Photo/design by Emily Jung

Have some Tea with X60!

Formed in 2023, X60 is a dramaturgical collective exploring dramaturgical approaches and criticism for Asian diasporic stories in the performing arts. X60 Tea Table is about navigating new pathways towards artistic research, creation, and international exchange.

In this conversation space we will surround ourselves with various teas, snacks, and flowers.

Three artists (རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོལ་མ་|Rinchen Dolma (Tibetan/Tka:ronto based), Min Chae | 채민 (South Korea), and Pin-Wen Su (Taiwan)  will share about their specific practice, how their cultural heritage informs their work, and what specific dramaturgical/curatorial questions they are encountering in their creation journey.

Afterwards, we’ll turn to the room for an open conversation about the historic barriers that exist for pan-Asian artists within collaborative frameworks in Canada and beyond. 

All are welcome, though X60 specifically invites Asian artists working across all disciplines of performance to attend, bring your questions, and contribute to the conversation.

The conversation will be facilitated by Emily Jung, Rinchen Dolma, and Michael Caldwell.

རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོལ་མ་|Rinchen Dolma [she/her] is a director, playwright, dramaturge, performer and veteran community arts practitioner originally from the Himalayas; currently based in Tkarón:to. She is passionate about the intersections between storytelling, community and placemaking as the founder and Artistic Director of MADE IN EXILE: a grassroots community-arts based initiative that engages young Tibetan creatives in exploring their complex identities through contemporary mediums of storytelling in exile.

Min Chae | 채민 [she/her] is a dramaturg and writer based in South Korea. She collaborates on performances and writes about them. Her current focus is on eco-dramaturgy and eco-scenography. She recently published her thesis <생태연극 창작을 위한 담론 및 전략 연구 A Study on Discourses and Expressive Strategies for the Creation of Ecology Theatre>. Select Dramaturgy credit includes <기후 작은 도서관 Little Free Climate Library> at the Seoul Theatre Festival, <침묵 Silence> at 99 Art Company, <두개의 길 Two Roads> and <A.SF Veganism Universe> by Baram Company, <재주는 곰이 부리고 The Bear does all the performing> at Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture. She is also the editor of Indienbob (독립예술웹진 인디언밥), an Indipendent Arts Web Zine. 

Pin-Wen Su [he/him] is a Feminism Artist, Artistic Director of KuaBo Dance Theatre and in residency at Chiayi Performing Arts Center. He holds a MFA in Choreography at Taipei National University of the Arts and Bachelor’s in Philosophy at NanHua University. His work challenges the heteronormative revolving around notions of gender, feminism, and nudity. Since 2013, Pin-Wen has researched and practiced tactile culture, and he takes dance into conceptual art beyond the aesthetic genre.

རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོལ་མ་ | Rinchen Dolma, Min Chae | 채민, and Pin-Wen Su: artist contributors
Emily Jung, Rinchen Dolma, and Michael Caldwell: artist facilitators