Interchange 2016 Event Information event for those who use drama and theatre in their work with young people.
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annual training event for those who use drama and theatre in their work with young people. Now in its 12th year, this two-day event provides a range of learning opportunities for delegates of all levels, skills and abilities.
Date:
Saturday 12 Sunday 13 March 2016
Venue:
Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, PA15 1HJ
Price:
Full weekend*: £150 for YTAS members / £200 for non-members Sat or Sun only: £90 for YTAS members / £120 for non-members *Bursaries available for weekend delegates
Produced by Youth Theatre Arts Scotland (YTAS) in partnership with the Beacon Arts Centre, Interchange 2016 offers a weekend programme of structured networking sessions and hands-on professional development workshops delivered by inspiring facilitators from Scotland and further afield.
Interchange delegate
The event encourages you to exchange ideas, compare experience and establish new professional contacts with others who share your interest in youth theatre arts. You will be invigorated by group warm-ups, challenged by workshops and inspired by performances from local youth theatre groups. There will be plenty of opportunities to socialise and network throughout the weekend and the terchange Music Café n evening drink. Saturday also offers I , a performance programme aimed at encouraging you to consider the varying approaches to youth theatre within different contexts. Local Inverclyde youth theatres will share works-in-progress followed by post-show Q&A sessions.
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland looks forward to welcoming you to Interchange 2016!
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Event venue Opened in 2013, the Beacon Arts Centre is now most visited destinations. The building features two performance areas plus waterside spaces which provide a beautiful and atmospheric setting for rehearsals, workshops, meetings and much more. The venue provides a year round programme of dance, drama, music and children It is also a hub for creativity for the area, featuring in-house youth theatre and youth dance companies.
Who can attend Interchange? Interchange is open to anyone over the age of 18. Each year the conference welcomes around 80 delegates including:
freelance youth theatre practitioners; artistic directors of youth theatres; volunteer drama facilitators; aspiring youth theatre leaders; primary and secondary school drama teachers; undergraduates studying all areas of the performing arts; creative learning managers of theatre companies; artists who work in participatory settings; and youth workers who use creativity to engage young people.
Event programme
Sunday 13 March
Saturday 12 March
Please note: The following timings are approximate and subject to change. From 9.15am
Delegate Registration
9.50am 10.20am
YTAS Welcome followed by Group Warm-up
10.30am 1pm
Workshop 1
1pm - 2.30pm
Networking Lunch
2.30pm 5pm
Workshop 2
5pm 5.45pm
Pre-dinner drinks (cash bar) and Networking
5.45pm 7.00pm
Dinner
7.15pm 8.30pm
Performances and Post-show Discussions
8.30pm 10.30pm
Music Café a chance to socialise and relax
From 9.15am
Tea/Coffee
10am 10.30am
Group Warm-up
10.30am 1pm
Workshop 3
1pm 2pm
Networking Lunch
2pm 4.30pm
Workshop 4
4.30pm 5pm
YTAS Goodbye and close
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Workshop programme
Developing skills at events like this in turn develops the quality of the youth theatre we make and this is what we need. Interchange delegate The Interchange workshop programme provides 10 hours of hands-on professional development workshops which are relevant, high quality and delivered by inspiring facilitators from Scotland and further afield.
When you book your place at Interchange, you will be asked to select workshop Route 1 or Route 2.
If you choose Route 1, you will take part in a weekend-long training programme.
If you choose Route 2, you will select 4 workshops to attend over the full weekend or 2 workshops if you are attending for one day only.
Route 1: Mentoring the Next Creative Generation Format:
Certificated CPD training programme (full weekend delegates only)
Facilitated by:
Helen Le Brocq, Artswork. England
Content:
In-depth and practical mentoring techniques to develop and nurture the skills, knowledge and experience of creative young people.
Suitable for:
Educators, youth workers, individuals or organisations looking to develop mentor programmes, creative learning departments.
Route 2: Excellence in Engagement Format:
Workshop titles and facilitators:
Weekend delegates: Select 4 out of a choice of 5 workshops One-day delegates: Select 2 out of a choice of 4 workshops
Creating socially conscious theatre with and for young people. - Ava Hunt
lay: Approaches to devising performances for and with children and young people. - Matt Addicott
Risky Business: Safely investing - Nathaniel Hall
Suitable for:
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dance! Gail Sneddon
Directing is directing is directing. - Andy McGregor
People who use drama and theatre in their work with young people in any context. Page 4 of 10
Route 1: Mentoring the Next Creative Generation
Saturday & Sunday
 If you choose Route 1, you will take part in 4 connected sessions over the weekend. You will also receive a Youth Theatre Arts Scotland certificate on completion of the course.
Facilitator:
Helen Le Brocq, Artswork, England Artswork is committed to transforming the lives of children and young people through arts and cultural practice through the development of leadership and skills. Mentoring young creatives both formally and informally is vital to their work with young people.
Workshop Summary:
About the facilitator:
the skills, knowledge and experience of young creative people. Participants will gain a practical framework for best practice mentoring, knowledge about the principles which shape great mentoring development, as well as your own. There will also be an opportunity for personalised mentoring advice about how mentoring might work in your own context, develop your own programme, and a chance to make links with other organisations and participants on the course. The four sessions will be practical and lively, with examples from both England Young Arts Leaders Programme. Helen brings stories and experience to help you decide on what will work best for you and your young people. Helen specialises in devising arts projects that are irresistibly engaging to reach the most vulnerable young people, and in mentoring emerging young artists at the start of their careers in participatory arts. She is an experienced arts consultant and trainer, and is at the heart of developing and growing national initiatives, such as the English Youth Arts Network and the Arts Awards.
Route 2: Excellence in Engagement Please note: Route 2 workshops will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.  If you choose Route 2, you must select 2 workshops for each day you are attending. Saturday workshop options
Sunday workshop options
Creating socially conscious theatre with and for young people.
Creating socially conscious theatre with and for young people.
performances for and with children and young people.
Play: Approaches to devising performances for and with children and young people.
performance.
Risky Business: S performance. Directing is directing is directing.
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Here are full details of each workshop in Route 2:
Workshop 1:
Saturday or Sunday
Title:
Creating socially conscious theatre with and for young people
Facilitator:
Ava Hunt tre or should we, on the contrary, aim to (Boal 1992)
Workshop Summary:
About the facilitator:
Workshop 2:
We may want to achieve both good theatre and theatre that stimulates reflection, argument and action but what is socially conscious theatre? What are the starting points? How do we facilitate young people to create theatre about issues that are relevant to them? This practical workshop will explore the answers to these questions through a range of different approaches and techniques. Ava trained as an actor and has worked in political and socially conscious theatre for over thirty years. She works as an actor, director, youth theatre producer, researcher and programmer for, amongst others, Hull Truck Theatre and Shared Experience. Commissioned by Amnesty International (Derbyshire), Ava created Acting Alone, a verbatim piece that asks questions such as an one person make a difference, and
Saturday or Sunday
Title:
lay: Approaches to devising performances for and with children and young people.
Facilitator:
Matt Addicott Engagement with a child is not an investment in the future a human being now Purni Morrell
Workshop Summary:
About the facilitators:
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This workshop will explore a variety of approaches to creating meaningful devised work with younger audiences. Participants will be led through exercises and games designed to generate new and original performance material. As well as offering some helpful starting points, this session will also explore techniques for shaping and developing those initial ideas through a playful and collaborative creative process. Matt is a freelance performance maker and director, he also works at Platform in Easterhouse, Glasgow programming performances and managing the theatre activity. He has made numerous performances, installations and films for children and young people. Matt spent two years working for Imaginate and was Starcatchers Artist in Residence at Platform. Recent productions for younger audiences include: Friends Electric (Visible Fictions) and Eat Me
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Workshop 3:
Saturday or Sunday
Title:
Risky Business: S
Facilitator:
Nathaniel Hall
Workshop Summary:
About the facilitator:
Workshop 4:
On Risk and Investment as a starting point, participants will explore how they, as artists, can invest their lived experience safely in autobiographical work. What does it really mean to risk, invest and fail in performance? And how can we stop our work from becoming too self-indulgent? This workshop will look at a techniques from physical theatre through to devising and
Nathaniel currently works in the participation department for award-winning 20 Stories High (Liverpool) and has recently assisted Contact Young Company (Manchester) and director Stacy Makishi in the creation of Under the Covers ,a radical, bold and provocative piece about young people, sex, sexuality, gender and sexual politics Chrysalis festival. Nathaniel is a theatre-making, interior-designing, melody-composing, beat-laying, cake-baking, model-posing, fashion-styling, teenage-dreaming jack-of-all-trades. He studied contemporary Theatre and Performance at Bretton Hall, graduating in 2008 with a first class degree and no idea how to use it.
Saturday
Title: Facilitator:
Gail Sneddon
Workshop Summary:
This practical workshop explores how to approach physicality and choreography which builds confidence and is inclusive for all. With a strong focus on skills to encourage young people to look beyond their self-perceived limitations within an environment that is energetic, safe and fun.
About the facilitator:
Gail is based at the Beacon Arts Centre where she is the Dance Development Officer for Inverclyde. She graduated from Laban in 1997 and as a performer has worked for companies such as Nigel Charnock, Athina Vahla and Ersatz. n 2000 Gail set up her own company Modusforum, creating performance/installation-based works concentrating on combining movement with sound and spatial design. In 2011 she was CoMĂŠnage a Trois.
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Workshop 5:
Sunday
Title:
Directing is directing is directing
Facilitator:
Andy McGregor
Workshop Summary:
With particular focus on how to create new work whilst keeping the actor engaged and always alive and in the moment, this workshop will explore directing and devising techniques that are as relevant and as workable in a youth theatre context as they are in a professional rehearsal room.
About the facilitator:
Andy McGregor is a theatre director, composer and award-winning writer. He trained at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Andy has worked for the Citizens Theatre, the Royal Lyceum Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland, Vox Motus and The Royal Court and has had his work presented internationally. He co-founded Largs Youth Theatre and the Beacon Youth Theatre and currently works at the latter whilst directing for his company, Sleeping Warrior, and lecturing at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Interchange delegate fee All delegates have the option of attending all or part of the Interchange weekend. 1.
Full Weekend Fee (Saturday 12 Sunday 13 March)
£150 for YTAS members £200 for non-members Full weekend bursaries are available on application (see page 9 for furtherdetails)
2. One-Day Only Fee (Saturday 12 March or Sunday 13 March )
£90 for YTAS members £120 for non-members
Your Interchange delegate fee includes: Full Weekend: £150 / £200
One-Day Only: £90 / £120 Sunday 13 March:
Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 March:
Saturday 12 March :
- 10 hours of professional development workshops
- 5 hours of professional development workshops.
- 5 hours of professional development workshops.
- A Youth Theatre Arts Scotland CPD certificate
- Interchange delegate pack
- Interchange delegate pack
- Morning tea, coffee, pastries, lunch and dinner with wine
- Morning tea, coffee, pastries, lunch and dinner with wine
- Morning tea, coffee, pastries and lunch
- Youth theatre performances
- Youth theatre performances
- Evening Music Café and social event
- Evening Music Café and social event
(including a CPD log).
(including a CPD log).
(on completion of Route 1)
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How to book To secure your place at Interchange 2016 please complete the online booking form at www.ytas.org.uk/interchange Follow the event discussion on Twitter at #Interchange2016
Payment options 1.
Pay in full online via credit card or PayPal at the time of booking.
2. Pay in full via cheque or bank transfer within 30 days of receipt of our invoice. 3. Pay a 25% non-refundable deposit at the time of booking and 75% one week before the event* via cheque or bank transfer. *Your payment must be made in full no later than Friday 4 March 2016
Bursaries We are delighted to be able to offer 3 full weekend bursaries. The bursaries cover the booking fee only and do not include accommodation or travel costs. Bursary places will be offered as follows: Route 1: Mentoring the Next Creative Generation
One bursary place
Route 2: Excellence in Engagement
Two bursary places
Bursaries are available to YTAS members who have not previously been awarded a bursary and who: a. can demonstrate a genuine need for financial assistance; b. can demonstrate a genuine need for a training opportunity at this point in their career; and c. can explain what impact they expect attending Interchange to have on their work with young people. If you meet the above criteria, and would like to apply for a bursary, please complete a Bursary Application Form and email it to abigail@ytas.org.uk.  Bursary application deadline Friday 12 February 2016 Please note: We ask that all bursary applicants also complete an Interchange booking form online in order to provisionally reserve their place and preferred workshops. If you are not awarded a bursary and choose not to attend the event as a paying delegate, you will not be charged for reserving your place online. If you would like to apply for a bursary but are not yet a member of YTAS, you can join from £15 a year. Full details of how to join YTAS are available here. Bursaries will be awarded by the YTAS Board of Directors and all successful applicants will be required to provide post-event feedback detailing how the bursary helped their professional development.
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Getting to Interchange 2016 By Train The nearest train station to the Beacon Arts Centre is Greenock Central which is served by regular* trains from Glasgow Central station (average 38 min journey time). It is an 8 minute walk to the Beacon Arts Centre from Greenock Central station. *Check Sunday options as there are only two early trains on Sunday morning By Bus main bus terminal on is a 15 minute walk from the Beacon Arts Centre. However, if you are travelling to and from Glasgow there is a stop at Cartsdyke, after Knowe Road on Main Street, which is a 6 minute walk from the Beacon (average journey time is 1 hour). To plan your journey by train or bus visit Traveline Scotland By Car The Beacon Arts Centre (PA15 1HJ) is easily accessible by road and has its own car park. Delegate may like to consider lift shares using services such as National Carshare, or GoCarShare. Accommodation Greenock offers hotel accommodation to suit all budgets. Here are a few options close to the Beacon Arts Centre:
Premier Inn Greenock 6 min by car or 20 min walk from the Beacon Arts Centre
The Tontine Hotel 5 min by car or 20 min walk from the Beacon Arts Centre
Holiday Inn Express Greenock 3 min by car or 11 min walk from the Beacon Arts Centre
Waterfront Apartments (self-catering) 1 min by car or 1 min walk from the Beacon Arts Centre
The Bay Hotel 1 min walk to the Beacon Arts Centre
Additional information about Interchange
Please be reminded that all Route 2 workshops are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
If you have to cancel your booking, and are able to find someone willing to take your place, we will administer this transfer and waive any cancellation fee.
For all Interchange enquiries please contact abigail@ytas.org.ukor call 0131 538 0591.
About Youth Theatre Arts Scotland Youth Theatre Arts Scotland (YTAS) is the national development organisation for youth theatre. Our mission is to transform lives through youth theatre by developing inspiring participatory opportunities for young people in Scotland, and by connecting, supporting and training those who work with them. To find out more please call 0131 538 0591 or visit www.ytas.org.uk and www.facebook.com/YTArtsScot Acknowledgements Youth Theatre Arts Scotland gratefully acknowledges investment from Creative Scotland and partnership support from the Beacon Arts Centre. Youth Theatre Arts Scotland is a Scottish Registered Charity No. SC 035765 Page 10 of 10