Past Events
Introduction to the TheatreSpace Project
9:00am - 11:30am, Fri 13-11-09Professor John O’Toole, on behalf of the TheatreSpace Team, would like to invite members of the public to an Introduction to the TheatreSpace Project.
This event will coincide with the TheatreSpace Symposium, a day-long meeting at the Brisbane Powerhouse. This interim meeting midway through the project will be an important opportunity for the TheatreSpace Team and our Industry Partners to come together to discuss some of the initial findings and emergent themes emanating from the research.
We are opening the first session of the TheatreSpace Symposium to partners, invited guests and members of the public so that the research team and project partners can introduce the project to the wider community and creative industries.
Date – Friday 13th November 2009
Time – 9am for 9.30am – 11.30am (includes morning tea)
Venue – Brisbane Powerhouse 19 Lamington Street, New Farm, Qld
RSVP by midday Monday 9th November to Tim Stitz
tstitz [at] unimelb.edu.au, 03 8344 9729.
Matthew Reason - Experiencing Art
4:57pm - 4:57pm, Mon 07-11-11Arts Education Semester 2, 2011 Colloquium Series
Embracing variously phenomenology, audience research, flux events and participatory enquiry this presentation explores what is meant by the experience of art. It considers the immediate, sensorial experience; the longer experience that resonates in our lasting imagination; the anticipatory experience; the latent and manifest experiences; the engaged experience and the dissatisfied non-experience.
The presentation draws on research that Matthew has conducted with both adult and young audiences to dance and theatre performances utilising a range of methodologies – including drawing, creative writing, participatory enquiry, diaries, focus groups and interviews – and reflects on how this has informed and problematised his understanding of what he was trying to research in the first place.
Matthew Reason is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Head of Programme for MA Studies in Creative Practice at York St John University. His research explores themes relating to audiences and the experience of art and theatre, theatre for young audiences, cultural policy, liveness, performance documentation and reflective practice in theatre pedagogy. Publications include Documentation, Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance (Palgrave 2006) and The Young Audience: Exploring and Enhancing Children’s Experiences of Theatre (Trentham 2010). He has recently completed working on a major three year AHRC funded project titled ‘Watching Dance: Kinesthetic Empathy’. This project explored dance audiences through the use of neuroscience and qualitative audience research and is a collaboration between the universities of Manchester, York St John, Glasgow and Imperial College London. An edited volume (with Dee Reynolds) on Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices will be published by Intellect in December 2011.
Monday, 7th November, 2011
5.15 – 6.45 pm
Frank Tate Room, Level 9, 100 Leicester Street, Carlton
Enquiries:
Dr Richard Sallis / 83448799 / sallis@unimelb.edu.au
Ms Jennifer Stevens-Ballenger / 83448368 / jstev@unimelb.edu.au
TheatreSpace Symposium
Wed 16-11-11The major findings of the TheatreSpace study will be launched at the TheatreSpace Symposium. This forum will be the first of its kind to incorporate theatre companies, arts venue managements, educational providers and young theatregoers. The event will host international presenters and convene panels made up of performing arts industry members, teachers and young people involved in the research.
Monday 14 – Wednesday 16 November 2011
Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House
Expressions of Interests to attend this event have now closed.
An overview of the program is below.
Engaging Young Audiences
9:29am - 9:29am, Thu 17-11-11A research colloquium brought to you by the Australia Council for the Arts and the TheatreSpace project.
On 17 November, the Australia Council for the Arts will host a research colloquium ‘Engaging young audiences’, in collaboration with the TheatreSpace project.
The colloquium is an opportunity to join leading researchers and experts in discussion about the latest in young audience research.
Hear about the latest findings, and share your ideas about the future research agenda for young people and audience engagement, creative expression, digital media, marketing, education and access.
To register and for more information please go here.