FIELD SCHOOLS
More than study trips, field schools are intensive, place-based studios and carefully structured courses. Summer Field Schools allow students to travel, learn and earn credits in another country under the supervision of a faculty member from the Faculty of Fine Arts.
SPOTLIGHT ON PAST FIELD SCHOOLS
Vermont, United States
Bread and Puppet Theater has hosted an on-site internship course in Vermont 2008. Students live on-site for 10 days to 2 weeks, participating in daily farm-related work, choral singing, puppet-building, show-creation, rehearsal, and performance in community parades, circuses, and a final show. In several cases, the field school has resulted in a performance that was brought back to Montreal to a public square, park, or as part of a festival. It is a totally immersive and life-changing experience for the students. In 2018, Peter Schumann, the theater's founder and director, was given an honorary doctorate by Concordia in 2018 and has also been a Visiting Artist in the department.
Copenhagen, Denmark
In 2019, students from the departments of theatre, studio, design, geography and urban planning undertook a seventeen-day interdisciplinary field school in Copenhagen, Denmark. Students took up residency for three weeks at Teaterøen/Theatre Island, located on the northwestern tip of Refshaleøen, a deindustrialized and artificial island located across the harbour from Copenhagen’s city centre. The goals of the urban scenographies-themed field school was to engage students with the potential that scenography (the practice of crafting stage environments) opens up for other kinds of critical artistic practices and