Author: Playwrights' Workshop Montréal

Now accepting applications for our next training session with Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

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Dates: May 17-20, 2018
Time: 6PM – 7:30PM 17th, 10-6 PM 18th-19th, 10-2 PM 20th
Location: Monument-National
Fee: $45 (Fee is not a barrier to anyone who might be interested/eligible)

A story is a world; a storyteller is a world maker. Your politic is unavoidably in the work, and yet a play is not a polemic. Explore ways to center your story without sidelining your values. Underpin artistic incursions into social justice through inclusive practice and thoughtful process. Consider intentional displacement, diverse cosmologies, universality through specificity, coding for class, introduced vocabularies.

Application guideline: To apply for this training, please submit a bio and CV, and a short (1-2 paragraph) statement explaining why this subject interest you, or how anti-oppression work has informed your practice.
Please send applications to emma@playwrights.ca
Subject line: Exploring practice with Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Application deadline: April 30, 2018

Note: This Exploring Practice is being offered in tandem with the MontreALL Diverse City Commons. Workshop participants will attend the Commons as appropriate.

Instructor:

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is an emcee, playwright and agitator. Notable works for the stage include Sound of the Beast, Cake, They Say He Fell, A Man A Fish, The House You Build, Dark Love, The First Stone, Roominhouse, Salome’s Clothes, and Gas Girls. Donna-Michelle’s work has been recognized with a SATAward nomination, the Herman Voaden Playwriting Award, the Enbridge playRites Award, a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, and nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Siminovitch Prize and the KM Hunter Award. Donna-Michelle is Artistic Director of New Harlem Productions, Coordinator of the ADHOC Assembly, playwright in residence at lemonTree creations and emcee in residence at Theatre Passe Muraille.

Training made possible by

Lire l’article en français : Le concours de la Fondation Cole pour les traducteurs émergents

Since its inception in 2013, the Cole Foundation Mentorship for Emerging Translators (formerly Cole Competition for Emerging Translators) has been mentoring the next generation of translators from French to English. PWM, with the expert guidance of acclaimed translator Maureen Labonté and in partnership with the Cole Foundation has built a program that mentors emerging translators through every stage of the translation process. The competition awards the selected translators a $1000 honorarium and an eight month mentorship with Maureen Labonté. This program has ushered in an exciting ongoing discussion on the challenges and rewards of translating work for the stage.

In 2017 two projects were selected: Translator John Jack Paterson has been working on well-known Quebec playwright, Daniel Danis’ TYA play (12 and up), Kiwi. There will be a reading on March 29th at 7PM in PWM’s Studio and in Vancouver in June 2018. Translator Jennie Herbin is working on Catherine Chabot’s Table rase which was a huge hit here in Montreal and on tour. There is an English production in the works for 2018.

Playwright and librettist, Alexis Diamond, was the first winner of the Cole competition for Emerging Translators in 2013. She translated Marie-Claude Verdier’s Je n’y suis plus. I’m Not Here was selected to be part of the 2016 SummerWorks Performance Festival in Toronto, the Voilà Festival in the United Kingdom and had a run here in Montreal at Salle Fred-Barry. Alexis has gone on to translate Pascal Bruellmans, TYA play Vipérine / Amaryllis, Pascale St-Onge‘s play, Tarmac, for the National Theatre School and has contributed to translations for Cirque du Soleil’s latest touring show written by Olivier Kemeid among others.

Well-known Montreal theatre artist, Johanna Nutter, was awarded the 2014 Cole Prize. She translated Chlore, by Nicolas Michon and Florence Longpré. The translation, Chlorine, was produced by Johanna’s theatre company, creature/creature, at Centaur Theatre in October 2016 as part of Centaur’s Brave New Look series. Johanna Nutter has recently been chosen to be part of the new CEAD-PWM Formation en traduction program. She will be working on texts by Guillaume Corbeil and Annick Lefebvre.

The Baklawa Recipe by Pascale Rafie directed by PWM Artistic Director, Emma Tibaldo, premiered at the Centaur Theatre in January 2018. It was translated by Melissa Bull, the recipient of the 2015 Cole Foundation Competition for Emerging Translators. Melissa is a writer, poet and editor. She has translated prose work by Fanny Arcand, Kim Thuy and Marie-Sissi Labrèche. Her first novel will be published this spring at Anvil press. She is already working on her second translation for the stage, the award-winning Québécois play, J’accuse by Annick Lefebvre.

Jordan Arsenault was the 2016 recipient of the Cole Foundation Prize. He translated Eric Noel’s Faire des enfants. His translation, River Bed, was given a public reading at Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal in November 2017. There has been interest in the play from theatres in Toronto. Jordan is doing a Masters in Translation at McGill University.