YLÖS – CHALLENGES OF AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION WITHIN THEATRE

Centre for Practise as Research in Theatre at the University of Tampere runs a project with European Social Fund’s (ESF) support in the field of audience development and education within theatre in Finland.

The project will take a look at the current status of audience development and education carried out in professional theatres.

Pilot projects in Lahti City Theatre, Rauma City Theatre and TTT-Theatre in Tampere are project’s platforms focusing on different views of audience development and education. In these pilot projects artists, education workers and marketers develop processes, which enhance and broaden specific individuals’ experience of the arts.

The project started in the end of 2008 and it will last until the end of 2010.

The project spreads information and new ideas in audience development and education and produces academic papers, workshops, seminars, reports and a national website on the topic.

YLÖS-PROJECT INVITES YOU TO AN INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND APPLIED THEATRE

5.10. – 6.10.2009

Centre for Practise as Research in Theatre, University of Tampere
Hämeenpuisto 28 D, Tampere, Finland

Applied theatre, audience development, education, participation and outreach programmes are all relatively new things in the Finnish theatre scene. Ylös – challenges of audience development and education within theatre is a project that focuses on evolving the role and the profile of audience development and applied theatre in Finnish professional theatres.

In the program of the seminar there will be several lectures about audience development and case examples on audience development projects that have been done. There will also be method workshops and theatre performances made using applied theatre/audience development and education.

The program of the seminar is filled with interesting lectures and workshops. Michael Quine and Heather Maitland from Britain and Katrin Byréus from Sweden are top professionals by any standards. We also have a fine selection of Finnish experts of applied drama in our line-up.

DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM OF THE SEMINAR HERE (A PDF-file)>>

Welcome to Tampere!

Additional Information

Mr. Arttu Haapalainen
Project assistant
+358 40 829 2689
arttu.haapalainen@uta.fi

Ylös-projekti | Tutkivan teatterityön keskus | 33014 Tampereen yliopisto | Tel. + 358 40 829 2689