CBI 24/25 Session – Kelley Jo Burke & Kati Kaartinen
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CBI 24/25 Session – Kelley Jo Burke & Kati Kaartinen
January 27 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

PGC members have been paired up with an international playwright to share their work and discuss the craft of playwriting with one another. You can tune into these live events and get a glimpse of what these theatre creators have been up to!
Craft Bites International is open and free to the public.
Please note registration is required one hour prior to each session.
Register HERE.
About the Playwrights:
Kelley Jo Burke – Kelley Jo Burke is a crip playwright living as a settler on Treaty Four territory. Her plays include the award-winning Rigby, Greensleep, The Curst, Us, for which she received a Tom Hendry award, The Selkie Wife and Charming and Rose: True Love. Her many CBC’s radio IDEAS documentaries have been heard all over the world. Recent books include Wreck: A Very Anxious Memoir, and Ducks on the Moon: A Parent Meets Autism. She teaches, edits, dramaturges, narrates audiobooks. She has received multiple arts awards, including four City of Regina Writing Awards and the Saskatchewan Lieutenant-Governor’s award for arts leadership.
Kati Kaartinen – Kati Kaartinen (born 1972) is a playwright, screenwriter, and dramaturg based in Helsinki. Kaartinen graduated from the Helsinki Theatre Academy in 2002, majoring in directing and dramaturgy. Her plays deal with melancholic topics such as suicide, mental health, and lack of communication through a hopeful, life-radiating and warm approach. Her central topics can be divided into three categories which, according to her, will always remain as a permanent in our lives: death, birth, and love. Having grown up in the working class, her characters often reflect this reality as well. In 2004 she received the Venla Award for best dramatic script for the television film Arvon Veli (rough translation: Dear Brother), and the Lea Award for best dramatic text of the year from the Finnish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild in 2009 for her play, Aina. In addition to working in theatre, she has also worked as a teacher and done freelance work in television and radio. More on her and her plays: https://www.dramacorner.fi/en/plays-and-authors/kaartinen-kati