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Heading to Quebec for the playwright Caroline Godart

Caroline Godart © DR

Du From May 15 to 26, , the  Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD), a center for the accompaniment, promotion, and diffusion of francophone playwright in Quebec and Canada, organizes sa urban residency in Montreal.

This fourth edition of the urban residency will be co-hosted by the Belgian playwright, Caroline Godart  who will travel to Montreal to accompany the artists. One of the objectives of this residency is to concretely encourage artistic, professional, and human encounters. The authors will be able to devote themselves intensively to the writing of a current writing project and benefit from the accompaniment of the Wallonia-Brussels playwright.  

 

Biography
Caroline Godart, 
, writer, playwright, and teacher is based in Brussels, where she chose to return to live after completing a PhD in the United States. In New-York, she studied philosophy, the feminist and queer thought, film, and literature at Rutgers University, taught and wrote a dissertation under the supervision of Elizabeth Grosz. In addition to several academic articles and numerous invited presentations and lectures, she published a book, The Dimensions of Difference: Space, Time and Bodies in Women’s Cinema and Continental Philosophy, published in 2015 by Rowman and Littlefield. Back in Belgium, she teaches at the ULB and the IHECS, then at the ERG, where she now teaches courses in general literature and aesthetic philosophy, as well as workshops in narrative and design. In parallel, she immersed herself in the performing arts. She expands her field of intellectual and aesthetic experimentation by frequently collaborating with institutions such as a.pass and La Bellone as a mentor, lecturer, moderator and dramaturge, and with artists such as Lorette Moreau and Lylybeth Merle. She published several articles, both critical and poetic reflections on a variety of topics, ranging from feminism to witchcraft, performing arts, playwriting, and microbiology. From January 2020 to January 2022, she joins Sylvie Martin-Lahmani as co-editor of the magazine Alternatives théâtrales. ». carolinegodart.com