The Arts Council of Wales and Wales Arts International will be hosting an event looking to the future of performance at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe initiative, Fringe Connect.
The discussion will look at how a hybrid model of digital and live performance can support us in creating a sector experience that responds to urgent local and global challenges and keeps us connected. We will explore critical learning gained throughout the last eighteen months and how this could help the sector address its climate responsibilities, particularly around touring, nurture creative wellbeing and ensure inclusivity, whilst developing financial sustainability.
Further event details:
Thursday 26 August 2021 11:00am – 12:30pm
To register for the event, please head to Fringe Connect and sign up on the platform to access the full listings. You’ll be able to find the event by selecting the date or search ‘Is the future hybrid?’. Please register on the event page there.
This event will be a panel discussion with Q&A.
The panellists are:
- Ben Pettitt-Wade – Artistic Director, Hijinx inclusive theatre company
- Jonny Cotsen - Creative Access Dramaturgy/Consultant and Performer
- Tundé Adefioye - Coach, Dramaturg, Essayist and Lecturer at the St Lucas College of Art, Antwerp
- Lyn Gardner - Theatre critic, writer and children’s author
- Takumã Kuikuro - Internationally recognised filmmaker who is a member of the Kuikuro people and grew up in the Ipatse village within the Xingú Indigenous Territory in Mato Grosso state, Central Brazil
- Andrew Barnett – Director of the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- James Mackenzie – Artistic Director of ZOO
- Lisa Jên Brown – Actor, singer, writer and songwriter/musician
Chaired by Catherine Paskell, Artistic Director at Dirty Protest and Arts Associate of the Arts Council of Wales.
BSL interpretation will be provided by Jonathan Holt and Leala Crook.
Live captioning will be provided by Hilary Maclean & Mirella Fox.
There is a range of activity from Wales at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including performances online and in person in Edinburgh.
These include:
Dirty Protest Theatre - Double Drop
9-13 August
MultiStory - Main Stage
Tickets
Kill Me Now
17-21 August
Summerhall Online – Zoom
Tickets
Hijinx – Metamorphosis
21-29 August
Summerhall Online – Zoom
Tickets
Deaf and Fabulous & Taking Flight Theatre – FOW
All month
Summerhall Online – On Demand
Tickets
National Theatre Wales – Possible by Shôn Dale-Jones
All month
Pleasance Online – Pleasance On Demand
Tickets
Avant Cymru – Hydro Jam Digital
All month
C Arts Online – On Demand
Tickets
National Dance Company Wales – Moving is everywhere, forever
18-29 August
ZOO TV
National Dance Company Wales –Why Are People Clapping!?
18-29 August
ZOO TV
Arts Infopoint UK also held a discussion on 11 August, The (European) Tour Must Go On! – Current insights on touring in Europe looking at what has changed since the UK’s exit from the EU, and how UK professionals can prepare for future touring in Europe.
Arts Infopoint UK is a pilot initiative to support the arts sector with information on practical issues relating to artist mobility. It is a partnership between Wales Arts International/Arts Council of Wales, Creative Scotland, Arts Council England and Arts Council Northern Ireland.