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Qulili – Blindspot Theatre Collective

by Julie / On 2018/09/15 / In Uncategorized

Tonight is the last night to see Qulili (ku-le-le), a documentary play written with and about the refugee communities in San Diego. The San Diego Union Tribune gave the production high marks and I am very proud of this collaboration between Blindspot, and Yalla San Diego with support of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective, and the Department of Theatre and Dance. Beautiful, poignant, and...

Revue Liberté

by Julie / On 2018/09/11 / In Uncategorized

This special edition of Liberté is available today! Co-edited by Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, Nawel Hamidi and Darryl Leroux, it is filled with contributions by scholars, artists, and activists I deeply admire: Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine, Charles Koroneho, Pam Palmater, Bruno Cornellier, Darryl Leroux, Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, Nawel Hamidi, Guy Sioui Durand, and Isabelle St-Amand, to name a few. It is...

Postmarginal – Laborarium in Montreal, May 2018

by Julie / On 2018/08/29 / In Uncategorized

Last May, before the Robert Lepage controversy, Modern Times Stages Company, in collaboration with Diversité Artistique Montréal, organized a 2-day workshop on diversity as a theatrical practice and explored questions that would have been useful to Lepage and others. Postmarginal asked: What is diversity? And diversity in relation to what? Who is this normative, non-diverse other against whom...

California Native American Day -New Calendar of Events

by Julie / On 2015/10/20 / In Uncategorized

A new year, a new calendar of events! For its 10th anniversary, the series has a common theme, "Unsettled Stories: Reclaiming This Land," which represents well the tensions and the stakes at the heart of UCSD's relationship (or lack thereof) with the Native American communities of San Diego county. Come join us for some thought-provoking talks, for films or for an evening of Indigenous poetry,...