The Creatus Project
In association with CSARN, PAL Vancouver, PHT Creative HUB, & Western Gold Theatre
Intergenerational
New Writing & Creation Lab.
Jane Heyman, theatre maker (Vancouver, 2021)
“It was a joy to be in a deliberately intergenerational creative space. I loved meeting everyone, learning from and building on each other’s ideas.”
– Hannah Siden, theatre & film maker
May – June, 2023
PAL Studio Theatre &
UBC Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
(Vancouver, Canada)
With an intergenerational team of Vncouver artists, this labratory examined the role of the playwright in access for elder artists and audiences and pathways to intergrate access into the generation of new writing and new creation.
Creative Research Team: Jane Heyman, Allan Morgan, Andrea Rabinovitch, Hannah Siden, & Sabrina Vellani | Conceived of by Dr. Julia Henderson and Jack Paterson
We gratefully acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts.
Andrea Rabinovitch
Dance & Theatre Maker
Andrea (she, her) has worked in the arts either creatively or on the business side for her entire working life. Her performing career was as a dancer, mostly a modern dancer with some commercial work, after graduation from Grant MacEwan University. An original dancer with the Brian Webb Dance Company, she is the co-founder of Mile Zero Dance, an Edmonton-based company that still exists. She has worked in different post secondary institutions in dance and theatre departments as a Movement/Dance Instructor: Grant MacEwan University; University of Alberta, BFA and BA; Canadian College of Performing Arts; Studio 58; and UBC Theatre and Film and performed in Modern and an African dance company in New York City back in the day. She has artistic directed and/or managed Dance Alberta and Mascall Dance, started a dance school on Salt Spring Island and worked at Arts Umbrella teaching children; and been Marketing and Communications at UBC Theatre and Film. Her artistic work has usually included dance/movement and text which segued into a writing practice, mostly personal narrative essays. Having choreographed many a musical, she has directed and been part of various devised presentations and has been thrilled to be part of the Creatus Project. She would like to see The Creatus Project continue.
Hannah Siden
Film & Theatre Maker
Hannah (she/ her) is a writer, director, producer and actor. She assistant directed alongside Jack Paterson on The Ballad of Georges Boivin (Western Gold) and Haven (United Players), and has taken part in recent Active Access Design Workshops. Her screenplays have placed in competitions through the BBC Writer’s Room and HollyShorts Film Festival. As a director she created a music video in association with Ballet BC and her narrative short films have screened at numerous festivals. She has produced two short documentaries. She has an MA in Acting from East 15 Acting School and a postgraduate diploma from the London Film Academy.
Sabrina Vellani
Writer & Actor
Sabrina Vellani (she/ her) is an actress & writer from the lower mainland. She has acted in productions such as Western Gold Theatre’s 90 Days (Directed by Melissa Oei), Killjoy Theatre’s Burqa Boutique (directed by Gavan Cheema & Jamie King), Five Cedar Film’s Short Film, Speak (directed by Shaheed Devji), and the Jessie Award nominated production, All My Friends Are Animals (Babelle Theatre & Axis Theatre: Directed by Marie Farsi). Sabrina has also written for various literary magazines such as The Malahat Review, The New York Quarterly, Filling Station Magazine and PRISM International.
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