ELEVATING R2R24 WITH AN INCREDIBLE GROUP OF WELLNESS, MEDIA & THEATRE ARTISTS

We can’t tell you how excited we are to have Alex and Brett host and direct a theatrical documentary presentation on the Blyth Main Stage. Porte Parole is a theatre company that creates and produces original documentary plays about Canadian contemporary life to inspire diverse audiences to think critically together about current social issues. This documentary presentation is based on a larger series called “The Assembly” produced by Porte Parole which has run in Canada and on the international stage (learn more about Porte Parole’s full production of The Assembly). While we won’t be showcasing the full production at R2R24, we have invited four guests (not actors) with differing points of view to discuss an important rural issue. This documentary theatre will share how we can engage in dialogue while we explore our differences together.

Learn more about the work of Porte Parole.

Nick Vinnicombe, founder of Lake Affect Media, has been with Rural Talks to Rural since its inception in 2016. Nick brings a decade of experience in multimedia services such as video creation, and live streaming. Founded in 2014, Lake Affect Media serves Midwestern, Ontario. We are excited to have him back at R2R24!

Shauna Rae spent 10 years as a radio journalist, then 10 more in communications, PR and community engagement and the last 5 years working to disrupt oppressive systems in rural and remote Canada.

Shauna started Radar Media as a vessel for shifting narrative sovereignty in our mostly white-lensed rural and remote news and information landscape.

Radar Media focuses on sparking conversations and actions for meaningful change and on raising the frequency of people, places and organizations through collective liberation and healing. We conduct, and consult on unique research and storytelling projects.

Shauna’s interests lie in the impacts and evolution of movement journalism, solutions journalism and community-based storytelling. She believes in empowering youth to create a seismic shift in what we traditionally have called ‘journalism’ in rural and remote Canada, and in facilitating collective community engagement in that process.

Her podcast and newsletter, ‘Clearing a New Path’ focuses on building a more united, anti-oppressive rural Canada.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shauna-rae/

Tanya Porter is the founder and Living Arts Director of The Inner Space, teaching meditation and classical yoga to both adults and youth for over 23 years. She is the creator of the mindfulness and wellness drumming modality Rhythmic Re-framing, bridging her 30 years of drumming experience together with her yoga and meditation practices. She is the author of Drawing Breaths – A 7-Step Daily Self-Care Journal Practice.

Tanya is a multi-disciplinary artist, performer, educator,and yoga instructor specializing in over 25 years of Theatre, Drum, Dance, and creative wellness programming for all ages. Her workshops and team building programs are popular in private, corporate, healthcare and educational settings. She also offers customized one-on-one sessions in yoga, meditation, drumming and other healing disciplines. Tanya is a certified yoga instructor from The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, with a designation of CYA-RYT 500.

Website: https://www.theinnerspace.ca/