Workshop in inclusive performing arts

Are you a performing artist and curious about inclusive performing arts?

Together with Norsk Skuespillersenter, Assitej Norge and Go Figure - Internasjonal figurteaterfestival, we invite performing artists to a free three-day workshop. In the workshop, you get to work with inclusive performing arts for a neurodivergent audience with different functional variations.

Three-day workshop in Oslo during Hedda Days

Inclusive performing arts is an area of focus in many parts of Norwegian cultural life, including the Cultural Rucksack. Funding is available for performing artists who want to explore this segment, but do you have the necessary skills? How can you develop your own artistry in this work? We invite performing artists to a three-day workshop in inclusive performing arts, for a neurodivergent audience with different functional variations.

In November 2022, Norsk Skuespillersenter, Scenekunstbruket and Assitej Norway arranged a masterclass in Inclusive Performing Arts with Andrew Stanford from Replay Theatre (UK). By popular demand, we are now organizing a longer workshop for performing artists during the Hedda Days! We've also got the Go Figure! festival on board.

The workshop is practically oriented and has 25 places for all types of performing artists, including directors and choreographers. It is open to both individual artists and entire groups/companies. 

Stanford provides performing artists with a toolbox to create productions that challenge artistically, and where the audience feels safe enough to settle down and gain a sense of empowerment. You as a participant will define what inclusive art means and implies for you as an artist/group/organization. By keeping accessibility and inclusion in mind from the start, and knowing exactly who you're making something for, the target audience will shape how you create and design your theatrical expression. Inclusive theater can be a demanding and vulnerable process for an artist, so it's important to be prepared.

Andrew Stanford

Workshop speaker Andrew Stanford is Inclusion Lead Artist at Replay Theatre Company (UK) and co-leader of the Assitej International Inclusive Arts Network. Replay's aim is to make inclusion and accommodation so pervasive that everyone stops noticing it and takes it for granted. For 35 years, Replay has created a broad repertoire for children and young people with disabilities.

PARTICIPATION CRITERIA

Professional performing artists, directors and choreographers, as well as students in the 3rd year of performing arts education.

Read more and sign up at Norsk Skuespillersenter.