National Symposium

 

 National Symposium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

with international theatre director, Alexander Devriendt from the Belgian company Ontroerend Goed. Places limited. More Info

 

 

The Symposium program consists of an exciting series of international and national speakers and leading thinkers, forums, workshops, ticketed performances, networking, skill sharing, events and more. More Info

 

 

Symposium Press (as a web zine)

 

 

 

Held as part of QPAC's Out of the Box festival for children 8 years and under at the State Library of Queensland's new digital culture centre, The Edge. Brisbane, QLD

 

 

•  2 international keynote speakers (Brussels & New York)

•  10 leading national thinkers

•  15 national arts industry presenters

•  1 program specifically designed for young arts leaders u/26 years

•  2 Out of the Box festival shows

•  1 closing night street party

•  4 industry events and networking opportunities

•  3 national meetings

•  1 ASSITEJ international update

 

Lenore Skenazy is a big city newspaper vet (New York Daily News, New York Sun) who has also written for everyone from Reader’s Digest to Mad Magazine -- yes, the Mad Magazine. She also spent several years on TV, first at CNBC and then at The Food Network, generally reporting on wacky trends, including deskercise (exercising at one’s desk) and pancakes the size of hula hoops.

 

Everything changed in 2008, when she wrote a column about letting her 9-year-old take the subway alone. Two days later she found herself on “The Today Show,” MSNBC, FoxNews and NPR – and eventually on “Dr. Phil,” “The View,” and media worldwide -- defending herself against charges she’s “America’s Worst Mom.” (But Google that and there she is, 11 million times.) She launched the blog, “Free Range Kids” to explain her parenting philosophy and went on to write the book, “Free-Range Kids.”

Now she lectures about parenting around the world, from community centers to Yale University, to conferences in Europe and Australia.

Skenazy lives in New York City with her husband and two sons, who are not quite as Free-Range as she’d like, but she’s working on it. (And it helps that her older son just lost his iPod Touch, so now he has to come up with something else to do besides just sitting there, staring at it.) One thing she understands: None of us a perfect parent.

 

Alexander Devriendt is Artistic Director at Ontroerend Goed. One of the company's most recent productions, Once and for all we're gonna tell you who we are so shut up and listen is performed by thirteen teenagers, who have travelled around the globe as a result of the performance's international acclaim. Alexander's past work for the company includes the creation and performance in The Smile Off Your Face and Internal. His other direction for the company includes Under the Influence. His productions have played in the United Kingdom and across Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and North America. His past productions have been awarded the Scotsman Fringe First, the Herald Angel Award, the Adelaide Fringe Award, and the Total Theatre Award.

 

National arts leaders and thinkers participating as speakers and facilitators includes:

 

•MC, Candy Bowers, Writer, Performer, Hip Hop Artist and Educator, NSW

•Aleem Ali, Chief Executive Officer, Human Ventures, QLD

•Catherine Baldwin, Executive Director, Bangarra Dance Theatre, NSW

•Elliott Bledsoe, Project Officer, Creative Commons, QLD

•Pamela Clelland-Gray, Manager Education and Visitor Services, National Portrait Gallery, ACT

•Tony Mack, Director, TM Performance and Communications, SA

•Mary Anne Hunter, University of QLD, TAS. Honorary Research Adviser, TAS

•Noel Jordan, Freelance Youth Theatre Consultant (previously Producer Young Audiences, Sydney Opera House), NSW

•Andy Packer, Artistic Director, Comeout Festival, SA

•Robin Penty, Manager, Education, Families and Young People, The Art Centre, VIC

•Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM, freelance consultant and researcher in education and the arts, QLD

•Simon Spain, Creative Producer, Signal and ArtPlay, VIC

•Emily Sexton, Creative Producer, Melbourne Fringe Festival, VIC

•Helen Whitty, Education Services, Powerhouse Museum, NSW

•Geoff Woolcock, Associate Professor, Urban Research Program, Griffith University, QLD

•Angharad Wynne-Jones, freelance arts consultant, producer and facilitator, VIC

•Sue Giles, Artistic Director, Polyglot Theatre, VIC

•Sam Fox, Director, Hydra Poesis, WA

•Katya Johanson, Senior Lecturer, School of Communications and Creative Arts, Deakin University, VIC

 

See further information on the keynote speakers:

 

Alexander Devriendt & Ontroerend Goed’s production: Once and for all we’re gonna tell you who we are so shut up and listen.

 

Lenore Skenazy introduction on Youtube

Lenore Skenazy’s recent interview on her controversial ‘take your kids to the park and leave them there day’ interview.

Lenore Skenazy, 15 minute ABC Radio interview

 

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Recommended for artists, cultural practitioners, arts managers, educators, producers, youth workers, government employees, academics, parents and young people.

 

the following ticket prices are early bird discounts and will end on 30 April:

 

                             YPAA Members Non-Members

 

National Symposium      

Masterclass                                                $330             $440

Masterclass & Symposium                            $495             $715

Symposium young people u/26 years*          $154             $264

 

the following ticket prices will be effective as of 1 May:

                               YPAA Members Non-Members

 

National Symposium                                       $385             $495

Masterclass                                                  $440             $550

Masterclass & Symposium                                $605             $825

symposium young people u/26 years*                $209             $319

 

 

 

To purchase tickets, please contact QTIX

Phone: 136 246

 

Online: www.qtix.com.au and search for YPAA

 

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THE YPAA NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM EVENT HAS NOW FINISHED AND APPLICATIONS FOR THIS EVENT HAVE NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.