Comments on: Jerked Knees and Conclusions Jumped http://www.outtv.ca/blog/2009/06/22/jerked-knees-and-conclusions-jumped/ Canada's only Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Television Network Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:17:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ambassador: David Allan King http://www.outtv.ca/blog/2009/06/22/jerked-knees-and-conclusions-jumped/#comment-2198 Ambassador: David Allan King Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:24:58 +0000 http://www.outtv.ca/blog/?p=562#comment-2198 That's great Valerie! It's easy to forget we celebrate Shakespearean theatre, women's voices in theatre, the black theatre experience and so many other cultures and yet forget sometimes we just need a night out to see ourselves on stage! I have written about this as well in the recent anthology on Canadian Queer Theatre Queer Theatre in Canada (the seventh volume of ‘Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English’ series). This publication and the recent publication of Canada's first anthology of Lesbian Plays (Coming Out in Canada) is a milestone for us - there are finally enough materials in Canada in print to teach a university course on queer theatre and queer performing arts, and at the University of Alberta and Concordia in Montreal, those courses have begun! That’s great Valerie! It’s easy to forget we celebrate Shakespearean theatre, women’s voices in theatre, the black theatre experience and so many other cultures and yet forget sometimes we just need a night out to see ourselves on stage! I have written about this as well in the recent anthology on Canadian Queer Theatre Queer Theatre in Canada (the seventh volume of ‘Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English’ series). This publication and the recent publication of Canada’s first anthology of Lesbian Plays (Coming Out in Canada) is a milestone for us – there are finally enough materials in Canada in print to teach a university course on queer theatre and queer performing arts, and at the University of Alberta and Concordia in Montreal, those courses have begun!

]]> By: Valerie Sing Turner http://www.outtv.ca/blog/2009/06/22/jerked-knees-and-conclusions-jumped/#comment-2192 Valerie Sing Turner Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:21:03 +0000 http://www.outtv.ca/blog/?p=562#comment-2192 Hey, David! Kudos to you for continuing the crusade against the bizarre practice of white exclusive theatre in Canada and particularly in Vancouver. I think you're on to something in the "monkey-see monkey-do"-type mentality, so I think the pressure has to be on the big monkeys to clean up their act! BTW, I ran in Jerry Wasserman at the recent arts summit here in Vancouver, and he mentioned that a magazine in Montreal is interested in publishing that fabulous chain of letters-to-the-editor on his website (www.vancouverplays.com) about (the lack of) diversity in theatre that was started by YOU! (I believe he'll be in touch for permission.) You rock, DCJ! Hey, David!

Kudos to you for continuing the crusade against the bizarre practice of white exclusive theatre in Canada and particularly in Vancouver. I think you’re on to something in the “monkey-see monkey-do”-type mentality, so I think the pressure has to be on the big monkeys to clean up their act! BTW, I ran in Jerry Wasserman at the recent arts summit here in Vancouver, and he mentioned that a magazine in Montreal is interested in publishing that fabulous chain of letters-to-the-editor on his website (www.vancouverplays.com) about (the lack of) diversity in theatre that was started by YOU! (I believe he’ll be in touch for permission.) You rock, DCJ!

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