The Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR/ACRT) and the Société québécoise d’études théâtrales (SQET) will be holding the fourth act of their conference Crisis and Recovery: Theatre and Performance Before and After the Global Pandemic on 22 and 23 October 2021. Please visit  Theatreagora.ca to catch programming that was postponed this summer. If you registered for the summer conference, you will be automatically pre-registered for the 4th act, and you can use the same username and password to join the sessions.

Highlights will include a Long Table hosted by the CATR Committee on Conduct called Curating Safer Spaces & Devising Protocols That Welcome: New House-Rules in the Domain of Story, a panel on diversity and performance curated by Deneh’Cho Thompson, and the launch of the new issue of Percées: Explorations en arts vivants, the new iteration of L’Annuaire Théâtral, published by the SQET. There will also be social events on the Kumospace page and an announcement of the winners of this year’s CATR Grants, the Lawrence Prize and Scholarship, and the McLauchlin Fellowship.