Unsettling is a response to the new permeability that has emerged within the theatre ecologies of so-called Canada and the United States to Crip and Indigenous ways of making. This colloquium will:

• Provide a space for us to gather with our peers, across geography;

• Deepen our practices through cross-pollination;

• Promote greater leadership from within our communities;

• Amplify Crip and Indigenous aesthetics, ethics and practices that move the conversation from inclusion to centring, from reconciliation to unsettling and decolonization; and

• Offer a critical and unique platform for sharing our work.

This project considers the studio, the stage, and the street as porous and interconnected politicized spaces; spaces impacted by and implicated in the current political climate and historical contexts; spaces where urgent critique, and visionary futures can be imagined, practiced, enacted, and then disseminated to/co-created with a wider public.