November 26th, 2025
7:30 PM
1-hour performance +
30-minute Q&A
Hall Auditorium
Concordia University
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Presented by Porte Parole
in partnership with
Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts
A 2025 Canada Climate Week Xchange Event
Tickets
General Admission : $25
Concordia students : Free
Reservation required
Student ID will be asked at the door
Thank you to our hotel partner
As part of the first edition of Canada Climate Week Xchange, Porte Parole, in partnership with Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, presents The Assembly – Energy in Canada, its acclaimed documentary play that tackles the polarization around our energy transition.
Based on a real dinner conversation between four Canadians with sharply opposing views about our energy future, The Assembly – Energy in Canada transforms their words into a gripping work of documentary theatre that reveals the conflict and humanity at the heart of one of today’s most urgent and polarizing issues.
After the performance, the audience is invited to take a seat at the table, joining two of the real-life participants from the play to reflect, question, and imagine new ways of listening across our divides.
Bruce Dinsmore, Ruth Goodwin, Brett Watson, Alex Ivanovici, Gord Rand and Julie Lumsden in The Assembly – Energy in Canada at the GLOBExCHANGE conference | February 12 2025 | © Photo by William Suarez
The characters
Bruce Dinsmore as Michael
GLOBExCHANGE conference, February 12 2025
© Photo by William Suarez
Michael
Oil and gas CEO
An eighth-generation Albertan who chairs one of Canada’s most influential conservative networks, yet admits that years of dialogue with environmentalists have changed him more than he’s changed them. He speaks the language of zero-emission industrial parks and scope-three solutions. But when pressed, where does he truly stand on the crisis itself?
Julie Lumsden as Kaella-Marie
GLOBExCHANGE conference, February 12 2025
© Photo by William Suarez
Kaella-Marie
Pipeline Engineer, Anishinaabe
Once an anti-pipeline activist, she is now a pipeline engineer trying to inject Indigenous values into an industry built without them. Living between two worlds, she insists no single actor could capture her contradictions. Can you change a system by joining it, or does it change you?
Gord Rand as Adam
GLOBExCHANGE conference, February 12 2025
© Photo by William Suarez
Adam
Climate Activist
A lifelong climate professional who works to shift Canada’s pension funds away from fossil fuels. Calm and articulate on the surface, but driven by a simmering rage at the urgency of the crisis and the slow pace of change. “We’re winning, but we’re winning too slowly.”
Ruth Goodwin as Meredith
GLOBExCHANGE conference, February 12 2025
© Photo by William Suarez
Meredith
Community organizer
A socialist environmentalist who believes facts don’t change minds – feelings do. Meredith practices “deep canvassing,” searching for emotional common ground beneath political divides. While others debate technology and policy, she cuts through to ask what few dare to: What drives you? What do you actually need? Where does your hope come from?
