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Speaking to the Nation?
The Artist's Vision
December 2007
Sat 8th Dec, 10.00 am - 6.00pm
"A true vision for the future begins with respect for the past and the commonality of human experience." Peter Sellars
Wales
As a work in progress...
As a project of imagining and re-invention...
As a place of inclusion and integration...
Where notions of nationhood are determined through dynamic negotiation and transaction...
Where the participants determine the outcome and a sense of ownership is gained...
"Today it is difficult to imagine how any national theatre can pretend to represent the spirit of the nation" Dragan Klaic
No, Not The-National-Theatre debate, but taking that as a context and spur, performers, directors, writers and artists of all disciplines are invited to gather and share ideas, visions, passions, manifestos, hopes and dreams for theatre: the here and now, the next and the what if?
In any debate about theatre and its future, the dominant voices are often not those of the artists who are busy making and performing the work. Speaking to the Nation? The Artist's Vision does not want to focus on structures, funding or strategies for audience development but the excitement and passion of the work that needs to be at the heart of any venture. An antidote to ‘devoted, disillusioned and disgruntled' talkshops, Speaking to the Nation? The Artist's Vision seeks inspiration, provocation, engagement and maybe even entertainment. To mitigate too-many-words, the day will also include a series of specially-created Short Cuts, in which individual artists from different disciplines and generations respond to the question of what consumes them now.
Please come and be generously present to share obsessions and celebrate duality, mutuality, commonality and difference.
For more information or to register your place, please call CPR at (0) 1970 622 133 or email cprwww@aber.ac.uk
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