I Forgive You
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2024
- Subjects
- Gay & Lesbian, Canadian
WCAG v2.0
Compliance web page for detailed accessibility information:
http://www.idpf.org/epub/a11y/accessibility-20170105.html#wcag-aa
Accessibility summary:
A simple book with the cover, author, and logo images described. This book contains various accessibility features such as a table of contents, page list, landmarks, correct reading order, structural navigation, and semantic structure. A number of blank pages in the print equivalent book have been removed resulting in some pages not appearing in this digital EPUB. This publication conforms to WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
EPUB Accessibility Specification 1.0 AA
Single logical reading order
Compliance certification by:
https://bornaccessible.org/certification/gca-credential/
All textual content can be modified
Accessible controls provided
Landmark navigation
Short alternative textual descriptions
Print-equivalent page numbering
ARIA roles provided
WCAG level AA
No reading system accessibility options actively disabled (except)
Language tagging provided
Table of contents navigation
Next / Previous structural navigation
-
eBook
- ISBN
- 9780369105004
- Publish Date
- Jun 2024
- List Price
- $13.99
Library Ordering Options
Description
- First produced by Artistic Fraud at Arts and Culture Centre, St. John’s, in August 2022
About the authors
Scott Jones (he/him) is a musician, filmmaker, writer, and activist who is passionate about using creative expression as a way to build bridges with people and communities. After surviving a homophobic attack in 2013, Scott was compelled to use music and artistic expression as a vehicle for positive change. With the help of his loved ones, Scott founded the Don’t BE Afraid campaign and facilitated VOX: A Choir for Social Change, advocating for the rights of queer people and raising awareness about the very real and dangerous repercussions of queerphobia. For four years after the attack, Scott worked with the NFB and filmmaker Laura Marie Wayne to create the award-winning documentary Love, Scott (HotDocs, 2018) about his experiences with small-town homophobia and violence. Since that time, Scott has written and directed live action, music, and animated short films that centre queer and disabled perspectives, including Coin Slot (Best Atlantic Short Film, AIFF, 2022), Freedom, and Good Samaritan. Scott has also trained and worked extensively as a music facilitator and choir director, having conducted the Nova Scotia Youth Choir (resident conductor), the Pictou District Honour Choir, and Vox Populi. He has guest conducted the Amadeus Choir, Shallaway Youth Choir, Lady Cove Women’s Choir, Mount Allison Choral Society, and Singing Out LGBTQ Choir. For his artistic and advocacy work and for his community engagement, Scott received a YMCA Peace Medal, a Nova Scotia Human Rights Award, and a Mount Allison Alumni Award (Contemporary Achievement). Scott has a Masters of Arts from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Music (Piano Performance and Choral Conducting) from Mount Allison University.
Robert Chafe has worked in theatre, dance, opera, radio, fiction, and film. His stage plays have been seen in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and in the United States, and include Oil and Water, Tempting Providence, Afterimage, Under Wraps, Between Breaths, and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (adapted from the novel by Wayne Johnston). He has been shortlisted twice for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama and he won the award for Afterimage in 2010. He has been guest instructor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, and the National Theatre School of Canada. He is the playwright and Artistic Director of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland.
Director, dramaturg, and creator Sarah Garton Stanley (SGS) is Vice President of Programming at Arts Commons in Calgary. She is originally from Montreal, and was previously Artistic Producer of the National Creation Fund at Canada’s National Arts Centre, founding Artistic Director of SpiderWebShow, co-founder of FOLDA, Associate Artistic Director for English Theatre (NAC), and Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. She has been the recipient of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas’s Elliott Hayes Award, a Manitoba Theatre Award for best direction, and an Honorary Member Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. SGS holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University and in 2020 she and her partner became co-stewards of the legendary Birchdale in Nova Scotia. SGS is co-author of Manifesto for Now with Owais Lightwalla.
Awards
- Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Awards
Editorial Reviews
“I Forgive You covers the extensive physical and emotional struggle faced by survivors of assault, and young queer folks especially, who must grow into who they are under the threat of possible harm. The play also shows how the healing process from any trauma is not, and will never be, linear . . . The writing of I Forgive You is truly magical, the process by which it was created makes every scripted word feel authentic.”
Stef Curran, The Independent
“I Forgive You [is] a reminder that forgiveness is a multifaceted and complex concept. Jones’ story, and the elegant way in which it was told, was a powerful experience I won’t soon forget.”
Natasha Baldin, The Charlatan