Langham Court Theatre board shake-up
#141
Posted 08 May 2022 - 08:30 AM
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#142
Posted 08 May 2022 - 09:40 AM
#143
Posted 08 May 2022 - 10:02 AM
Complete with bios:https://www.langhamt...a /about/board/
It's like a who's who of virtue signaling.
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#144
Posted 08 May 2022 - 01:26 PM
The concept that a playwright writes a part for a 55 year old, one-armed, white male in a wheelchair ... that such a part should or could be cast as a 30 year old black woman who weighs 230 pounds and shaves her head ... well ... there are many who consider such moronic concepts not remotely "woke" at all ... rather they're just the musings of idiots and virtue signallers, folks of no value to the theatre community, and limited value to humanity overall.
Can you imagine what would happen if a director decided to cast the actors in Roots as white folk?!
Good news is that you will get the board back after the next AGM. Activists are generally only interested in destroying organizations and have no interest or desire to actually invest the time and effort to build or create something. As you have seen, the excuse at first is that the organization was so badly broken that it needs time to heal and restructure, the next excuse is that forces are aligned against them and they can't get work done and then finally the excuses just stop as the activists slither away and go find something else to break.
#145
Posted 08 May 2022 - 01:28 PM
#146
Posted 08 May 2022 - 01:42 PM
We really need both sides of the political and by extension creative spectrum. Neither can survive without the other. And we’ll see here, a shunning of perhaps the more conservative voices on a board will have detrimental effects on the theatre’s ability to sustain itself, as would a theatre with a board comprised of only bean counters and executive producers.
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#147
Posted 08 May 2022 - 05:01 PM
It's like a who's who of virtue signaling.
Yup.
If these bios were in a theatre program, I'd put it down out of sheer lack of interest.
It used to be you were an actor or actress or at most American actor or Canadian actress. Now it's pronouns followed by skin colour before actor is even mentioned.
Using Aboriginal territory instead of city names is a new one on me. I thought the vice president was Aboriginal until I read it again.
At least one bio (Jessie Deutscher) oozes bitterness with this line:
"...and has been based out of so-called Victoria for the past several years."
And on Monica Ogden's bio where it talks about racism in the Victoria theatre community, I did a 2 year stint during the 1990's in local theatre, TV and film and never saw any incidents of racism.The Victoria arts community was always (at least in my view) a warm and welcoming one.
Edited by FawltyVic, 08 May 2022 - 05:04 PM.
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#148
Posted 08 May 2022 - 05:56 PM
...And on Monica Ogden's bio where it talks about racism in the Victoria theatre community, I did a 2 year stint during the 1990's in local theatre, TV and film and never saw any incidents of racism...
The Woke have redefined racism to suit their agenda.
#149
Posted 09 May 2022 - 11:56 AM
Complete with bios:
https://www.langhamt...ca/about/board/
Like this part of Monica's BIO.
Rage Sweater are leading conversations and consultations on anti-racism, anti-Blackness, and anti-oppression in Victoria theatre
So i understand that being anti-racism means that you are against racism and anti-oppression means that you are against oppression so does anti-blackness mean that you are against black people?!
#150
Posted 09 May 2022 - 12:00 PM
Enough said.
#151
Posted 09 May 2022 - 12:05 PM
Like this part of Monica's BIO.
Rage Sweater are leading conversations and consultations on anti-racism, anti-Blackness, and anti-oppression in Victoria theatre
So i understand that being anti-racism means that you are against racism and anti-oppression means that you are against oppression so does anti-blackness mean that you are against black people?!
Anti-blackness? So I guess being anti-specific is on the table now? Good to know.
As a ginger I experienced racialized harassment and exclusion from many things in my life.
Can someone send me a handbook on how to overthrow a theatre because of the anti-gingerness I've experienced? (eyeroll)
#152
Posted 09 May 2022 - 03:12 PM
I read some of that bio stuff out loud to my husband. By the end I was almost rolling on the floor in tears. My bad.
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#153
Posted 26 June 2022 - 04:32 PM
Interesting to hear a black voice, rather than virtuous white saviours.
https://www.nytimes....oke-racism.html
#154
Posted 28 July 2022 - 11:27 AM
The buzz today is that Langham has just lost their interim GM, as well as at least one board member.
Perhaps these folks are facing up to the reality that the Board of a not-for-profit is legally culpable for financial transgressions (letting the company go broke in order to prove a point), or for willfully violating the existing Constitution and By-Laws governing the Society, or willfully violating the Provincial Societies Act (which requires accurate record keeping, and promoting an active and informed membership).
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#155
Posted 28 July 2022 - 11:37 AM
#wokegoesbroke
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#157
Posted 13 August 2022 - 11:15 AM
Bystander Intervention Training?
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#158
Posted 13 August 2022 - 11:24 AM
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#160
Posted 13 August 2022 - 12:26 PM
I would like to see Tariro Mawari's credentials or curriculum vitae before I take the course. I would hope they is a Uvic grad student......otherwise how would I know that they is presenting the truth?
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