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Dr Bryony White to Appear at Barbican to Discuss New Book

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:27:00 GMT

Dr Bryony White, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, is set to participate in a conversation on her new book, "Dirty Queers" at the Barbican Centre with journalist Amelia Abraham on November 30.

The evening event, scheduled for 4:30 pm, will seek to explore the differing uses and evolution of the term "queer," as well as its relationship to dirt and dirtiness.

More details on this event, alongside the ability to purchase tickets, can be found here

Book Chapter Published and Book Launch: Dr Yvette Hutchison

Fri, 21 May 2021 11:14:48 GMT

Yvette Hutchison has a chapter entitled 'Calling everything into question: articulations of black women in post-1994 South African commemoration' in Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts Global Perspectives on Commemoration and Mobilization, edited by Jelke Boesten and Helen Scanlon, published by Routledge. This book comes out of an AHRC funded project in the Department of International Development, King’s College London & Politics at University of Capetown, SA, for which Yvette was an advisor. The project looked at the role of post-conflict memorial arts in bringing about gender justice in transitional societies, modelling examples in the UK, Chile and SA. It brings together transitional justice, memory studies, post-conflict peacebuilding, human rights and gender studies.

The book will be launched on Thursday 27 May at 1pm GMT, from Lima, London, Cape Town, and Nairobi with Nompilo Ndlovu, Pena Brock, Alex Hibbett, Rachel Kerr & Ester Muinjangue on the panel. Contact Yvette if you want to join the launch.

Modern Visuality and Nineteenth-Century Performance: Conference Call for Papers

Sat, 15 May 2021 13:15:00 GMT

CFP - DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS 17 MAY 2021

Modern Visuality and Nineteenth-Century Performance

Theatre and Visual Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century AHRC-Project

Conference at Exeter University, 31 August – 3 September 2021

This event is organised as part of the three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project, Theatre and Visual Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century, for which Prof Jim Davis (University of Warwick) is the Principal Investigator.

Keynote speakers:

Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania

David Taylor, Oxford University

The nineteenth century is associated with the transformation of traditional ways of life, rapid technological advances, radical changes to the environment, and the emergence of new conceptions of subjectivity. Theatre was central to the culture of this period, so how far did it reflect or shape the experience of modernity? The Modernist experiments of the latter part of the century used to take centre stage in discussions about modernity, but how far can the popular, commercial theatrical culture of this period be seen as the locus of an emergent modern aesthetic?

This is the third and final conference of our project investigating nineteenth-century stage spectacle, the viewing practices associated with it, and its relationship to the wider visual culture of this period. With this event, we return to one of our core concerns: to consider nineteenth-century spectacle as a new and experimental form and as both a facet and product of modernity. We welcome ideas for papers on all aspects of the visual culture of theatre, from theatrical ephemera to links with the world of ‘high’ art, to new spectacular and immersive technologies. We particularly welcome submissions that bring questions of methodology to the fore, offering new contexts through which we may understand the theatrical spectacle of this period.

To read the full call for papers, submit an abstract, join our mailing list, and find out more about the project, please visit our website https://theatreandvisualculture19.wordpress.com. For queries, please contact Patricia Smyth, P.M.Smyth@Warwick.ac.uk.

Careers Event: Careers in Producing

Tue, 11 May 2021 14:45:50 GMT

12-1pm Wednesday 26 May.

Book your place on My Advantage: https://myadvantage.warwick.ac.uk/students/events/Detail/2156606

Producers oversee the creative process of film/TV/theatre from conception to completion, working closely with directors to make artistic and technical decisions - but how do you develop a career in this role? In this Q&A event industry professionals will describe how they have achieved success, offering advice & information to help you plan your career.

The panel will feature:

Pauline Mason a producer and director at the BBC with 25 years of experience in TV, radio and digital content. She has produced documentaries and live programmes on four continents on subjects ranging from the global financial crisis to climate change. She specialises in stories about innovation and social enterprise and is a diversity and inclusion champion at the BBC. She started her journalistic career on the Warwick Boar
Suzie Samant Suzie is a freelance Creative Consultant on primetime TV shows. She previously produced and directed documentaries for Channel 4, BBC, ITV1 and Discovery. Credits range from 'The Fantastical Factory of Curious Craft' and 'The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes', to 'Kara Tointon: Don't Call Me Stupid' and 'Dispatches'. She has served as a Royal Television Society Judge and BAFTA Guru Panellist
Diandra McCalla Beginning her career as a Secondary Music Teacher, Diandra is a Birmingham-based Arts Producer who is passionate about creating provocative and engaging participatory arts experiences especially for young people and socially disadvantaged communities. Diandra’s producing credits include Project SoundLounge Festival 2017 with Town Hall Symphony Hall as well as the Culture Catwalk Stage for the Birmingham Weekender 2017, with Southside Producers. More recently, Diandra was Community Project Producer for Imagineer’s Bridge producing Foleshill Weaving Together, where Foleshill’s interfaith community collaborated on a woven artwork made from images that represent their rich cultural diversity. She also was part of the producing team for West Midlands Weekender- Democratising Creativity and Culture 2020. Diandra currently works for Birmingham REP Theatre in the Creative Learning team and also with China Plate Theatre as Associate Producer developing a co-designed arts programme with Caribbean and South Asian community groups in North Birmingham.
CJ Lloyd Webley majored in Theatre and Performance and received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing. He wrote and produced his first play, Shadows received 4 & 5 star reviews and was regarded “smart as hell” by London City Nights. CJ has written and produced plays at esteemed theatre venues like, Soho, Leicester Square, Birmingham Rep and The Brockley Jack. He is part of the Tamasha Playwrights alumni, shortlisted for the Adopt a playwright Award; selected for Criterion Theatre’s New Writing Programme; nominated for the Acumen Global Leaders Fellowship and awarded a place on the SSE Social Entrepreneurs Futures programme. As the Founder of Sorrel Park Theatrical Limited, CJ has delivered staff training, creative writing workshops and created showcase events for pupils with learning and behavioural difficulties. CJ has completed the prestigious Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme and the Common Purpose leadership programme. CJ is the Lead Artist for Lightpost Theatre Company at the Birmingham Rep which supports the well-being of young black men who according to the Centre for Mental Health (CFMH) report are, “at greater risk of experiencing mental health issues during lockdown”.

SCUDD Conference 2021 hosted by Warwick

Tue, 11 May 2021 12:58:00 GMT

SCUDD 2021: Beyond Inclusion

The annual SCUDD conference will take place online on Thursday 24^th and Friday 25^thJune 2021.

The aim of this conference is to bring together artists, academics, and students to think together about the politics of inclusion: its opportunities, challenges, and limits. The conference begins with a sense that institutional work on diversity and inclusion has tended to rearrange the deckchairs but leave the ship intact and on course for disaster. This conference seeks to identify and interrogate inequalities of access, safety, and opportunity across experiences of exclusion. The purpose here is to identify both the specificities of lived experiences of structural and systemic exclusion but also to look across exclusory practices and phenomena to build resistive solidarities. Moreover, the conference will debate what it might mean to shift the conversation away from inclusion, which retains a sense of the centre enveloping the margin, and instead think through the possibilities for our campuses and our industry to become sites of anti-exclusion.

The Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD) represents the interests of Drama, Theatre and Performance in the Higher Education sector in the UK. SCUDD acts as a mediator with bodies such as funding councils, the AHRC and the Arts Councils and is consulted by such organisations when matters of future policy are discussed and decided. Its annual conference concerns topics, issues and debates relevant to those working in drama, theatre and performance in HE. This year’s conference will make space for reflections on working in our field during covid-19 and will continue discussions around advocacy for - and threats to - the discipline. As part of the conference, SCUDD’s AGM will take place. The conference will be free to attend.

Hosts: This year’s conference will be hosted online by the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures at the University of Warwick. The conference organisers working in partnership with the SCUDD Exec are Dr Anna Harpin, Dr David Coates and Dr Tim White.

Programme and Registration: Details about how to register for the conference and a full programme of panels and events will be released closer to the conference.

Queries: If you have any questions or queries about the conference at this stage, please don’t hesitate to get in touch off list using D.J.Coates@warwick.ac.uk

A Window on Applied and Socially Engaged Performance at Warwick – 24th February 5-6pm.

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:59:07 GMT

Join us online to find out more about the projects and research we are leading, the kinds of applied and socially engaged work that takes place at Warwick, and the communities we are connected to. We will explore what it means to be involved in social action through theatre and performance today, and what challenges and possibilities we are presented with.

We will begin the event by hearing from a panel of practitioners and academics at Warwick. They will share examples of their recent practice and research. We will then open up for a discussion relating to applied and socially-engaged performance.You will also be able to ask further questions you may have concerning the MA Applied Theatre: Arts, Action, Change.

The panel will include:

Max Dean, a PhD researcher at Warwick and Director at C&T, one of the Associate Companies for the MA. C&T combines applied theatre methodologies with digital technologies to explore and grow creativity with children and adults.

Saul Hewish, one of the country's leading practitioners in the use of drama and theatre with offenders. In 1999 he co-founded RideOut (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation), which develops innovative and experimental arts-based projects within the criminal justice system.

Professor Nadine Holdsworth, whose research spans questions of representation, participation, citizenship, political change and cultural value. She explores how theatre, performance and arts-based methodologies can be used to illuminate pressing social issues and marginalised groups.

Dr Yvette Hutchison, a South African academic whose work focuses on Anglophone African theatre, dance and intercultural performance. She has taught on and worked in various theatre for development and community theatre projects in Africa and the UK.

The session will be chaired by Dr Bobby Smith, a researcher and practitioner whose current work focuses on applied theatre and global development.

Confirm your attendance here https://your.warwick.ac.uk/form/spotlightontheatre

Three Minute Thesis (3MT)

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:21:45 GMT

Can you present your thesis in just 3 Minutes? Are you up for the challenge? You have three minutes, one static slide, no props, and no materials – just you! If you get through the first round we will train and support you so that you are ready for a live Warwick final. The winner of this will get put forward to the regional finals – and who knows maybe the National Final.

The Young Producers, run by China Plate and Warwick Arts Centre

Fri, 29 May 2020 13:21:08 GMT

Young Producers is a programme that has brought a group of 16-21 year olds together in an opportunity to not only learn the art of producing, but to work together and create a festival. Three students from your Theatre Department at Warwick University are actually part of this programme and would love for you to share it with your students.

Due to Covid-19, our initial idea had to be rethought. We are now putting on RECLAIMED - a three day digital arts festival by, with and for young people, to showcase three different art forms, Dance, Poetry, and Theatre.

For our theatre showcase, we are looking for 16-21 year old artists that already have created theatre, but haven’t had a chance to share it. The pieces can be between 2 and 15 minutes long. After watching all the pieces sent to us, the young artists who are chosen will have the opportunity to show their work as a part of our festival, be in with the chance of winning a £50 gift voucher (audience vote), have it introduced by an industry professional and speak to that professional in an exclusive online Q&A. We were wondering if you might know anyone who would be interested in this opportunity. This email is a call out for theatre submissions but feel free to browse our website for information on the poetry and dance submissions.

Further info can be accessed on our website and social media pages (https://bit.ly/YPReclaimed).

Deadline to send your application form (https://form.jotform.com/201383336001037) and submit your theatre video is 11:59pm Friday 5 June.

Student Opportunities

Mon, 11 May 2020 07:50:00 GMT

Student Opportunities are promoting their Global Connections club which meets for regular virtual catch ups. They have also set up a Global Challenge for weekend activities:

Global Challenge www.warwick.ac.uk/globalconnections/challenge

Global Connections Club events www.warwick.ac.uk/globalconnections

The wildlife survey information is now online and is available for students to view and download. There is some background blurb on the webpage as well as detailed information about how to get involved and undertake the campus surveys. In addition there are identification guides and survey sheets for download.

SCAPVC’s Lucy Brydon is serving as a judge on the The Hibernation Film Festival Bear Jam Productions:

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:07:31 GMT

https://bearjam.co.uk/work/thehibernation/

Bear Jam Productions proudly presents The Hibernation Film Festival. A festival born out of the recent events that have unfolded across the globe. However, despite being confined to our homes, we are turning this pandemic on its head and want to celebrate filmmakers’ work from around the world. So, we have decided to not only “Do More Video,” but to host our very own online festival.