Cause or Consequence

Run: October 15, 2018, Concordia University

Panelists: James Oscar (Cinema), Floyd Favel (Indigenous playwright), Rahul Varma (Playwright, artistic director), Xavier Huard (Actor, Member of Menuentakuan Theatre) and Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro( Canada Research Chair in Oral History Performance, Associate Professor Concordia University).

Moderator: Deborah Forde (Theatre director and community activist).

Teesri Duniya Theatre and cosponsor the Theatre Department of Concordia University assembled a panel of experts to discuss causes and consequences of cultural appropriation that forced the cancellation of Quebec’s iconic director Mr. Robert Lepage shows: SLĀV, Theatrical Odyssey Based on Slave Songs; and KANATA, a show exploring Canada's relationship with Indigenous people without Indigenous artists.