Issues & Topics

  • The Body, Self, and Culture
  • Gender, Celebrity, and Sport
  • Pushing the Boundaries of Sport
  • Canadian Sports Films
  • Sport, Creativity, and Activism
  • The Athlete as Artist and the Artist as Athlete
  • Creative Sub-workshops: “Storytelling for Athletes” (with Barry Callaghan)and “Poetry for Athletes” (with Priscila Uppal)
  • Representation of the Athlete/Learning from Diversity: Disability, Ethnicity, And Nationalism
  • The Cultural Olympiad and its Legacy after the Olympics
  • Open discussions with the athletes and the artists (Q/A)
  • Book Launch: Anthology of Canadian Sports Fiction (Exile Editions)

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