DIGITAL PORTAL PROGRAM VERSION 5, APRIL 2021 www.dramaqueensland.org.au/pd/conference/ CONFERENCE VENUE PARTNERS DIGITAL PORTAL REGISTRATION We are pleased to be able to change over your In-Person registration to a Digital Portal registration for our Drama Australia National Conference - 2020VISION in 2021. This will provide you access to the Livestream Program and the Digital Library of Assets provided by our generous Presenters, from the 9 April, 2021. You will be provided with a link and password via email closer to the event to be able to access these digital resources, all of which will be available to access throughout Term 2, 2021. DRAMA AUSTRALIA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021 LIVESTREAM PROGRAM & LIBRARY OF DIGITAL ASSETS PAG E 2 LIVESTREAM PROGRAM @ A GLANCE FRIDAY 9 APRIL LIVESTREAM PROGRAM – STREAM # 1 Session 1 Session 9:00 – 10:00am Acknowledgement of Country Welcome from QUT Bree Hadley President’s Welcome and Address Dana Holden and John Nicholas Saunders (30 mins) Keynote Presentation #1 – ‘You Can’t Be What You Can’t See’ – Representation, Diversity and being a Brown Kid in Toowoomba Ari Palani, La Boite Theatre (30 mins) LIVESTREAM PROGRAM – 10:00 – 10:30am MORNING TEA (30 mins) STREAM # 2 Session 2 Session 10:30 – 11:30am Standing on the shoulders of Theatrical Giants: Contemporary Political Theatre QCAA Workshop Tricia Clark-Fookes. Featuring Grin and Tonic’s Kellie Lazarus and Jason Klarwein Michelle Vendy and Ange Pratt (60 mins) (60 mins) Session 3 Session 11:40am – 12:40pm Keynote Presentation #2 – In Conversation: Meet and Greet our Living Archives Has Not Yet Mastered Headstands and Other Accidents in Learning Facilitated by John O’Toole and featuring Adrianne Jones, Professor Sandra Gattenhof, QUT (30 mins) Madonna Stinson and Debb Wall (60 mins) Keynote Presentation #3 – Dramatic Interventions: The impact of drama‑rich pedagogy in primary literacy classrooms John Nicholas Saunders, Drama Australia President, Sydney Theatre Company and Ambrose Treacy College (30 mins) 12:40 – 1:20pm LUNCH (40 mins) Session 4 Session 1:20 – 2:50pm Keynote Presentation #4 – Fusion 2019: An aesthetic and social experiment Acting for Resilience: Using Drama and Theatre to Build Engaging Young People with Contemporary Performance Making Resilience in Adolescents Alison Easton and Sharon Hogan (90 mins) Cindy Sykes and Bruce Burton (90 mins) Session 5 Session 3:00 – 4:30pm Devising Performance with First Nations Content and Producing Contemporary Brecht: But It’s Easy Indigenous Theatre in School Settings Mashed Theatre’s Matthew Caffoe (90 mins) Andrew Byrne, Danielle Hradsky and Jane Carter (90 mins) Session 6 Session 4:40 – 4:50pm Close of Conference Dana Holden and John Nicholas Saunders (10 Mins) Conference Partners: LIBRARY OF DIGITAL ASSETS @ A GLANCE Tried and tested techniques for written external FAQS: Transforming Shakespeare with shake & stir assessment shake & stir theatre co Hannah Brown On Demand Plus – A complete package of Bringing stories to life through games, elements of multi‑week units on areas of the primary curriculum, drama and dramatic conventions taught through drama and literacy strategies Joan Cassidy and Jenny Boyne ATYP – Jacqui Cowell Directing a scene – tools for spatial awareness, Recreating the Fairytale: Theatrical drama in the action and character primary school Andrea Moor, QMF Elizabeth Chamberlain and Belinda Eracleous A Brief Guide to Queer Drama Texts A step by step approach to monologues Queensland Ballet LearningHUB Bradley Chapman Jackson McGovern for Queensland Theatre Queensland Ballet Stand up for Literature: Dramatic Approaches in the Whole School Arts Schools engagement programs designed for Secondary Classroom Carolyn Stuart and Grace Davidson secondary students to maximise their creative John O’Toole and Julie Dunn university experience QUT Professional Development Workshop: Video The Well – a process drama Devising Performance with First Nations Content Documentation Creation Best Practice Highlights and reflections from a year 7/8 classroom and Producing Contemporary Indigenous Theatre in Juliet Cottrell and Faye Taylor Tony Kishawi School Settings – Accompanying Resources Andrew Byrne, Danielle Hradsky and Jane Carter Drama Teacher Education – a long view perspective Acting for Resilience Program/Teaching Plan Robin Pascoe Cindy Sykes and Bruce Burton Group‑devising in immersive spaces Katy Walsh Extended Play (Improvisation) resource Funny Business: Teaching Improvisation and Tavia Seymour Comedy to Primary Age Performers Acting Green Guidelines – Teaching Sustainability Alastair Tomkins and Sustainable Drama Practice Drama Australia Drama warm up activities linked to general QUT Professional development for teachers and capabilities in the Australian curriculum educators Australian Curriculum: The Arts – Drama, in review Dr Linda Lorenza QUT Education Helen Champion Rethinking Drama Curriculum ‑ Documentation A Breakdown: Writing a Scene in 20 minutes Sylvia Morris Matt Caffoe, Mashed Theatre Conference Partners: LIVESTREAM SESSION INFORMATION PAG E 5 Livestream Session 1 – Stream #1 Friday 9 April, 10:00 – 10:30am Keynote Presentation #1 ‘You Can’t Be What You Can’t See’ – Ari Palani is a passionate director, producer, community Representation, Diversity and being a engagement specialist and theatre maker, who has recently relocated Brown Kid in Toowoomba from regional Queensland to Presented by Ari Palani, La Boite Theatre Brisbane. He has worked across many communities in Australia facilitating creative outcomes As the son of migrants and refugees displaced by war and politics, growing that advocate for youth voice, up confusingly multilingual, tremendously brown, fabulously queer and kinda accessibility, and social cohesion. regional... it wasn’t always smooth sailing. Contemporary identity and its Ari is internationally focused on building cultural economies, representation are a complex system of hybridity, resistance and insistence and humanitarian responses and increasing the discussion our drama classrooms, rehearsal rooms and mainstages are some of the most around displaced communities. He has worked extensively important platforms in this conversation. Making and taking space involves all of in South Korea and Malaysia developing innovative programs highlighting the interconnectedness of the Arts us and the emergent aspects of decentralisation, digital access and diversity are in contemporary STEM education and translating these into landmarks along this journey from Being to Seeing. hybrid models of cultural engagement in the vast Australian landscape. For the past 7 years he had been the Director of Youth Arts at the Empire Theatre in Toowoomba, and has directed outcomes for Queensland Theatre, La Boite Theatre Company, QUT, USQ and in 2018 was the Finalist for the Queensland Multicultural Outstanding Individual Achiever Award. Ari is currently in his final year as part of the acclaimed Masters of Fine Arts in Cultural Leadership at NIDA and is now the Youth and Education Producer at La Boite Theatre Company. It is his desire to build the capacity of industries, facilitate cohesion and promote the joy of collaborative practice. DRAMA AUSTRALIA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021 LIVESTREAM PROGRAM & LIBRARY OF DIGITAL ASSETS PAG E 6 Livestream Session 2 – Stream #1 Friday 9 April, 10:30 – 11:30am Standing on the shoulders of Theatrical Giants: Contemporary Political Theatre Presented by Tricia Clark-Fookes Featuring Grin & Tonic’s Kellie Lazarus and Jason Klarwein We all know the work of Brecht, but how has political theatre evolved and why Tricia Clark-Fookes is a lecturer in Arts curriculum at is it relevant to young people? This session will examine Contemporary Political Queensland University of Technology. She has a particular Theatre’s inheritances and emerging practices. interest in Drama education and has worked as a Secondary teacher, head of department, curriculum writer and teaching Join us as we interrogate Contemporary Political Theatre through the lens of artist for over 22 years. Tricia is a passionate advocate for both teaching-artists and theatre makers. Drama education, drawing on her experiences across education sectors and work in industry. Kellie Lazarus is the General Manager of Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe. Her career in the performing arts is diverse and includes performing leading roles with Queensland Theatre, working as a teaching-artist with Grin&Tonic and Bell Shakespeare Company, and primary arts specialist with Education Queensland. Jason Klarwein is the Artistic Director of Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe. He is an award winning actor, playwright and director whose credits include companies such as Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Belvoir, Malthouse, LaBoite and Black Swan. His work has been seen internationally, including in New York, London and Los Angeles. DRAMA AUSTRALIA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021 LIVESTREAM PROGRAM & LIBRARY OF DIGITAL ASSETS PAG E 7 Livestream Session 2 – Stream #2 Friday 9 April, 10:30 – 11:30am QCAA Workshop Presented by Michelle Vendy and Ange Pratt The QCAA will be running a session that provides teachers with the most The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority up to date information about the new senior syllabus with subject-specific (QCAA) is a statutory body of the Queensland Government information for teachers relating to Drama. The session will address frequently and plays a critical role in the design and delivery of education in Queensland. The QCAA