Poor theatres: theatre, performance, poverty

Carran’s Working Diary 29: Writing on the Wall 4 SkEtching a herstory

Carran Waterfield — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:16:57 +0000

The harvest was gathered this year and I am celebrating some of that with this offering: Sing for your Supper The sharing of the harvest extends beyond the working house over the ocean (or as some fondly call it – the big pond) to America. They have just had a […]

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Art, devolution and economic justice

admin-poor — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:31:53 +0000

Post by Jenny Hughes Here are the notes from a short talk I did at the Art and Devolution event organised by Abigail Gilmore at the Old Granada Studios in Manchester (UK) last week. The ‘Poor Theatres’ project explored the relationships between theatre, poverty and economic justice. The first phase of […]

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Carran’s Working Diary 28: Writing on the Wall 4: SkEtching a Visitor

Carran Waterfield — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:22:20 +0000

I haven’t been here for a while but I am here now. This particular visit is important to me because it means I am not alone. Thank you. I haven’t been here for some time because I got a new position in a big place in Beetham, Cumbria. It is […]

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Collaborative Perspectives on Online Presence

admin-poor — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:26:23 +0000

Jenny Hughes and Carran Waterfield This blog post is based on our presentation at the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership ‘Promoting Collaborative Research Through Your Online Profile’ event on 25th January 2016 – we were invited to talk to PhD students about how we used online presence to support […]

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Documenting precarious theatres – precariously …

admin-poor — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:25:48 +0000

Post by Jenny Hughes The first phase of the poor theatres research is about to end and it’s time for a blog post that reflects on the process of putting together the free online resource on theatre, poverty and economic justice initiatives available on these webpages. On this database there are […]

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Cycles of change – the methodology of The Agency

Naomi Paxton — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:22:43 +0000

Post by Naomi Paxton The idea for and methodology of The Agency was originally developed by Marcus Faustini in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2010. Wanting to ’empower young people to become agents of change’, to challenge stereotypes and encourage young people to change their own communities for the […]

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Global conversations about theatre, performance and poverty

Naomi Paxton — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:28:35 +0000

Post by Naomi Paxton As part of my job as Research Associate for the Poor Theatres project, I have had the privilege of undertaking a number of Skype interviews with artists and practitioners working around the world. The trailers for these interviews are available as a playlist on the Poor […]

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Carran’s Working Diary 27: Pictures and Voices

Carran Waterfield — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:13:42 +0000

From the Concert here are Pictures on the Wall and Voices on the Past

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Carran’s Diary 26: Writing on the Wall 3: SkEtching a book

Carran Waterfield — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 09:54:08 +0000

On Breaking the Rule Book: “The thing is, not everyone does it by the book. In the south, they do it by the book, but in the north they don’t do anything by the book. They don’t believe in the book. In Rochdale, they’ve thrown the book out. They don’t […]

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Carran’s Working Diary 25: Writing on the wall: 2 SkEtching a step

Carran Waterfield — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:45:32 +0000

“We put them on steps and they have to work their way up the steps until finally they reach the top step when hopefully they are independent enough to go their own way and jump off the top….not literally, we don’t encourage that.” (Funraiser) I landed on the theme of […]

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