Speaking with Rhona Matheson – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019
Rhona Matheson has been working in Children’s Theatre & Arts since 2002 when she joined Wee Stories. She began working with Starcatchers on its pilot project in 2006 and since then has...
Children’s Memory of Performance: Discovery, Rediscovery, and Re-creation
“You don’t need quantitative data to show that Theatre changes people”, says Elaine Faull, to the workshop attendees on Monday afternoon of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019. And yet nevertheless, her data...
Snippets from the ASSITEJ Cradle of Creativity
My third day at Cradle of Creativity was spent focusing on the sharing of stories.
Firstly, during the morning plenary at City Hall, I listened to Dr Vicensia Shule (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)...
Wool & Wood – Let’s Play!
Two materials: wool and wood. We use them every day, in all kinds of different forms, and for all kinds of different reasons. So, what made them such special and exciting centrepieces in two Performances for...
Walking the Line Between Past and Present
Making Mandela and Insta-Grammar were both featured performances during the Cradle of Creativity's Focus Day on Theatre for Social Change, held on Saturday 20th May 2017 at Guga S’thebe Arts and Cultural Centre in Langa Township.
Making Mandela, produced by...
Sitting Down with Kay Smith
KS: I graduated from Magnet Theatre in 2015 How has Magnet helped me? Magnet is amazing. It has challenges especially for young people coming from disadvantaged and impoverished communities. It has its...
Dirk J Rodricks: Diasporic Intimacy in/through/with an Applied Theatre Methodology: Tensions and Possibilities for...
The notion of intimacy is connected to home and a diasporic intimacy, according to Boym (1998), is one that is not opposed to uprootedness and defamiliarization but rather is constituted by it. Reflecting on...
Takahiro Watanabe: How can drama change learning of both teachers and children at school?
Introducing drama into school curriculum can impact how teachers learn during in-service training programs at school as well as how children learn in lessons. Not just discussing lesson plans or events in lessons but...
Roundtable on Drama Education, Climate, and the Environment
A roundtable on an environmental theme at IDIERI 2018, convened by Molly Mullen.
https://youtu.be/GJqq1lb2j_w
Molly Mullen is a Senior Lecturer in applied theatre at the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work, Aotearoa New...
Lorenzo Garcia: Matters of Otherness and Unlearning with Latinx TYA
A Paper by Lorenzo Garcia, University of North Texas (USA)Presented at the Conference of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN), part of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in...