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Ashland Speaker: Jivesh Parasram
\nLecture and Workshop<\/p>\n
UFV Theatre and the UFV School of Creative Arts present this year\u2019s Ashland Speaker Jivesh Parasram, an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, community activator, and facilitator of Indo-Caribbean descent. Jivesh Parasram is also the Artistic Director of Rumble Theatre, located in Vancouver, BC.<\/p>\n
Please join us for a lecture and a workshop with Jivesh Parasram on Wed, March 4 in room D105, Abbotsford campus.<\/p>\n
The lecture will reflect on Parasram\u2019s artistic practice and trajectory, followed by a question-and-answer session.<\/p>\n
The lecture is open to all. Lecture by Jivesh Parasram: 1-2 pm, room D105.<\/p>\n Workshop “FRAGMENTS: Writing through Disparate Inquiries”:\u00a02:30-5:20 pm, room D105.<\/p>\n FRAGMENTS: Writing through Disparate Inquiries Participants will be introduced to a simple, but efficient structure to generating material through a system of questions and writing prompts. Through compiling a running list of \u201cfragments\u201d they will create a bank of creative possibilities in attainable chunks rather than jumping into one large project. The combination and sequencing of these seemingly disparate fragments will work to create implied meaning, and create the skeleton structure for a new project. If you can write an essay, you can use this system. If you can\u2019t write an essay without getting feedback that you make too many \u201cbroad sweeping generalizations\u201d – you\u2019re gonna do great. After all, theatre is (maybe) just a series of bad answers to the questions of the world.<\/p>\n BIO Wed, March 4 For more information, contact Jennifer Chew at jennifer.chew@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n 03\/05\/2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ashland Speaker: Jivesh Parasram Lecture and Workshop UFV Theatre and the UFV School of Creative Arts present this year\u2019s Ashland Speaker Jivesh Parasram, an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, community activator, and facilitator of Indo-Caribbean descent. Jivesh Parasram is also the Artistic Director of Rumble Theatre, located in Vancouver, BC. Please join us for a lecture and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":21448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-myufv","category-calendar","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21473,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447\/revisions\/21473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTo attend the workshop, please email Leigh at leigh.kerr@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMaking theatre can sometimes seem daunting, with the creation of your own work seemingly a bottomless pit of potential. And that\u2019s fair, because we\u2019re all complex people, with many different perspectives. But it doesn\u2019t have to be so hard. The starting point is less, \u201cwhat do you want to say?\u201d – but rather, \u201cwhat do you truly believe?\u201d Beginning from a place of examining your own positionality, this workshop offers some foundational tools to approaching the creation of new work drawing on both auto-biography and broader research.<\/p>\n
\nJivesh Parasram (He\/Him\/His) is an award winning multidisciplinary artist, community activator, and facilitator of Indo-Caribbean descent. His work has played across Canada, and Internationally. Jiv grew up in K\u2019jipuktuk (Halifax) and endeavours to split his time between T’kar\u00f3n:to (Toronto) and the Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver). In 2009 he co-founded the award winning collective Pandemic Theatre, and currently holds the position of Artistic Director for Rumble Theatre. Parasram is Dora Mavor Moore award-nominated artist, and the recipient of two Harold Awards for his contributions to the Independent Theatre Community of Toronto, including the Ken McDougall Award for Direction. Internationally he has received a Herald Angel from the Edinburgh Fringe for his contributions to the 2018 CanadaHub programming. Jiv was a member of the second cohort of the Cultural Leaders Lab with the Toronto Arts Council and the Banff Centre and was the recipient of the 2018 Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. His current research centres Dharmic Dramaturgy in approaching contemporary performance and social design.<\/p>\n
\n1-5:20 pm
\nAbby D105<\/p>\n