Let’s Talk with Shauna Janssan & NAX

Cox & Palmer Second Space

Let’s talk….

With fewer theatres and rehearsal spaces, and increasing levels of artistic practice, St. John’s theatre artists will be looking more and more towards working in found or public spaces. The reuse or repurposing of found and public spaces for cultural activities are becoming strategies for drawing attention to the lesser-known architectural spaces of the city and developing new possibilities for old spaces. On Tuesday July 9th, at the LSPU HALL, Cox & Palmer Second Space, NAX (A.D. Lois Brown) will host a gathering. Montréal based theatre practitioner,  Shauna Janssen will make a short presentation on her work as a urban activist and independent curator, before leading a daylong workshop sharing ideas and methods for working with alternative spaces and infrastructures.  The public, artists and policy-makers are invited to gather, and allow Shauna’s presentation to inspire informal discussion on the topic.

More about Shauna Janssen: Approaching particular urban spatial conditions as ‘sites of practice’, Shauna’s research and curatorial work explores the potential that creative acts have to produce temporary communities and alternative public spheres. Her doctoral research moves between the disciplines of architectural history, performative practices, and urban studies; drawing from a mixture of discourses that address the relations between the social history of art and the built environment, cultural pedagogy and theories of democracy. Theatre practitioner, urban activist and independent curator,

Shauna founded Urban Occupations Urbaines (UOU) in 2010, a platform for facilitating creative engagements and collaborations with urban environments in transition. Shauna is a currently a PhD candidate in the Humanities housed within the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University, Montreal. She is also a guest instructor at the National Theatre School of Canada and holds a part-time faculty position at Concordia University in the Departments of Theatre and Art History. For a window into her curatorial work, go to www.urbanoccupationsurbaines.org/

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