BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.2469.events_uoft_date.0@www.anthropology.utoronto.ca CREATED:20241212T211842Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, January 31, 2025 2:00 pm to Satur day, February 01, 2025 6:00 pm \n\nDescription: \nAFFECT THEATRE WORKSHO P Workshop Details What:  Affect Theatre is a theatrical technique for wor king with empirical questions and material, such as ethnographic data, a rchival documents, and more. The workshop will be led by anthropologist C ristiana Giordano and theatre practitioner Greg Pierotti, creators of the Affect Theatre process, and hosted by faculty Cassandra Hartblay and Val entina Napolitano with support from the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, the Ethnography Lab, other units across UofT, and SSHRC. This is a two-day workshop. On the first half-day, workshop participants will learn the building blocks of the affect theatre devising technique. Parti cipants are encouraged to bring source material from their own research, such as short excerpts from fieldnotes, interviews, archival documents, medical and legal reports, media sources, etc. On the second half-day, workshop participants will apply the foundations established on the previ ous day to an extended experimentation with one ethnographic project. This allows the participants to see the technique carried through to a more de veloped phase through concerted work. Participants who wish to take part i n day 2 of the workshop should commit to attending day 1. Those who do not want to commit to two days can attend Friday only. When: Day 1: Friday, Jan 31, 2-6pm  Day 2: Saturday, Feb 1, (roughly) 12-6pm Location:  The workshop will take place on the St George Campus of the University of Toro nto, location details to be shared with participants.  Snacks and coffee will be served on both days, lunch will be served on day 2. Register to p articipate: The workshop is open to approximately 25 participants. Please use this sign-up form to reserve a spot. The form will close 24 hours befo re the workshop or when capacity is reached. If you have access needs or q uestions about the workshop that may affect your registration, please dir ect them to Cassandra Hartblay, cassandra.hartblay@utoronto.ca    About t he technique Affect Theater, a devising technique influenced by the Momen t Work technique originated by Greg Pierotti's former theater company, Te ctonic Theater Project, and Mary Overlie's Viewpoints. This theatrical de vising technique is a practice for working with non-theatrical source mate rial (interviews, archival documents, medical and legal reports, media sources, etc.) to construct narratives for the stage. The practice depart s from traditional theater in that a finished script is not the starting p oint for the staging and direction of a play. Devising emerged as a means to revitalize how theatrical texts are created. It is a collaborative proc ess involving the members of a company devising and writing together. Our workshop aims at extending this way of writing to other disciplines and th eir forms of textual production (books, articles, essays, installations , exhibits, etc.).   In our weekend workshops, we encourage participant s to include their own empirical data as a part of the source material we utilize in our devising practices. This creates the opportunity for the st udents and faculty to shift their relationship to their research through a collaborative engagement with our theatrical exploration.  Learn more abo ut the Affect Theatre technique here, or in the recent book, Affect Ethn ography : Exploring Performance and Narrative in the Creation of Unstories (available as an ebook from UToronto Libraries). About the Workshop Pract itioners Cristiana Giordano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. from the Universi ty of California, Berkeley. Her book, Migrants in Translation. Caring an d the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy (University of California Press, 2014), won the Victor Turner Book Prize for ethnographic writing (2016), and the Boyer Prize in Psychoanalytic Anthropology (2017). Her c urrent research investigates new ways of rendering ethnographic material i nto artistic forms. She has been collaborating with playwright and directo r Greg Pierotti on a new methodology at the intersection of the social sci ences and performance. They have created Unstories, a 50-minute performan ce around the current “refugee crisis” in Europe, and Unstories II (roami ng), a 45-minute performance which furthers the reflection about movement and borders.  Greg Pierotti is an associate professor of theater at the U niversity of Arizona. He is a playwright, theater director, and actor. H e co-authored the plays The Laramie Project, Laramie: 10 Years Later, Th e People’s Temple, and Unstories I and II. He co-authored the book Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater. His honors as a writer/director/deviser include a Humanitas Prize, The Will Glickman Award for best new play, and Emmy, Lortel, Drama Desk, and Alpert Awa rd nomintations. Since 2015, he and Cristiana Giordano, he have develope d a method for research, writing and theatrical devising called 'Affect T heater.” Together they have created performances and authored articles tha t play at the intersection of Anthropology and Theater. Their new book, A ffect Ethnography: Exploring Performance and Narrative in the Creation of Unstories was published in June, 2024 by Bloomsbury.     \n\nCategories \n ExhibitSocial \n\nAudiences \n CommunityFacultyGraduate StudentsStaffUn dergraduate Students DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250131T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250201T180000 LAST-MODIFIED:20241212T211842Z SUMMARY:Affect Theatre Workshop URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/events/affect-theatre-wor kshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR