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SUMMARY:t3rkko Game Collective Networking Event
DESCRIPTION:On March 19th\, TAG will host a networking event with the  t3rkko game collective. \nFounded in 2021\, t3rkko is a local game collective composed of six developers from diverse professional horizons and backgrounds. \nOver the past five years\, the collective has produced five games and is now preparing to work on their most ambitious project to date: a third-person\, rhythm-based Action-RPG. \nTo bring this vision to life\, t3rkko is partnering with TAG\, as they are currently looking to recruit artists\, programmers\, UI and UX devs who would be willing to join their team. \n March 19\, 2025\n 3- 4:30 PM\nTag Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/t3rkko-game-collective-networking-event/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
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SUMMARY:Video Game Fanfiction Creative Writing Workshop with Lídia Pereira
DESCRIPTION:Videogames create worlds. Often\, those worlds mirror our own\, reproducing certain ideals and values as norm through their narrative\, game play\, design\, etc. This session begins with an invitation to the participants to critically consider those worlds\, identifying the key points and elements through which specific videogames circulate political\, cultural and social values. How do the games we play every day vehiculate ideology? Using this knowledge\, participants are then invited to intervene upon these videogame worlds through the writing\, drawing\, collaging\, etc. of fan fictions\, using the original text to re-construct these worlds or reveal crucial aspects they might be hiding in plain sight. At the end of the session\, participants will have begun to create a narrative with their interventions upon these universes and the results may be as diverse as creative writing\, the generation of new games in the form of text-based adventures\, comics\, mini-graphic novels\, etc. \nABOUT LÍDIA PEREIRA: \nLídia Pereira (PT) studied at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (MA Media Design and Communication) and at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (BA Communication Design). Her practice bridges the fields of graphic design\, art\, digital media and infrastructure\, critical theory\, and publishing. In 2015\, she founded the Pervasive Labour Union zine\, a semi-regular publication in which contributors reflect on topics relating to labour on corporate social networks\, algorithmic governance\, and alternative digital infrastructures. Currently\, she is a PhD candidate at the PhDArts programme\, a collaboration between the Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague\, where she is investigating videogames in the context of art education as a site of struggle against hegemonic discourse. \n  \nRequirements: Please choose a videogame you know well ahead of the session. To participate please send an email to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca with the subject line ‘Fanfiction Creative Writing Workshop.’ \n\n March 18\, 2025\n 4- 7 PM\nTag Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/video-game-fanfiction-creative-writing-workshop-with-lidia-pereira/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Guest Talk: Sara Grimes - Parasocial Gameworlds: Play with Friends\, Influencers\, and AI NPCs.
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on November 19 for a talk on children’s digital play with Sara M. Grimes. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSara M. Grimes is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and a Full Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She is the Director and Founder of the Kids Play Tech Lab\, and Principal Investigator of the SSHRC-funded Children and Age-Appropriate Game Design Project. Her research and teaching are centered in the areas of children’s digital media culture(s) and children’s rights in the digital environment\, with a focus on games. Her award-winning book\, Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces\, Virtual Worlds\, and Connected Games\, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2021. She is currently working on a new book\, Kidfluenced\, under contract with the University of California Press\, about children as creators of digital games\, media and other content. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓November  19\, 2025\n🕒 4:30 PM\n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-talk-sara-grimes-parasocial-gameworlds-play-with-friends-influencers-and-ai-npcs/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:TAG General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for their Annual General Meeting. This is your chance to meet other TAG members\, learn about all of TAG’s happenings this year\, and to make yourself known to the TAG community! \n  \n🗓 October  30\, 2025\n🕒 4-5 PM\n📍TAG LAB EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-general-meeting/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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SUMMARY:An Esoteric TTRPG History With Leonardo Abate\, Michael Iantorno\, and Marc Lajeunesse
DESCRIPTION:Join Leonardo Abate\, Michael Iantorno\, and Marc Lajeunesse for a discussion about tabletop roleplaying games. \nWe’ll look at exciting moments in the development of TTRPGs across time and place. Starting with a general overview of how TTRPGs developed in America\, we’ll venture across the sea to look at the beautiful TTRPG coastline of Italy where in the 80s and 90s small but imaginative subcultures of TTRPG gaming developed independently\, with games that were never translated to English. We’ll also discuss the development of the Open Gaming License and how it spawned subcultures of homebrew practices. \n  \n🗓 October 2\, 2025 \n⏱️ 4 – 5 PM \n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-esoteric-ttrpg-history-with-leonardo-abate-michael-iantorno-and-marc-lajeunesse/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T150000
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SUMMARY:Nostagain Annual-Kick off Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join the Nostagain Network for the 2025-2026 Annual Kick-off Meeting! This event will be a good opportunity to meet the current members\, learn more about nostalgia research and why not get involved in the network’s future projects. This event is hybrid and everyone is welcome students\, alumni\, post docs\, researchers\, artists\, etc. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n🗓 September  15\, 2025\n🕒 3 PM\n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435 \n🔗 RSVP here to get the zoom link
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/nostagain-annual-kick-off-meeting/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250509T163000
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SUMMARY:The Disco Elysium Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on May 9th for a roundtable discussion on Disco Elysium with Dr. Carl Therrien\, Dr. Mia Consalvo\, Nathanaël Roussy\, and Elizabeth Eraña. Dark play\, detective stories\, and the inner reaches and turmoils of the human mind are all on the table for this discussion! Attendees are encouraged to play Disco Elysium ahead of time and are welcome to contribute to the QA/Open Discussion portion of the event following the main roundtable. \n  \n🗓 May 9 \, 2025 \n⏱️ 3 – 4:30 PM \n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-disco-elysium-roundtable/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Q&A,Roundtable
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250220T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250220T150000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch
DESCRIPTION: Technoculture\, Art & Games Research Centre (TAG)  is excited to announce the launch of Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch\, a new book by Mia Consalvo\, Marc Lajeunesse\, and Andrei Zanescu. The event will feature a discussion with the authors\, moderated by TAG co-director Rilla Khaled. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \n\n\n\n\nAn in-depth investigation of the Twitch streamers who make up the largest population on the platform: those streaming to small audiences or even no one. \nThe vast majority of people who stream themselves playing videogames online do so with few or no viewers. In Streaming by the Rest of Us\, Mia Consalvo\, Marc Lajeunesse\, and Andrei Zanescu investigate who they are\, why they do so\, and why this form of leisure activity is important to understand. Unlike the esports athletes and streaming superstars who receive the lion’s share of journalistic and academic attention\, microstreamers are not in it for the money and barely have an audience. In this\, the first book dedicated to the latter group\, the authors gather interviews from dozens of microstreamers from 2017 to 2019 to discuss their lives\, struggles\, hopes\, and goals. \nFor readers interested in livestreaming\, and Twitch in particular\, the book rethinks the medium’s history through accounts of the everyday uses of webcams\, with particular attention to notions of liveness and authenticity. These two concepts have become calling cards for the videogame livestreaming platform and underlie streamer motivations\, the construction of their practices (whether casual\, serious\, or anywhere in between)\, and the complex “metas” that take shape over time. The book also looks at the authors’ own practices of livestreaming\, focusing on what can be gained through experiencing the lived reality of the practice. Finally\, the authors explain how Twitch’s platform (studied from 2017–2023) informs how streamers structure their every day and how corporate ideologies bleed into real-world spaces like TwitchCon. \n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\n\nMia Consalvo is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design at Concordia University. She is the co-author of Real Games: What’s Legitimate and What’s Not in Contemporary Videogames (2019) and Players and their Pets: Gaming Communities from Beta to Sunset (2015). She is also co-editor of Sports Videogames (2013) and the Handbook of Internet Studies (2011)\, and is the author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames (2007) as well as Atari to Zelda: Japan’s Videogames in Global Context (2016). \nMia runs the mLab\, a space dedicated to developing innovative methods for studying games and game players. She’s a member of the Centre for Technoculture\, Art & Games (TAG)\, she has presented her work at industry as well as academic conferences including regular presentations at the Game Developers Conference. She is the Past President of the Digital Games Research Association\, and has held positions at MIT\, Ohio University\, Chubu University in Japan and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. \n\nMarc Lajeunesse is a research associate\, course instructor\, and the coordinator of TAG\, the Technoculture\, Arts\, and Games Research Centre. His recent work examines toxicity in online game spaces\, with an emphasis on player-led strategies for in-game toxicity mitigation. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAndrei Zanescu is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University\, specializing in the intersection of Hollywood film\, prestige television\, and blockbuster video games. His research explores the cultural resonance of blockbuster games\, the processes of legitimizing these works at trade shows and award ceremonies\, and the impact of AAA game-making on global gaming culture. \n  \n🗓: February 20\, 2025\n🕒: 3:00 PM\n📍: TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-streaming-by-the-rest-of-us/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241024T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241024T160000
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SUMMARY:Engagement and Emotions in Game Data Work
DESCRIPTION:On October 24th\, join TAG for a talk about the emotional landscape of data-driven decision-making in game development with guest speaker Olli Sotamaa. \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nApplication of data analytics and other data-driven working methods creates new processes and work cultures in game studios. While data analytics tools are often promised to support rational\, calm and emotion-free decision-making and to reduce developers’ reliance on intuition\, hunch and gut feeling\, recent empirical data indicates that working with game data provokes a large spectrum of emotions. The presentation introduces the idea of ‘game data work’\, explores its affective side\, and discusses how it potentially changes our overall understanding of game production. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \n Olli Sotamaa is a professor of Game Culture Studies and leads the Tampere University Game Research Lab with professor Frans Mäyrä. He also serves as team leader in The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies.  He has studied various game cultural phenomena related to online communities\, fandom and game modding\, and has also critically examined the game industry and different forms and contexts of game production. \n \n  \n: October 24\, 2024 | 3-4 PM \n: TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/engagement-and-emotions-in-game-data-work/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240822T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240822T160000
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SUMMARY:Pinball Power: How an old coin operated arcade persevered for a century
DESCRIPTION:Join Visiting Scholar Robert Glashüttner and TAG member Dr. Martin French for a discussion around Pinball. \nPinball is an archaic arcade game for some\, a technical marvel for others\, and a favorite pastime for more and more dedicated players. Little is commonly known about pinball except that it’s made up of big sturdy amusement machines where you shoot steel marbles with flippers up a tilted playfield. Both game culture communities as well as scholars tend to underestimate the finesse of playing and the design decisions behind developing physical pinball devices. Most importantly\, it is a game of hybridization in different aspects: Pinball is physical and digital\, retro and contemporary\, mechanical and electronic\, skill-based and chance-induced. Therefore it should be worth more attention. This talk gives an overview on why pinball research could be more than a side note within game studies. \n  \n📅 August 22\, 2024 \n📍TAG Lab\, EV 11.435 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/pinball-power-how-an-old-coin-operated-arcade-persevered-for-a-decade/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240419T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240419T130000
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SUMMARY:Unity Dialogue Workshop featuring Owen Hellum
DESCRIPTION:Curious about the world of dialogue systems? On Friday\, April 19\, TAG Research Cluster will host a workshop about Descant featuring Owen Hellum! \n  \nABOUT DESCANT: \nDescant (https://omch.tech/descant) is a Unity Dialogue System plugin designed to be easy to pick up and use\, but with room for growth and customization. It was developed for a CART Independent Study\, with the goal to address the missing niche for dialogue systems between ones that are enormous and expensive\, and those that are tiny and un-featured. It uses a node-based dialogue creation system\, and makes use of the Unity Component system concept for enhancing such nodes. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nThe workshop will start with a straightforward overview of the system\, accompanied by a detailed explanation of the Component framework. This will be succeeded by several hours dedicated to practical experimentation. The workshop is designed to resemble both a tutorial and a game jam development session. Subsequently\, a segment will be allocated for participants to provide feedback and offer suggestions for improvement. \n  \n: April 19\, 2024 | 1-4 p.m \n: TAG Lab E.V 11.435 \nATTENDEES ARE ASKED TO BRING COMPUTERS WITH THEM\, WITH A RECENT VERSION OF UNITY INSTALLED! \n🔗 Unity can be downloaded here: https://unity.com/download \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/unity-dialogue-workshop-featuring-owen-hellum/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240412T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240412T120000
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SUMMARY:A Montreal Game Studies Conversation with Dr. Carl Therrien and Dr. Darren Wershler
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 12th\, TAG Research Cluster is organizing an engaging and candid conversation on game history and immersion within the context of Montreal Game Studies\, featuring Dr. Carl Therrien from Université de Montréal and Dr. Darren Wershler from Concordia University. This open and freeform discussion will delve into unconventional and exploratory approaches to researching and understanding video game history and immersion. Through these discussions\, reflections on the influence of the Montreal game research scene on work and within the broader field of game studies and associated fields will be explored\, examining the challenges and opportunities of past and future collaborations between local research groups in Montreal\, across linguistic\, institutional\, and cultural boundaries. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS:  \n \nCarl Therrien is a professor in games and film studies at the Université de Montréal. In The Media Snatcher (Platform studies\, MIT Press\, 2019)\, he proposes a critical view of videogame historiography through a comparative study of the PC Engine platform\, confronting American and Japanese perspectives of this technology. He has written numerous papers on immersion and on the history of popular genres (such as adventure games and first-person shooters). His research projects seek to integrate more video games into the canon\, hoping to assist archivists and historians in their efforts to engage with the diversity and complexity of this culture. \n  \n  \n  \nDarren Wershler specializes in media history and media archaeology\, with a particular interest in the material culture of analog and early digital technologies. His current research occurs at the Residual Media Depot (RMD)\, a research and teaching collection associated with the Media History Research Centre (MHRC) in the Milieux Institute at Concordia University. With Jussi Parikka and Lori Emerson\, he is the author of THE LAB BOOK: SITUATED PRACTICES IN MEDIA STUDIES (2021). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n: April 12\, 2024 | 11 a.m \n: TAG Lab E.V 11.435 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-montreal-game-studies-conversation-with-dr-carl-therrien-and-dr-darren-wershler/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240409T140000
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SUMMARY:Materialist Ecomodding and Picopower Logics: The Case of SunBlock One\, a solar Minecraft server
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging presentation of the SunBlock One solar Minecraft server project\, part of the Pico Power residency with TeZ. \nBart Simon\, Director of Milieux Institute will share with us the research-creation journey of the SunBlock project. This innovative project tackles two crucial challenges in energy transition research: \n\nThe significant contribution of personal computing and especially gaming to the global carbon footprint.\nThe role of popular and moddable sandbox games in fostering shared alternative energy imaginaries.\n\nWHAT IS SUNBLOCK ONE? \nSunBlock One operates on a special setup with solar panels and batteries. It’s a Forge-modded Minecraft 1.20.2 Server running on an Intel NUC computer powered by a 12v LiON battery connected to a 100W solar panel. Players can monitor their energy consumption in real-time while playing! \nThe talk will present various stages of the project\, showcasing the work that has been accomplished and discussing how the project might progress over the summer. \nBart will also introduce the idea of picopower logic\, a simple yet powerful approach to utilize energy on small\, local scale to combat climate change. \n  \n: April 9\, 2024 | 2 p.m \n: TAG Lab E.V 11.435 \nALL ARE WELCOME!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/materialist-ecomodding-and-picopower-logics-the-case-of-sunblock-one-a-solar-minecraft-server/
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CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:TAG Watch Party: Emerging Voices in Black Game Studies
DESCRIPTION:The Games Institute ADE Speaker Series Panel: Emerging Voices in Black Game Studies Watch Party\n\n\nJoin us at TAG to watch the first of the Games Intitute ADE Speaker Series featuring Dr. Akil Fletcher\, Cyan DeVeaux and Dr. Steven Dashiell\, in a panel that highlights emerging scholars in Black game studies. Panelists will present recent and/or ongoing work\, sharing a glimpse of the emerging research questions animating the field. Topics include Black worldbuilding in and across games (Fletcher)\, perceptions of Black male exceptionalism in gaming cultures (Dashiell)\, and the relationship between avatar representation and Black user experience in social VR (DeVeaux). \nAll are welcome\, and there will be snacks! No registration required for the watch party.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-watch-party-emerging-voices-in-black-game-studies/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:TALK: Daniel Vella - The Promise of Being Otherwise: 'Being Someone Else' in Games
DESCRIPTION:TAG is happy to invite everyone to a talk with Dr. Daniel Vella (University of Malta) on video game subjectivity and The Promise of Being Otherwise: ‘Being Someone Else’ . \nPopular discourses around digital games have long made the claim that games can grant the experience of ‘being someone else\,’ letting us step into the shoes of heroes\, adventurers\, rogues and champions. This presentation shall take this apparent promise as its starting point: what does it mean for a game to grant us the possibility of being someone else? How can a game construct us as a different subject? To address this question\, this presentation shall touch upon the link between play and freedom in the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and Eugen Fink\, before drawing on work in game studies on avatars\, identity\, subjectivity\, agency and game aesthetics to discuss\, in more concrete terms\, how games structure particular ways of being for players to inhabit during their play. Finally\, the presentation will end with an interrogation of the promise itself\, asking: what are the ideological assumptions behind the idea that a game can let us ‘be someone else\,’ and what potentially problematic implications are contained in this promise? \nDr. Daniel Vella is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Digital Games (University of Malta). He is the co-author (with Stefano Gualeni) of Virtual Existentialism (Palgrave Pivot\, 2020) and has published a number of papers and book chapters on subjectivity\, aesthetics and space and place in games. He is also a narrative designer for board games with Mighty Boards\, and his writing credits include Posthuman Saga (2019) and Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan (forthcoming\, 2023).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-daniel-vella-the-promise-of-being-otherwise-being-someone-else-in-games/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:[Performance] Make-Up Artist and Shaman
DESCRIPTION:TAG is happy to invite everyone to this live interactive performance by the award-winning theatre and digital arts company ZU-UK!  \nThe talent is about to go on air for a live televised interview. But a change encounter with a Make-up artist is about to change the course of their lives forever. This is a 20min live experience for 2 people. An audio-led instruction based experience exploring chance encounters through a light-hearted (slightly-surreal) role-play scenario\, and bone conduction headphones. \nWhen? Friday\, April 21st\, 2-3:15PM \nWhere? TAG Lab (EV 11.435) \nDuration: 20-25 minutes \nReserve your spot at TAG.COORDINATOR@CONCORDIA.CA  \nAbout the organizer \nZU-UK is an award-winning theatre and digital arts company based in Liverpool and East London. Founded by immigrant working-class artists Persis Jadé Maravala and Jorge Lopes Ramos\, ZU are recognised as pioneers of immersive and interactive theatre creating experiences using performance\, games and technology. Jadé is ethnically Persian\, born in Yemen\, raised in East London. Jorge was born within one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas to a Polish-Romanian family. In a world where mainstream narratives normalise hate and fear\, Jadé and Jorge believe in the need for shared rituals\, new narratives and experiences that empower the most vulnerable to experience culture and to make excellent art.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/performance-make-up-artist-and-shaman/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Performance
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