Hello Colleagues,

Some have asked why the Training and Development Agency for Schools are making less places available for students to train as Drama Teachers in the coming year. Well it is not just Drama it is all subjects.

The Drama Tutors meet reularly and debate successes and concerns and recently this has been the concern. We have written to various people; you may like to read what Andy Kempe has sent to National Drama (and sign the petition). It is available here:

There is a new Arts council-funded website: Get into Theatre

It is imed at 14-25 year olds who want to work in the theatre. It claims to explore around 80 career opportunities, both on and off-stage, dealing with work experience, training and more.

Posted for Larry O’Farrell

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Web-cast Symposium

Creativity Education through the Arts: Goals, methodology and impact

November 10-11, 2007

Dear Colleague,

I would like to invite you to participate in the web-cast Symposium on Creativity Education through the Arts: Goals, methodology and impact that will take place on November 10 and 11, 2007. There is no fee for participating. The program can be found on the web-site of the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, at the following url. http://educ.queensu.ca/unesco/activities/events/index.shtml

If you plan to join the web-cast, the following notes may be helpful.

It is not necessary to pre-register for the symposium. On the day of the event, you may join the web-cast and contribute to the discussion board simply by following the links that are provided beside each session of the symposium on the registration page
http://educ.queensu.ca/unesco/registration_for_events/index.shtml

At present, these links are inactive and will not lead to any content. Shortly before the beginning of the symposium, the links will be activated. At that point, the web-cast link will lead directly to the web-cast session. The link for the discussion board will lead to a self-directed log in page.

In order to ensure that you are able to make the connection in time to join the web-cast at the beginning of each session, I recommend that you follow the link five or ten minutes before the actual start of the session. The link will lead to an image that will confirm that you have made the connection. I also recommend that you ensure that your computer is configured to meet the technical requirements that are listed below, in advance of the web-cast.

Our server will permit up to 100 participants to view the web-cast at any given time. We anticipate that this capacity will be sufficient to accommodate viewers who will be watching at different times throughout the day and evening. After each session, the link leading to that part of the web-cast will remain in place. At this point, the link will lead to a steaming video recording of that particular session for viewing by participants who were not able to watch the session during the live web-cast, particularly those in other time zones. The recording will focus for several minutes at the beginning on a preparatory image which cannot be edited out until after the Symposium weekend. The recorded Symposium will begin after this brief, unavoidable delay.

We have successfully tested the technology that we will use for the web-cast. However, in the event that you might lose your connection to the web-cast, please use the original link to reconnect with our server. If a loss of connection originates with our server, we expect that it will take about 10 minutes for our staff to correct the problem. Your patience will be appreciated, if an interruption does occur.

We will be grateful if you would take a few minutes after participating in the Symposium to fill out and send the evaluation form which can be found on the web-site.

Technical Requirements:

To watch the web-cast you will need the following.
Window Media Player
You can download a PC version at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx
or a Mac OSX version at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/mac/mp9/default.aspx
You will need a PC with at least a P2 processor or a Mac G3 or higher running OSX, and a high speed Internet connection (dialup will not work).

I hope that you will be able to join the web-cast Symposium and look forward to your participation.

Sincerely,

Larry O’Farrell
Professor and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning
e-mail unesco@queensu.ca
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August 1 - 28, 2008

The four-week International Performers Village is open to professional actors, dancers, musicians, directors, choreographers, playwrights, scriptwriters and artists from different countries, creative genres, techniques and styles. The created work-in-progress will become the basis of developing the international production.

More details... http://www.iugte.com/projects/Performance.php

March 23 - 28, 2008
Malpils, Latvia

The Lab is open for performing artists from different countries inspired by Physical Theater as a bold, vibrant and multidimensional approach to contemporary theater performance.
For registration, please send your CV and a brief letter of motivation to
info@iugte.com
Accommodation and meals for participants are provided.

How do you want to create today?...
http://www.iugte.com/projects/PhysicalTheatre.php

November 5 - 8, 2007
London, UK

The Kitchen is open to performers from different parts of the world who have chosen the way of creation as life-work – the way of constant motion, change, continuous exploration of own potentialities and self-perfection in profession. Performers and artists from a wide variety of genres, styles and techniques are welcome to join the Kitchen. This is an opportunity to widen the circle of contacts, to meet other performers and practitioners in London, to exchange creative ideas and develop new collaboration projects.

To register, please send your detailed CV and a brief letter of motivation to info@iugte.com

If you'd like to know a little more… http://www.iugte.com/projects/kitchen.php

Reminder of the Athens International Theatre/Drama & Education Conference, 27-28-29-30 March 2008
Website www.TheatroEdu.gr hosts the Conference's specialy designed site (click on the top right banner), includes lots of info and is updated constantly (click on the Contributors).

Those of you who are thinking of joining us, please click on Call for Proposals to read how you can send a proposal for a Workshop, for a speech in a Working Group, for a Master Workshop or for a event.

We remind you that deadline for sending a proposal is 1 November 2007
Please also attached files for details
many greetings from Athens

Nikos Govas
Organisation Committee

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
10th International Conference on EDUCATION
MAY 26-29, 2008
ATHENS, GREECE

The Education Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (AT.IN.E.R.) organizes its 10th annual international conference on Education, May 26-29, 2008. There are two types of registration fees. First, a simple registration fee of 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Second, a full registration fee of 450 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material, a Greek night of entertainment, a dinner, a half-day tour to archaeological site in the Prefecture of Attica and a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of Education and other related disciplines. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of one paper, chair a session or observer. For programs of previous conferences and other information visit the conference website http://www.atiner.gr/docs/Education.htm

Papers (in English) from all areas of education are welcome. Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings or Edited Books as part of ATINER's education book series. For Books and Proceedings of previous conferences you may visit http://www.atiner.gr/docs/EDUCATION_PUBLICATIONS.htm for table of contents and order forms.

Please submit a 300-word abstract by October 29th, 2007, by email to Dr. Marina-Stefania Giannakaki, Deputy Head, Education Research Unit, Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), 8 Valaoritou Street, Kolonaki, 10671 Athens, Greece. Tel. + 30 210 363 4210 Fax: + 30 210 3634-209. Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, gtp@atiner.gr Director, ATINER.

Celebrating its 10th birthday, organises the
6th ATHENS INTERNATIONAL THEATRE/DRAMA & EDUCATION CONFERENCE
"Theatre & Education at Centre Stage"
27-28-29-30 March 2008, Athens, Greece

Call for papers (Working Groups), workshops and short performances:
All proposals in Word format, before 1/11/2007,
to the Conference coordinator Nikos Govas
Language: English

Teacher Professional Development and the Interchanging Role of Mentors and Avatars in Schooling 21C
Stockholm, 24-26 October 2007

Registration is open!
http://www.eden-online.org/eden.php?menuId=364


The Open Classroom strand within EDEN is focusing on distance education and new technologies in school level education and training. Main objectives are the mapping and the exchange of information about relevant European initiatives and resources, the transfer of ideas of distance and e-learning to the school sector.

EDEN's Sixth Open Classroom Conference aims at offering an opportunity to present, be informed about and join the European dialogue about how families, teachers, experts, authorities and societies at large are experiencing and handling the changes that are leading towards Real Learning in Virtual Worlds.

Driving Themes of Presentations & Dialogue
Clustering Learning Needs & School Structures: Policies and Strategies for Learning in Virtual Worlds
Building Curricula & Competences for Life and Work: the emerging Roles of Education Authorities, Communities, Schools and Teachers in Schooling 21Cst
Preparing the Teachers for the School of Tomorrow: initial and in-service Teachers Training and Support, the Lifelong Learning Agenda and the emerging Schooling Scenarios
Games & Social Networks: Learning Experiences in Informal, Real and Virtual Spaces

Key contributions http://www.eden-online.org/eden.php?menuId=363
will include presentations addressing the conference main theme from different aspects and sketching future scenarios from the following professionals in the field:

Professor Stephen Heppell, Founder of Ultralab, CEO of Heppell.Net
Richard Gatarski, Co-founder and consultant, BAT - Business Art Technology AB
Marc Durando, Executive Director, EUN - European Schoolnet
Liisa Ilomaki, Co-ordinator, Centre for Research on Networked Learning and Knowledge Building Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jan Hylen, Metamatrix/OECD
Hans Pelgrum SITES - International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, The Netherlands
Enel Magi, CEO, Tiger Leap Foundation, Estonia

Workshops http://www.eden-online.org/eden.php?menuId=358

Besides selected papers for presentation in the parallel sessions, the following most interesting workshops will provide opportunity for experts to share their knowledge and experience in the field:

Game-based & Social Networking Experiences for Learning. The aim of this workshop is to stimulate critical inquiry into the possibilities that massive multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) offer learning and teaching practice.

The Future of Schooling - the Open Classrooms of Tomorrow. In this workshop desirable and yet grounded visions for ICT-related transformations on the level of learning environments will be discussed with input from EENet members.

Developing Teachers for the 21C - A Swedish large scale investment in teacher education will be presented and discussed, coordinated by the Swedish Knowledge Foundation.

SPUTNIC - Seminars Promoting the Use of Technologies for Networking and International Collaboration. With the workshop the aim is to raise awareness about the beneficial impact of the (pedagogically sound) implementation of new educational technologies that enhance international networking and collaboration for an institution, its staff and its students.
Paper Submission http://www.eden-online.org/eden.php?menuId=361
There is a last chance to submit proposals by 6 September as the very latest date. Papers, project experiences, policy and practice cases and surveys dealing with one or more of the above-mentioned topics are welcome. Accepted presentations will be introduced in the three series of Parallel Sessions. For details on how to send your proposal, please consult the respective conference page.   Authors will be notified by 7 September

The best papers submitted will be offered publication possibility in the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning (EURODL)
http://www.eurodl.org/

Social highlights http://www.eden-online.org/eden.php?menuId=366

will include the Welcome Cocktail on 24 October, after the opening plenary at the conference venue, Stockholm Institute of Education. There will be a visit and reception at the famous Stockholm City Hall, the setting where the Nobel Prize Banquet is hosted every year, on the evening of 25 October (included in the registration fee).


ORGANIZED
in collaboration with:
Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning - CFL
Stockholm Institute of Education
EENet - European Experts' Network for Education and Technology



SUPPORTED by:    
The City of Stockholm
The Knowledge Foundation
The MENON Network
The EPICT Group

Drama - mind, body & spirit National Drama's International Conference at St Aidan's College, University of Durham
08/04/08 - 11/04/08
This major event offers an array of workshops, keynotes and networking opportunities for both UK and overseas drama practitioners. The conference spans both Primary and Secondary phases of education. The conference will be led by outstanding speakers & workshop leaders from the UK and around the world. In addition, we look forward to a cornucopia of papers and workshops from delegates responding to our Call for Papers.

The event will take place in the delightful setting of Durham - a World Heritage site. Go to:
http://www.nationaldrama.co.uk/index.php?content=nd_events

From NATD:

The natd conference this year will be in September. You can find full details at our temporary website http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in5127/natd . The conference will be held at Stoke Rochford Hall in Lincolnshire http://www.stokerochfordhall.co.uk/.

This year, as an experiment, we’re offering up to 30 day-rate places for MA & PGCE students at a heavily subsidised rate.  Instead of committing themselves for the whole weekend at a cost of £220, students will be able to attend for Saturday only, for a fee of £55.00. Students will be able to take advantage of keynotes from Dorothy Heathcote, Edward Bond & Paul Black – the leading thinker on assessment. In addition, they can select one 3 –hour workshop. Details are attached.  

We’re doing this as a token of our support for the next generation of teachers and for those hard pressed institutions trying to fit a quart into a pint pot as they educate their students. We appreciate that this event will be happening just a few days after your course begins but there’s nothing like catching them while they’re keen!  I’m sorry that it’s so late in the term to let you know about this but we hope your admin team will be able to pass details on to your students over the summer break.

Students would need to book their places with natd by the beginning of September. They do this by emailing Kirsty Fechter at Kingstone School k.fechter@barnsley.org no later than 5 September. Kirsty will be on holiday in August but will be able to deal with all bookings in early September.

April 1-5, 2008

At a time when social, cultural and political differences are causing
conflict within and between families, neighbourhoods, communities, regions,
cities and nation states, and when social space is increasingly striated
along ethnic, linguistic, religious and nationalistic lines, the conference
seeks to examine the place of drama, theatre and performance in relation to
cross-cultural dialogue and coexistence. Contributions are invited that
engage with the following issues:

* Can drama, theatre or performance be used as a tool to promote
dialogue, negotiation and/or mediation between individuals or groups with
different interests? How?

* Does drama, theatre or performance have a role to play in conflict
management and resolution processes?

* What are dialogic performance practices and how do they allow for
the simultaneous coexistence of competing voices?

* What are the spatial, corporeal, visual, aural, etc. qualities of
dialogic performances?

* How do issues of place, history, memory, language and power figure
in cross-cultural work?

* How does performance act as a site of social and cultural exchange?

* What ethical issues arise for performance practitioners/researchers
working in conflict situations?

* When is conflict constructive and how can performance promote social
change?

* How do practitioners/researchers evaluate or assess the impact of
drama, theatre or performance on social cohesion and/or change.

Deadline for abstracts/proposals of no more than 250 words: Friday January
11, 2008.

Convenor: Dr Kerrie Schaefer
Senior Lecturer in Drama
School of Arts, Languages and Literatures
Thornlea University of Exeter
New North Road
Exeter EX4 4LA
Tel. +44 (0) 1392 262507
Fax +44 (0) 1392 264594
Email: K.V.Schaefer@exeter.ac.uk

On Wednesday 10th September from 4.30 - 6.30 p.m. Solent People's Theatre will be performing their new show 'The Wiltons' exclusively for an audience of teachers - and it's completely free!

The combined performance and hi-tech workshop (with interactive voting equipment) deals with issues of Personal Finance. We'll also be showing it to our Yr 9s and to those Year 10 & 11s studying Drama/Performing Arts.

It would be great to have some 'facebook friends' from Drama Teachers in the UK come along. I would imagine that you might be able to use INSET funding for transport / cover as this show might help us find ways to deliver the 'Economic well-being' bit of Every Child Matters through Drama.

Here's a weblink to Solent People's Theatre Homepage & some blurb about the show:
http://www.solentpeoplestheatre.com/currentprojects/thewiltons/

At Home With The Wiltons
Meet the Wilton family, Ma, Pa, Granpa, Missy and John-boy in their first adventure into the perilous world of finance.

When Ma Wilton returns to work, Pa Wilton is only too happy to take control of the family finances. After all, how difficult can it be? Now free from the stresses of the workplace, lord of the house and the purse-strings Pa is itching to make some improvements…

And with a few small changes to their budget maybe he can finally afford some of the things he’s always wanted…
Like that big screen TV…

Join Pa Wilton in this hilarious farcical comedy as he learns about the economics of everyday life including…

Budgeting and money management ~ Expenditure, Earnings, Tax and Benefits
How banks work ~ Accounts, Interest
Borrowing ~ Consumer credit, Higher purchase and Illegal lenders
And asks the definitive question… ‘What is money?’

The Wiltons For Sale
The Wiltons return in their second madcap voyage into the world of finance.

After many years at home looking after the family Ma Wilton decides to return to the work place, after all she
worked in Sales before raising a family how much could it have changed?

Eager to impress as a telesales employee, flexing her creative muscle as a high flying estate agent or attracted by the glamour of the cut-throat time-share industry, Ma Wilton tries her hand at a diverse range of jobs, navigating her way through the complexities of commercial economy.

But as the more shady aspects of a certain new job begin to reveal themselves, the question looms… Does she have what it takes?

…And are her new colleagues really all they seem?...

Join Ma Wilton as she is thrust into the treacherous world of business finance and learns about:

Advertising
Trading standards
Consumerism
On Tour 11th September - 30th November 2007 |
To book the production for your school call : 023 9242 3399

Information provided by the organisers:

6th Theatre Summer Camp

Ancient Myths & Contemporary Life
25-31 August 2007
Spetses Island, Greece

For teachers, actors, educators, scholars and young students

From 25 to 31 of August 2007, on Spetses Isl Greece, the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network is organizing its 6th annual Theatre Summer Camp titled “Ancient Myths & Contemporary Life”. In the friendly and relaxing environment of Anargyreios School, by the sea, with the guidance of skilled artists-educators, teachers, actors, scholars and young students will draw ideas and working material out of the rich culture of ancient myths from Greek tragedies and will investigate their implication in modern life. Movements, rhythm, voice, theatre form, lyrics, humor, chorus patterns are some of the areas we will explore.

Four different workshops, three for adults and one for young people, aged 17-20 titled “Young Theatre Voices” (supported by the Greek General Secretariat for Youth and the Greek Ministry of Culture), will take place, followed by relative film screenings and other activities.
There will be free time for leisure, swimming, rest and entertainment. On the last evening of the Camp groups will present and share parts of their work and join the farewell party.
Each person can participate in only one workshop throughout the Camp period.

FACILITATORS

Giorgos Biniaris-actor, director, Margarita Mandaka-choreographer, Georgina Kakoudaki-dramatic art educator, actor, special scientific collaborator of the University of Patras, Dimitris Sakatzis-actor, director, Jenny Karaviti-Secondary School teacher, MA Contemporary Theatre Practice, Martin Scharnhorst-theatre director, Takis Tzamargias-director, special scientific teaching stuff of the University of Athens.

Arrival-Registration: Saturday 25/8/2007, 12.00-16.30

Departure: Friday 31/8/2007, until 11.00

LOCATION: Anargyreios School, 1 klm distance from the Spetses port. Spetses Isl is 2hours by hydrofoil from Pireus (Athens Port)

ACCOMMODATION (recommended): 6 nights in the rooms of the Anargyreios’ School premises Breakfast and lunch will be served in the School’s Dining Room.

For more info concerning workshops descriptions, timetable, applications’ procedure and cost, please visit the web page
http://www.theatroedu.gr/

Information provided by the organisers:

July 30 - August 2, 2007
Bovec, Slovenia

Annual international conference-festival
THEATRE METHODS 07
Between Tradition & Contemporaneity

This summer the meeting will take place in the Julian Alps at the picturesque mountain resort Bovec.
Accommodation and meals during the conference are provided.
http://www.iugte.com/projects/accommodation.php

Participants: actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, teachers, playwrights, stage designers, script writers, theatre critics, journalists, cultural managers. Every year "Theatre Methods" is unifying the bearers of the authentic traditions in performing arts and the representatives of contemporary stage work from different parts of the world.

If you are unable to attend but would like to share your materials with colleagues coming to "Theatre Methods 07" there is opportunity to promote and advertise your event or project. You are welcome to send your promotional materials by post - magazines, booklets, catalogues, flyers of your classes, coming workshops, courses, performances, events, etc.
More details: http://www.iugte.com/projects/TheatreMethods07.php

Call for Papers

ARTS BASED EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE JULY 5-7 2007, GRADIUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION,
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

Abstract Deadline: April 17, 2007
Paper Deadline: May 15, 2007

This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public Knowledge Project, enables participants to submit abstracts online.

Presentations can include:
- Single papers (abstract max of 300 words)
- Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 300 words)
- WORKSHOP (abstract max of 300 words)
- short workshop (abstract max of 300 words)

Invited speakers and plenary presenters include:

Peter Clough, Liverpool Hope University, UK, Andrew Sparkes, University of Exeter, UK, Ruth Leitch and Caryl Sibbett, Queens University Belfast, UK Kim Etherington, Martin Hughes, Wan Ching Yee and Jane Speedy, University of Bristol, UK Yvonne Sliep and the Narrative Theatre Group, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa Salome Raheim, University of Iowa, USA Rita Irwin, University of British Columbia, Stephanie Springgay, Penn State University and the A/r/tography Research Group (Canada and USA) Kip Jones, Bournemouth University, UK Donal O’Donoghue, University of Limerick, Ireland Libby Worth, Lecturer in Theatre Practice, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Cathy Nutbrown, Sheffield University, UK Carl Bagley, University of Durham, UK

Videos of the European and international research symposium: Evaluating the Impact of Arts and Cultural Education as well as some of the PowerPoint presentations are now available here.

The International Drama in Education Conference will be held in Hong Kong this year. For more details see:

http://idea2007.hk/

Call for Papers

International Conference
SONG, STAGE & SCREEN II
Interdisciplinary approaches to the musical stage - 23rd-25th March 2007 Read More...

ANNOUCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS
PERFORMING THE WORLD 4

Friday, October 12 - Sunday, October 14, 2007 Tarrytown House, Tarrytown, NY Read More...

The Rise and Fall of Eed Sud and the Luminous Earwigs from Thornbury (4 m 3 f) is a tried and tested school examination piece (Paper 2 Edexcel’s GCSE) and has proved to be successful in gaining students exceptionally high marks in the last two examinations series in the UK Read More...

A one day practical drama course with
MARK WHEELLER and ANDY KEMPE

Saturday 3rd February 2007 Read More...

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
9th International Conference on
EDUCATION
MAY 28-29, 2007
ATHENS, GREECE Read More...

2 AUG 2006 / Roundhouse Studios
Runtime: 960 minutes
13- 25 years old
8.00am 'til Midnight Read More...

Wednesday 7 – Saturday 10 June
An international festival of arts for children and young people at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
http://www.ciaofestival.org.uk/

Theatre, music, visual art, puppetry, circus, storytelling with performances by companies from Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK

info@ciaofestival.org.uk
For info tel: 01865 790933
For box office: 01344 484123

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced the full programme for its year-long Complete Works Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon. The festival, which launched on Shakespeare’s birthday, 23 April 2006, is the first time that all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems have been staged at the same event. A full schedule of the Festival is available online: http://www.rsc.org.uk/home/3599.aspx

To mark World Theatre Day this year an historic Joint Declaration was composed and signed by the Presidents of the International Associations of Drama/Theatre, Music and Arts Education which was presented at the recent UNESCO World Congress of Arts in Education in Lisbon, Portugal. See below:

UNESCO WORLD ARTS CONFERENCE
Lisbon, March 6, 2006

JOINT DECLARATION OF THE

international drama/theatre and education association (IDEA)
international society for education through the arts (InSEA)
international society for music education (ISME)


This is an historic moment in international arts education. After six years of preparatory meetings, IDEA, InSEA and ISME have now united to define an integrated strategy that responds to a critical moment in human history: social fragmentation, a dominant global culture of competition, endemic urban and ecological violence, and the marginalization of key educational and cultural languages of transformation.

In a visionary agenda in the aftermath of the World War II, UNESCO recognized the unique role that arts education can play in the creation of a culture of peace, international understanding, social cohesion and sustainable development. However, at that time, few could have anticipated the socio-cultural needs that would be generated by the accelerated technological change during the intervening decades; and today few can imagine the impact and challenges of technological convergence in the immediate future.

We believe that today’s knowledge-based, post-industrial societies require citizens with confident flexible intelligences, creative verbal and non-verbal communication skills, abilities to think critically and imaginatively, intercultural understandings and an empathetic commitment to cultural diversity.

Research increasingly shows that these personal attributes are acquired through the process of learning and applying artistic languages. We welcome decisions by governments throughout the world to place educational reform and cultural development at the heart of their agendas. However, we know that there is not always the political and professional will to integrate the arts into an effective ‘education for all’, as vital instruments for learning human rights, responsible citizenship and inclusive democracy.

Drawing membership from more than 90 countries, our global alliance of arts education organisations involves leading practitioners and promotes innovative practices in arts education internationally. Through our national affiliations and individual memberships, we draw on the experiences of more than one million dedicated and courageous teachers, artists/performers, researchers, scholars, community leaders, administrators and policy makers who themselves are in touch with formal and informal educational communities throughout the world.

Our three organisations are uniquely positioned to advance professional practices and policies in the visual arts, music and theatre/drama education. We provide:

• effective channels for international communication and the exchange of policy and pedagogical resources;
• national, regional and world forums which debate and disseminate innovative educational theories and practices;
• conceptual and professional structures to preserve tangible and intangible artistic cultures (particularly in the developing world), that are threatened by globalization;
• models of intercultural analysis that explore aspects of traditional and new media and enable diverse pedagogies to be demonstrated and exchanged;
• research into pedagogies for personal and social transformation; and
• critical investigation into the educational, socio-economic and cultural impacts of the arts.

Together, we will advocate new and appropriate paradigms of education which both transmit and transform culture through the humanizing languages of the arts, and which are founded on principles of cooperation, not competition. For more than half a century, our associations have contributed significantly to the development of curricula and teaching approaches. We are now ready to respond proactively to the diverse social and cultural needs of our world. In response to the urgent crises of our times, we embrace the challenge to make our exceptional resources available to governments and educational communities across the globe.

In the visual arts, critical and reflective pedagogies and new means of artistic production offer students opportunities to explore their multicultural, multi-technological visual worlds. Through the performing arts, educators are transforming classrooms into theatres of creative dialogue, equipping young people to enact solutions to contemporary social needs and challenges. In music education, the new technologies provide astonishing opportunities to develop intercultural awareness and collaborative production.

Collectively the arts offer young people unique opportunities to understand and create their own cultural and personal identities. They stimulate interdisciplinary study and participatory decision-making, and motivate young people to engage in active learning and creative questioning.

Our three organisations have formed an alliance for strategic action based on principled and sustained dialogue. Our primary aim is to accelerate the implementation of arts education policies internationally. We want to collaborate with all governments, networks, educational institutions, communities and individuals who share our vision.

We challenge UNESCO to fulfill the responsibilities of its founding mandate by joining us to make arts education central to a world agenda for sustainable human development and social transformation.

Lisbon, Portugal
March 6, 2006

QCA has worked with the regulatory authorities for Wales (ACCAC) and Northern Ireland (CCEA) to revise GCE AS/A levels. In carrying out this work, they aim to improve the quality of assessment at A level.

They have produced draft criteria for consultation and wish to receive the professional views of key stakeholders on them.

Please select the appropriate download from the right-hand side of the page to view GCE AS/A level qualification criteria and/or the specific subject criteria that interest you. Then select the appropriate questionnaire below to take part in the online consultation.

http://www.qca.org.uk/12086_16132.html

You may have read reports in the press about the future of the Theatre Museum. This is in light of the HLF's decision not to fund a capital project at the Russell Street site. For example,

http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/11830

Whilst no decisions have yet been made, a potentially alarming proposal is that the education activities move to the V&A at South Kensington. Some 20,000 students a year study at the Museum and research has shown that a major reason for attendance is the central, West End location in the heart of Theatreland, allowing students to visit theatres and study live productions.

This would not be easily replicated at South Kensington, which lacks sufficient space for the practical exploration of Drama and Theatre.

If you feel strongly about this there is a specific area for teachers' views on their website:

http://theatremuseum.org/news_and_views/forum.php?

The SINNER Education Pack was launched in February 2006. This is a comprehensive 50 page Education Pack and is now available to educationalists, venues and students.

The comprehensive pack covers topics including:
• Company Background & Individual biographies
• Original Ideas and Research for Sinner
• In depth information about our rehearsal methods and schedules
• Further reading and references
• Background Information about the nail bomber and the core themes and issues the piece is based around
• Practical Physical Theatre Workshop Ideas
• Themes for Discussions and Talks
• Accompany notes to read alongside and contextualise the full play text.

This 50 page pack, written by Liam Steel and Stan Won’t Dance is full of supporting images.

The play text of Sinner has also been published by Oberon Books and is available to accompany the pack (Sinner play text: ISBN: 1-84002-498-4)

For further information on our education pack email: educationpack@stanwontdance.com.

The Sinner Education Pack was part funded by the Arts Council England.

Drama Conference organised by Hertfordshire LEA for Drama teachers.
Liz Jones Eng/Drama advisor is offering a special price of £20 for PGCE students.

Details are as follow:
16th March 2006
Watford Palace Theatre 9.30 - 3.30pm

Hands on workshops in directing, devising, lighting and sound, keynote speaker Patrice Baldwin, Chair of National Drama.

Anyone interested in attending telephone 01582 830215
or email Linda Rowan.

I have received this from Fabrice Raina, president of Auteurs de L'Ombre and Cultural Office Manager for The Castellane Centre:

The Worldwide Week Of Playwrights will take place from march 20th to march 27th 2006. You can follow the essential part of the programs through the live stream on http://www.auteursdelombre.org/ (presently under construction) and http://www.cs-lacastellane.com . Most of the content will be live-recorded and uploaded via our WebTV, with reruns every morning thereafter. Some content will be transmitted in differed times. We propose this year again, to all playwrights, theater and cultural structures which cannot transmit their videos, lectures or debates in a live manner, to indicate us the links to their recorded footage (extracts or complete recordings of their works) in order for them to benefit freely of the tens of thousands of internet viewers across the world. You may also send us the physical video sources, with a written authorization for their transmission, for us to upload to our website during the week of demonstration at the following address: AEC La Castellane / 216, boulevard Henri Barnier 13016 Marseille France.

You are still in time to inform us of your actions and to become a relay for the Worldwide Week: lectures, debates, videoconference debates, plays... Indicate us the program you propose and we will write-out your participation slip. Please indicate us your Name, Last name, Address, Website, E-mail and phone number.

Regular subscribers to Drama_UK will know that Yahoo only allow 20 mb for the Files area. It is not possible to buy more space. Drama_UK members are very generous and this space regularly fills. In an attempt to always have space available I am archiving files onto my own server.

In future the archive can be found here:
http://kentaylor.co.uk/die/DramaUKFileArchive/index.html

Notice that this site has two levels of navigation. A top line: Home, A Level, GCSE, SOW and within each of these a second line of navigation. For example, if you click on GCSE the main page holds files specifically for Edexcel. If you look above the word Edexcel you will see that it is possible to select AQA and OCR.

So that others may contact you to follow up on files you upload please add your name and email into the header of the Files submitted to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drama_uk/files/

Thank you for your generosity and for helping this site to grow.

Booking is now open for the next International Drama Conference organised by National Drama. For details visit
http://www.nationaldrama.co.uk

The Conference is entitled "Drama for the Future" and will be held at the University of Winchester from 11th - 13th April 2006. Accommodation can be additionally arranged at the University from 10th April for those delegates wishing to arrive early. This is an important event in the world drama calendar and we hope to see you there.

For the Conference flyer visit
http://www.nationaldrama.co.uk/docs/NDWinchesterleaflet.pdf
For the booking form visit
http://www.nationaldrama.co.uk/docs/BookingFormWinchester.doc
The timetable is available at.....
http://www.nationaldrama.co.uk/docs/TimetableWINCHESTER2006.doc

CALL for Papers/Seminars/Workshops...
http://www.nationaldrama.co.uk/index.php?content=nd_news

Call for Proposals

NYU Forum on Ethnotheatre and Theatre for Social Justice
April 22nd-23rd, 2006

This forum is part of an ongoing series NYU is hosting on significant issues which impact upon the field of educational theatre.

Sponsored by Program in Educational Theatre
Director: Philip Taylor, Ph.D.
http://www.nyu.edu/education/music/edtheatre

Ethnotheatre references applied theatre presentations powered by authentic human stories. Theatre for Social Justice aims to elevate discourse on diversity, inclusion and tolerance. The NYU Forum on Ethnotheatre and Theatre for Social Justice will explore how theatre contributes to culture and politics.

Youre invited to submit proposals for the break out sessions. These could include papers or workshops. Paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes, and workshops will be 45 minutes in length.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL IS MARCH 25, 2006

In addition to performances of seven original ethnodramas of at the Provincetown Playhouse, the Forum will include talks by special guests, panel discussions, paper presentations, workshops, and demonstrations.

Key questions the conference hopes to address:
• What is theatre for social justice and what contribution does ethnotheatre make to social discourse?
• How can ethnotheatre operate as a qualitative research method?
• Is there an ethnotheatre aesthetic?
• Who are the beneficiaries of theatre for social justice and ethnotheatre?

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES
1) Participant Information: Name
2) Affiliation
3) Address
4) Phone
5) E-mail
6) Title of Workshop/Paper
7) Type of Presentation: Individual Paper, Workshop, Other (please describe)
8) Short Description of Presentation: In 300 words or less, please
describe your sessions goals, methods, and techniques
9) Relevance to the theme of the forum: In 100 words or less, please describe your sessions connection to ethnotheatre or theatre for social justice.
10) Room/Space needs
11) Required technical supportNYU will do its best to provide necessary
equipment, but cannot guarantee it.
12) Other Special Needs

Please send your proposal electronically within the body of the email or as an attachment to knm224@nyu.edu by the March 25th deadline. The subject of the email should be: EthnoProposal/Last Name. Proposals will be reviewed and successful applicants will be notified by March 30th.

My thanks to Andy Kempe for drawing our attention to the consultation document on Teaching Drama: Guidance on Safeguarding Children and Child Protection for Managers and Drama Teachers.