Monthly Archive for March, 2009

Arts in Society Conference on Common Ground Youtube Page

Published on March 17, 2009 in News. 0 Comments

Common Ground has launched its own YouTube page devoted to the Arts in Society Conference. You can now upload your PowerPoint presentations, videos and see plenary presentations to the site. For more information please visit the website at: http://artsinsociety.com/conference-2009/online-presentations/

Recently uploaded videos include the plenary presentation of Andrew Selby from TRACEY: The Online Journal of Contemporary Drawing Research at the 2008 Arts Conference, Birmingham, UK.

To view other recent downloads and to join the Common Ground Arts Conference YouTube Group please click here.

International Award for Excellence in the area of the Arts

Published on March 11, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Congratulations to Prof. Leoni Schmidt, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the area of the arts with the paper  Relational Drawing as Pedagogical Action: Locational Strategies.

 Paper abstract: Drawing in relational mode emphasises process and tends to be propadeutic, incomplete and provisional. It opens boundaries for interdisciplinary visual arts practices and entails the mapping of points in space deployed through locational mapping strategies involving bodies-in-action. The translation from ideas to open-ended materialisation is crucial to relational drawing. ??Three case studies are presented and analysed. The projects involved play out in particular contexts in Aotearoa New Zealand where they have geopolitical and pedagogical implications. On the periphery of centres of visual arts production, the projects make their own respective impacts and undermine claims to universality within the larger arena of contemporary visual arts production in the world. Through the provisional register of their relational drawing registers the projects enable ongoing negotation through collaborative action and communal learning.

The International Conference on the Arts in Society

Published on March 10, 2009 in Conference. 0 Comments

28-31 July 2009
Venice, Italy
www.Arts-Conference.com

Northern Student Scriptwriters’ Conference

Published on March 9, 2009 in Events. 0 Comments

11 March 2009, University of Bolton, Bolton, UK

12 March 2009, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

www.bolton.ac.uk

http://www2.hud.ac.uk/mhm/drama/index.php

www.thenervecentre.org.uk

On Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th March, the Universities of Bolton and Huddersfield are collaborating to host the first Northern Student Scriptwriters’ Conference across two locations.

This two day conference is an opportunity for undergraduates, postgraduates and new and emerging writers to learn about the mechanics of the scriptwriting industry and to participate in workshops and garner advice from successfully established writers.  The first day of the conference at the University of Bolton deals specifically with Film and Television writing, whilst the second day at the University of Huddersfield concentrates on Theatre and Radio writing.

Enquiries can be made via jks1@bolton.ac.uk / 01204 903331.

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Theatre after 1989 in East and Central Europe, International Conference

Published on March 9, 2009 in Call for papers and Events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

27-28 November 2009

Brussels, Belgium

Call for Papers – submissions required by 24 April 2009. Send all submissions and inquires to sflock@ulb.ac.be.

1989 was a great turn in the history of East Central Europe. Twenty years after the fall of Berlin’s wall, the Centre for Czech Studies of Brussels Free University has chosen to investigate on the post-1989 period and to focus its reflection on performing arts. The conference will be held on the symbolic date of 27th and 28th November to commemorate the success of the Velvet Revolution. During those two days, we will propose to question historically and artistically the post-1989 period and the perspectives of the new stage in East Central Europe. Speakers will not only be historians and theatrologs, but also artists. The aims of this gathering are to examine 1989 insisting on differences and similarities in East Central European theatre, encompassing all generations, as well as to define its very new characteristics.

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