The Summer Retreat of the SBF/MSMA Research Practice Committee will bring together faculty, students, and early career researchers for hybrid workshops at Brock University’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts in August 2025. Responding to recent and increasingly acute financial instability and political uncertainty across the post-secondary theatre sector,  these workshops will develop and demonstrate emerging “wise practices” (Calliou and Wesley-Esquimaux) in response to the “wicked problem” (Rittel and Webber) of advancing decolonization, antiracism, equity, diversity, inclusion, and access (DC/AR/EDIA) in the current climate.

In the months following this in-person exchange, virtual discussions among Research Practice Committee members facilitated by the project team will support the mobilization of workshop outcomes to post-secondary theatre departments across Canada.

Open to all SBF/MSMA Research Practice and Knowledge Sustainability Committee members.