Norifumi Hida: Creating next-generation international artists for theatre for young audiences
The International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ) comprises theatre artists from all over the world who, despite the diversity of their backgrounds, experiences and artistic investments, share a belief that...
Persona: A ‘Slice of Life’ in Mesmerising Tableaus
Check out the video above for some photographs from the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand, as well as some reactions from Youth Delegates in the audience. Below, you can check out some more...
Awakening the Senses
Sensescapes is an interactive and multi-sensory theatrical experience created specifically for babies. It challenges conventional aesthetics and proposes a unique concept for Theatre that connects Parents and Children.
The following video (2 minutes) includes some excerpts...
Storytelling – The Teachers’ Testimony
As part of the ‘Our Story, Your Story’ project, 100 local educators were trained in how to integrate storytelling into their teaching practice. These workshops were an experiential knowledge-sharing and team building opportunity which...
Musical Theatre for Education
As a part of the Cradle of Creativity's Focus Day on Music Theatre for Young Audiences, Tina Stodart delivered a Pecha Kucha about her work in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
In the following interview (6 minutes), she speaks about using...
Mary Ann Hunter: On wayfinding and a precarious politics of presence
Educators, artists, children, star-gazers. We/they/you trade in primacies of encounter and the arts of being present – to oneself, to others, and to belongings of practice, region, interest and culture. They/you/we revel in relationality, curiosity, affect, and...
Michael Finneran: Distance and tyranny: Understanding drama, democracy & politics
Drama claims a unique relationship with democracy, politics and citizenship. We assert it as our birthright: borne from the ancient Greeks to Brecht; from Boal to Dario Fo. How sustainable is the claim? How...
Madge Hair: Writing on Gumbaynggirr Country for Co-Created Theatre as Decolonising Practice
This presentation analyses the challenges and processes of cocreating pieces of musical theatre inspired by and responding to storylines from Gumbaynggirr country, mid-north coast, New South Wales. The central question posed by the presenter’s...
Facing Fears and Dancing in the Dark: About Shadows
Walking into the space for About Shadows, I bumped into musician Stefano Barone who informed me where the audience would be invited to sit. I...