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Theatre Materials Conference
This year's Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre and The Central School of Speech and Drama's conference is devoted to theatre materials. Highlights include sessions devoted to Street Arts, which will focus particularly on the cultural content of the 2012 London Olympic Games, and to Greening the Theatre, which will chart a new environmentally-friendly path for drama in Britain.
Martin Green, Head of Ceremonies for London 2012, will play a leading role in the sessions on Street Arts, together with Sam Hunter, Stage Manager of the Opening Ceremony of the Athens Olympics. The conference will provide a revealing insight into progress on the plans for the London Opening Ceremony. The prominence given to Street Arts at the conference is a recognition of the growing importance of the genre in Britain. Street Arts attract tens of thousands of people who would not normally attend a theatre performance, a key consideration when inclusivity is increasingly regarded as a vital criterion for public funding.
The sessions on Greening the Theatre will take forward the Mayor of London's Climate Change Plan for London Theatre, as well as taking a fundamental look at new directions for drama in the face of global warming. The traditional theatre is not very environmentally friendly; sets end up in landfill, lighting and stage machinery create tonnes of CO2 and theatre buildings, even modern ones, are poorly insulated. How can all this change? Sessions will be chaired by Nick Moran, Pathway Leader for Performance Design at The Central School, with contributions from Anna Beech from the Mayor's office, Ben Todd of the Arcola Theatre. The Conference will also launch a joint programme with the Bartlett School of Architecture to design a mobile green theatre space, which will subsequently be built and taken on tour.
The UK's only Centre for Excellence in Training in Theatre was created by The Central School of Speech and Drama. It works to provide a national resource for vocational performing arts training and learning, a focus for theatre research and scholarship, and a site for collaboration, nationally and internationally, between industry, Higher Education and specialist training providers.
The conference takes place from Wednesday 16th April to Friday 18th April at The Central School of Speech and Drama, Embassy Theatre, Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY. Contact:s: Geraldine Sharpe-Newton gsn@sharpeconnections.net 07771 765989 and Amber Massie-Blomfield amber.massie-blomfield@cssd.ac.uk 020 7722 8183.
2nd April 2008
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