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Designer Ben Chaisson with son Aaron in rehearsal I don't have any kids. Yet. Hopefully I will one day. Other friends have opted not to....

While at the school it is easy to focus on our individual experiences determined by our specific program demands, I think it is essential that we bear witness to our parallel artistic development and how they differ from program to program. After all once we move past these walls we will inevitably meet again so why not start getting to know each other as best we can now?

Theatre of the citizen is not simply political theatre. It is deeply personal.

"There is a power in having different perspectives in our artistic voices. Because there is a great tension between ideas that also tells a story. There doesn't have to be terms of agreement, or a fight to prove that one's voice is more important or more 'right' than another. "

Welcome to the first edition of #CdnCult Times to be guest-curated. As part of SpiderWebShow's role presenting the 'From Where I Stand' forum on Canadian Theatre at...

It seems a good time to reflect on recent innovations (and devolutions) and take stock of what the deal is with social design at this moment. Hopefully I will write something of this nature each year for as long as I teach the class. I am only going to get older and more naturally out-of-touch with youth-inspired innovation. This seems a good way to force myself be on the ball with current trends and best practices.

When I look back I know that SpiderWebShow was born of a hunch. I had a sense that there might be a way to gather and collate the disparate strands and to allow meaning to form as a result. I had a feeling that we might be able to tell a story in a new way and to allow that story the space to have ever changing narratives. I wanted to move forward and backwards through the story and to look to its left and its right. Ultimately I hoped we would be able to expose all the story making elements.

The original goal of the SWS was to build a "National Theatre" that made sense for the Internet age. Reading the original proposal, I felt that it was going to be actually very difficult to separate the project's artistic goals from their technical realization. Which is why I kind of asserted myself a bit more and said that not only was I going to write some code, but I had to have some sort of advisory role, helping the creators see the technical limits, but also the technical possibilities.

The first edition of this volume, brings together a number of concepts we have been exploring since our launch one year ago that can all...

I am not an expert in Constitutional matters, heck I never even wrote the LSATs, but it seems to this layperson that he has stumbled upon a Constitutional sweet-spot. That place where meaningful change can take place without long drawn out talks that bring out the existential worst in us as we question the very nature of our own Confederation.