Performing Mentorship as Reciprocal Relationship

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Reimagining mentorship through an artistic lens invites us to conceptualize mentorship as a performance that can be enacted in diverse ways, and in particular, one that is often enacted as a reciprocal relationship, blurring lines between mentor and mentee to foster fruitful, intergenerational knowledge exchange.

Following the presentation of a literature review on mentorship in arts-based practices, five emerging artists will present experiences engaging in mentorship in practices that intersect with arts education, health education, youth programming, and qualitative research.

Our session will open space for dialogue, including a question-and-answer period with presenters, as well as an invitation for attendees to reflect and share how they perform mentorship and/or engage in reciprocal relationships of mentorship in their own practices.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Mentorship and Mentoring Practices

Chair

• Lynn Margaret Fels, Simon Fraser University

Papers

• Exploring Mentorship in the Performative Space: A Literature Review - Marlies Grindlay, Simon Fraser University

• Adapting with our Community: Peer Mentorship Among the Youth of SExT: Sex Education by Theatre - Shira Taylor, Simon Fraser University; Isfandyar Virani, University of Toronto

• Artists Mentoring Artists in the Telling of Difficult Lived Experiences - Lisa Ndejuru, The University of Toronto; Farah Fancy, Simon Fraser University

• Performing Mentorship in the Digital Space - Nicole Armos, Simon Fraser University; Callista Chasse, University of Lethbridge

• Relational Dynamics and Play: Reconsidering Mentorship - Saliha Bava

Discussant

• Saliha Bava