PROJECTS
The performance of disability histories remembrance and transmission
Workshop 1 Histories, biographies, performances
29 November 2008
Time: 10am-4pm
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| dsc_0051.jpg Particpants at the first workshop on November 26th at London Metropolitan University. Photo by jonleggephotography.blogspot.com/ | JPEG | 22.47 Kb |
| priestley_shah__the_time_of_our_lives.pdf | 63.93 Kb | |
| workshop_1_programme.pdf | 172.27 Kb |
Workshop 2 Revising texts, devising histories
Date: 11 February 2009
Venue: Nottingham Playhouse, hosted by Roundabout
Brief aim: To contest the individualism and linear chronology of biographical interview research - unmaking the texts and devising performance elements for a more multi-modal transmission of remembrance.
Make generational themes out of individual stories.
Programme of the day:
10am-10.15am:
Brief introduction of seminar series & proposal for Special Issue of Review of Disability Studies
Mark Priestley
10.20-11.05
Re-presenting identities: The use of composite and performance pieces in community critical psychology and disability studies
Professor Dan Goodley and Dr Rebecca Lawthom, Manchester Metropolitan University
11.10-11.40
Time travel with life histories
Diverse City
11.45-12.30
How change occurs through embodied performance
Isabel Jones
12.30-1.00
Questions, Comments, Open discussion
1.00-2.00pm
LUNCH
2.00-5.00pm
Creative devised performance workshop family life stories (images, text, and audio extracts of life histories from different generations)
Diverse City (working with participants and students)
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| dsc_0050.jpg | JPEG | 2.44 Mb |
| jones__salamander_tandem.pdf | 52.42 Kb | |
| goodley_lawthom__representing_identities.pdf | 295.74 Kb | |
| workshop_2_programme.pdf | 196.25 Kb |
Workshop 3 Performing lives, live performance
Date: 6 April 2009
Venue: Stage@Leeds, University of Leeds
Brief aim: Will conclude the series by examining connections between the lives ‘performed’ in disability research interviews and techniques of live performance capable of transmitting such remembrances to a new generation.
The culmination in this final day will include performance of a proto-play.
Programme of the day:
11am - 11.15
Introductions & Interests – Sonali Shah
11.15am – 12 noon
Some Performance Studies perspectives
Mick Wallis
12.15-1pm
Moving beyond low expectations over time: performing experiences
David Toole
1-15pm Questions, Comments, Open discussion
1.15-2.00pm
LUNCH
2.00-4.45pm
Creative devised performance workshop: stories of medical treatment and care (images, text, and audio extracts of life histories from different generations)
Diverse City (working with participants and students)
4.45-5pm
Final thoughts, Key Findings , Next steps etc
Mark Priestley
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| invitation_pack_leeds.doc | Word | 363.50 Kb |
| workshop_3_participant_list.doc | Word | 43.50 Kb |
| dsc_0082.jpg Snapshot of Mr Toole moving through life | JPEG | 1.91 Mb |
| Performing Lives - Lives Performed Click above to play or view at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9RAt6tBXwo | ||
| garbutt__in_bed_with_the_arts.pdf | 396.93 Kb | |
| wallis__researching_text_and_performance.pdf | 294.90 Kb | |
| bryan___proposal_abstract.pdf | 308.50 Kb | |
