IDIERI 9: Day 2 Twitter Roundup

The second day of IDIERI 9 was an excellent one - beginning with 6 concurrent practical workshops, the day continued with papers, panels, a performance, and even a book launch event. https://twitter.com/selinabusby/status/1013904559079657473 https://twitter.com/gaenor22/status/1013879359415844864 https://twitter.com/jendibella/status/1013928328598675457 https://twitter.com/selinabusby/status/1013929267871092737 https://twitter.com/soilsitheoir/status/1013940700369571840 https://twitter.com/cfrenchtweeting/status/1013960733879513088 https://twitter.com/thepollstar/status/1014045414322868224 https://twitter.com/c_and_t/status/1014016216552345601 https://twitter.com/Imagine_A_Day/status/1014080293949489152 https://twitter.com/ride_journal/status/1014038530035724294 https://twitter.com/playfulpedagogy/status/1014078048797220865

Appreciative Dialogue

As part of the Cradle of Creativity, Henrik Køhler and Peter Manscher from the Danish Teatercentrum (trans. Theatre Centre) ran a workshop to guide participants through a structured exploration of their reactions to Karoo Moose (produced by Baxter Theatre...

Dialogue at IDIERI 9: Tyranny of Distance

Dialogue – The Community Performance Network is a non-profit knowledge sharing network specialising in supporting practitioners to generate and use evidence in order to boost and sustain their work. This year, we’re collaborating with IDIERI...

A Patchwork for Every Age

Patchwork (Dir. Joanna Evans) is an award-winning Early Years Production, created in 2014 with a seed-funding grant from the European Small Size Network. Centred around a bed, the show sees pillows learning to fly,...

Traversing Tectonics: Alternative Pedagogies as Connexions and Conduits to Understanding

Addressing IDIERI 9’s theme of ‘the Tyranny of Distance’, specifically the aesthetics and politics of distance, this panel considers emerging approaches to drama pedagogies as a means of recovering distance in its metaphorical understanding. Examining modes from...

Publications Launch at the Cradle of Creativity

To celebrate the written work of Practitioners, Academics and Organisations, the Cradle of Creativity dedicated an evening reception on Sunday, 21st May, 2017, to recent publications from within the field of Theatre for Young Audiences. There were numerous...

Tales from the Norwegian Wood: “Staaloe – to Fight a Giant”

Myth, legends, and fairytales have been around for hundreds of years. You may have had a fairytale passed down through your family, or maybe you grew up hearing myths from your friends...

Sounds from Rocking the Cradle

On Thursday 25th May 2017, I visited the Rocking the Cradle festival, hosted by Magnet Theatre as part of ASSITEJ's Cradle of Creativity. In the following audio clip (2 minutes), you can hear snippets from...

Hayley Linthwaite, Lydia Collins, and Arte Artemiou: Imagine A Day Project

Lydia Collins, and Arte Artemiou navigate three different contexts of the Imagine A Day Project (IADP). The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) invited an International Changemaker inititaive from the University of...

Exploring Techniques and Practices from the IDIERI 9 Workshops (Part 4)

Delegates at the 9th International Drama in Education Research Institute were treated to an abundance of exciting and engaging practical workshops during the 7-day event. To give you a flavour of what was on offer, the Dialogue team...