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From: YouTube People in Community Theatre Hayley Sherwood How do we relate to each other in Community Theatre? Winston Churchill Foundation Australia Play Video Open Document Michael McSweeney

From: YouTube Discussing the Values Base of theatre Alexander Santiago-Jirau Discussing the Values Base of theatre Winston Churchill Foundation Australia Play Video Open Document Michael McSweeney

From: YouTube Promenade and immersive theatre forms Paul Brewster McGinley Winston Churchill Foundation Australia Play Video Open Document Michael McSweeney

From: YouTube Intergenerational DIalogue Alexander Santiago-Jirau Intergenerational DIalogue Winston Churchill Foundation Australia Play Video Open Document Michael McSweeney

From: ReadingList Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue. Michael Rhode Michael Rohd is founding artistic director of Sojourn Theatre, a thirteen year old ensemble-based company and a 2005 recipient of Americans for the Arts’ Animating Democracy Exemplar Award. He devises and directs around the nation, received a 2010 Chicago Jeff Award for Best New Work, is on faculty at Northwestern University, and wrote the widely translated book Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue. His work with Sojourn, other theaters and in non-arts sector settings around the nation focuses on social practice and civic practice projects through collaboratively designed arts-based engagement and participation strategies. He leads the recently formed Center for Performance and Civic Practice. Play Video Open Document

From: YouTube Engaging the Community Alexander Santiago-Jirau Engaging the Community Winston Churchill Foundation Australia Play Video Open Document Michael McSweeney

From: YouTube Frantic Assembly Masterclass: Learning to Fly National Theatre: Movement Artistic Director Scott Graham leads this physical theatre masterclass, featuring a series of exercises and techniques used to create spectacular lifts performed in the production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Find out more about Frantic Assembly: http://www.franticassembly.co.uk Play Video Open Document

In development - Click on the Search page below Resources menu item. It looks pretty uncluttered - all pretty uniform. But underneath that simplicity is different types of records - I am going to get the radio buttons to just show particular types of records but that isn't built yet. But the search box also returns Forum posts so that is integrated as well! I have lots of videos to cut up and put in still as well. And good training stuff from YouTube to put into the mix The Resources Menu will contain a searchable database of videos, downloadable documents, links to networks and reading references for you to search and use. Just select from the items on the Resources menu, or open the search page.

From: YouTube Alex talks about how the show Rent was supported by NYTW Alexander Santiago-Jirau Alex talks about how the show Rent was supported by NYTW Winston Churchill Foundation Australia Play Video Open Document Michael McSweeney

Theatre Networks and Links Below are some links to networks and useful offerings from Australia and around the world. If you have others for us to display, send them to us by clicking This list is by no means comprehensive. A lot of hard work goes into community focussed theatre work. Let's link together, recognise and share! here. The Association of Community Theatre This is a network covering Theatre in NSW, ACT. They have an association with an insurer that specialises in Public Liability for community theatres. https://www.communitytheatre.com.au Gold Coast Theatre Alliance The Gold Coast Theatre Alliance Inc promotes, engages and supports the diverse Regional Live performing Arts Community on the Gold Coast Queensland and Northern NSW https://www.goldcoasttheatre.com.au The Independent Theatre Association of W.A. Inc. The Independent Theatre Association WA (Inc.) is the state network for community theatre presenters and people involved in regional and metropolitan community theatre. We support and promote our membership and actively participate in the development of community theatre throughout WA. https://www.ita.org.au Adelaide & South Australian Theatre Community A community for both Participants & Patrons of Local Theatre. A place to post your Bio or share your Photos, Audition Notices, Reviews & Memories (or maybe even some gossip or a funny story or two) from plays past & present. https://www.facebook.com/groups/501083676568922/ The Victorian Drama League The VDL’s mission is to support community theatre in Victoria and act as a hub for bringing like-minded theatre people together. It was established in 1952 and currently has over 400 members who all share a common love of theatre and includes individuals, theatre companies, schools and play reading groups. While the majority of its members are from Victoria, it has a growing membership base in all states and territories across Australia. https://vdl.org.au Theatre Network Darwin …a special voice and perspective to our theatre making and storytelling in Darwin. The Network supports the sharing of these extraordinary stories on local and national stages. It comprises of people who make, produce and present live theatre as individuals and/or organisations. This group links with existing national theatre networks and the broader performing arts industry; and acts as an information conduit between the local sector and the wider national performing arts industry. The Network is designed for members to generate ideas, foster creative and professional development opportunities, support each other, and advocate and grow the sector. https://www.facebook.com/groups/174058569409789/ Musical Drama League of Victoria The Music Theatre Guild of Victoria Inc. is a not-for-profit organisation for the ongoing support, encouragement and development of non-professional music theatre in the state of Victoria, Australia. Our state has a very strong non-professional music theatre tradition and for many years, a large number of groups have staged a wide range of productions of high standard, but in recent times steeply rising costs and a more complex legislative environment have made running non-professional theatre companies and producing musicals more difficult. This lead to the formation of the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria Inc. https://www.musictheatreguildvic.org Stage Whispers Stage Whispers is an online newsletter from Australia about things happening in the community theatre scene. https://www.stagewhispers.com.au Doollee If you are trying to figure out who owns the rights to a play you want to do, Doollee lists information on over 100,000 Modern Plays. https://www.doollee.com The Kennedy Centre Tip Sheets and One Pagers - The Kennedy Centre is the USA’s national theatre and their accessibility department has been gathering and sharing resources on their website. Following their links down from there can take you to a range of resources involving theatre and access for people with disabilities. They started developing tip sheets based not only on what people were asking them but on what they were asking each other and sharing collective knowledge. https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/. American Association of Community Theatre American Association of Community Theatre is the US-based network. They have a lot of resources at their website to explore. For example the page on this link shows a list of types of roles in running theatre. http://(https://aact.org/theatre-people Siminovitch Forums into Innovations in Theatre Canada-based. Some wonderful discussions on various topics related to theatre. Available on YouTube. The link here lists a range of their online video discussions with some highly talented theatre people. https://siminovitchprize.com/events/

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