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Thought Residencies

The Thought Residencies are back! This season, hear four long-form conversations between artists about theatre, creation and community. All hosted by b Current Artistic Director and FOLDA Co-Curator, Marcel Stewart. The Thought Residencies were founded in 2014 as short musings from innovative Canadian theatre makers, produced by Spiderwebshow in partnership with b Current Performing Arts.

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01:14:25

Lisa Karen Cox, Tianna Edwards, and Shayna Jones | If...

Thought Residencies ·

2023/12/05

Marcel Stewart is joined by Lisa Karen Cox, Tianna Edwards and Shayna Jones as they share their thoughts on life, cultural erasure, creating art, what blackness can look like in rural and urban spaces, black maternal thinking, micro rituals in the body, alignment, and MORE! *What you won't get to experience as the listener is the amount of teeth being shown during this conversation. There was a lot of off mic laughter, smiling and love in the Zoom room. For a transpcript of the episode, go to

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01:25:16

Sébastien Heins | It's a Sebaissance!

Thought Residencies ·

2023/11/28

Marcel Stewart is joined by Sébastien Heins to discuss the glorious ephemerality of theatre, his work with Outside the March, the process of developing immersive experiences, his solo play ‘No Save Points’, the future of performing arts, AI in theatre, Max Tegmark, theatre as an olympic event, our love for Mazin Elsadig, Michael Healey's podcast 'Just One More' and MORE! For a transcript of this episode, visit https://spiderwebshow.ca/its-a-sebaissance/ ‎

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01:24:30

Owais Lightwala and SGS | If you're a dancer, dance!

Thought Residencies ·

2023/11/21

Marcel Stewart is joined by SGS and Owais Lightwala to discuss why being an artist matters, the Massey Commission, capitalism and neo-liberalism, artists as activists, innovation vs conservation, and their Manifesto for NOW. They both raise thought-provoking questions like: are money markets really at fault for artists not being able to make art? What does it mean to produce art today and how are we thinking about that as a sector? We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as Marcel did. For a

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01:17:06

Dr. Pratim Sengupta | Code has to be about love

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2023/11/14

Marcel Stewart is joined by Dr. Pratim Sengupta to discuss thinking with our bodies, Mind Matter and Media Lab, the colonialism behind the 1980's arcade game ‘Lunar Lander’, pushing back against symbolic violence, dignity bombs, human beings as pain catastrophizers, anti-racist reimaging of the immigration experience and landing experience, technocentricsm, moving through the world with love, the Festival of Live Digital Art and MORE! For a transcript of the episode, visit

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Introducing the Thought Residencies Class of 2023

Thought Residencies ·

2023/10/31

New releases every Tuesday from November 14 to December 5, 2023. Join b current Artistic Director and FOLDA Co-Curator, Marcel Stewart, as he talks theatre, creation, and community with some of Canada's top theatre artists and thinkers. The 2023 cohort of Thought Residents includes Sébastien Heins (creator/performer of No Save Points); Shayna Jones (Black + Rural Project); Lisa Karen Cox (director and educator); Tianna Edwards (Keeping Up With Kingston); Dr. Pratim Sengupta (FOLDA 2023

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Tsholo Khalema - Thought #1 - In the Blackness

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2020/10/02

Hi, I am Tsholo Khalema, this is my first thought. Black Lipstick on a sunday morning Sipping on balck cherry mimosa topped with mint. She looked beautiful. Her milinated, being sun kissed by my eyes. You're catching me on a good day, a scab goes blacker as the healing process is maturing, regenerating perhaps. So I feel extra extra black today. I grabbed my first thought from the ether of blackness, where black matter holds the universe. I was thinking about blackness and how significant

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01:08

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought #12 - I CAN HELP

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/30

This is DM, and we’re at number twelve. I used to work at a nursing home, at the reception desk. As a result, I was often the first point of contact for families visiting residents. This one guy would visit his mother about three times a week. He was nice enough, but never chatty. One night he comes in, heads my way, leans over my desk with urgency in his eyes, and says, “I can help.” I ask him, “Help with what?” He says, “Your problem. With your hair.” I say nothing, he goes on. “What you

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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought #11 - HAN SHOT...

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/30

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my eleventh thought. I recently got into a thing with a collaborator about whether Han shot first. Not really about if he did or not, but about whether it matters if he did or not, and whether that is a thing worth saying. It matters, I assure you. If you’re a nerd, ten times more. But if you’re outside the culture, you might not see why. And if I try to explain it to you I inevitably bring more niche terms into the conversation that move you

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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought #10 - #10 RED BOOTS

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/30

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my tenth thought. I have these red boots. I love them. As soon as I saw them I knew my life would change if I could only have them. Then I got those boots. I love them. And I almost never wear them. They are those things that are so special, too special, no occasion is ever special enough for me to unsheathe their majesty. They’re not gonna get muddy or wet or worn shiny on that one toe I like to rub against the back of my calf. You can

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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought #14 - Never Not...

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/30

#14 NEVER NOT TRYING This is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard with my fourteenth and final thought. I am trying my best. I have grown so much and changed not at all. There is a small part of me that is untouched by injustice and cynicism. A part of me still open to criticism. There is still a portion not smudged with distortion. A part undiscouraged by not-yet-but-nearly. That prays just in case God hears me. There is still some unreasonable faith that people of purpose can drive out the snakes.

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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought 13 - JUST VISITING

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/29

#13 JUST VISITING This is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard. This is thought number thirteen. I never want to be a tourist A person who observes the external from a distance that they are at pains to retain because the view down the bridge of the nose is quite pleasing. Everything is quaint. Your time in another person’s life is like a dream if you don’t look past the seams that are sewn to contain what is shown to you. If you only get and take and enrich yourself with experience. I prefer to be a

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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought #9 - STRONGER

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/17

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my ninth thought. You are not stronger thanks to your trauma. Don’t fall for that. Maybe your strength got you through it, but that was yours. Maybe you grew through it, but that was you. You don’t need to thank your trauma, you deserved to live without it, to be strong without it, to grow without it. I’m not trying to diminish your struggle. I just want to give credit where it’s due. Check it out. You survived. You did that. You made

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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought 8 - PRETTY

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/16

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my eighth thought. I rarely use the word “pretty” without irony. It’s like “nice.” Essentially positive but so banal as to be back-handed. Lately I think it’s curve-related: The air is so thick with hyperbole that if you’re pretty, you’re several levels below drop-dead gorgeous – so attractive that you could literally end someone’s life, aesthetically. And we don’t even know what the top of that scale is yet, but pretty ain’t it. We’ve gone so

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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought #7 - FIND JOY,TOO

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/15

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my seventh thought. whenever Desmond Cole shares photos of flowers, I smile. I can’t read more than a chapter of “The Skin I’m In”, not in one sitting, without hitting a nerve and needing a breath before reading the next. thinking this substantial text holds just a fraction of the actions undertaken to receive the story, and to convey it. I am stilled by a portion of what he relates, a small shard of what he has heard, stilled, though

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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought #6 - WORTHY

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2020/09/10

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my sixth thought. I want to be worthy in whatever service I’m able. But worthy’s a short swerve away from “of use” Opposite of refuse, perilously close to productive, which is nothing like worthy, as a word, and useless to it as a companion concept. Worth is more like work – no, that’s a trap. It’s more like value, or values, in my calculus. I am neither parts nor a sum but a thrumming existence resistant to quantification, however benevolent. I’m

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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought #5 - You Are Enough

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/09

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my fifth thought. It’s for you. You are enough. No bells, no whistles, just you. It’s enough. Not because you’re better than you used to be not because you’re as good as someone else. Forget that. Just be with yourself, out of context. Don’t measure up. Don’t measure anything. That’s uncomfortable cuz if your value is not tied to your accomplishments, your intelligence, your earnings, your status, your face, your birthplace or your family name,

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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard Thought #4 Collateral Animals

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/08

When I was a young Catholic schoolgirl, I thought Jeanne d’arc was the most badass. wearing pants, hearing god, sitting up on a horse, riding into battle, on fire, for some reason. She seemed to be on fire. At some point it occurred to me that never in history, not once, not ever, has a horse asked to be ridden headfirst into a rain of arrows or a wall of spears. Anyhow, today what I think is that if PETA really wants my attention, they should get to work liberating every police dog who never

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01:34

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought #3 - HOW LONG IS...

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/03

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my third thought. Today a friend invited me to go for a walk. That’s nice. Having a friend, them wanting to see you, wanting to see them, saying yes. I can dig it. She says two o’clock at the entrance to the park and i say yes. I’ve never been to the park. I don’t know where the park is. instead of looking up where the park is, i look up who it’s named after to see how i feel about being there, and then i go. now, had i looked at a map i

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01:30

Donna-Michelle St Bernard - Thought #2 -...

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/02

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my second thought. Last night I dreamt of my brothers, both runners. We all were. That was a thing to do, in my family. A thing to be excellent at. Running. One thing I picked up off of them was the trick of training in water. Conditioning. Getting into a pool knee or waist or shoulders deep, running across its width as hard as possible, back and forth. For runners, accustomed to and striving for speed, it’s frustrating. the water pushing

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01:28

Donna-Michelle St Bernard - Thought # 1 - First...

Thought Residencies ·

2020/09/01

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my first thought. Ever. This is the very first thought that I have ever had. I mean, obviously I’ve had thoughts before but I was asked to introduce myself in that way – this is my first thought – and I’m not a liar so I threw away everything that I ever knew before and I thought to myself, “well if it was true before and I knew it before, then it is true still and I will surely come to know it again” They say that the joy is in the learning

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