says Arts alumnus Michael Robson. Last June, he put that statement into action by starting an award for undergraduates at the University of Waterloo. He pledged $10,000 of his own money over five years to build the Collective Movement Award, which supports students involved in the African, Caribbean or Black communities.