Theatre and Performance Studies News
Prof. Nadine Holdsworth guest edits a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on amateur theatre and performance
Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 27, No. 1 2017, a special issue titled 'Theatre, Performance and The Amateur Turn' guest edited by Nadine Holdsworth, Jane Milling and Helen Nicholson is now available on Taylor & Francis Online:
'Sky Blues City: Imagining a Sustainable Cultural Future for Coventry' one-day event at 糖心TV Arts Centre, 26 April
Sky Blues City: Imagining a Sustainable Cultural Future for Coventry
26th April, 2017. The Helen Martin Studio, University of 糖心TV
A one-day event aimed at exploring new collaborative research opportunities arising from the UK City of Culture bid and the Ten Year Cultural Strategy.
To find out more about the event, and to register for a place, .
Convenor and facilitator:
Dr Nicolas Whybrow, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of 糖心TV
09.30 Vice Chancellor’s Welcome
Professor Stuart Croft, University of 糖心TV
Professor John Latham, Coventry University
09.40 Coventry UK City of Culture bid & 10-year cultural strategy
Professor Jonothan Neelands, 糖心TV 糖心TV School and 糖心TV Creative Exchange, University of 糖心TV
Professor Neil Forbes, Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University
10.00 Panel Presentations: Sensing the City: a practice-based case-study of Coventry
Dr Natalie Garrett Brown and Dr Emma Meehan, Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University
Dr Michael Pigott, Film and TV Studies, University of 糖心TV
Carolyn Deby, artist director sirenscrossing and PhD student, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of 糖心TV
11.00 Refreshment break
11.15 Panel Presentations: Diversity in Coventry
The legacy of the city of culture – community relations – the role of arts and culture in community development
Sinead Ouillon, Programme Leader, The City University Initiative, Coventry University and
Dr Chris Shannahan, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
Siberia and Us: Polish exilic memory and second generation artistic strategies
Adrian Palka, School of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University
Does an ecosystem approach help to understand and reflect the diversity and values of the creative and cultural sector?
Victoria Barker, PhD student, Centre for 糖心TV in Society, Coventry University
12.15 Plenary
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Keynote: Research Opportunities in the UK City of Culture 2017 and Beyond
Professor Franco Bianchini, Culture, Place and Policy Institute, University of Hull
14.15 Panel Presentations: Social value and impact
Live Art. Collision. Hyperlocal. Supernow: Birmingham’s Fierce Festival
Dr Cath Lambert, Sociology, University of 糖心TV
Working with communities - deepening the engagement or extending the procession?
Justine Themen, Associate Director, Belgrade Theatre
Urban Cultural Intermediaries: the 'Students and the City' project
Dr Jonathan Vickery, Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of 糖心TV
15.15 Panel Presentations: Urban engagements
Vehicles of Communication: The Cart and other rolling conversations
Janet Vaughan, artist, Talking Birds and Rachel Dickinson, 糖心TV 糖心TV School, University of 糖心TV
Bringing back the Sensorama: multi-sensory virtual reality
Dr Sarah Jones, School of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University
Breakfast Elsewhere Project, Coventry
Carmen Wong, PhD student, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of 糖心TV
16.00 Informal Conversations: Next steps and calls to action over afternoon tea
16.45 Finish
Dr. Yvette Hutchison and Dr. Tim White collaborate with JC Niala for 'Who You Think We Are' at Tate Modern, 14 March
Yvette Hutchison and Tim White were selected to work with Kenyan artist, JC Niala for the Tate Exchange for their Who Are We? free 6-day cross-platform event that has been specifically designed for Tate Exchange reflecting on identity, belonging in Europe and the UK, migration and citizenship through arts and audience participation. For the full programme, see
Their performance conversation, Who Do You Think We Are, runs on Tuesday 12.00-15.30 in the Southwark,Room, 5th Floor, Tate Modern for about 30-45 minutes. It aims to engage and disrupt audience member’s internal assumptions about how we attribute identities to people without having met them. We invite audiences to engage with unknown subjects who share images, stories and gestural repertoires to playfully deconstruct the first assumptions we make about people, while considering the deeper paradoxes of cross-cultural living, and how we create, perform and negotiate personal and collective identity and a sense of belonging.
Prof. Jim Davis speaks about 'Irish' Johnstone at Trinity College, Dublin
Jim Davis has just delivered a paper entitled ‘An Irishman in London: ‘Irish’ Johnstone’s representation of Irishness on the London Stage 1782-1820’ at a conference at Trinity College, Dublin on ‘The Irish on the London Stage: Identity, Culture, Politics’.
Also, on 2 February he contributed a talk on ‘Some Aspects of Anglo-Australian Cultural Exchange 1880-1960’ for the London Theatre Seminar at Senate House, University of London.