BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5882@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200716T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200717T173000 DTSTAMP:20200312T105741Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/mpac-collective-encounters-redis covering-the-radical-2020-theatre-for-social-change-summer-school/ SUMMARY:: MPAC: Collective Encounters: Rediscovering the Radical 2020: Thea tre for Social Change Summer School DESCRIPTION:This Summer School will develop participants’ ability to use theatre to contribute to radical social and political change in the 21st C entury\n\nBOOK VIA EVENTBRITE\n\nOver the course of the two days participa nts will develop their practice in specific Theatre for Social Change tech niques including:\n\n• Verbatim and Documentary Theatre\n\n• Living Ne wspapers\n\n• Legislative and Forum Theatre.\n\nThey will explore:\n\n • the ethical considerations of making Theatre for Social Change\n\n• ways and means of achieving social and political impact with the work\n\n • the challenges of making radical theatre within the current neo-libera l political climate.\n\nThey will be supported to situate themselves and t heir work within current practice and on a rich historical trajectory of r adical Theatre for Change\, and begin to build a network of peer support.\ n\nWho is it aimed at?\n\nRediscovering the Radical is aimed at artists wo rking in community contexts\, political artists and creative activists\, t heatre makers and social change campaigners looking to develop new practic e or to expand and refresh existing practice.\n\nSchedule\n\n16th July 201 9: 11am – 6pm\n\n17th July 2019: 9.30am – 5.30pm\n\nRefreshments &\ ; a light lunch will be provided on each day.\n\nParticipants will need to arrange their own accommodation. If you need help with this please contac t 0151 345 6266 or admin@collective-encounters.org.uk.\n\nCourse Leaders\n \nSarah Thornton is founding Artistic Director of Collective Encounters. S he established the company in 2004 to make exciting\, collaborative theatr e and explore its potential to contribute to social change. Her work with the company has drawn on her varied background which over the past 20 year s has included applied work in diverse community contexts\, devising and d irecting professional theatre\, university lecturing and practice-as-resea rch.\n\nAidan is a musician\, songwriter/composer and performance maker\, taking inspiration from world wide cultural movements\, and the history\, identity and undocumented stories of particular communities and environmen ts.  For Collective Encounters he has worked on ‘Other Ways Of Telling ’\, ‘Break Free’\, and ‘What If?’. He is a core member of Virtua l Migrants\, a Manchester based Digital Arts Association that explores iss ues of race\, migration and globalisation. He also also works with the Th reepenny Festival Association (3PF). Founded in 2013 to look at artistic r esponses to austerity\, it has since developed into a solidarity organisat ion that works in partnership with  people affected by fracking in the UK \, and indigenous people in Latin America around issues of extractivism an d environmental justice.\n\nFor more information\, or if you have difficul ty with the fees please call us on 0151 345 6266 or email Harriet [at] col lective-encounters.org.uk\n\nParticipants from last years summer schools s aid:\n\n“It was enormously enjoyable AND useful. Horse + Bamboo have suc h a visual history and lots of the imagery really resonated with that past . I’ve had a missing organisational link for a while between our radical \, outdoor\, rural roots\, the small scale puppet shows we have made in th eatre spaces over the last few years and the developing theatre space and community building in which we host so many activities and communities. I think you have given me my missing link.”\n\nEsther Ferry Kennington\, H orse and Bamboo ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/03/rediscovering-the-radical-collective-encounters.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR