Introducing the Thought Residencies Class of 2023

Lisa Karen Cox, Tianna Edwards, and Shayna Jones | If you don't tap into yourself, how do you know what you need?

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 spiderwebshow.ca/if-you-dont-tap-in [https://spiderwebshow.ca/if-you-dont-tap-in/]

Sébastien Heins | It's a Sebaissance!

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/ [https://spiderwebshow.ca/?p=7946&preview=true] ‎

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

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 transcript of the episode, visit spiderwebshow.ca/if-youre-a-dancer-dance [https://spiderwebshow.ca/if-youre-a-dancer-dance]

Dr. Pratim Sengupta | Code has to be about love

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 spiderwebshow.ca/code-has-to-be-about-love [https://spiderwebshow.ca/?p=7930&preview=true].  *There is slight background noise throughout by way of microphone feedback and an infant doing what infants do.  **Adrienne Wong and Xianzhi Jason Li facilitated the workshop 'Artificial Intelligence in Live Performance' that Dr. Sengupta references.

Introducing the Thought Residencies Class of 2023

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 Thinker-In-Residence); Owais Lightwala (Assistant Professor in the Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University, co-creator of Manifesto for Now); and Thought Residency founder Sarah Garton Stanley (VP of Programming at Arts Commons, co-creator of Manifesto for Now).