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🌍🎭 "Europe as a Beautiful Mess" – An Interview with Heidi Wiley 🎭🌍 For 15 years, Heidi Wiley has led the European Theatre Convention, the largest network of publicly funded theatres in Europe. In this thorough conversation, she discusses the role of theatre in today’s polycrisis world, the fight for artistic freedom, and why collaboration across borders is more important than ever. 📰 Read more about the challenges and future of European theatre here: https://lnkd.in/df6-9e7y

I could talk underwater about the importance of the youth arts sector; its vibrant legacy made up of highly-skilled arts workers dedicated to collaborating alongside young people. Youth arts companies are the foundation of our arts community, holding the wellbeing of young people at its core, and committed to developing emerging artists as our future creative leaders. Everyday I see first hand the positive effects an engagement with theatre has on young people, the contributions we make to our arts sector, and the social impact on our wider community. Despite the significant benefits youth arts creates, there is entrenched disparity in arts funding and support, causing youth companies like ours to be deprioritised, and the artistic quality of our work overlooked. The fact we survive is a testament to our collective passion, resilience and resourcefulness. But things need to change if we are to be sustainable, and thrive.

National Arts Theatre, the DEN of creative performances in the heart of Lagos. I went there with family as a child. I have seen Olu Jacobs, Joke Silva, RMD, Oga Bello, Aluwe, Baba Sala and many actors on stage. There were musical and cultural performances as well, King Sunny Ade, Lijadu sisters and others representing different genre of music and tribes in Nigeria 🇳🇬. Performer's Rights are hardly discussed in Nigeria 🇳🇬. Most discussion focus on Copyright with little or nothing on related or neighbouring rights. Expressions of Folklore and Performances are regarded as related or neighbouring rights. World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) defines: 'Related rights, also referred to as neighboring rights, protect the legal interests of certain persons and legal entities that contribute to making works available to the public or that produce subject matter which, while not qualifying as works under the copyright systems of all countries, contains sufficient creativity or technical and organizational skill to justify recognition of a copyright-like property right. The law of related rights deems that the productions that result from the activities of such persons and entities merit legal protection as they are related to the protection of works of authorship under copyright. Some laws make clear, however, that the exercise of related rights should leave intact, and in no way affect, the protection of copyright.' So related rights is an extention of copyright but not copyright. It is a place for performers to seek protection. The Copyright Act of Nigeria 🇳🇬 2022 has provisions on performance. LIVE PERFORMANCE. The next assignment will be on performance and it is dedicated to a friend that recently passed on. A huge loss to academia.

Artists of the Coquelin school reason this way: The theater is a convention, and the stage is too poor in resources to create the illusion of real life; therefore the theater should not avoid conventions.…This type of art is less profound than beautiful, it is more immediately effective than truly powerful, in it the form is more interesting than its content. It acts more on your sense of sound and sight than on your soul. Consequently it is more likely to delight than to move you. So then, since the theatre is limited to the conventions of beauty, the immediate effects of sound and sight and simple delights, it is up to us, the makers and players of theatre, to bring the profound, the powerful, the interest in content, and our ability to truly move an audience. Theatre brings the convention. We bring the intention.

Here’s the link to sign up for our #ActGreen 3 webinar. The biggest and most comprehensive view yet of audience views on sustainability in cultural organisations.

My review of ‘Theatre in a Post-Truth World: Text, Politics, and Performance’ is now available in the latest edition of Contemporary Theatre Review: https://lnkd.in/dn7FZkhY

A Guide to Captioning for the Arts, Cultural and Performance Sector in Scotland Created by Louisa McDaid, an Edinburgh based Theatre Captioner, Live Captioner and Lipspeaker, this comprehensive guide will walk you through every aspect of captioning for the Arts, Cultural and Performance Sector in Scotland. https://lnkd.in/e5C-rbhC

Did You Know? Before its transformation into the Empire Arts Center, it was first called the New Grand. The New Grand stood as the first theatre in Grand Forks designed specifically for showing motion pictures. Currently, the Empire is the city's last surviving downtown movie house! For more information about the Empire Arts Center and our history, visit the link in our bio #gfiscooler #grandforks #greatergrandforks

So, this is engagement number 2 next week. I shall be talking about the challenges and success of working, or attempting to work to the Theatre Green book targets. 🌞This will be a mix of short talks and a Q&A session with myself and fellow pms, designers and backstage folk. #theatre #sustainability #collaboration