Community Conversation - Call for Participants

April 15 & 16, 5pm-9pm PST

participant honorarium: $100/day

dinner provided on both days

curated by Fay Nass

facilitated by Fay Nass & JD Derbyshire

Calling non-binary folks, trans men, Two Spirit people, and queer women (trans, cis, lesbian, bi+, ace spectrum, butch) who identify with masculinity! The frank theatre is seeking participants for the first phase of our new community creation project, Masculinity Reclaimed. Phase 1 is a community conversation on April 15 & 16, 2024. No professional artistic experience is required.
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How to Apply

Deadline to submit: March 17, 2024 at midnight PST.

To apply, please send a short email (Max 400 words) to fay@thefranktheatre.com and CC anais@thefranktheatre.com, with the subject line: Masculinity Reclaimed Conversation Submission.

Please include the following in your email:

• An introduction to who you are (this could include your cultural background, your age, your profession, what communities you are part of, or anything else that you would like to share)

• A description of your relationship to queerness & masculinity

• What interests you about this topic, and what you hope to gain from these conversations

• Your availability for both days and times*

*Please note that we are seeking participants based on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples (Metro Vancouver), as this phase will be in person.

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Background

Masculinity Reclaimed is the frank’s upcoming Community Creations project. In this program, we gather a cohort of community members who have a specific lived experience and together, collectively create a theatrical project. The program’s structure is responsive: each iteration is built off the curiosities of the participants. We work at the pace set by the cohort, favouring skill-sharing and community-building over product, and therefore each project spans multiple years. Previous iterations include Be-Longing, devised by queer immigrants and refugees using verbatim theatre, film and new media.

This cycle will center on masculinity outside of cis manhood, specifically on folks who identify as trans men, trans masculine, queer women (cis & trans), dyke, butch, Two Spirit and non-binary. Curated by Fay Nass and facilitated by Nass and JD Derbyshire, the process will investigate how queer and trans folks have crafted unique masculinities outside of cisnormativity and the cross-generational discourse around masculinity within the queer community. Patriarchy is inextricably linked to white supremacy, colonialism, and queerphobia. Through this program, we seek out new, positive models of masculinity by looking to queer and trans communities.