Workshop: Research Methodologies and Performance | Peek Fest 2024

About the workshop:

This workshop will explore various frameworks in researching narratives based in non-fiction or “auto-fictography”. In the first part of this workshop Kerri will share insight into their deeply researched-based practice, touching on how research informs practice and ethical considerations of research.

The second part of the workshop will feature a series of prompts for the group to work on their own researched-based narratives.

Participants are invited to bring a couple pages of their own research-based material (source or original) that they wish to use to generate a performance narrative. Participants will be invited to share work generated in the workshop exercises. This workshop is based on a neurodivergent creative process and way of making, but is open to all artists and creators.

Please Note: This workshop is a masked event unless you are physically unable to do so.

Things to bring:

• A writing surface and utensil
• A device able to access the internet (ex. phone, laptop)
• Source material: some work tor research hat you'd like to develop further
• Water bottle

About the facilitator:

Kerri Flannigan is a interdisciplinary artist, performer, and educator currently based on Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ Territories (Victoria, BC), who experiments with methods of research and storytelling through drawing, video, and performance. With a background as an experimental animator and zine-maker, Flannigan is interested in investigating different ways of creating and performing narratives, working to create a framework through which the personal is critically connected to a wider sphere of context. Family mythologies, coming-of-age confessions, queer experiences of place, fire, and swimming have all been subjects of recent works.

Flannigan has shown locally and internationally, receiving funding from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2023, and the BC Arts Council in 2022, and was an inaugural OUTstages resident in 2020/2021. Flannigan is currently developing two projection-based performances, Slow Dive and Wild Flame.

Accessibility

Intrepid Studio (1609 Blanshard St #2)

Intrepid Studio has level access to the building with a slight lip to go over when passing through the door. It also has two single user, all gender washrooms, one of which is wheelchair accessible. The lobby is fully wheelchair accessible. The stage is on one level and is wheelchair accessible.

More details about the venue are available here: https://intrepidtheatre.com/venues/intrepid-theatre-club/itc-accessibility/​

Parking & Transit:There is a small, free parking lot in front of Intrepid.Some of the BC transit bus routes that run near Intrepid Theatre are:#6 along Quadra St, #2, 27 & 28 along Pandora Ave, #4, 11, 30, 31, 50, 70, and others along Douglas St.

For more information about accessibility, please visit: www.impulsetheatre.ca/accessibility

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Workshop Access Program

Impulse Theatre, and Peek Fest, seeks to create an anti-oppressive and queer-positive space for artists within the community.​ Impulse Theatre is pleased to offer up to 2 paid ($40) spots to arts workers who identify as queer, trans, non-binary, Indigenous, Black, a person of colour, neurodivergent, d/Deaf and/or disabled. Participants are limited to 2 workshops each.

Intake is on a first-come; first served basis until all spots are filled.

Find more info and apply here: www.impulsetheatre.ca/workshops

Acknowledgements

Presented with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of BC, the BC Arts Council, the Victoria Foundation, and the CRD.

Sponsors include Westcoast Academy of Performing Arts and Braem Accountancy Ltd.

Impulse Theatre lives and creates on the traditional and unceded territory of the Lekwungen Peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.

Host or Publisher Impulse Theatre