A Glimpse into New Translation: Online Open Workshop Series – River Bed

Join Co-Founder Jack Paterson and collaborators online for an English language new translation development workshop series of francophone Canadian theatre.  Discover the leading new works of francophone Canadian theatre, meet the playwrights and their translators, and play a part in the new translation process.  Join us after the readings for a conversation with the playwrights and translators.

More info: www.bouchewhacked.com

RIVER BED
By Eric Noel | Translated by Jordan Arseneault
Translated from FAIRE DES ENFANTS (Quebec, Canada)

“…With an urgency to speak that gripes us from the very first lines... touches us right to the heart… Pure and sublime.” –Le Devoir

Philippe, 24, burns for the dark light: drugs, sex, alcohol, prostitution. One in the morning, he wakes up in a strange bed, between two strangers and a sense his mother’s trying to reach him.  A visceral and poetic text combining naturalism, surrealism in a blend of poetic and gritty language.  Recipient of the  Prix Gratien-Gélinas.

Featuring Scott Button, Rhiannon Collett, Rick Dobran, Brian Postalian, Christine Quintana, Lisa C. Ravensbergen, Anais West & Nelson Wong

HOW TO ATTEND
Click the link below at showtime
​https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82668924017

Online venue opens 5 minutes prior to start. Capacity 100.  Latecomers welcome – audience does not appear on screen.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: ERIC NOEL

Eric Noel (they, them, theirs) is a Quebecois playwright and 2009 graduated of NTS French language writing program. They are the author of Faire des enfants (2009), Tirade pour Henri (2010), Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés (2015) and L'Amoure Looks Something Like You (2020).

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR JORDAN ARSENEAULT

Jordan Arseneault (he, him, his) is a critic, drag performer, social artist, meeting facilitator and translator. His staged work and participative workshops address issues of criminalization, stigma, mental health, HIV/AIDS, addiction, biculturalism, queerness and community.

Acknowledgements

This workshop was made possible by grants from Canada Council for the Arts. Artists appear courtesy of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the Dance Opera Theatre Agreement.  This project is produced with the co-operation of the UBCP/ACTRA.

Special thank you to: The Canadian Play Thing, The PHT Creation Hub Co-operative, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Western Gold Theatre, PTC Playwrights’ Theatre Centre, PWM Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, CEAD Centre des auteurs dramatique, UpintheAir Theatre, Global Hive Labs., LeftRight Minds, Canadian Actors’ Equity Association, UBCP/ACTRA Union of BC Performers

Webpage: www.bouchewhacked.com

Online Venue: www.plaything.ca

Facebook: @BoucheTheatreCollective

Facebook event link: https://fb.me/e/15O5Ox0jU

International Call and Response Project

Dear Friends and Colleagues

I hope you will join us in a very special project.

As Covid 19 was spreading globally, I reached out to my friend and wonderful poet and theatre maker with down syndrome Niall McNeil. I asked him to write a poem we could share with other artists that could help inspire folks in their own art and bring us together in our various isolations.

Niall wrote the beautiful PRESENCE OF INNOCENCE OF HOPE

Ni and I invite you to respond with your own creations!

Sounds Great! How do I participate?

You can read the poem Here
In addition to English, it has been translated to French (Canada), Spanish (Ecuador), Portuguese (Brazil) and Traditional Chinese (Mandarin from Taiwan).

Join our facebook group GHL-Vancouver: Call and Response Group.

Take inspiration from Niall’s poem, a word, a sound and create an original work or build upon it with your own. Then post /link it here for the group to take inspiration from.

There is no limit to how you can respond. Write a scene, a poem, a short story, a journal entry, a song or music, create a video, an image, a collage, a sound scape, a sculpture, a dance.

We encourage responses from all walks of life, perspectives, experience and practices.

Although the administrative working language is English, please feel free to create in any spoken, written or physical language you prefer.

Currently the project is being facilitated through facebook on the the GHL-Vancouver: Call and Response Group. That may change in the future and I will let you know in advance.

Additionally: We are living in an uncertain time period and it is taking its toll on everyone. If you have found your way to this group and don’t feel up making art at the moment, that’s fine. Look after yourself and your loved ones and feel free to check in from time to time and take inspiration.

About Niall McNeil: Niall McNeil has been involved with theatre from an early age through his long association with the Caravan Farm Theatre. As a youngster he performed in Romeo and Juliet, Bull by the Horns and Strange Medicine. Niall acted in Leaky Heaven Theatre in Vancouver since its inception in 1999 under the direction of Steven Hill. In 2010 Niall performed A Christmas Carol as a member of the English Acting Company of the National Arts Centre under the direction of Peter Hinton. Niall and Marcus Youssef have written two plays together, Peter Panties (2011) and King Arthur’s Night (2017). Niall loves researching new ideas, writing lyrics and making plays.

About Global Hive Labs.:
Global Hive Lab is an international collective of like-minded independent companies & artists. With members in Beijing (China), Chicago (U.S.A.), Denpasar (Indonesia), London (UK), Paris (France), Piacenza (Italy), São Paulo (Brazil), and Vancouver (Canada) we work together in shared creation.

Projects to date have included Towards a Global Practice Workshop (London, UK); Climate Change Theatre Action (Chicago, USA); Medusa Italy (Teatro Trieste 34), Medusa UK (The Pleasance Theatre, The Cockpit Theatre), Medusa USA (Steppenwolf Theatre); Atlantis Italy Workshop (Teatro Trieste 34).

Global Hive Labs. holds international collaboration, multi disciplinary/ total theatre approaches and accessible Universal Design as core to our creation practices. www.globalhivelabs.org

May you and yours be safe, well and awesome!
John Jack Paterson
Co-Founder of Global Hive Laboratories