The Church of the Lost Souls Highlands & Islands – Common Ground - by Elly Goodman and Neil Packham, Glasgow Citizens Theatre and Ben Harrison, Grid Iron Theatre Company Elly Goodman and Neil Packham, Glasgow Citizens Theatre and Ben Harrison, Grid Iron Theatre Company discuss their work, followed by Q&A The Citizens Theatre is an iconic venue and theatre company based in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. The Citizens Theatre is firmly rooted in its local community, working regularly with local groups. Our Citizens Learning team is committed to enhancing the lives of all kinds and ages of people in Glasgow and beyond; producing theatre for children and young people, community productions and delivering a pioneering range of creative participatory projects for varied communities and in the education sector. Ben Harrison is Co-Artistic Director of Scottish theatre company Grid Iron. He also works all over the world as a freelance director. Recent work includes his first opera Bolted for Sound Festival Aberdeen, The Authorised Kate Bane for Grid Iron, Biding Time (Remix) for Tromolo Productions/ A Band Called Quinn and Hadda and Hassan Lekliches! for Oran Mor/NTS. The Tailor of Inverness which he directed for Dogstar in 2008 has just completed its sixth tour in Spring 2013 to Sweden, Denmark, Ireland and Wales. His production of Peter Pan for 360 Entertainment toured the US for two years from 2010, visiting San Francisco, Costa Mesa, Atlanta, Chicago and Boston. SATURDAY 18TH OF JULY, 4:30PM – €5 REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE, LETTERKENNY DURATION 90 MINUTES PER SESSION – FOR AGES 16+ WEBSITE – WWW.CITZ.CO.UK / WWW.BENHARRISON.INFO
- a magical mystery tour setting out from An Grianán Theatre and making time to find spaces and connections Facilitated by some of the invited artists, this magical mystery tour will travel to forgotten times and unexpected histories, exploring landscapes and memories. Strong shoes and an open mind are essential. SUNDAY 19TH OF JULY, 9.45AM – BUS DEPARTS AT 10AM €5 – AN GRIANÁN THEATRE, LETTERKENNY DURATION 150 MINUTES – FOR AGES 16+
Local Theatre for Local People – the Donegal Experience - with Little John Nee, Bread and Roses, LUXe, An Grianán Theatre, Guy Le Jeune Local artists will provide their perspectives, reflecting on their own practice and ideas for the future. SUNDAY 19TH OF JULY, 2:30PM – €5 REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE, LETTERKENNY DURATION 90 MINUTES – FOR AGES 16+
in association with An Grianán Theatre present…
BEYOND THE PALE MEET THE MAKERS 17TH – 19TH JULY 2015
What are we Going to do Now? - a round table discussion, chaired by Doctor Matt Jennings, looking towards the future, with an opportunity to ask questions and suggest new ways of working. A chance for delegates and invited artists to discuss the weekend and the opportunities for collaborative projects in the future. SUNDAY 19TH OF JULY, 4:30PM – FREE REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE, LETTERKENNY DURATION 90 MINUTES PER SESSION – FOR AGES 16+
A first for the Earagail Arts Festival, we are delighted to welcome international community theatre artists and practitioners to Donegal. This weekend symposium offers the opportunity for delegates to discover fresh ways of working, make new connections and look forward to novel creative partnerships. With a series of presentations, workshops and discussions, we hope the weekend will entertain, challenge and empower. FOR MORE INFO & FREE ONLINE BOOKING VISIT WWW.EAF.IE OR TELEPHONE +353 (0) 74 9120777 WEEKEND PASS – €20 FOR ALL EVENTS
Symposium Opening & Keynote Address -
From Community Theatre to a Theatre of the Community - by Eugene Van Erven, Artistic Director of the International Community Arts Festival, Rotterdam.
Making Something of our own, Taking Something Away
This keynote speech from Eugene Van Erven, addresses the challenges of making theatre in a community setting, the opportunities it presents and the different approaches of international artists who have attended ICAF in the past. Eugene van Erven holds a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Vanderbilt University (1985, US). He has worked at Victoria University in Wellington (New Zealand) and at Utrecht University (Humanities, University College), where he has taught literature and drama courses.
- a Declan Gorman Masterclass Declan entered the theatre professionally in 1985, when he played the lead role in Iwan Goll’s German Expressionist drama ‘Methusalem’, in a version adapted by director, Joe O’Byrne. Joe and Declan jointly formed Co-Motion Theatre Company at a time of remarkable ferment among a new generation of artists, musicians and theatremakers in Ireland, and the company – along with Rough Magic, Red Kettle, Passion Machine and others – blazed the trail for the independent sector in Ireland. After five years of producing and performing with Co-Motion, he left to branch out into areas of community-engaged theatre and arts, joining City Arts Centre as the Theatre Programme Director. This socially-engaged dimension has remained an important part of his practice ever since. In 1997 he established Upstate Theatre Project, Drogheda with a number of community and theatre activists.
Between 2004 and 2006 he conducted oral history research and taught in the Caribbean island of Aruba. He has been back at Utrecht University since then, teaching in the theatre studies department and working ‘on loan’ to the Community Art Lab of the Peace Treaty of Utrecht and as artistic director of the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam. FRIDAY 17TH OF JULY, 5PM – FREE REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE, LETTERKENNY DURATION 90 MINUTES – FOR AGES 16+ WEBSITE – WWW.ICAFROTTERDAM.COM
SATURDAY 18TH OF JULY, 1:30PM & 3PM – €5 REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE, LETTERKENNY DURATION 60 MINUTES PER SESSION – FOR AGES 16+
Open Spaces, Different Places
Making Something of our own, Taking Something Away
- by Stella Duffy and Philip Parr
- by Crows on the Wire – Cultural Diplomacy through the Arts: Drama workshop masterclass on issue-based facilitation using digital and audio-visual resources.
Stella Duffy and Philip Parr discuss their work, followed by Q&A Stella Duffy is the Founder and Co-Director of Fun Palaces. Stella has worked in theatre for over 30 years as an actor, director, playwright, facilitator and workshop leader. She is an award-winning writer with over fifty short stories, ten plays, and thirteen novels published in fifteen languages. She regularly writes about the arts, women’s, LGBT and cancer-related issues. From 2010-2013 she led the Chaosbaby Project, a multi-disciplinary arts project made by 30 artists, ages 17-70, working together in Open Space over three years to create The Chaosbaby show. She is an Associate Artist with Improbable and the Artistic Director of Shaky Isles Theatre. Philip Parr is a director of theatre, opera and festivals. He is co-director of the specialist Community Play company Parrabbola and Artistic Director of major festivals and events in the UK and abroad. Philip was born in New York City and educated in Australia at Sydney University and the University of New South Wales. He has
worked as an actor, singer, musician, composer and puppeteer and is now a theatre and opera director. He was director of the 2006 Bath International Shakespeare Festival, and has just completed six year term as Director of the Swaledale Festival in Yorkshire, which presents chamber music of all genres. In 2008 he was Artistic Director for the Holocaust Memorial Day National Event, part of the European City of Culture celebrations in Liverpool.
Produced by the Verbal Arts Centre ‘Crows on the Wire’ is a cultural project which dramatises the transition of the RUC to the PSNI as a result of the Good Friday Agreement from the perspective of those most directly impacted, the rank and file officer. The original script was commissioned from writer Jonathan Burgess and the performance, accompanied by public discussions and community drama engagement, toured NI in November 2013. Aimed at young people, the COTW App was produced in 2014, and in 2015 the focus is on engaging with cross-border and rural communities through discussion, drama and audio-visual resources.
SATURDAY 18TH OF JULY, 10AM – €5 REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE, LETTERKENNY DURATION 90 MINUTES – FOR AGES 16+ WEBSITE – WWW.FUNPALACES.CO.UK / WWW.PARRABBOLA.CO.UK
SATURDAY 18TH OF JULY, 1:30PM & 3PM – €5 REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE, LETTERKENNY DURATION 60 MINUTES PER SESSION – FOR AGES 16+ WEBSITE – WWW.CROWSONTHEWIRE.CO