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  • May 6, 2022

    Using RbT with D/deaf and hearing teachers

    Simangele Mabena will share a work-in-progress based on the exploration of D/deaf and hearing teachers’ roles and pedagogy in teaching South African Sign Language using RbT, while navigating her role as a researcher. Session Chair: Susan Cox.

  • January 7, 2020

    My Home is a Suitcase

    My Home is a Suitcase is a Research-based Theatre performance created in collaboration with newcomers to Canada telling their stories of immigration. Theatre artist Rzgar Hama, in partnership with UBC Research-Based Theatre Collaborative and Sky Theatre Group, launched the My…

  • Rock the Boat Poster
    November 8, 2019

    Rock The Boat

    Don’t Rock the Boat began as a live theatre workshop focusing on wellbeing issues that arise within the context of graduate student supervisory relationships. In early 2020, we began a new phase of the work that involved a brand new script that brought greater emphasis to issues of equity,…

  • March 14, 2019

    Dark Secrets

    Dark Secrets is part of a research project being led by the UBC School of Social Work that focuses on student to student abuse in Canada's Residential School System.  The play shares acts of kindness and acts of resistance associated with the collected narratives of Residential School…

  • March 8, 2019

    Unload

    “We all have things we need to unload,” says a military veteran in this 30-minute play portraying a powerful bond between two men who have respectively faced personal loss. When an actor asks his veteran friend to help him prepare to audition for the role of a solider, they embark…

  • March 8, 2019

    Treading Water

    For the past decade RES’EAU-WaterNET and its partners have been engaging with a number of rural and Indigenous communities across Canada to address water challenges.  Treading Water is an innovative play that brings to life some of the rich stories discovered during these community…

  • A person acts out a skit, their mouth in a roar and their hands raised
    March 8, 2019

    Alone in the Ring

    “The amazing courage of performing and voicing stories of vulnerability.” “How powerful theatre is!” “Stories open up worlds.” Audience reactions to premiere on October 26, 2018 Healthcare students and clinicians with disabilities face unique challenges. A team of researchers,…


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