Professional workshop
Mael Cheff
02 ⇾ Mar. 05 2026 (Monday – Thursday)
09:30 to 12:30
Weekly rate:$80
Drop-in:$28
Every day
Teaching Language: Frenglish
Questions can be asked in:
English
Categories
#Creative process #Interdisciplinary #Toolbox
#Creative process #Interdisciplinary #Toolbox
© Sandrine Kwan
Objective
Emerging Stories is a research-creation space that explores how theatre and transformative justice can generate new collective narratives. By combining improvisation, engaged storytelling, and critical reflection, the workshop allows participants to experiment with performance tools applied to queer and collaborative storytelling.
The workshop focuses on developing skills in writing and embodied dramaturgy, while cultivating a sensitive approach to narrative and the collective. It encourages participants to reclaim their own storytelling, deconstruct dominant narratives, and imagine new ways of representing the world through an artistic practice grounded in responsibility and hope.
The workshop focuses on developing skills in writing and embodied dramaturgy, while cultivating a sensitive approach to narrative and the collective. It encourages participants to reclaim their own storytelling, deconstruct dominant narratives, and imagine new ways of representing the world through an artistic practice grounded in responsibility and hope.
Content
The workshop follows an approach of collective care, consent, and encouragement, with a repetitive and reassuring rhythm to foster a sense of trust and letting go.
Each session alternates between warm-up, exploration, and sharing. Through improvisation, movement, somatic games, and devised theatre work, participants will invite stories emerging from their embodied wisdom, rather than fixed narrative patterns.
Inspired by theater of testimony, of playback and of the theater of the oppressed, the workshop proposes a living, felt experience, where contemporary queer-feminist and anti-oppressive theories as well as narrative psychotherapy inform the creation. Each day includes discussion, practical tools, and resource sharing.
Each session alternates between warm-up, exploration, and sharing. Through improvisation, movement, somatic games, and devised theatre work, participants will invite stories emerging from their embodied wisdom, rather than fixed narrative patterns.
Inspired by theater of testimony, of playback and of the theater of the oppressed, the workshop proposes a living, felt experience, where contemporary queer-feminist and anti-oppressive theories as well as narrative psychotherapy inform the creation. Each day includes discussion, practical tools, and resource sharing.
Workshop Rhythm
~ Adaptable to the group’s needs
~ Variable
Accessibility Features
~ Exercices are adaptable
~ High music or sound level
~ Intense emotional work
~ Physical contact between participants
~ Short verbal explications
~ Sub-groups exercices
~ Visual support (i.e.documentation, texts…)
Biography
Mael Cheff (he/him) is a queer experimental interdisciplinary artist, playwright, and facilitator based in Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. His work focuses on liberation, queer futurism, and care, approaching storytelling from a socially engaged perspective.
With over 20 years of artistic practice rooted in transformative justice, he creates multidisciplinary works on stage that challenge stereotypes and highlight marginalized voices.
Trained at the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama, Mael holds degrees in Theatre Performance (Dawson College) and Film Studies (Université de Montréal), and continuously pursues education in new pedagogical and artistic practices.
As an educator, Mael has been coaching and facilitating theater workshops for nearly ten years; he is not only an artist-intervenor in community contexts, but also a creative process consultant among the professional performing arts community.
With over 20 years of artistic practice rooted in transformative justice, he creates multidisciplinary works on stage that challenge stereotypes and highlight marginalized voices.
Trained at the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama, Mael holds degrees in Theatre Performance (Dawson College) and Film Studies (Université de Montréal), and continuously pursues education in new pedagogical and artistic practices.
As an educator, Mael has been coaching and facilitating theater workshops for nearly ten years; he is not only an artist-intervenor in community contexts, but also a creative process consultant among the professional performing arts community.
Partners
This workshop is supported by the Conseil de la formation continue arts et culture de Montréal (CFC) in collaboration with Studio 303. The CFC’s continuing education activities are supported by the Intervention-Compétences program, thanks to the financial participation of the Quebec government.
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