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Cultural Workshop | Mas/s Reparations w/ Marvin George (Closed)

Host: Kieron Dwayne Sargeant Dance Foundation TT

Presents: Dancing Caribbean Histographies, Ethnographies and Choreographies:

Discipline: Acting/Theatre/ Stagecraft

Skill Level: Intermediate-Advanced

Description: Zoom Lecture Demonstrative Series 5 – Mas/s Reparations:

What is the shape of that hurt, that could make a people, en masse,  find themselves in the road amidst a war against a virus, which has already taken the lives of so many, globally? Between police brutality, the pandemic, and protest, the logic is “Mooma! Mooma! Yuh son in the grave already! …”, and all ah we, “out in de road, come out in the road…” The irony and the aim: stay safe and survive.

In offering a cultural and performance studies reading of traditional mas/querade (the quintessential ritual of the road), the lecture aims to locate mas as one of the critical philosophical centers of blackness in/as Caribbean self-definition and liberatory action, for this time – the age of reparations.

Date | Time:  Saturday 14th November, 2020 | 5PM – 7PM [EST]

Location: Online Zoom Session

Facilitator: Marvin George

4332F3DF-6CC7-4A79-ADB4-61C3775CB80C (1)Marvin George is a theatre maker and teaching-artist, currently serving as the Dean of the School of Drama, at Edna Manley College. He’s a Commonwealth Scholar committed to interrogating traditional Caribbean cultural forms and their applications to performance making, education, and development. As actor, he has worked under the direction of Nobel Laureate Sir Derek Walcott and his mentor, playwright-director, Rawle Gibbons, among others.

As a director, he has created award winning work in his native Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean, and the UK. He has more than 20 years experience in the field of applied drama, which includes his tenure as Artistic Director of Arts-in-Action, a Caribbean leader in applied theatre, and winner of the prestigious University of the West Indies Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence. He remains a director at Caribbean Yard Campus, a regional network of Caribbean traditional knowledge centres, and Jouvay Ayiti, a traditional mas/querade in creative education programme.

At the School of Drama, Marvin has taught on a number of the core BFA/AA studio and theory courses, and continues to teach on the compulsory BA and BFA course titled, ‘Caribbean Culture in Performance’. Prior to his work at Edna Manley College, Marvin also served as adjunct faculty at his alma mater, The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine (Department of Creative and Festival Arts), from which  holds a BA (First Class Honours) in Theatre Arts. He also possesses an MA in Theatre and Development Studies from the University of Leeds, and is currently working on a practice lead research project titled, ‘making mas with development; making development with mas’, which forms part of his PhD in Cultural Studies

Cost: 

  • $40 TTD / $5 USD – Trinidad & Tobago Participants
  • $5 USD – Caribbean Participants
  • $7 USD – International College Students
  •  $10 USD – International Participants

Key Dates:

  • Registration Begins: 28th October 2020 | 1PM [EST]
  • Registration Ends: 14th  November 2020 | 2PM [EST]

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Workshop details submitted by: Kieron Sargeant

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