Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET)

The Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET) is housed within the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance at the University of Regina.

C-SET is a centralized location for ongoing research associated with the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Socially Engaged Theatre program, as well as a hub for intellectual discussion among scholars, artists, drama educators, and community partners and collaborators committed to engaging with the CRC program research questions.

C-SET is envisioned as an ethical space of possibility, drawing upon applied theatre methodologies -with the understanding that individual and community health can be sustained by people’s capacity to imagine.

C-SET focuses on a range of theatre and performance projects in the Canadian Prairie that will:

• Initiate transformational new dialogues concerning issues of race relations and belonging, social justice and human rights.
• Create innovative artistic programs in socially engaged creative practices.
• Mobilize community ideas that will inform policies to reposition voices from the margins to the centre. C-SET thus uses the performance arts as a creative tool to address the knowledge gap around policing and racism, immigrants’ experience, and policy making. The research activities focus on exploring the particular socio-cultural experiences of Indigenous Peoples, Black-Canadians, African immigrants and People of Colour to advance critical thinking and change public perspectives on these issues.