ICE Announcements 11.25.19
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Lecture: Julian Boal (11/25)
2. Opportunity: a2ru Emerging Creatives Student Summit (deadline 1/20)
3. Opportunity: a2ru Ground Works (deadline 2/28)
4. Capturing Science Contest (deadline 12/2)
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1. Lecture: Julian Boal
Monday, November 25 at 5:30 PM
Fine Arts Building, Room 400 (Balcony Theatre)
"Theatre of the Oppressed in the World: How Theatre Can Effect Change," Julian Boal, co-founder and pedagogical coordinator, Escola de Teatro Popular, Rio de Janeiro. Lecture and reception are free and open to the public.
Boal is a teacher, researcher, and internationally-active and world-renowned practitioner of Theatre of the Oppressed. He has facilitated workshops in more than 25 countries and collaborated on several international theatre festivals in India with Jana Sanskriti, in Spain with Pa'tothom, in Portugal with Oprima, in Croatia with the Istrian National Theater, in France with GTO-Paris, and in Brazil with CTO-Rio. Boal is a founding member of Ambata, Theatre of the Oppressed Group -- Paris and Feminisme Enjeux, author of Images of a Popular Theatre (Hucitec, 2000), co-editor of the DVD & essay booklet Theatre of the Oppressed in Actions (with Kelly Howe and Scot McElvany, Routledge, 2015), and the forthcoming anthology: The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed (with Kelly Howe and Jose Soeiro). He also collaborated with Sergio de Carvalho as assistant playwright for two recent plays: Those Who Stay (2015) and The Bread and The Stone (2016).
The majority of Western performance practices involve a strict division between actors and audience. Augusto Boal and other practitioners of Theatre of the Oppressed have developed methods that involve and engage the audience directly, enabling them to move from being mere spectators in an auditorium to onstage "spect-actors," working alongside a company of other actors to explore, to understand, and (hopefully) to change the world, one urgent oppression at a time. This talk (with a question-and-answer session to follow) will focus on how Theatre of the Oppressed was born in a specific context and how it evolved from a theatre technique the emerged from the global south to a technique used all over the world. More specifically, how have the changes in terms of the scale of Theatre of the Oppressed's popularity over time created new problems and questions? In other words, how does a theatre technique that was created to fight against dictatorships and extremely centralized political parties evolve in a world of so-called participatory democracies and Facebook? Finally, what can Theatre of the Oppressed do in the face of the rise of fascism, specifically in Brazil?
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2. a2ru Emerging Creatives Student Summit
February 20-23, 2020
University of Cincinatti
Deadline: January 20, 2020
https://www.a2ru.org/events/2020-emerging-creatives-student-summit/
a2ru is now accepting applications from students and faculty to participate in the 2020 Emerging Creatives Student Summit -- an intensive, working summit with experts and fellow students of all disciplines across the country to explore and tackle challenges in interdisciplinary teams around the theme, "RISE UP! Risk Something Real."
Open to undergraduate and graduate students of a2ru partner institutions. There is no fee to attend the summit; student or student's institution is responsible for travel and board -- some meals provided as part of the Summit experience. A limited number of student travel grants and a2ru scholar awards are also available. For more info on the event, guest speakers and performers, and to apply, visit the summit website.
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3. Call for Submissions: a2ru Ground Works
Priority date for submissions is February 28, 2020
http://groundworks.io
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) issues a call for submissions to its online peer-reviewed collection of interdisciplinary arts projects, Ground Works.
We welcome submissions that integrate research and practice in the fine, performing, and applied arts and design with other disciplines. We seek a wide range of interdisciplinary works that pose a challenge to traditional peer review methods by inviting examination from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Eligible projects have achieved some initial recognition; they may be collaborative or sole-author, but should demonstrably advance multiple fields within and beyond the arts.
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4. Capturing Science Contest
Deadline: December 2 at 5 PM
http://guides.libs.uga.edu/capturingscience
UGA Libraries is hosting the 2019 Capturing Science Contest to encourage STEM communication in a diversity of formats. Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for $3,000 in prizes.
Guidelines: Explain a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) concept to a broader audience using any medium of your choice.
Prizes: The top three undergraduate and graduate submissions each receive prizes of $1,000, $350, and $150.
Eligibility: All currently-enrolled UGA undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. Students may submit works used for other class assignments. Multiple entries are acceptable.
Contest Criteria:
Clarity of expression
Creativity
Appeal to a broad audience
Formats: Any and all formats and genres are encouraged! Examples include: essays, board games, virtual reality, videos, music, software, apps, curricula, lesson plans, poems, infographics, fiction, and exhibits. See last years' winners and submissions for more examples. Sponsored by: UGA Libraries & The Office of Research
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Ideas for Creative Exploration is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA, supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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