“Getting to meet different members of Vancouver’s theatre community during BoucheWHACKED!’s Encounter event made me realize that my work was of interest and pushed me to want to seek out collaborations with English theatres.” – Gilles Poulin-Denis, Playwright
Encounter / Rencontre 2012
GILLES POULIN-DENIS
Moderated by Antia Rochon
Tickets: Pay What You Can at the Door
When: Saturday, May 18th 2012, 6:30pm
Where: rEvolver Festival
The Cultch The Wine Bar, 1895 Venables St
BouchWHACKED! hosted an evening with bilingual theatre artist Gilles Poulin-Denis, as he read excerpts from the English translation of his Governor General Award nominated play Rearview and a discussion of the triumphs and challenges of working in both of Canada’s official languages. Moderated by Anita Rochon.
Gilles Poulin‐Denis was born and raised in Saskatoon. He pursued his acting studies at l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Over the past years he has worked with quite a few directors, among them Alain Fournier, Alexandre Marine, Antoine Laprise, Craig Holzschuh, Denis Rouleau, Daniel Cournoyer, Geneviève Pelletier, Henry Woolf, Mark Von Eschen, Marie‐Ève Gagnon and Philippe Lambert. In 2010 he was nominated for ‘Oustanding performance by an actor in a lead role’ at Vancouver’s Jessie awards for his role in Le Périmètre.
Gilles is also a playwright. His first full‐length play Rearview was produced in Saskatoon in 2009. It has since toured the country, making stops in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City and Montreal. In 2009, Gilles received the award for ‘Outstanding achievement in new playwriting’ at the Saskatoon and area theatre awards for Rearview. The play was also nominated in 2010 for the Governor General’s literary arts award, it is published by Dramaturges Éditeurs. Gilles has also written short plays and monologues that have produced in different theatres in Montreal. He also works as a dramaturge and as a translator. Gilles is currently working on two new plays, one is in association with the National Arts Centre’s Théâtre Français, the other is a play for teenagers, commissioned by Vancouver’s Théâtre la Seizième.
Land Acknowledgement
Bouche’s activities take place on and are launched from the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish People: the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. We recognize and honour the recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation commission and acknowledge the importance of Indigenous sovereignty on this unceded territory.
*A territorial or land acknowledgement is an act of reconciliation that involves making a statement recognizing the traditional territory of the Indigenous people who called the land home before the arrival of settlers, and in many cases still do call it home.
For more information on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada click here.