http://www.candt.org Subscribe to the latest news from theatre company C&T. It stands for more than just theatre en info@candt.org Copyright 2010 2010-06-08T16:09:55+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/boroughbridge-high-school-joins-ct/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/boroughbridge-high-school-joins-ct/#When:16:09:55Z   We’re pleased to announce that Boroughbridge High School will be working with C&T from September 2010.   2010-06-08T16:09:55+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/ct-and-australian-university-in-international-collaboration/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/ct-and-australian-university-in-international-collaboration/#When:10:56:19Z   Children and young people in both the UK and Australia will soon be involved in a collaborative project created by C&T and Central Queensland University. In the UK, schools and colleges who are part of C&T’s British network of schools will have access to TreeMappa 2.0.  Using drama, art and new media to engage with local history and stories (indigenous, post-settlement and contemporary) children will work with artists, museums, pre-service education students and local community members to create and share their work, both live and online. The project is called TreeMappa 2.0 because it combines many of the social and cultural aspects of the ancient mappa mundis (such as to be found in Hereford) and the user-generated content online resources (such as Photosynth and Google Maps). You can find out much more about TreeMappa 2.0 here. (left to right) Max Allsup (C&T), Amanda Frost (CQU), Paul Sutton (C&T), Sue Davis (CQU), Lyndon Davis (Gubbi Gubbi Dancers) and Kate Greenwood (Treeline) TreeMappa 2.0 has been sponsored by CQUniversity, The Eumundi & District Historical Association and the Sunshine Coast Regional Council RADF fund. Tree Mappa 2.0 has also been endorsed by the Noosa Biosphere Cultural Sector Board.   2010-02-22T10:56:19+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/upload6-for-download/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/upload6-for-download/#When:16:47:15Z Upload6, the latest edition of C&T’s newsletter is available as a PDF download. Click on the link below. 2009-11-04T16:47:15+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/childrens-arts-award-pilot-success/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/childrens-arts-award-pilot-success/#When:09:59:37Z   Last week, C&T and students from Blakedown Primary School in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, attended the Regional Arts Award Children’s Pilot celebration at Birmingham Town Hall to receive certificates for successful completion of the project. A collaboration between Arts Award, Telford Culture Zone,Worcestershire County Council, Bright Space and Birmingham City Council, nearly 1000 children, aged 7-11, have grown their creativity through the arts. The largest single group in the Pilot, C&T worked with 40 students from two of our partner Primary schools. Each child completed a creative portfolio of evidence about participating in arts events exploring the arts researching a favourite artist taking the lead The standard of work the children produced was exceptional and some of it will be used by the Pilot team as part of a national case study.  Children who participated in the project will move onto the bronze arts award at secondary school. The project has clearly helped the children build confidence in their own creative ideas, learn new skills and become independent, ambitious, cultural learners. Find out more about the work C&T does with Arts Award by clicking here.     2009-06-29T09:59:37+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/childrens-society/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/childrens-society/#When:10:48:35Z Through our work in Pimlico School, C&T helped children and young people from inner London to contribute to the UK’s biggest ever enquiry into the condition of childhood. Using drama and digital media we helped young people express their thoughts and feelings about what it’s like to be growing up in the UK today. Along with contributions from children and young people all over the UK, these have been brought together into a major book entitled “A Good Childhood”. The book explores the main influences affecting every child: family, friends, youth culture, values and schools, and it gives the facts on the state of childhood today. It has striking and imaginative proposals for how life could be made better for all children, whatever their background. Paul Sutton, Artistic Director of C&T: “Too often adults talk about children - what’s wrong with them, what’s best for them - without talking to them. This book has the best pedigree: it’s driven by the contributions of thousands of children and young people, including some from C&T. We’re proud of their contribution to this book and hope it will make a difference.” You can get A Good Childhood from Amazon . 2009-02-24T10:48:35+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/sydney-research-event/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/sydney-research-event/#When:16:32:38Z C&T will be presenting its work at the prestigious IDIERI conference in Sydney, Australia, in July 2009. We’ll be sharing our research findings around our experiments with Nintendo Wii controllers as an interface between young people and drama. IDIERI, the International Drama in Education Research Institute, is the pre-eminent drama education research conference, held triennially in centres of excellence for drama education throughout the world. Previous conferences have been held in Brisbane, Australia (1995), Canada (1997), the USA (2000), England (2003) and Jamaica (2006). This year’s event will be hosted by the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney , Australia. Download a flyer about IDIERI here. The theme of IDIERI 6 is Drama Research Futures: Examining our past, critiquing our present, imagining tomorrow and examines the shifting conditions in schools and society generally. The theme begs a discussion of the current state of drama education, applied theatre and the future of the field.    2009-01-16T16:32:38+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/award-winning-ct/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/award-winning-ct/#When:14:03:33Z At the Jaguar Land Rover Awards for Arts & Business at the Town Hall, Birmingham on Thursday 9 October, C&T won a prestigious award recognising the creative training work we did with partners the MAP Consortium at Aston Business School in Birmingham. The award’s full title The Radisson SAS Hotel Birmingham Arts & Business Award for People Development went to the best example of partnership working between arts organisations and a commercial organisation in the West Midlands in 2008 in the field of personal development. Pictured above are (l to r) Sarah Falkland , BBC West Midlands presenter, Colin Tweedy , Chief Executive of Arts & Business, Helen Higson , Head of Teaching and Learning at Aston Business School, Paul Sutton , C&T’s Artistic Director, Martin Gent of the MAP consortium and Katie Smirnina from Radisson SAS Hotel group. The award itself is a glass and platic artwork created by Ruth Spaak, one of the artists selected by Arts & Business to participate in the innovative Visual art service for business. Aston Business School is one of the country’s foremost business schools, currently rated as a 5-star research facility by the Research Assessment Exercise. MAP is a consortium of artists producing cutting edge work in the fields of performance, creative development, education and training.  C&T worked with lecturers from Aston Business School using creative training and applied theatre techniques to help lecturers present with greater impact. This is C&T’s second Arts & Business Award. 2008-11-22T14:03:33+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/ct-gets-in/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/entry/ct-gets-in/#When:13:57:30Z C&T is one of 10 companies in England to have been selected to run research pilot projects to identify new ways of engaging young people in theatre for Arts Council England’s Young People’s Participatory Theatre scheme.  The climax of the YPPT scheme was the Get In conference in Liveprool, 25-27 July 2008, which gave all 10 companies the chance to share their research findings to young people, arts practitioners and the theatre establishment. C&T took the opportunity to bring with us three 14-year-old students from West Yorkshire, some of the participants in our pilot project, +Verb.  The conference was a mixture of strategic discussions about the future of youth theatre and the role young people have in the future of the theatre industry, as well as giving many opportunities to work with a range of international practitioners like Ish and Nos do Morro. Reece, Tom and Dalton particularly enjoyed working with Cirkus Cirkor from Sweden - take a look! 2008-11-22T13:57:30+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/verb-lizi-patch-drama-animateur/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/verb-lizi-patch-drama-animateur/#When:21:00:05Z Young people in the rural community of Pocklington participated in +Verb – part of the Arts Council England's Young People's Participatory Theatre project. Lizi Patch, Animateur, reflects on the experience with Paul Sutton. 2009-01-16T21:00:05+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/verb-al-pagan-digital-artist/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/verb-al-pagan-digital-artist/#When:15:20:47Z What are the performative, technical and learning issues raised by involving video game technology in drama practice? Paul Sutton talks to digital artists Al Pagan who has developed a Nintendo Wii game for C&T. 2009-01-16T15:20:47+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/verb-greg-foster-drama-animateur/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/verb-greg-foster-drama-animateur/#When:15:18:39Z How did a young theatre practitioner take to using digital media as part of his drama practice? Greg Foster talks to Paul Sutton about his experience of Arts Council England's Young People's Participatory Theatre scheme. 2009-01-16T15:18:39+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/marc-prensky-part-2-challenge-to-educators/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/marc-prensky-part-2-challenge-to-educators/#When:15:13:31Z On a flying visit to the UK, Marc Prensky, the noted thinker and educator famous for popularising the term "Digital Native", talks about the digital challenge facing educators. What must we do to prepare young people for a future we can barely imagine? 2008-10-27T15:13:31+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/marc-prensky-part-1-digital-natives/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/marc-prensky-part-1-digital-natives/#When:15:12:05Z Part1. On a flying visit to the UK, Marc Prensky, the noted thinker and educator famous for popularising the term "Digital Native", talks about the digital challenge facing educators. What must we do to prepare young people for a future we can barely imagine? 2008-10-27T15:12:05+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/drama-and-performance-aiding-health-education/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/drama-and-performance-aiding-health-education/#When:15:11:30Z Katharine Low talks to MoreThanTheatre at the 2008 Theatre and Performance Research Association conference in Leeds about "Our place, Our stage", an exploration of how performance can play a role in sexual and reproductive health education. 2008-10-27T15:11:30+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/serious-gaming-video-games-and-drama/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/serious-gaming-video-games-and-drama/#When:16:08:37Z Australian research and academic David Cameron talks with Dr Paul Sutton at the international IDEA conference in Hong Kong about the potential impact of video games and 'serious' gaming on drama and applied theatre. 2008-08-06T16:08:37+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/young-peoples-participatory-theatre-verb/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/young-peoples-participatory-theatre-verb/#When:16:06:57Z +Verb is a pilot project for Arts Council England's pioneering YPPT scheme to find new ways of engaging young people in drama. 2008-07-24T16:06:57+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/creative-training-with-applied-theatre/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/creative-training-with-applied-theatre/#When:15:05:25Z What benefits can the processes of applied theatre bring to the world of business, especially through creative training? 2008-02-20T15:05:25+00:00 http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/young-peoples-participatory-theatre/ http://candt.org/index.php/news/podcast/young-peoples-participatory-theatre/#When:15:04:41Z This Arts Council England initiative is finding new ways of encouraging young people to participate in youth theatre and progress to employment in the theatre industry. 2008-02-18T15:04:41+00:00