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Northern Ireland Theatre Association (NITA) and Theatre Forum present

All-Ireland Performing Arts Conference Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick

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5–6 June 2014

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Join us in Limerick for the 2014 All-Ireland Performing Arts Conference. Whether you’re an individual artist or managing a venue, a performing arts freelancer or working in a funded arts organisation, this year’s conference is about your concerns and our community. It’s time for hard truths, some imaginative thinking but most of all, about creating a platform, where despite and because of our varied interests and experiences, we can come together.

The hard questions we’ve been asking and the challenges we’re facing will be answered with some realistic, achievable and visionary possibilities. Bright minds, stories to inspire, delight, provoke and rally you will come from far flung cities and our own back yards. Be ready to interrogate, ignite and bring these possibilities to life. Whether you’re a maker or a shaker, your voice and answers are needed to shape the way ahead.

We’ll be asking questions about The Artist as Entrepreneur, Resource Sharing, Young Philanthropists, The Producer Problem, The Playwright-Director Crossover, Venues Commissioning Performance, If you build it, will they come?, Raving, Playing, Thinking and Changing.

Speakers include

Bryony Kimmings Arts Pool Enda Walsh Mikel Murfi Gina Moxley Dan Colley Annette Nugent Charles Dorfman Ger McNaughton Emma Gladstone Matt Fenton THEATREclub Louise Donlon and more. #APAC14

About the Programme The APAC14 programme, curated by Róise Goan, is designed to bring together and inspire the now disparate and increasingly independent community of theatre and dance professionals North and South. It will provide an engaging agenda, relevant to producers, artists, arts managers, designers, technicians, post-graduate students on all vocational courses and arts management programmes. The topics acknowledge the reality that most people making and managing theatre and dance at early, mid and advanced career levels are facing hard questions. There will be stimulating break-out sessions with opportunities to participate, though the majority of conference time will be spent together. Speakers and delegates will explore bold ideas on where to next as well as deeply practical suggestions in response to the problems and challenges faced by all.

So save the dates. Book your tickets.

And join us for APAC14.

Time Registration starts from 12.00 on Thursday 5 June and the conference will close on Friday 6 June at 15.45 to facilitate delegates travelling to and from Limerick. The Lime Tree Theatre is the main conference venue.

Ticket prices Early Bird (until 16 May) €80 / £66 Standard Member Ticket (from 17 May) €110 / £90 Non-members All tickets €175 / £144 Your conference ticket covers access to all conference sessions, your lunch on both days, as well as dinner and the evening programme too.

Sterling prices are approximate. The exchange rate at the time of PayPal purchase will apply.

Early Bird conference tickets Early Bird tickets at €80/ £66 are available to Theatre Forum and NITA members booking conference tickets before 16 May. Buy tickets online using PayPal on www.theatreforum.ie You must be a member to get this Early Bird rate.

Membership information is available on both websites.

Early Bird accommodation rates Details of a range of Limerick accommodation options to suit all pockets and offering preferential rates to APAC14 delegates are on our websites. Early Bird rates are available in Limerick’s 4* Strand and Clarion hotels as well as the very affordable and the convenient off-campus Courtbrack Accommodation too. Book by 16 May by contacting the relevant reservation department directly to get early bird rates.

Getting to Limerick Limerick has good rail, bus and road connections. You’ll find more transport information on our websites.

APAC14 Programme

Thursday 5 June

Friday 6 June

12:00 – 13:30

Registration/Lunch

09:00

Breakfast and coffee

13:30 – 13:45

Welcome

Theatre Forum Chair, Mona Considine and NITA Chair, Louise Rossington address the delegation.

09:30 – 10:30

Produced by the House

13:45 – 14:30

Artists, business and independence

British theatre-maker Bryony Kimmings charts the experience of the mid-career independent theatre-maker and what is required from the sector for the artist to flourish.

14:30 – 16:00

Keynote fragments

Snapshots of where we are and where we could be from Zoë Seaton, Artistic Director of Big Telly, Marc Mac Lochlainn, Artistic Director of Branar, Gina Moxley, playwright, director and actor, Dan Colley, dramaturg and director and Annette Nugent, arts communications consultant.

A lack of work to tour, the challenges of programming work for local audiences as well as interest in socially engaged performance practice have prompted venues to produce work in collaboration with artists.

Challenges, delights and pitfalls are brought to light by Lime Tree Theatre’s Louise Donlon and THEATREclub on the process around MOYROSS and Matt Fenton, previously Director of Live at LICA, on his collaboration with Frank Alva Buecheler and Neil Hannon on the new music theatre work, In May. Chaired by Jimmy Fay.

10:30 – 11:30

ArtsPool on sharing resources

As funding decreases, there’s a need for arts organisations to share and pool resources. This is not unique to Ireland. Sarah Maxfield and Max Dana of ArtsPool, a radical new approach to arts management with shared resources as its primary driver, is currently being piloted in New York City, rooted in experience and led by arts practitioners.

Coffee 16:05 – 16:45

16:45 – 17:45

Think Tanks

In conversation: Enda Walsh and Mikel Murfi

Facilitated discussions that look for answers to two questions.

Question 1: How to fix the producer problem in Irish and Northern Irish theatre and dance?

Question 2: What must we do to protect theatre and dance funding in the next round of Department, Arts Council, Local Authority and District allocations?

A rare opportunity to catch these exceptional artists as they embark on rehearsals for Walsh’s Ballyturk, produced by Landmark Productions. The conversation with Loughlin Deegan focuses on the fluid roles of playwright/ director/ actor in both artists’ processes in the context of their third collaboration on a Walsh play.

17:45 – 18:30

Growing audiences and fostering experimentation

Emma Gladstone, Director of Dance Umbrella London and former New Work Producer at Sadler’s Wells, speaks about growing audiences for dance while continuing to take risks and foster experimentation in live performance.

19.00

Drinks Reception

Limerick City of Culture hosted drinks reception.

Shuttle bus to EVA INTERNATIONAL at the Kerry Group former Golden Vale Milk Plant at O’Callaghan Strand.

20.00 – late

Dinner and Entertainment

Enjoy entertainment after a gourmet dinner prepared by the Limerick Milk Market’s artisan food stallholders.

Coffee 11:30 – 12:15

Think Tanks

Facilitated discussions continued.

Question 1: How to fix the producer problem in Irish and Northern Irish theatre and dance?

Question 2: What must we do to protect theatre and dance funding in the next round of Department, Arts Council, Local Authority and District allocations?

12:15 – 13:15

Young Philanthropists

The Young Philanthropist in the arts landscape is a rare and elusive breed. Charlie Dorfman, chair of London’s National Theatre Young Patrons Committee and Gerard McNaughton, Vice-Chair of Business to Arts, both young but well-established in the world of philanthropy, talk about why they give and what could be done to find and nurture other young philanthropists. Chaired by Anne McReynolds.

Lunch 14.00 – 15:15

Think Tanks presentations

Feedback session. Chaired by NITA and Theatre Forum directors Vincent McCann and Niamh O’Donnell.

15:15 – 15:45

The Last Word

Closing address.

Contact us with your conference questions

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Northern Ireland Theatre Association (NITA) c/o The MAC, 10 Exchange Street West, Belfast, BT1 2NJ | info@nitatheatre.org

Theatre Forum Office 3, 43/44 Temple Bar, Dublin 2 +353 1 677 8779 | info@theatreforum.ie

www.nitatheatre.org | t: @NITAtheatre

www.theatreforum.ie | t: @theatreforumie

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