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This session explores an arts-based research project co-developed between returning military veterans, counselling psychologists and artists. Using Research-based Theatre as a methodology, the team collaboratively created a play, Contact!Unload, which features veterans as performers sharing their stories of serving and the sometimes difficult return to civilian life. Research-based Theatre unites the research and theatre creation process.
George Belliveau is Professor of Theatre Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on Research-based Theatre and he has published extensively in the areas of theatre & drama. His latest co-edited book with G. W. Lea Contact!Unload: Military Veterans, Trauma, and Research-based Theatre (2020) explores a project with military veterans, artists and counselors. He is a trained actor, and has participated in many productions as an actor, director, or playwright.
Christina Cook (she/they) is a therapist and theatre creator, and her research explores mental health through inquiry and art. Christina has facilitated and developed theatre projects in collaboration with diverse communities, from adult learners accessing education programs in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to youth who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+. As a playwright, Christina’s work includes Quick Bright Things, published by Playwrights Canada Press and a finalist for the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Awards for Drama.
Thursday, July 6, 2023
9:00 - 10:15 AM (Pacific Time)
Online
