Unspoken Futures
“Unspoken Futures” uses research-creation, ethnography, and theatre performance to explore how individuals with disabilities and neurodivergence imagine and intervene in emergent futures. In partnership with York University’s Department of Theatre, Dance & Performance, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, and Theatre Direct.
Dr. Magdalena Kazubowski- Houston, along with her collaborators Lisa Marie DiLiberto and Sasha Singer-Wilson, will facilitate workshops with six self-identified disabled and neurodivergent artists. This collaborative work will culminate in a free public presentation in The Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre at York University on February 22, 2025 at 1:00 p.m., followed by a Q & A.
The Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre
York University Keel Campus
February 22, 2025
1:00 p.m.
Reserve your spot HERE
Project Facilitators
Dr. Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston is an anthropologist, performance theorist, and theatre director. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance & Performance at York University. Her research focuses on performance ethnography, arts-based research, storytelling, autofiction, aging, migration, disability, and climate emotions. She trained as a theatre director under the renowned Polish theatre and visual artist Józef Szajna and has worked as a theatre director and playwright in both Canada and Poland.
Sasha Singer-Wilson (she/her) is a theatre artist, writer, and facilitator. Her work explores land connection, intergenerational relationships, and the climate crisis. A graduate of the Acting Conservatory at York, Sasha has an MFA in Theatre and Creative Writing from UBC and is currently a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at York. Sasha has trained and worked with companies across Turtle Island such as The Arts Club, Soulpepper, Brave New Play Rites, Convergence Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Pleiades Theatre, Theatre Gargantua, One Yellow Rabbit, SummerWorks, and PTC. She co-ran the artist-driven theatre company the blood projects where she made immersive and site-specific performances in intimate spaces such as the critically acclaimed Little Tongues, This Is It, and runner up for the SummerWorks Emerging Artist Award, Inside. Sasha facilitates courses and workshops in theatre-making, creative writing, and voice, and is honoured to teach/learn voice and speech at The Centre for Indigenous Theatre and York. www.sashasingerwilson.com
Lisa Marie DiLiberto is the Executive Artistic Director at Theatre Direct – one of the country’s leading companies for young audiences; the Founder and Lead Advisor for Balancing Act – a national initiative supporting parents and caregivers in the performing arts; and in 2022 she was co-curator of JUNIOR at Harbourfront Centre – Canada’s largest international children’s festival. Lisa Marie’s most ambitious artistic adventure to date is The Tale of a Town – Canada, an oral history, media and theatre project which toured to every province and territory and awarded and has since been adapted into an animated series for TVO called Main Street Ontario. Other artistic endeavors include the development of a binaural audio piece for World Stage at Harbourfront Centre and the site-specific production of The Four Corners as playwright in residence at Theatre Passe Muraille. Lisa Marie worked in community-engaged as the Associate Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre and as the Artistic Director of Arts4All at the Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre. Lisa Marie serves on the board of Community Arts Guild in Scarborough and the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA). She is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, France and currently a PhD candidate at York University pursuing research in site-specific performance ethnography with children. Above all, Lisa Marie is a fierce little league coach for her two wild music-loving baseball playing boys.
