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<div><font color="#000000">Liverpool Hope University College in
partnership with Collective Encounters<br>
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Performance and Possibility: Theatre for Social Change in the 21st
Century<br>
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16- 18 September 2005<br>
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In response to the widespread interest and popularity of activist
political theatre, Liverpool Hope University College in partnership
with Collective Encounters announces a conference that will bring
together scholars, researchers and artists to examine, debate, present
and share current practices and ideas. This conference is
particularly, though not exclusively, interested in theatre and
performance happening outside of the traditional 'theatre
estate'. Areas of exploration will include:</font></div>
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</x-tab>Does performance need to be placed within a strategic
framework to have a real impact?</font></div>
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</x-tab>How can we measure the success of Theatre for Social
Change?</font></div>
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</x-tab>What are useful 21st century models?<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>What theatrical/performance styles
are most powerful?<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Does 'theatre' really have a role to
play in 21st political radicalism?<br>
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Proposals for panels, papers, practical presentations and workshops
are invited to investigate these questions and related or
controversial issues. Although the context is political
performance in the United Kingdom, international topics are
encouraged.<br>
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The conference will open with the performance at the heart of
Collective Encounter's Living Place Project. This is a
large-scale multi-faceted initiative that aims to explore the impact
that regeneration is having on the residents of north Liverpool and
articulate this through a variety of creative means. Its
ultimate aim is to ensure that local people's voices are effectively
heard by those leading the current regeneration of the city and that
an enhanced understanding of the process of regeneration is fostered.
The performance is a documentary theatre installation which will
animate a site in Liverpool's north inner city with sound, light,
multimedia and live action. It is hoped that the performance
will provoke debate around the key themes of the conference.<br>
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The deadline for submissions is 8 July 2005. Please submit
abstracts for papers (20 mins) and proposals for practical
presentations/workshops (1 hour), along with a short biographical
sketch, to:<br>
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Sarah Thornton<br>
Deanery of Arts and Community<br>
Hope at Everton<br>
Haigh Street<br>
Liverpool, L3 8QB<br>
Tel: 0151 291 3256<br>
Email: thornts@hope.ac.uk</font><br>
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<div>Alan Filewod<br>
Professor<br>
School of English and Theatre Studies<br>
University of Guelph<br>
Guelph ON<br>
Canada N1G 2W1<br>
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tel: (519) 824-4120 x 3147<br>
fax:(519) 824-0560</div>
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