WAAE Seminar October 26 about the impact of the arts and arts education 

Link to Archive of this seminar https://creative-generation.org/waae-virtual-seminar-archive

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WHERE DO WE STAND?

WORLD MAPPING OF POLICIES, POLITICS AND DRAMA/ THEATRE EDUCATION

The Webinar has as its main goal to showcase different situations, case studies (including success and failure stories), tactics and strategies of organizations and groups dedicated to drama/theatre education.

Members of IDEA, and the organization itself, are working on its common political goal of drama/theatre education for all in schools and communities. 

We need to get inspired and learn how to activate and reactivate programs (in schools and on-line) and empower our community to address cultures of policies and politics, influencing the decision makers about the situation of drama/theatre in our countries.

November 28

More information here.

Young Voices in Theatre and Education- with a focus on the Young IDEA LAB I

Organised by: Young IDEA in collaboration with IDEA

The next international webinar from IDEA will take place online on the 11th of October on Zoom.
Theatre as well as theatre in education has been hit hard by the consequences of Covid19, but young theatre makers around the world have not been short of ideas to keep making art and are trying innovative things everyday. We decided to create a virtual space where young theatre makers and theatre educators present their work, discuss, share and get inspired from each other's ideas and work!
In this webinar young IDEA will present the young IDEA Lab I transcultural project with young creators and educators that took place in Togo just before the pandemic. After that young practitioners (until 35 years old) will share their experiments, current projects and traditions that might inspire you. Young people sharing projects, works, innovative ideas about making theatre and theatre in education in the times of social distancing! In the second half of the webinar the participants will have the opportunity to discuss and exchange opinions on: "How can we make theatre when we can not meet in a physical space?" in Zoom breakout rooms in English, French, Mandarin and Spanish!
To attend this free of charge webinar: go to https://forms.gle/2tomBrh9EoR5b36e9 and fill out the form!
You will receive a zoom link per email.

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Maria Nefeli Angeloglou

Theaterpädagogin

Tel. 015227370888

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Invitation from ABRA

As ABRA's international liaison coordinator, I would like to invite you (and the members of your national and professional networks), to participate in our 2020 webinar-based Good Living Forum. 

It will offer English, French and Spanish almost simultaneous translation, and is focussed on the transformation of climate collapse through arts-based pedagogies into an opportunity for nurturing Good Living as an alternative, plurinational paradigm project.

Please ask those who are interested to get in touch with me. We are still experimenting in formats that allow us to create a participatory, intimate, creative and courageous methodology, and are interested in quality participation. So we will keep numbers to less than 60.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

All the best

Dan

Dan Baron Cohen

whatsapp: 0055 91 98842 0521 

With sadness, IDEA notes the death of Mine Lark, Chair of National Drama (UK)

We are deeply sad to inform our IDEA members that Aine Lark, the Chair of National Drama, died in hospital on 27^thSeptember 2020, after a short battle with cancer.  She died peacefully, surrounded by her family.  Aine was just 50 years old.  Anyone who met Aine is going to remember her lovely smile, her considerable energy and her unstinting commitment to Drama, Theatre and Education in its many forms.  Aine became Chair of National Drama in 2015, having been a long standing executive member of National Drama.  As ND Chair, she attended IDEA Europe meetings and contributed committedly to the Theatre and Young People Manifesto at the World Alliance for Arts Education conference in Frankfurt.  Aine was a secondary drama teacher, much loved and respected by her students and in recent years had started also teaching primary children at the boarding school where she worked.  She was a tireless campaigner and avid networker, leading National Drama into working with and helping, a diverse range of partners in the world of drama and theatre education.  Aine always rose cheerfully and enthusiastically, to any challenge.  Just weeks before she died, she was relentlessly organising many CPD events online for National Drama, as well as continuing to teach her own students.  She only stopped working for Drama, when her unexpected ill health forced her to.  Aine will be sadly missed by all who were fortunate enough to know her and work with her.  She died too young but has given so much to others that lives on.

Patrice Baldwin

IDEA Europe regional network - annual meeting online!

The Coordination Committee of IDEA Europe have now the following plan (below) for our meeting in October, which will be online. You are welcome to send proposals into this draft agenda.  In good time before meeting you will get technical info how the meeting will happen.

Image: IDEA EU meeting in Frankfurt November 1 2019.

Friday 23 October

The Drama and Theatre Education Alliance represents a network of leading association to: 

• Create a stronger, coherent and connected lobbying voice for drama and theatre;
• Present collective responses to government policies;
• Share information and knowledge concerning developments in individual associations, in order to be better informed;
• Agree and implement strategies that will raise the profile of learning through drama and theatre in schools and theatres.

This group include: Action for Children’s Arts, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, London Drama, London Theatre Consortium, National Drama, NST (Nuffield Southampton Theatres), SCUDD (The Standing Conference of University Drama Departments), Theatre Education Forum, Theatre Workout; and are supported by others