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The Challenges of Touring

Fevered Sleep is in the middle of a big research project about touring, asking questions about how touring performance for children is made, supported, financed, programmed and experienced by public…Continue

Started Jan 31

MANIFESTOS (or, Tell Us What You Really Think)
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There's a venerable tradition of artists' manifestos, which always seem to pop up especially at times of great cultural and political change (post WW1 dadaists; them 60s experimenters...) so, given…Continue

Tags: artists, cultural change, politics, manifesto

Started this discussion. Last reply by David Harradine Mar 16, 2011.

Welcome to The Future Playground - Please Tell Us a Bit About Yourself
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Thanks for joining The Future Playground.  This thread is a place where people who are new to the site and the community can say a little bit about themselves, and about what they want The Future…Continue

Tags: dreams, introduce yourself, welcome

Started this discussion. Last reply by David Harradine Oct 22, 2010.

What Makes Great Art for Children?
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So what is it that makes the very best art for children?  What should we all be thinking about when we're at the start of a process of making or supporting new work?Continue

Tags: quality, process

Started this discussion. Last reply by Sue Buckmaster Jan 28, 2010.

 

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I'm an artist working in performance, visual art and publication, making work for children and for adults. I'm the artistic director of Fevered Sleep.

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I'm an artist working in performance, visual art and publication, making work for children and for adults. I'm the artistic director of Fevered Sleep.
www.writtenwithlight.com
www.feveredsleep.co.uk

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The Challenges of Touring

Fevered Sleep is in the middle of a big research project about touring, asking questions about how touring performance for children is made, supported, financed, programmed and experienced by public and schools audiences.We'd love to hear about Future Playground members' experiences, and to hear your thoughts.  Please add anything related to touring to this forum, or let us know what you think about:Technical support, limitations, opportunities - get ins and get outs - the challenges of touring…See More
A discussion started by David Harradine was featured Jan 31
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The Challenges of Touring

Fevered Sleep is in the middle of a big research project about touring, asking questions about how touring performance for children is made, supported, financed, programmed and experienced by public and schools audiences.We'd love to hear about Future Playground members' experiences, and to hear your thoughts.  Please add anything related to touring to this forum, or let us know what you think about:Technical support, limitations, opportunities - get ins and get outs - the challenges of touring…See More
Discussion posted by David Harradine Jan 31
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Stories and Other Things

We're in the 2nd week of rehearsals for a revival of our show The Forest, and I've been thinking a lot about how the piece works, and why we made it the way we did.  It's a piece in which we tried to recreate the sensations and rhythms and feelings of being in a forest - to do with play, fear, light, space, texture, movement - and we hang this loosely around a visual structure: a simple journey while day turns to night.  It's pretty abstract!  It has always felt important to us to resist the…See More
A blog post by David Harradine was featured Jan 31
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Stories and Other Things

We're in the 2nd week of rehearsals for a revival of our show The Forest, and I've been thinking a lot about how the piece works, and why we made it the way we did.  It's a piece in which we tried to recreate the sensations and rhythms and feelings of being in a forest - to do with play, fear, light, space, texture, movement - and we hang this loosely around a visual structure: a simple journey while day turns to night.  It's pretty abstract!  It has always felt important to us to resist the…See More
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Evaluation with Children

We're just embarking on a research project to explore how children, especially very young children, can give feedback on their experience of performance without that feedback having to be mediated by adults.  We had our second brainstorming conversation today and realised what a very very steep learning curve we're on.  If you have any thoughts or experiences in relation to all this, we'd love to hear more...See More
A blog post by David Harradine was featured Jan 25
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Helene Hugel commented on David Harradine's blog post 'Evaluation with Children'
This might be of interest? Developing an age appropriate consultation methodology forinvolving children under 5 years of age in decision making are available in the ‘WOW! This is Big’ publication.The findings challenge thinking about…
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Boomer Stacey and David Harradine are now friends Dec 4, 2011
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Vicky Cave commented on David Harradine's blog post 'Evaluation with Children'
Hi David I have experience of working with young children to explore their ideas around different ideas and themes in order to develop hands-on exhibitions for them. I'd be very happy to have a conversation with you about this. I think that you…
Nov 30, 2011
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Kate Cross commented on David Harradine's blog post 'Evaluation with Children'
We tried something similar, although not with very young children, where we worked with a Bristol based organisation called New Generation Documenters. The idea is that the children are given a skill, that of 'live documenting'. This is…
Nov 24, 2011
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Evaluation with Children

We're just embarking on a research project to explore how children, especially very young children, can give feedback on their experience of performance without that feedback having to be mediated by adults.  We had our second brainstorming conversation today and realised what a very very steep learning curve we're on.  If you have any thoughts or experiences in relation to all this, we'd love to hear more...See More
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David Harradine commented on Alchemy Productions's blog post 'Small Wonders'
Congratulations!  This is really wonderful news and I look forward to seeing and hearing about what develops.  It would be great for you and commissioned artists to keep sharing discoveries and ideas via this site.  I'm sure a…
Nov 7, 2011
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Guardian Feature on Punchdrunk's Project for Children

Interesting article on Punchdrunk's upcoming piece for children.  Good to see artists finding younger and younger audiences... Read the article hereSee More
Blog post by David Harradine Jun 12, 2011
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Some Thoughts on "Acting Like Children"

This blog is based on the text of a talk I gave today at Rose Bruford college, as part of the Acting Like Children project organised by Polka Theatre, Travelling Light and…See More
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Some Thoughts on "Acting Like Children"

This blog is based on the text of a talk I gave today at Rose Bruford college, as part of the Acting Like Children project organised by Polka Theatre, Travelling Light and…See More
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Sarah Argent commented on David Harradine's blog post 'Today's Future Playground meeting at mac, Birmingham'
Hi David. Thanks for clarification - that makes perfect sense.  Don't worry, it wasn't about feeling excluded, it was about worrying that I'd missed something that had been advertised by not being able to navigate my way around…
Apr 5, 2011
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David Harradine commented on David Harradine's blog post 'Today's Future Playground meeting at mac, Birmingham'
Hi Sarah The event wasn't advertised on here, so it's not that you missed it, nor was a general mailout sent via TYA England.  We were hosted by mac this year, and they particularly wanted to focus on talking with and supporting…
Apr 4, 2011

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Stories and Other Things

We're in the 2nd week of rehearsals for a revival of our show The Forest, and I've been thinking a lot about how the piece works, and why we made it the way we did.  It's a piece in which we tried to recreate the sensations and rhythms and feelings of being in a forest - to do with play, fear, light, space, texture, movement - and we hang this loosely around a visual structure: a simple journey while day turns to night.  It's pretty abstract!  

It has always felt important to…

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Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:50am

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Evaluation with Children

We're just embarking on a research project to explore how children, especially very young children, can give feedback on their experience of performance without that feedback having to be mediated by adults.  We had our second brainstorming conversation today and realised what a very very steep learning curve we're on.  If you have any thoughts or experiences in relation to all this, we'd love to hear more...

Posted on November 7, 2011 at 5:44pm — 3 Comments

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Guardian Feature on Punchdrunk's Project for Children

Interesting article on Punchdrunk's upcoming piece for children.  Good to see artists finding younger and younger audiences...

 

Read the article here

Posted on June 12, 2011 at 6:30pm

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Some Thoughts on "Acting Like Children"

This blog is based on the text of a talk I gave today at Rose Bruford college, as part of the Acting Like Children project organised by Polka Theatre, Travelling Light and…

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Posted on April 16, 2011 at 1:00pm

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Hi all I run a project in Wales called the Young Critics scheme at present the scheme is open to 12-25 year old young people. I am researching the possibility of developing a Young Critics Juniors Scheme for primary age children. I am investigating a range of IPad apps as a method of creating a resonse by a young person.I am looking at Apps called Show me , Explain Everything, Book creator, Brushes, Cominc life and Garageband. Does anyone have any experience of this type of activity?ThanksGuy See More
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Young Critics Juniors, IPAD Apps as a response method

Hi all I run a project in Wales called the Young Critics scheme at present the scheme is open to 12-25 year old young people. I am researching the possibility of developing a Young Critics Juniors Scheme for primary age children. I am investigating a range of IPad apps as a method of creating a resonse by a young person.I am looking at Apps called Show me , Explain Everything, Book creator, Brushes, Cominc life and Garageband. Does anyone have any experience of this type of activity?ThanksGuy See More
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Bigger & Brighter at Cheam Resource Centre

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An Earlyarts Professional Development Day- Developing creativity through photography and ‘Big’ art work. For artists, early years practitioners, heads of centres, cultural managers, local authority advisers,  early years professionals, arts or cultural organisations. The aims of the day are to develop practitioner’s skills and confidence in promoting children’s creativity through the use  of…See More
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The Challenges of Touring

Fevered Sleep is in the middle of a big research project about touring, asking questions about how touring performance for children is made, supported, financed, programmed and experienced by public and schools audiences.We'd love to hear about Future Playground members' experiences, and to hear your thoughts.  Please add anything related to touring to this forum, or let us know what you think about:Technical support, limitations, opportunities - get ins and get outs - the challenges of touring…See More
A discussion started by David Harradine was featured Jan 31
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The Challenges of Touring

Fevered Sleep is in the middle of a big research project about touring, asking questions about how touring performance for children is made, supported, financed, programmed and experienced by public and schools audiences.We'd love to hear about Future Playground members' experiences, and to hear your thoughts.  Please add anything related to touring to this forum, or let us know what you think about:Technical support, limitations, opportunities - get ins and get outs - the challenges of touring…See More
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Stories and Other Things

We're in the 2nd week of rehearsals for a revival of our show The Forest, and I've been thinking a lot about how the piece works, and why we made it the way we did.  It's a piece in which we tried to recreate the sensations and rhythms and feelings of being in a forest - to do with play, fear, light, space, texture, movement - and we hang this loosely around a visual structure: a simple journey while day turns to night.  It's pretty abstract!  It has always felt important to us to resist the…See More
A blog post by David Harradine was featured Jan 31
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