BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:151@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250131T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250201T180000 DTSTAMP:20241213T172346Z URL:https://sds.utoronto.ca/events/affect-theatre-workshop/ SUMMARY:Affect Theatre Workshop DESCRIPTION:AFFECT THEATRE WORKSHOP\n\n\n\n \;\n\nWorkshop Details\n\nW hat: \n\nAffect Theatre is a theatrical technique for working with empir ical questions and material\, such as ethnographic data\, archival documen ts\, and more. The workshop will be led by anthropologist Cristiana Giorda no and theatre practitioner Greg Pierotti\, creators of the Affect Theatr e process\, and hosted by faculty Cassandra Hartblay and Valentina Napol itano with support from the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies\, the Ethnography Lab\, other units across UofT\, and SSHRC.\n\nThis is a tw o-day workshop. On the first half-day\, workshop participants will learn the building blocks of the affect theatre devising technique. Participant s are encouraged to bring source material from their own research\, such a s short excerpts from fieldnotes\, interviews\, archival documents\, medic al and legal reports\, media sources\, etc. On the second half-day\, works hop participants will apply the foundations established on the previous d ay to an extended experimentation with one ethnographic project. This allo ws the participants to see the technique carried through to a more develop ed phase through concerted work. Participants who wish to take part in day 2 of the workshop should commit to attending day 1. Those who do not want to commit to two days can attend Friday only.\n\nWhen:\n\nDay 1: Friday\, Jan 31\, 2-6pm\n\nDay 2: Saturday\, Feb 1\, (roughly) 12-6pm\n\nLocation:  \n\nThe workshop will take place on the St George Campus of the Universi ty of Toronto\, location details to be shared with participants.  Snacks and coffee will be served on both days\, lunch will be served on day 2.\n\ nRegister to participate:\n\nThe workshop is open to approximately 25 part icipants. Please use this sign-up form to reserve a spot. The form will close 24 hours before the workshop or when capacity is reached. If you ha ve access needs or questions about the workshop that may affect your regi stration\, please direct them to Cassandra Hartblay\, cassandra.hartblay@ utoronto.ca\n\n \;\n\nAbout the technique\n\nAffect Theater\, a devisi ng technique influenced by the Moment Work technique originated by Greg Pi erotti's former theater company\, Tectonic Theater Project\, and Mary Over lie's Viewpoints. This theatrical devising technique is a practice for wor king with non-theatrical source material (interviews\, archival documents\ , medical and legal reports\, media sources\, etc.) to construct narrative s for the stage. The practice departs from traditional theater in that a finished script is not the starting point for the staging and direction of a play.\n\nDevising emerged as a means to revitalize how theatrical texts are created. It is a collaborative process involving the members of a co mpany devising and writing together. Our workshop aims at extending this w ay of writing to other disciplines and their forms of textual production ( books\, articles\, essays\, installations\, exhibits\, etc.).\n\nIn our we ekend workshops\, we encourage participants to include their own empirical data as a part of the source material we utilize in our devising practic es. This creates the opportunity for the students and faculty to shift th eir relationship to their research through a collaborative engagement with our theatrical exploration.\n\nLearn more about the Affect Theatre techn ique here\, or in the recent book\, Affect Ethnography : Exploring Perf ormance and Narrative in the Creation of Unstories (available as an ebook  from UToronto Libraries).\n\n \;\n\nAbout the Workshop Practitioner s\n\nCristiana Giordano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Uni versity of California\, Davis. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley. Her book\, Migrants in Translation. Caring and t he Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy (University of California Pr ess\, 2014)\, won the Victor Turner Book Prize for ethnographic writing (2 016)\, and the Boyer Prize in Psychoanalytic Anthropology (2017). Her curr ent research investigates new ways of rendering ethnographic material int o artistic forms. She has been collaborating with playwright and director Greg Pierotti on a new methodology at the intersection of the social scie nces and performance. They have created Unstories\, a 50-minute performanc e around the current “refugee crisis” in Europe\, and Unstories II (r oaming)\, a 45-minute performance which furthers the reflection about move ment and borders.\n\n \;\n\nGreg Pierotti is an associate professor of theater at the University of Arizona. He is a playwright\, theater dir ector\, and actor. He co-authored the plays The Laramie Project\, Laram ie: 10 Years Later\, The People’s Temple\, and Unstories I and II. He c o-authored the book Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of De vising Theater. His honors as a writer/director/deviser include a Humanit as Prize\, The Will Glickman Award for best new play\, and Emmy\, Lortel\, Drama Desk\, and Alpert Award nomintations. Since 2015\, he and Cristian a Giordano\, he have developed a method for research\, writing and theatr ical devising called "Affect Theater.” Together they have created perfor mances and authored articles that play at the intersection of Anthropolog y and Theater. Their new book\, Affect Ethnography: Exploring Performanc e and Narrative in the Creation of Unstories was published in June\, 202 4 by Bloomsbury. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Affec t-Theatre-Workshop-Flyer-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR