Description
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The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival welcome presenters and attendees to the 19th annual summer Shaw Symposium.
The event is held on-site at the Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ONT, Canada. A Zoom option (see below) is provided for those who wish to attend the presentations digitally. Focused on Bernard Shaw’s life, his works, his contemporaries, and his legacies, this Symposium offers new scholarship relating to plays included in the Shaw Festival’s 2022 season: Shaw's Too True to Be Good and The Doctor’s Dilemma, Rabindranath Tagore's Chitra, and others. Please see https://www.shawfest.com/whats-on-tickets/for a full list of productions. |
The Shaw Festival |
Registration for in-person attendance |
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Helmed by Artistic Director Tim Carroll (TC), this 60th Anniversary Season offers 13 productions from February 9 to December 23, including the musical and romantic comedy Damn Yankees, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma and Too True To Be Good, the return of Cyrano de Bergerac, a gripping thriller with Gaslight and two wonderful holiday season offerings: A Christmas Carol and White Christmas.
See https://www.shawfest.com/about/. Shaw Festival Land Acknowledgement The Shaw wishes to acknowledge and honour the land upon which we gather as the historic and traditional territory of First Nations peoples. In particular, we recognize and thank the Neutral Nation, the Mississauga and the Haudenosaunee for their stewardship of these lands over millennia. |
Register for in-person Symposium attendance through the Shaw Festival's Box Office. Tickets for all plays must be purchased individually.
Zoom registration Free registration for Zoom attendance is available through Eventbrite. A Zoom link will be sent via email in advance of the Symposium. Click on this link to register. Travel grants and scholarshipsTravel grants and scholarships have been awarded for this application cycle. See the ISS website.
LodgingsSee the Shaw Festival's Accommodations page for information.
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The International Shaw Society Governing Council, 2022
President: Robert Gaines
Vice-President and Symposium Organizer: Jennifer Buckley
Membership Secretary: Brigitte Bogar
Recording Secretary: Dorothy Hadfield
Treasurer: Michael O'Hara
Appointed Executive Committee Members
Director of Publications: Christopher Wixson
Webmaster: Richard Dietrich
Honorary Executive Committee Member
Leonard Conolly
President: Robert Gaines
Vice-President and Symposium Organizer: Jennifer Buckley
Membership Secretary: Brigitte Bogar
Recording Secretary: Dorothy Hadfield
Treasurer: Michael O'Hara
Appointed Executive Committee Members
Director of Publications: Christopher Wixson
Webmaster: Richard Dietrich
Honorary Executive Committee Member
Leonard Conolly
