Produced by NAC English Theatre in collaboration with Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance, The Banff Centre and Luminato Festival with the generous support of Canada Council for the Arts and the Australia Council for the Arts.
Co-curated by Yvette Nolan, Playwright/Director, and Sarah Garton Stanley, Associate Artistic Director – National Arts Centre (NAC) English Theatre From April 22-24, 2014, leaders of Indigenous theatre gathered with institutional ‘Listeners’ at the Banff Centre to engage in a dialogue about understanding and translating notions of a "Canon” to a "Body" of Indigenous works in Canada.
Sarah/SGS is VP of Programming at Arts Commons in Calgary and co-stewards historic Birchdale. Formerly the Artistic Producer for the National Creation Fund (NAC). As part of her PhD, in Cultural Studies at Queen’s, she created Massey & Me: Conversations at the End of Theatre. This five-part series formally references the CBC Massey Lectures, and it reflects critically on the genealogical, political, and administrative structures that house professional theatre in Canada.
She is co-founder of SpiderWebShow and FOLDA, the Baby Grand Theatre, was the 1st female Artistic Director at Buddies in Bad Times, and was the inaugural Artistic Associate for The Magnetic North Theatre Festival.
SGS was named a 2022 Arne Bengt Johansson Fellow at The Banff Forum and returned in 2023. She was recently appointed to the board of Alberta Theatre and the Buddies Leadership Advisory Pilot and the National Advisory for the Creation Fund.
Sarah, alias SGS, est vice-présidente de la programmation d’Arts Commons à Calgary et codirectrice du légendaire Birchdale. Elle a également été productrice artistique du Fonds national de création du CNA. Dans le cadre de son doctorat en études culturelles à l’Université Queen’s, elle a créé Massey & Me: Conversations at the End of Theatre, une série de cinq événements de réflexion faisant référence aux conférences CBC Massey. Dans le cadre de cette réflexion critique, SGS explore les structures généalogiques, politiques et administratives qui régissent le théâtre professionnel au Canada.
SGS a cofondé le SpiderWebShow, le Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA) et le Baby Grand Theatre, en plus d’avoir été la première directrice artistique du Buddies in Bad Times et la première collaboratrice artistique du Festival de théâtre Magnetic North.
En 2022, elle a été nommée boursière Arne Bengt Johansson du Banff Forum, avant d’y retourner l’année suivante. Depuis peu, elle siège au conseil d’administration de l’Alberta Theatre et au Comité consultatif national du Fonds national de création du CNA, et fait partie du projet pilote de consultation en leadership du Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
Playwright, director, dramaturg, actor, and educator
Yvette Nolan
Born in Saskatchewan to an Algonquin mother and an Irish immigrant father, Yvette Nolan graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1997. She is an accomplished playwright: her plays include BLADE, Job’s Wife, Annie Mae’s Movement, The Birds (a modern adaptation of Aristophanes’ comedy), and The Unplugging. As a director, she has staged many productions for Gwaandak Theatre, Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre, Signal Theatre (where she is currently an Artistic Associate), Globe Theatre and Western Canada Theatre, and served as the artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts from 2003 to 2011. She is the author of Medicine Shows: Indigenous Performance Culture (Playwrights Canada Press, 2015). Yvette Nolan lives in Toronto.
Née en Saskatchewan d’une mère algonquine et d’un père immigrant irlandais, Yvette Nolan sort diplômée de l’Université du Manitoba en 1997. Elle sait manier la plume : elle a écrit les pièces de théâtre BLADE, Job’s Wife, Annie Mae’s Movement, The Birds : a modern adaptation of Aristophanes’ comedy et The Unplugging. Elle n’est pas en reste en matière de mise en scène : elle a dirigé de nombreux spectacles au Gwaandak Theatre, au Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre, au Signal Theatre, au Globe Theatre ou au Western Canada Theatre. Directrice artistique du Native Earth Performing Arts de 2003 à 2011, elle a consacré un livre au théâtre autochtone au Canada, Medicine Shows : Indigenous Performance Culture, et fait partie des artistes associés du Signal Theatre. Elle vit à Toronto.
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