8:30 PM | Play Reading and Talkback
featuring Elyne Quan
President of the Playwrights Guild of Canada

***CANCELLED THEATRE IS DEAD: COME TO THE PEEP SHOW

with Kristine Nutting
Two-day workshop — continued on Saturday, November 5, 2011

For theatre artists interested in the relationship between space, performer, and the audience.

Participants will explore unconventional performance spaces and their power and effect on the communion between audience and performer. Enjoy the freedom of working outside of a traditional theatre venue and discover space as a source for creative works. Participants should bring ideas they are working on for upcoming shows.

IF WORDS BE MADE OF BREATH…
with Jane MacFarlane

For performers wishing to reconnect with their breath.

As Gertrude says to Hamlet, breath is the foundation of life. This workshop will reinvigorate a deep
connection to instinctive breath that is rooted in the core of the body. Participants will expand their capacity for connection to breath support, free the channel for communication, and increase their range of expression by releasing the blocks to their connected core.

***SOLD OUT*** PLANTING YOUR PRODUCTION
with Vanessa Porteous

For educators and directors of all levels.

This workshop will address how the director digs into the script to prepare a production, including
play analysis, conceiving the show, design inspirations based on the text, and more. Leave with the
tools to ready yourself for design planning, text-work with actors, rehearsal, and production. Participants should come with a play that they are going to direct, or wish to direct, and that they have read thoroughly, more than once.

TAKE A PLAYWRIGHT TO WORK(SHOP)
with Trevor Rueger

For novice and intermediate playwrights and dramaturgs.

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed doors of a new play workshop? Satisfy
your curiosity and observe the workshop process in action, as playwright, actors, and director/
dramaturg work on Sequence by Arun Lakra. After the session, participants will engage in a dialogue with APN Executive Director Trevor Rueger about the dramaturgical process.

***SOLD OUT***UNCOVERING THE UNKNOWN IDEA
with Karen Hines

For novice and intermediate playwrights.

Through a variety of “structured stream of consciousness” exercises, participants will work from ground zero to uncover ideas, images, characters, and story possibilities. Each participant will generate original material during the workshop, and strategies for its development will be discussed.

7 PM | Play Reading
The Art of Homecoming by Betty Ternier Daniels
Courtesy of Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre

8:30 PM | Panel Discussion
imPURE ALBERTAns
Alberta’s theatre community is engaging in an unprecedented cross-pollination, both receiving and sending outstanding scripts and productions nationally and internationally. Are there aspects of Albertan theatre practice, productions, and artists that are distinctly Albertan? What makes us identifiably us? We pose the question to two Albertans, one Torontonian, and a roomful of you.

Moderated by Ghost River Theatre Co-Artistic Director David van Belle, with distinguished panelists Blake Brooker, Daniel MacIvor and Mieko Ouchi.

***CANCELLED THEATRE IS DEAD: COME TO THE PEEP SHOW
with Kristine Nutting
Two-day workshop — continuation from Friday, November 4, 2011

For theatre artists interested in the relationship between space, performer, and the audience.

Participants will explore unconventional performance spaces and their power and effect on the communion between audience and performer. Enjoy the freedom of working outside of a traditional theatre venue and discover space as a source for creative works. Participants should bring ideas they are working on for upcoming shows.

***SOLD OUT*** BRINGING IT ALL: CATALYST THEATRE’S CREATIVE PROCESS
with Catalyst Theatre
Two-day workshop — continued on Sunday, November 6, 2011

For established and emerging professional theatre artists, with post-secondary professional theatre training or equivalent professional experience. Auditors will be permitted.

Jonathan Christenson, artistic director of Alberta’s Catalyst Theatre, celebrated for its highly integrated and bold theatrical aesthetic, will guide you through his creative process, assisted by members of the company’s core creative team. This masterclass will take you from conception to opening night, sharing along the way some of the tools and strategies used at Catalyst to: nurture a bold theatrical vision, sustain and evolve that vision through responsive collaboration, extend your creative choices, and transform obstacles into imaginative possibilities. Through practical exercises, presentation and discussion the workshop will examine the unique demands the Catalyst aesthetic places upon actors, directors, designers, choreographers, composers and coaches and will introduce participants to the skills, as well as the values, required to bring the work alive on stage.

This masterclass for theatre professionals is intended to inspire your sense of theatrical possibility and challenge you to “bring it all” to the creative process!

***SOLD OUT***FORM AND FUNCTION: TRANSFORMING IDEAS INTO ACTION
with Elyne Quan

For playwrights and theatre artists of all levels.

You’ve got some ideas for a play, maybe some dialogue, perhaps even a draft… but is it going anywhere? This practical playwriting workshop will reveal how form, as much as content, can influence the way plays are received. Discover the importance of careful structure, learn how to differentiate between what is essential and what is cleverness, and appreciate the usefulness of imperfections.

***SOLD OUT***PLAY FINDING
with Daniel MacIvor

For playwrights of all levels.

A workshop for people who want to improve full plays or develop small notions. Daniel MacIvor asks the questions that help us discover how our ideas are extensions of our personal truths and how we can eliminate writing blocks and find the confidence to express what we believe to be true.

WORKING FROM WITHIN: AN INTUITIVE APPROACH TO THE ACTING PROCESS
with Joe-Norman Shaw

For novice and intermediate actors.

Through discovering the power of now and trusting their intuition, actors in this workshop will move towards a spontaneous and authentic performance style, which can be applied to both theatre and film. Learning will focus on a combination of practical exercises and scene work to explore this acting process.

8 PM | Keynote Address
THE ARTIFICIAL AUTHENTIC
Featuring special guest DANIEL MacIVOR

The heart of theatre practice is a profound paradox; we aspire to project absolute authenticity in the most artificial of environments. Daniel MacIvor talks about notions of truth-telling in the theatre.

Tickets $20 at the door. (Click here to register for the Special Events Package to book tickets now!)

9 PM | PlayWorks Ink (FOWIM)
Wishing you could be in two workshops at once? Now you can! Dig into the workshop experiences of your fellow PlayWorks Ink participants in this Find-Out-What-I’m-Missing (FOWIM) forum for exchange. Facilitated by APN’s Trevor Rueger.

***SOLD OUT*** BRINGING IT ALL: CATALYST THEATRE’S CREATIVE PROCESS
with Catalyst Theatre
Two-day workshop — continuation from Saturday, November 5, 2011

For established and emerging professional theatre artists, with post-secondary professional theatre training or equivalent professional experience. Auditors will be permitted.

Jonathan Christenson, artistic director of Alberta’s Catalyst Theatre, celebrated for its highly integrated and bold theatrical aesthetic, will guide you through his creative process, assisted by members of the company’s core creative team. This masterclass will take you from conception to opening night, sharing along the way some of the tools and strategies used at Catalyst to: nurture a bold theatrical vision, sustain and evolve that vision through responsive collaboration, extend your creative choices, and transform obstacles into imaginative possibilities. Through practical exercises, presentation and discussion the workshop will examine the unique demands the Catalyst aesthetic places upon actors, directors, designers, choreographers, composers and coaches and will introduce participants to the skills, as well as the values, required to bring the work alive on stage.

This masterclass for theatre professionals is intended to inspire your sense of theatrical possibility and challenge you to “bring it all” to the creative process!

***SOLD OUT***BEYOND THE PREMIÈRE: DEVELOPING A MARKET FOR YOUR PLAY
with Ken Cameron

For emerging professional playwrights seeking remount productions of their play(s).

“I might as well throw my script over the Rockies, as expect a director in Toronto to read it,” said an anonymous Vancouver playwright, neatly summarizing how many playwrights feel about promoting their work. Are you eager to go beyond the first production and beyond your hometown, but are unsure of where to begin? Learn to analyze the market, pitch your play like a pro, and ask hard questions about the future of your own work.

FROM THE GROUND UP
with Anita Miotti

For performers, educators, directors, and choreographers curious about the collaborative creative process.

This all-levels workshop will stimulate your movement brain, making space for lateral thinking and the creation of vibrant and open movement that can be honed and crafted to speak clearly to the theme of your piece. Anita will introduce the process of mining the performer for a character-based movement language and work with participants to find their unique qualities that can be integrated into choreography. Be ready to challenge yourself!

***CANCELLED STORY(TELLING) MEETS THEATRE
with Tololwa Mollel

For theatre artists, storytellers, and story makers of all levels.

This workshop will focus on the question of how story and storytelling intersects with theatrical art. Work in this class will revolve around a story told by the instructor. Participants will then develop mini storytelling productions based on their own versions of the shared story. This practical workshop process will test and illuminate the affinity between story, storytelling, and the theatrical art.

***SOLD OUT***WRITING WITHOUT BORDERS: CROSSING ART FORMS
with Mieko Ouchi

For intermediate level playwrights.

No labels. No boxes. No borders. Participants will work toward unearthing the perfect medium and voice for their story, bringing their parallel skills in other art forms to theatre (or vice versa) and begin to think about cross-border playwriting and creation. Class discussions and exercises will allow each participant to explore their own project in the beginning stages of development. Participants should bring at least one idea or project to play with.

1 PM | Luncheon and Theatre Alberta AGM
Join your PlayWorks Ink colleagues and Theatre Alberta family at our catered luncheon and Annual
General Meeting — get an underground look at what’s happening across the province and at Theatre Alberta!

2 PM | Play Reading
Sequence by Arun Lakra