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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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Jessica Watkin - Thought #8 - Craving Nature

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2020/04/16

I’m Jessica Watkin and this is my eighth thought. I’m craving nature. I’m craving putting my bare feet in the sand and dirt, water, grass. I’m really craving tulips because it's springtime. But I can’t find any that are cheap enough and support a local business. So instead, I’ve done actually the first creative thing in a while and I’ve cut out small shapes of tulip bulbs, tulip heads that have sprouted and bloomed. And I’m trying to find ways to integrate them into the indoors. You’re looking at a

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Jessica Watkin - Thought #7 - Insight

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2020/04/15

I’m Jessica Watkin and this is my seventh thought. This pandemic has brought me two insights about myself: The first is a newfound grounding in my role as a “good” facilitator. It turns out I'm trusted in the community to hold space for artists, prod, poke, and ask questions, and use the answers creatively to find solutions. This is also how I define dramaturgy, so that’s good. The second thing is that I cannot make art from my own home. Or maybe I’m too quick to make that decision, or I haven’t

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Jessica Watkin - Thought #6 - Weather

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2020/04/14

I’m Jessica Watkin and this is my sixth thought. I’m outside and it's damp and it's warm. Could that be how the whole world feels right now? I’ve been thinking about intuition, ritual, routine. How do we as a species find our own individual rhythms to carry out our lives? How much do we cling to these mundane rituals when the earth shakes beneath our feet? A dear colleague of mine uses terms from the weather to report on how they are feeling. Right now I feel like the calm before a storm, I’ve been

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Jessica Watkin - Thought #5 - Disability Dramaturgy

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2020/04/09

I'm Jessica Watkin and this is my fifth thought. And I'm having a hard time arranging my thoughts today. So I am going to talk towards a definition of what Disability Dramaturgy is... because that’s my thing. While I work with a fellow Disabled artist we focus on safety, energy, support. We normalize cancelled plans, build flexibility into our schedules, and meet virtually. We talk out our aggressions about ableism and injustice and everything else. We ensure we each have what we need. We find ways

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Jessica Watkin - Thought #4 - Keeping Time

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2020/04/08

I'm Jessica Watkin and this is my fourth thought. It occurred to me today while practicing yoga that I am so comforted during activities that take care of watching the time for me. Where it isn't my responsibility to watch the minutes tick by but I am supposed to just... be present. This is yoga classes. This is theatre performances. This is therapy and online meetings I am not chairing. If someone else takes care of keeping time for me I am easily engaged. Time has worked so strangely for me

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Jessica Watkin - Thought #3 - Tactile Art

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2020/04/07

I’m Jessica Watkin and this is my third thought. I made a rug last year for the first time, I hooked it, and I made it nonvisual and tactile. And I’ve been thinking about the future of tactile art: pieces that encourage and invite touch, post-pandemic. Will we consider each other differently? The proximity? The closeness? Or will we be finding a new way to touch, to connect in a newly normal way? I am finding a little bit of peace in that uncertainty; that there may be a new normal at all.

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Jessica Watkin - Thought #2 - Care

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2020/04/02

I’m Jessica Watkin and this is my second thought. I’ve been thinking a lot about care, and how to actually take care of one another. I think this situation with Coronavirus has made me think even more, if that is possible, about how we have built the structures around us to take care of each other. And I’m stuck on this idea of carefull- not careful as in, “ooh I’ve got to be careful I don’t wake Dad”, or tiptoeing around, or trying to make something safe- I mean carefull as in full of care (with

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Jessica Watkin - Thought #1 - Disability Teachings

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2020/04/01

I’m Jessica Watkin and this is my first thought. This is a weird and hard time for artists, and everyone, but I am hearing about hope popping up around me. The sky can still be blue after it opens with rain. People have started to listen and find ways to creatively support one another from isolation. As a Disabled artist and scholar I have had to creatively find support… theatre and academia are inaccessible spaces. We have been offered an opportunity to navigate the world a little differently, and

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Eva Barrie - Thought #13 - Precarity

Thought Residencies ·

2020/03/31

It’s Eva. This is thought number [thirteen]. I read this thing on facebook today that got me a bit frustrated. It was a post saying how versatile artists are, and how they’re used to having multiple jobs and hustling to make ends meet, especially in challenging times. And the thought behind this was very well-intentioned and I believe it’s true as well, but what frustrates me is the romanticization of that. Because we’re forced to do that hustle, because often being an artist is undervalued and not

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Eva Barrie - Thought #12 - Exploding

Thought Residencies ·

2020/03/26

It’s Eva. This is thought twelve. Today I was reading a play that I’ve been writing for the last year or so and I found it hard to hook into because I’m so consumed with the immediate moment. And I had to clock for myself that inside of this crisis my humanity is still existent. I’m still grappling with the same problems on top of this. So for me my desire is to not let this crisis consume me, and the art that I make, but how can it explode it? How can my plays not necessarily be about COVID, but

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Eva Barrie - Thought #11 - Parents

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2020/03/25

It’s Eva. This is thought eleven and it’s about the coolest fucking people in the world, and those are my parents. They’re across the country right now and they’re both in their like, mid-late seventies and my dad, he came to Canada in the seventies and worked as an engineer, and then after he retired he started writing stories and self-publishing them, and then recently self-published this memoir called The Road From Mandalay which is all about how his family came from Burma and then moved to India

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Eva Barrie - Thought #10 - Strangers

Thought Residencies ·

2020/03/24

It’s Eva Barrie. This is thought number ten. I miss tapping someone on the shoulder when they’ve dropped something. I miss two-handed handshakes that feel really strong, but caring at the same time And High-fives that went embarrassingly wrong, and the more embarrassing decision to try the High-Five again. Grabbing your friends hand out of excitement Or out of compassion. The awkward and subtle “whoops sorry” when you brush someone’s hand against yours in the subway. Stifling a laugh when a kid

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Eva Barrie - Thought #9 - Libraries

Thought Residencies ·

2020/03/19

It’s Eva. Thought…9? I think. And I’m longing for libraries. One of my favourite libraries is the Calgary Public Library. It’s beautiful! It’s architecturally stunning and one of the reasons I love it so much is that they have all this programming and don’t quote me on this, but I’m pretty certain, they have child-minding programs for parents who are taking adult learning classes there. Which I think is really inspiring and wonderful. There’s also a mix of ages, which I think is way too rare. And

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Eva Barrie - Thought #8 - Uncertainty

Thought Residencies ·

2020/03/18

It’s Eva. Thought Eight. I’m thinking about Uncertainty. We do a lot to feel certain, and we feel good when we feel certain - like we’ve succeeded, or we’ve done something right, really right. And now, a lot of us are looking at our calendars and seeing a lot of question marks where there used to be periods. I’ve been doing the emotional rollercoaster of that, and right now, on my rollercoaster ride, I’m trying to remind myself that uncertainty, the unknown, can bring about anything. Anything is

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Eva Barrie - Thought #7 - Good Things

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2020/03/17

Eva. Thought seven, with a flurry of good things. Good thing number one: I once met a dog that if you said SPEAK it would bark, but if you said WHISPER it would bark softly. Good thing two:The book the Red Tent by Anita Diamant. It’s so good. It just makes me want to have my period and live in a yurt. Good thing number three: My family gave me a personalized puzzle last year, and I finally got around to it, and I think it’s my childhood dog Molly. Good thing four: Molly! Good thing five: People

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Eva Barrie - Thought #6 - Kids

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2020/03/12

[sounds of children yelling and playing] It's Eva. Thought five. I’m currently sitting outside of a little…I wanna say they’re three-five [years old]…and it’s a ballet class where they’re currently throwing soccer balls at each other. So I’m thinking about imagination, I’m thinking about how we foster fun and creativity and recklessness into young people. I’m thinking about how this is probably thought six and I said thought five. And I’m thinking about how kids sometimes have the most fun when

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Eva Barrie - Thought #5 - Coronavirus & Capitalism

Thought Residencies ·

2020/03/11

It’s Eva, thought five. I’m thinking about the coronavirus and capitalism, and - yep, here it is, here’s my socialist rant - and how we’re asking people to stay home and not work, but living in a society that judges someone’s worth in the society by their working non-stop. I’m thinking about how staying home, staying isolated, is a privilege. I’m thinking about how these moments award “fend for yourself” behaviour: like the more toilet paper you have, that means that you…that is a direct correlation

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Eva Barrie - Thought #4 - Learning

Thought Residencies ·

2020/03/10

It’s Eva. This is my fourth thought. The other day on Facebook I saw a photo of a kid, who’s the kid of one of the very first directors who invited me to assist them (so she’s like 7 or 8 or so now). And what’s really exciting is that I can track the length of my career by this child’s life. And in essence, we’re growing together. She’s gone from being cooked inside her mama, to learning things about the world. And nowadays she’s learning math, and how to make friends, and meanwhile, I’m asking

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Eva Barrie - Thought #3 - Van Gogh

Thought Residencies ·

2020/03/05

Hey it’s Eva, and it’s my third thought. On the weekend I got to see the Imagine Van Gogh Exhibit in Montreal which was super cool and it got me thinking a lot about how we love to attach narratives to an artist’s work. It’s really delicious, it’s really satisfying to imagine... and craft these stories around why people created what they created. And I think about it in terms of modern playwriting and directing and how we really want to define a person by their work, or like a solo piece of work

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Eva Barrie - Thought #2 - Mistakes

Thought Residencies ·

2020/03/04

It’s Eva Barrie, this is my second thought. I’m thinking about mistakes; I’m thinking about failure. I’m curious about the difference between the two. I feel like sometimes when I make a mistake, or when I feel like I’ve failed, I stop. And I don’t know how to move forward, and I feel really paralysed. And I feel a deep shame, often, and think about some of the people that I idolize or I put on pedestals, and I think “oh, they would never be so stupid as to do what I’ve just done.” And what a kind

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