Gatherings Partnership
Postdoctoral Fellow 2022—2023 ○ Project Manager
Research Assistant 2016—2022 ○ Web Designer & Contributor
Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Performance
From the Gatherings website:
Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories seeks to preserve and disseminate the rich histories of performance in the territories commonly known as Canada. Our research project is funded in part through a Partnership Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, with the support of a number of academic institutions from across the country, and with the crucial participation of the Canadian Theatre Museum, Dance Collection Danse, and Playwrights Canada Press, all leaders in the preservation and dissemination of our performance heritage.
Those involved include: Stephen Johnson (Principal Investigator); Allana Lindgren and Sasha Kovacs (University of Victoria); Justin Blum and Gabrielle Houle (University of Lethbridge); Heather Fitzsimmons Frey (MacEwan University); Seika Boye, Jill Carter, Martin Julien (University of Toronto); Jenn Cole (Trent University); Mark Turner (Memorial University of Newfoundland); Amy Bowring (Dance Collection Danse); Annie Gibson (Playwrights Canada Press); and Michael Wallace (Canadian Theatre Museum).
The project has two main goals:
Gathering Together
The first goal is to develop a Pan-Canadian partnership with the purpose of collecting, archiving, and disseminating the history of theatre and performance. Participants will support one another in pilot projects using archival research and interviews, paying particular attention to the documentary evidence and oral history of Canadian theatre and performance. In the process we will compile an online set of guidelines, specific to the study of performance, that can be used by local and regional historians.
Gathering Networks
The second goal is to develop a network of other interested scholars, institutions, and collectives with the purpose of establishing a broader partnership serving the study of and public education in Canadian performance.
