Services - Professional Development

Professional Development
YPAA are committed to working with artists, arts workers and arts administrtaors to ideinify their professional development needs. Through this identifiaction process and full program of useful, interesting and skill developing workshops and activities can take place throughout the country.

November - 2008 - Sydney

Youth Engagment Showcase 27th and 28th Nov SYDNEY

YPAA and Sydney Theatre Company is hosting the inaugural YES: Youth Engagement Showcase on the 27 & 28 November at Sydney Theatre, PACT and Australian Theatre for Young People.

YES is being presented entirely by the members themselves – all are donating their time and resources to attend. It is for this reason the performances will be stripped back showings and not full productions.

We would be delighted if you would like to join us. YES is an opportunity to share in what’s happening in NSW’s youth arts landscape, help vision where we are planning to go and network with plenty of youth arts people.

for more details call 07) 3216 0007 or email info@ypaa.net

OCTOBER - 2008 - Melbourne

Darren O'Donnell and Natalie De Vito from Mammalian Diving Reflex visits Melbourne

Melbourne International Arts Festival, ArtPlay, YPAA and Express Media are pleased to be offering a unique workshop opportunity to Victorian community arts practitioners with Darren O’Donnell and Natalie De Vito from Canadian research-art atelier Mammalian Diving Reflex (MDR).

Mammalian Diving Reflex are a company dedicated to investigating the social sphere, always on the lookout for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences, producing one-off events, theatre-based performance, theoretical texts and community happenings.

MDR are currently in Melbourne working on the Australian Premiere of Children’s Choice Awards for the Melbourne Festival. Working with Footscray Community Arts Centre, MDR will conduct a series of workshops with 41 grade 5/6 Footscray City Primary children and chauffeur them from Festival event to event and offer the children’s critical opinions. The project culminates in an awards ceremony on the last day of the Festival, when the junior judging panel will present their handmade awards in categories they have created themselves.

DETAILS OF THE WORKSHOP ARE AS FOLLOWS

Workshop title: Gluing the Grease: Introducing The Social Impresario

Content: Culture, creativity and artists are being mobilised to deal with everything from youth gun violence to the health of the economy. There’s the move by the state to put culture in service of the community – thereby forcing artists to fix social problems as well as the need for artists to provide content and activities to keep the information-age rolling in events such as the Melbourne Festival. So we have the artist as cheap glue for the social fabric and cheap grease for economic wheels. Mammalian Diving Reflex introduces the Social Impresario, whose aesthetic of civic engagement conflates the grease with the glue, hauling socially ameliorative projects into the glare of the spectacular spotlight.

Gluing the Grease: Introducing The Social Impresario will present the work of Mammalian Diving Reflex, supply a framework for analyzing work that conflates the grease and the glue and facilitate a discussion with parishioners with an eye toward developing strategies for penetrating the large scale art spectacle with socially ameliorative works.

Mammalian Diving Reflex is a research-art atelier dedicated to investigating the social sphere, always on the lookout for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences, producing one-off events, theatre-based performance, theoretical texts and community happenings.

Date: Mon 20 October
Time: 10am - 2pm
Venue: ArtPlay, follow theYarra river past Federation Square and you will find it in Birrarung Marr, Melbourne's new park by the river.

September - 2008 - Brisbane

A public lecture with Betty Siegel, Director of Accessibility at the John F Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Washington DC.

Access all areas promises to be a practical, lively and interactive discussion on disability access for programs, activities and events in cultural institutions. Betty Siegel will discuss polices, procedure and practices and will share her knowledge on how to shape them to be inclusive, not exclusive.

Betty has specialised in disability issues in the arts for over twenty years, delivering accessible programs and events and developing best practice policies and procedure for the arts industry.

Visitors to the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington DC, can choose from a range of services on offer – accessible tours, captioned and signed performance and events, a curb-to-seat service and specially priced tickets for patron with a disability. Betty has introduced programs featuring actors and artist with disabilities, including children and young people and mentoring /internships for students with disabilities.

WHEN     Fri 12 Sep, 10am-11am
WHERE   slq Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland
RSVP      theedge@slq.qld.gov.au (attendances only)

Proudly presented by
State Library of Queensland and Young People and the Arts Australia

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