UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

School of Creative and Performing Arts – Drama Coordinators: Scott Reid & April Viczko

Conduct

A devised creation based on the book The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell by Jeremy S. Brown

Set & Costume Design by Bianca Manuel, MFA Candidate, Design/Technical

TheatreLighting Design by Adam Kostiuk, Undergraduate

Projection Design by Beth Kates, MFA Candidate, Theatre Studies

Sound Design by Laurie Radford, Graduate Program Director–Music & Melike Ceylan, PhD. Candidate, Sonic Arts

Directed by Bruce Barton, Director of the School of Creative and Performing Arts

Shelter Exhibition 1 & 2: created by undergraduate students in Drama 313 Scenography I: Wesley Hunt, Brenna Phipps, Veronica Rawnsley, and Jacob Sunderland. Supervised by Scott Reid and April Viczko.

The second year students were lead through a creation process that allowed them to explore their own personal meaning of place, indigenous and settler, and the meaning of shelter. The piece culminates as a representation of a past and present intertwined yet distinct. The infinity symbol is used by the Métis Nation of Canada as symbol of a culture that will live forever and as a visual representation of the unification of Indigenous and European peoples. This symbol served as a launching point for discussion between Métis students and those of Settler culture. The result is a 3D collage that takes to heart the importance of place and the notion of Calgary as Mohkinstis: the Blackfoot name for Calgary, meaning elbow in reference to the Elbow River.

3: created by Melike Ceylan and Claire Renee Mikalauskas

These two graduate students in Computational Media Design and Sonic Arts worked on a shortened timeline to create what they hope will be a moment for the audience to reflect upon and share their own meaning of shelter.