Towards an Inclusive Theatre (Summerland, BC)

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“…explores with great insight thematic territory I’ve never seen covered before… an intimate — and rewarding — conversation about love.” – Colin Thomas, colinthomas.ca

Ryga Arts Festival Presents
The Creatus Project & Bouche Theatre Collective
with Western Gold Theatre & Presentation House Theatre

THE BALLAD OF GEORGES BOIVIN

By Martin Bellemare
Translated by Jack Paterson with Johanna Nutter
Directed by Jack Paterson*
Featuring Allan Toots as Georges

Ryga Arts Festival (www.rygafest.ca)
Performance:
Thursday Sept. 22 @ 7 PM
Summerland Alliance Church
14820 Victoria Rd N, Summerland, BC V0H 1Z5

Community Forum – Ageing & the Arts:
Friday Sept. 23 @ 10 AM
St. Stephen Anglican Church
9311 Prairie Valley Rd, Summerland BC V0H

At 77, Georges Boivin “gives the dice a roll”. Georges just lost his wife, you see, the “centre of his universe”. But there is life after 70 and it must continue even after great loss. With his three friends, all older than he, he sets out on road trip from Québec to Vancouver, in search of a first love whom he hasn’t seen in 50 years. A play about love in all it’s various forms.

Followed by Community Chat About Aging in The Performing Arts

Allan Toots in The Ballad of Georges Boivin
(Ryga Arts Festival, Summerland 2024)

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Allan Toots in The Ballad of Georges Boivin (Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival 2024)
Photo: Ricardo Fernandez

Director/ Translator Notes

It is no secret that older artists might face age-related physical and cognitive changes. However, far greater impediments to their successful participation in the arts are the social stigmas of ageism and ableism.

On this project, we explored forms and aesthetics specifically from tools to support Senior artists in performance in rural touring. By “bringing the production to the performer”, we asked “what new is created when we make access integral to creation, design, rehearsal, and presentation processes?” And by doing so – draw attention to the needs of our ageing population in an intergenerational conversation and illuminate the experience of seniors’ day to day living.

The Creatus Project “Bakes Access & Accommodation into Creation”. This is done by identifying the barriers and needs of the senior performer creatively and structurally, addressing these barriers, and then integrating the solutions into all aspects of production.

Reimaging the production to elder actor Allan Toots, we decentralised memory from product, added memory prompts developed with Al (ex. set, props, sound cues, media, etc.), and created new text and staging to meet his accommodation. This “Artist First Approach” means each show is unique the unique performer.

2021 | English Language Premiere

Produced by Western Gold Theatre
In association with Bouche Theatre Collective
Featuring Jay Brazeau and John Innes alternating as Georges Boivin in repertory

November 10 – 28, 2021
PAL STUDIO THEATRE – 581 CARDERO STREET, VANCOUVER
www.westerngoldtheatre.org

This translation was commissioned by Western Gold Theatre (Vancouver) and developed by Bouche Theatre Collective (Vancouver). The English Language premiere of The Ballad of Georges Boivin was produced by Western Gold Theatre (PAL Vancouver Theatre, 2021) featuring Jay Brazeau and John Innes as Georges, directed by Jack Paterson We gratefully acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

Ingrid Turk, Kaeden Atkinson-Hill, Upintheair Theatre, Western Gold Theatre, Presentation House Theatre, & Supertitles.gr

Towards an Inclusive Theatre

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Towards an Inclussive Theatre

AAD+ Labs:, Bouche Theatre Collective & Presentation House Theatre

Remote Access for Disability Identifying (& Other) Creators

Developing new ways of making theatre from process to production

Conceived of by Jack Paterson & Hannah Siden

This project aims to create new pathways of access, opportunity, and equal and full participation for disability-identifying artists in the independent performing arts.

Born from our work with independent theatre artists facing Accessibility barriers due to disability (or any other barrier) to participate fully and equally in the small theatre and micro theatre creations space common to most independent artists.

Our ambition is to create an affordable and accessibility path necessary for artists unable to participate equally in the live creation in the rehearsal hall and provide the tools necessary for these artists outside Presentation House Theatre in the independent performing arts.

April – Novemeber, 2024

Concept by Jack Paterson & Hannah Siden | System Designer: Kaeden Atkinson-Hill | Ceative Technician: Jason Biron | Consulting Artists: Joel Grinke & Paul D Powers | Stage Manager: Andy Sandberg

Presentation House Theatre
333 Chesterfield Avenue,
North Vancouver, BC V7M 3G9

Remote Access on the Road:
The Ballad of Georges Boivin (Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival 2024)

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On Active Access & Cross Sensory Translation

“Accessibility as a springboard towards new forms of communication. Accessibility not simply as a practice for otherwise excluded audiences, but as added value. Accessibility as a creative challenge and experimentation with new languages.” – Redattore Sociale (Italy 2022)

Active Access Design was pioneered by Global Hive Labs., an international network of artists and companies, co-founded by Jack Paterson and Denise Yvette Serna, working together in devised creation. With collective members across multiple countries, we identified access as a priority.

With projects in Canada, Italy, UK and USA, Active Access Design has been applied to cross cultural, multi ligual, Disability MAD & Deaf Arts, and Ageing in the Arts projects.

“…smashing nationality and accesibility borders in a Total theatre that merges so many artistic languages in a full emotional voyage…” – IMA Magazine

PALAZZO DEL MONDO, Farnese Palace (Italy 2022). Conceived of by Isolte Avila, Carolina Migli & Jack Paterson | Devised with the International Ensemble

We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

International Translation Exchange (Brazil)

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International Translation Exchange

Bouche Theatre Collective & Núcleo Experimental present
A New Translation Workshop Reading

O JOGO DO BEIJO

An urban fantasy of love, betrayal, friendship and queer identity.

By Rhiannon Collett
Translated to Portuguese by Izabel Hart
Translated from The Kissing Game

Directed by Daniela Stirbulov | Featuring Carolina Amaral, Giovana Brandao, & Velson D’Souza | Cultural Conector: Jordan Arsenault | Creative Producers: Jack Paterson & Zé Henrique de Paula

Join us for a Q&A with the translator, director, and Canadian dramaturg Jordan Arseneault

Saturday August 10, 2024 | 8 PM
Teatro do Núcleo Experimental
Rua Barra Funda 637, São Paulo, Brazil

16-year-old Sam’s life is a mess; their parents are fighting, her brother’s a jerk, and they’re way too punk for high-school. When Kate moves into town with her old sister Frankie, Sam is immediately smitten. But when Kate’s sister falls victim to an act of violence, Sam becomes embroiled in something far out of their control.

Image: Rhiannon Collett in The Kissing Game (Youtheatre, 2019)

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MEET THE ARTISTS

Rhiannon Collett | Playwright (Canada)

Rhiannon Collett (they / them) is an award-winning playwright, performer, director and translator based in Vancouver. They are interested in interdisciplinary creation processes, sexual labour, gender performativity and science fiction. Selected playwriting credits include Miranda & Dave Begin Again (2016 Playwrights Guild of Canada RBC Emerging Playwright Award); Wasp (Nightswimming); The Kissing Game (Youtheatre/META for Outstanding New Text); Tragic Queens (CABAL Theatre/Wildside Festival); Girlfriend (Young People’s Theatre). Rhiannon’s work has been presented internationally at the LungA festival in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, and at the Festival les Petites Formes in Fort-de-France, Martinique.

Izabel Hart | Translator (Brazil)

Izabel Hart is a graduate of Cênicas pela Escola Superior de Artes Célia Helena (2010) and received their MA in Theatrical Direction from the University of Essex and East 15 Acting School, London (2013) including an exchange with GITIS University of the Performing Arts of Arts (Moscow, Russia). In 2011, they began directing their own work with “Vazio” for the Virada Cultural de São Paulo. From 2009 to 2015 they served as assistant director for Companhia Teatral Arnesto nos Convidou (São Paulo, BR), and directors Samir Yazbek and Helio Cicero including: Post Scriptum, Frank – 1, O Fingidor, Fogo Fátuo and As Folhas do Cedro. In 2018, they directed Shakespeare de Bolso: Macbeth e Qualquer Coisa ou Noite de Reis (Pocket Shakespeare: Macbeth & Twelfth Night) translated, adapted and created with Thiane Lavrador), which premiered at Teatro UMC and toured Unibes Cultural, Pinacoteca do Estado, and São Paulo cultural spaces such as community centres, librairies, and independent cultural venues. In 2020, they directed digital interactive performance Fragilidade, teu Nome é Mulher (Frailty, thy name is woman) interweaving women’s social isolation situations with Shakespeare plots (devised and created with Thiane Lavrador). Fragilidade, teu Nome é Mulher was a recipient of the 2021 Prêmio WeDo! de Teatro Online award.

Jordan Arseneault | Cultural Dramaturg (Brazil)

Jordan Arseneault (b. New Brunswick, 1980) is a critic, drag performer, social artist, meeting facilitator and translator. His staged work and participative workshops address issues of criminalization, stigma, mental health, HIV/AIDS, addiction, biculturalism, queerness and community. Former editor of Quebec’s only English language monthly for the LGBT community, 2Bmag (2010-2013), his reviews and articles have been published in Maisonneuve, Nightlife.ca, Forget the Box. He currently lives in Montreal.

About Núcleo Experimental

Since 2005, Núcleo Experimental has been dedicated to exploring new authors and reimagining the classics. Focusing on the quest for artistic excellence, the formation and improvement of its actors and the choice of texts that resonates with contemporary society, one of its aspects is also to explore the relationship between music and theater. We endeavor for the whole of our activities to be a platform for all the best culture can offer to the people of our city: Entertainment combined with intelligent thought, debate of ideas and pleasure. An aesthetic experience combined with a social responsibility. www.nucleoexperimental.com.br

We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

International Translation Exchange (Brazil)

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International Translation Exchange

Bouche Theatre Collective & Núcleo Experimental present
A New Translation Workshop Reading

O LEITO DO RIO

(título provisório)

By Eric Noel
Translated to Portuguese by Zé Henrique de Paula
Translated from Faire des enfants

Directed by Zé Henrique de Paula | Featuring Mafe Alcantara, Roberto Borges, Victor Edwards, Cleomacio Inacio, Marco Antonio Pamio, Fabio Redkowicz, Lena Roque, & Fabiana Tolentino.

Join us for a Q&A with the playwright, translator and English language translator Jordan Arseneault*

Saturday August 03, 2024 | 8 PM
Teatro do Núcleo Experimental
Rua Barra Funda 637, São Paulo, Brazil

“Fair des enfants touches us right to the heart…Pure and sublime.”
– Luc Boulanger, Le Devoir

Philippe, 24, is self destructing, burning for the dark lights of drugs, sex, alcohol, prostitution. One Sunday, he and his mother wake up at the same time. He senses she’s trying to warn him; she senses something terrible has happened. A visceral and poetic text combining naturalism, surrealism in a blend of lush and gritty language, Fair des enfants won the le Prix Gratien-Gélinas (2010)and receiving critical acclaim for its uncanny depiction of grief and strong dialogue.

*The English (Canada) translation of Faire des enfants was commissioned and developed by Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal and The Cole Foundation Mentorship for Emerging Translators, with dramaturgy by Maureen Labonté.

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MEET THE ARTISTS

Eric Noel | Playwright (Canada)

Eric Noel (they, them) is a Quebecois playwright and graduate of NTS French language writing program. They are the author of Faire des enfants (2009), Tirade pour Henri (2010), Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés (2015) and L’Amoure Looks Something Like You (2020). They are also the author of a libretto for an opera by Vincent-Olivier Gagnon, Sans électricité, les oiseaux disparaissent (2009), and the children’s theatre piece La Mère, le Père, le Petit et le Grand (2012). They also adapted Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince for Theatre La Roulotte Asteroid B612 (2018).

Zé Henrique de Paula | Translator (Brazil)

The Artistic Director of Teatro do Núcleo Experimental, Zé Henrique de Paula has a Master’s degree in Theatre Direction from The University of Essex, London, UK; a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from Mackenzie University and post-graduate degree in Performing Arts from the School of Communication and Arts of University of Sao Paulo. He studied Costume Design for Theatre and Screen at Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts – London (UK).

A multi award winning and nominated director, Zé Henrique de Paula’s credits include: The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Naked Boys Singing, Spring Awakening, Side Man, Thrill me – the story of Leopold and Loeb, Natasha, Pierre and the great comet of 1812, Dogville, A view from the bridge, Assoiffés and Brazilian plays: Verdades e fotografias, Judas em Sábado de Aleluia, É 20! As Folias do Século, Revelação, O Endireita, Novelo, Fogo Azul de um Minuto, Antes de Mais Nada, Carrossel, o musical and Chaves – um tributo musical.

Jordan Arseneault | English Language Translator (Canada)

Jordan Arseneault (b. New Brunswick, 1980) is a critic, drag performer, social artist, meeting facilitator and translator. His staged work and participative workshops address issues of criminalization, stigma, mental health, HIV/AIDS, addiction, biculturalism, queerness and community. Former editor of Quebec’s only English language monthly for the LGBT community, 2Bmag (2010-2013), his reviews and articles have been published in Maisonneuve, Nightlife.ca, Forget the Box. He currently lives in Montreal.

About Núcleo Experimental

Since 2005, Núcleo Experimental has been dedicated to exploring new authors and reimagining the classics. Focusing on the quest for artistic excellence, the formation and improvement of its actors and the choice of texts that resonates with contemporary society, one of its aspects is also to explore the relationship between music and theater. We endeavor for the whole of our activities to be a platform for all the best culture can offer to the people of our city: Entertainment combined with intelligent thought, debate of ideas and pleasure. An aesthetic experience combined with a social responsibility. www.nucleoexperimental.com.br

We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

New Translation Development (Inter-Provincial, CAN)

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ColoniséEs by Annick Lefebvre , Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui (2021) Photo Valérie Remise

NEW TRANSLATION CANADA | NOUVELLE TRADUCTION CANADA

THE PRIX SIMINOVITCH PRIZE PLAYWRIGHT TRANSLATION PROJECT

Join our digital new translation workshop series and play a part in the new translation process.

QCOLONISÉES

By Annick Lefebvre | Translated to English by Johanna Nutter
Translated from ColoniséEs
Featuring Réjean Cournoyer, Jessica Heafey & Alexandra Laferrière
Translation Dramaturgy by Bobby Theodore

“One of Quebec’s most fierce pens, we feel the full force of Annick Lefebvre’s writting in ColoniséEs”
– Gravel le matin, ICI Radio-Canada

A revolution (quiet), a month (historic) and promises (betrayed). ColoniséEs reflects the embodiment of our concerns of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Present-day Quebec; troubled, anxious, resilient.

Four years after the success of J’accuse, author Annick Lefebvre is back with her inimitable and uncompromising style. Her theatre takes up the challenge of being as intimate as it is collective, as denouncing as it is redeeming. Recipient of the Michel-Tremblay Prize, 2019 and the BMO Dramatic Writer’s Prize. Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award 2019.

ColoniséEs premiered January 22 2019 at the Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui (Montreal), directed by René Richard Cyr. The play was developed with the support of the Centre des Auteurs Dramatiques (CEAD) and the Canada Council for the Arts.

A Free Digital Workshop Reading

DATE
Monday July 29, 2024

TIME
PT: Noon | MT: 1 PM | CT: 2PM | ET: 3PM | AT: 4PM

RUNNING TIME
2 HRS including Q&A with the playwright and translator

HOW TO ATTEND
This is a FREE digital event.
To register click the button below.

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ColoniséEs by Annick Lefebvre , Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui (2019) | Photo: Valérie Remise

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The Ballad of Georges Boivin (Vancouver CAN)

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“A superb show, with a superb actor!”
– EntertainmentVancouver.com

Upintheair Theatre Presents
The Creatus Project & Bouche Theatre Collective
In association with
Western Gold Theatre & Presentation House Theatre

THE BALLAD OF GEORGES BOIVIN

By Martin Bellemare
Translated by Jack Paterson with Johanna Nutter
Directed by Jack Paterson* | Featuring Allan Morgan as Georges*

The rEvolver Festival
Saturday May 25 @ 3:30 pm & Talkback with Dr. Julia Henderson
Sunday May 26 @ 3:30 pm & Talkback with the artists
The Cultch (1895 Venables Street, Vancouver BC V5L 2H6)
More info: www.upintheairtheatre.com

“…explores with great insight thematic territory I’ve never seen covered before… an intimate — and rewarding — conversation about love.” – Colin Thomas, colinthomas.ca

“…insightful, thoughtful and mind-expanding…a beautiful play, filled with hope and longing and the realization that yes, there is life and love well into our golden years!” – EntertainmentVancouver.com

Allan Morgan in The Ballad of Georges Boivin
(rEvolver Festival, The Cultch 2024)

At 77, Georges Boivin “gives the dice a roll”. Georges just lost his wife, you see, the “centre of his universe”. But there is life after 70 and it must continue even after great loss. With his three friends, all older than he, he sets out on road trip from Québec to Vancouver, in search of a first love whom he hasn’t seen in 50 years. A play about love in all it’s various forms.

* This is a Canadian Actors’ Equity Association production under the Festival Policy. rEvolver Festival is an approved festival under Canadian Actors’ Equity Association’s Festival Policy.

This translation was commissioned by Western Gold Theatre (Vancouver) and developed by Bouche Theatre Collective (Vancouver). The English Language premiere of The Ballad of Georges Boivin was produced by Western Gold Theatre (PAL Vancouver Theatre, 2021) featuring Jay Brazeau and John Innes as Georges, directed by Jack Paterson We gratefully acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts.

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Jay Brazeau and John Innes in The Ballad of Georges Boivin
(Western Gold Theatre @ PAL Studio Theatre, 2021)

Director/ Translator Notes

Francophone playwrighting is a uniquely Canadian form. Born from different circumstances and cultural needs, there is nothing quite like it in Western English Language practice. The poetic, abstract and expressionistic live side by side with gritty realism and the mundane often becomes the fantastical.

It is no secret that older artists might face age-related physical and cognitive changes. However, far greater impediments to their successful participation in the arts are the social stigmas of ageism and ableism. No matter what their age or their physical or mental abilities maybe, older artists can and must have their place in the arts respected and supported.

On this project, we explored forms and aesthetics specifically from tools to support Senior artists and in performance in festival touring. We asked “what new is created when we make access integral to creation, design, rehearsal, and presentation processes?” And by doing so – draw attention to the needs of our ageing population in an intergenerational conversation and illuminate the experience of seniors’ day to day living.

A great joy of developing this translation was bringing artists together across cultural, lingual, and physical distances in an intergenerational creative conversation. It would not have been possible without the generosity of playwright Martin Bellemare, insight of translation dramaturg Johanna Nutter, and the input by remarkable senior artists Paul Beckett, Jay Brazeau, Micheal Grinter, Allan Morgan, John Innes, and Charles Roe.

Creating artist access supertitles
(rEvolver Festival, The Cultch 2024)

2021 | English Language Premiere

Produced by Western Gold Theatre
In association with Bouche Theatre Collective
Featuring Jay Brazeau and John Innes alternating as Georges Boivin in repertory

November 10 – 28, 2021
PAL STUDIO THEATRE – 581 CARDERO STREET, VANCOUVER
www.westerngoldtheatre.org

We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

Ingrid Turk, Kaeden Atkinson-Hill, Upintheair Theatre, Western Gold Theatre, Presentation House Theatre, & Supertitles.gr

Towards an Inclusive Theatre (Summerland, BC)

THE BALLAD OF GEORGES BOIVIN

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Director/ Translator Notes

2021 | English Language Premiere

We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

Towards an Inclusive Theatre

Remote Access for Disability Identifying (& Other) Creators

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On Active Access & Cross Sensory Translation

We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

International Translation Exchange (Brazil)

O JOGO DO BEIJO

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MEET THE ARTISTS

About Núcleo Experimental

We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

International Translation Exchange (Brazil)

O LEITO DO RIO

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MEET THE ARTISTS

About Núcleo Experimental

We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

New Translation Development (Inter-Provincial, CAN)

NEW TRANSLATION CANADA | NOUVELLE TRADUCTION CANADA

THE PRIX SIMINOVITCH PRIZE PLAYWRIGHT TRANSLATION PROJECT

QCOLONISÉES

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

The Ballad of Georges Boivin (Vancouver CAN)

THE BALLAD OF GEORGES BOIVIN

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Director/ Translator Notes

2021 | English Language Premiere

We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

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