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Erin Brubacher
Artist talk: Social dramaturgy and an invitational practice

Friday, January 8 
2:30 pm, W731
FREE, everyone welcome

Erin Brubacher is an artist and social orchestrator. She works with people. Mostly through strategies of performance, photography and theatre. Present projects include: Concord Floral written by Jordan Tannahill, created with Erin Brubacher, and Cara Spooner (upcoming presentations: directed by Erin Brubacher and Cara Spooner at the National Arts Centre and The Magnetic North Theatre Festival, Whitehorse, 2016 and a Theatre Junction Grand production Dir. by Raphaele Thiriet in collaboration with Erin Brubacher in Calgary, 2016); 7th Cousins, a performance project in development with Christine Brubaker (2014-Ongoing).

Performances to date include a 700 km walk from Pennsylvania to Ontario (2015); The Unpacking for the SummerWorks Live Art Series (2015); The Brubach/ker Family Dinner (2014); Here is how you listen, a teenage performance laboratory and playground for building an ongoing collaborative learning relationship (co-led with Cara Spooner); Vocabulary a theatrical experiment with synthetic biology first in development at the 2015 Banff Playwrights Colony; and To Live in the Age of Melting by Evalyn Parry (director for production in development).

Erin has designed, led and curated creative programming for organizations across Canada and Europe, including the Arches in Glasgow and Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. Together with Jordan Tannahill, she is Co-Artistic Producer of Suburban Beast, the company through which they first staged All Our Happy Days Are Stupid by Sheila Heti. Erin holds a practice-based MA, with distinction, in International Performance Research jointly from the University of Warwick and University of Amsterdam. Her first book of poetry, In the small hours, will be published by Gaspereau Press in 2016.

Her visit also includes a workshop for drama students Saturday, January 9 from 10 am to 6 pm on Crafting a performance experiment: hosting the audience and performing yourself.  This workshop is free, but advance registration is required and seats are limited.  To register: email Nicholas Hanson nicholas.hanson@uleth.ca.

For more on past and present projects see: erinbrubacher.ca.