Apologies for cross posting. Please find below the provisional schedule
for the three day conference on
subsidy, patronage and sponsorship that will be taking place in July,
together with registration details.
many thanks, Kate
Subsidy, Patronage & Sponsorship: Theatre and Performance Culture in
Uncertain Times
Sackler Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum, London: Thursday 19th,
Friday
20th, Saturday 21st July
Victoria and Albert Museum in collaboration with the University of
Reading
and the AHRC
This three day conference assesses arts policy around the world,
concentrating on theatre and performance culture. In the second year of
Arts
Council cuts, and on the eve of the Cultural Olympiad, this is a
timely
opportunity to discuss these themes. The conference is part of the
AHRC
project ‘Giving Voice to the Nation': the Arts Council of Great
Britain and
the development of theatre and Performance in Britain 1945-1995, a
five-year
investigation into the relationship between subsidy, policy and
practice in
the archives of the Arts Council of Great Britain.
Conference fees: Please book for each day of the conference you wish
to
attend.
Thursday 19th: £25 (full), £20 (concessions), £10 (students)
Friday 20th: £30 (full), £25 (concessions), £15 (students)
Saturday 21st: £25 (full), £20 (concessions), £10 (students)
Concessions apply to unwaged and over 65s.
To register for the conference, please visit:
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Provisional conference programme:
Thursday 19 th July
9.30 Registration: Sackler Centre
10.00 Welcome and Introduction (V&A/AHRC Network)
10.05 Keynote: Binary/Schbinary: remapping borders in the
arts
David Edgar (playwright; British Theatre
Consortium)
11.00 Coffee
11.20 The Centre Cannot Hold: Changing the Culture of the
Arts
Council
Peter Stark OBE (Adviser on cultural regeneration projects
in UK
and South Africa; Former Director of Northern Arts)
Christopher Gordon (Iindependent arts consultant and
former
Chief Executive of the English Regional Arts Boards consortium)
Sue Timothy (Former ACGB Small Scale Touring Officer
1971-75)
12.50 Lunch
14.00 Parallel Sessions
Session One: Public Patronage: Three Case Studies
Hochhauser
Auditorium
Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre : An analysis of the relationship between
artistic
innovation and business entrepreneurship and subsidy in the 1970 –
1995
Anne Bonnar (Advisor and consultant, Bonnar Keenlyside)
Patronage and Pragmatism: The Art of Compromise in the English
Regional
Context
Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester),
Shocking the System: Cherub as Cultural Ambassador and National Pariah
Brian Cook (University of Oregon)
Session Two: Acceptable in the Eighties? Seminar Room One
Only trying: 1980s sponsorship development as a desperate measure
Ian Brown (University of Kingston)
Theatre, poverty and the age of money: economies of shit and gold in
the
Royal Shakespeare Company/Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Misérables (1985)
and Jim
Cartwright’s Road (1986)
Jenny Hughes (University of Manchester)
Too big to fail – Scottish Opera under Thatcher
Huw Jones (University of Glamorgan)
15.30 Refreshments
15.50 Parallel Sessions
Session Three: Burgeoning Infrastructures Hochhauser
Auditorium
Past/Present “Moments of Crisis” in Theatre and Performance
Thania Brandão (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
The Recent Influence of the subsidy on theatre making, aesthetics, and
overall landscape of theatre culture in Seoul Korea
Youngjoo Choi (Theatre critic, South Korea)
Quantitative criteria: the calculated model of the Israeli national
subsidy
of repertoire theatre institutions and its results
Diti Ronen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Session Four: Harnessing the ‘New’: The Arts Council
and Artists
Seminar Room One
A Bard on Every Board? Targeting Funding for New Writing in the Age of
Austerity
Taryn Storey (University of Reading)
Script-tease: The Arts Council’s Textual Preferences
Jacqueline Bolton (University of Reading/V&A)
‘Every Part of Merry England’: the Arts Council’s Regional
‘Gatherings’
1969-1970
Graham Saunders (University of Reading)
17.20 Close
Friday 20th July
9.30 Registration
10.00 Keynote: Funding the South Bank Centre
Jude Kelly OBE (Artistic Director of the South
Bank
Centre )
11.00 Coffee
11.20 Panel Discussion: British Theatre Consortium
Hochhauser
Auditorium
David Lan (Artistic Director, Young Vic)
Lynn Froggett (Professor and Director of
Psychosocial Research, University of Central Lancashire)
David O’Brien (Lecturer in Cultural and
Creative
Industries, City University, London)
Dan Rebellato (playwright and Professor of
Contemporary Theatre, Royal Holloway)
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Keynote: A Poodle in Chains
Gregory Motton (playwright)
14.30 Refreshments
14.50 Parallel Sessions
Session One: Sponsorship and Its Discontents Hochhauser
Auditorium
Product Placement in Punchdrunk’s The Black Diamond: ACE, Stella and
the
Privatisation of Theatre Funding
Adam Alston (Royal Holloway, University of London)
A not so happy marriage: Art and sponsorship in Timberlake
Wertenbaker's
playwriting
Sophie Bush (University of Sheffield)
Imagining Private Sponsors
Christopher Innes (University of York, Toronto)
Session Two: Fit for Purpose? Applied Theatre and Funding
Seminar Room One
Playgrounds, Workshops, Board-Rooms: the path from establishment
patronage
via alternative patronage to control by transparency
Tony Coult (University of Reading)
Creating value: applied theatre companies and their funding
relationships
Molly Mullen (University of Auckland)
Why should a mental health charity fund applied theatre?
David Blazey (Social Inclusion and Recovery Project Manager at South
London
and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust )
16.20 Comfort Break
16.30 Parallel Sessions
Session Three: Making Ends Meet? Hochhauser Auditorium
Navigating the Development Director’s Role in Volatile Economic
Times:
Contemporary Issues in the USA with the four-prong approach to Fund
Raising
(Individuals, Corporations, Foundations, and Government)
Linda Donahue & Lori Uebelhart (Texas Tech University)
What did the Victorians Ever Do For Us?
Kath Russell (University of Manchester)
Subscription Theatre in Canada – Financing New Writing at the
Tarragon
Theatre
Maria Milisavljevic (University of Passau)
Session Four: Models of Inclusion? Seminar Room One
On Leaving Paradise
Friederike Felbeck (International Theatre Institute/Balzan Foundation)
Planting theatre in the cracks: sourcing support for political
performance
in the Big/Bad Society
Rebecca Hillman (University of Reading)
The rise of the Pro-Am theatre initiative: developing innovative
opportunities in a challenging economic environment
Rachel Perry & Elizabeth Carnegie (University of Sheffield)
18.00 Comfort Break
18.15 Panel: European Contexts Hochhauser Auditorium
Infarct approaching? German theatre funding at the crossroads
Michael Raab (Dramaturg Staatstheater Stutgart, Staatstheater Mainz,
Munich
Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Leipzig)
A bout de souffle? How is the Public Sector of Performing Arts
Addressing
the Financial Crisis in France?
Emmanuel Wallon (l'Université Paris Ouest Nanterre/La Défense),
19.15 Comfort break
19.30 Keynote: Show Business?: What can we do about the
business
side of theatre? Ed Berman MBE (CEO & Founder
of the
Inter-Action Group of Charities/Artistic Director Fun Art Bus)
20.30 Close
Saturday 21st July
9.30 Registration
10.00 Keynote: Taking Part Apart
Robert Hewison (Professor in Leadership and
Cultural
Policy Studies, City University London),
11.00 Coffee
11.20 Panel: Uncertain Times in the 70s:
Alternative
Theatre and the Funding Bodies Hochhauser Auditorium
Hidden Subsidy and the alternative theatre
movement:
the evidence of Unfinished Histories
Susan Croft (Co-Director Unfinished Histories;
Clive
Barker Research Fellow, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and
Performance)
Cathy Crawford (University of Essex)
Ed Berman MBE (CEO & Founder of the
Inter-Action
Group of Charities/Artistic Director Fun Art Bus)
12.50 Lunch
14.00 Parallel Sessions
Session One: ‘New’ Forms of Arts Funding Hochhauser
Auditorium
Tax and Spend: The Changing Fiscal Logic of State Funding for the Arts
in
the United Kingdom
Michael McKinnie (Queen Mary, University of London)
Private Giving to the Arts
Jen Harvie, (Queen Mary, University of London)
Crowd-funding
Louise Owen (Queen Mary, University of London)
Session Two: Paradise Postponed Seminar Room One
From Patronage to Subsidy: Conclusions from the Case of Michel
Saint-Denis
Tom Cornford (University of Warwick; freelance theatre director and
teacher)
Missing from UK Policy History: The Arts Enquiry and its Report on
Theatre
Anna Upchurch (University of Leeds)
The Arts Council since the Arts Debate: Achieving Great Art for
Everyone?
James Doeser (Arts Council England)
15.30 Refreshments
15.50 Plenary: Hochhauser Auditorium
Panel to be announced, but to include the
playwrights David Edgar and David Eldridge.
17.20 Close
http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/research/ftt-givingvoice.aspx
Dr Kate Dorney,
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance,
Victoria & Albert Museum,
London
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