February 6, 2019 at 12:45pm  

Nathan Medd, Kevin Kerr & Janet Munsil

Distinguished Alumni Nathan Medd Talk on Creative Placemaking

Join us for a lively discussion about the ins and outs (and ups and downs) of creative placemaking. From development and gentrification to funding and accessibility for artists and audiences, get ready to “nerd out” about the business of the arts.

Nathan Medd

Nathan Medd (BFA ’01, Theatre), oversees performing arts programming at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity as managing director for music, theatre, dance and opera. Nathan was previously managing director for English Theatre at Canada’s National Arts Centre, where his team was charged with strengthening the organization as a national theatre. In the process, they worked with stakeholders across the land to initiate plans for the world’s first national Indigenous theatre company, launched in 2019. 

Kevin Kerr  

Kevin Kerr is a playwright and founding member of Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre with whom he’s collaborated on the creation of more than a dozen full-length productions. Kevin joined the University of Victoria’s Department of Writing in 2012. He currently teaches playwriting and screenwriting, with a creative focus on cinematic/theatre hybrids, collaborative creation, site-specific theatre and interactive narratives.

Janet Munsil

Janet Munsil is the former Intrepid Theatre artistic director and Metro Studio co-founder, who is also a Phoenix alumna and current MFA candidate in Writing. As a playwright, she is drawn to unusual but forgotten incidents and people from the past. In 2016-17, she was an Artist-in-Residence at UVic’s Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, and the Kalamalka Press Writer-in-Residence at the Caetani Cultural Centre in Vernon, BC.