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- About me
- Steve Ball, is Associate Director (Learning and Participation) at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. He trained as a teacher and taught in Essex and Barcelona before training as an actor at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. He worked for a number of children's theatre and theatre in education companies before coming to Birmingham in 1986 and founding Language Alive! and Catalyst, two of the region's leading educational theatre companies. He has also worked as a writer and producer for BBC Education, lectured at universities in the US and Australia and was Head of Arts for Birmingham City Council from 2001 to 2003. Steve has contributed to a number of journals and books, has an MA in Arts Management and a doctorate in Arts Education. He is a board member of St Paul’s Community Development Trust and Birmingham LGBT Community Trust and is Chair of TYA England and Bright Space Ltd.
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Scribble Ink posted an eventRoyal Docks Spring Festival at Britannia Village Hall
June 1, 2012 from 4pm to 8pm
A free family event for the whole community to come together and enjoy a wide range of activities, stalls and entertainment. Find out about local services, London 2012 games and get a free health check.See More
A discussion started by David Harradine was featuredMANIFESTOS (or, Tell Us What You Really Think)
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 that we are living through times of extraordinary change right now, I thought I'd start a thread for MANIFESTOS RELATING TO MAKING ART FOR CHILDREN.Don't have one? Nor did I until 24 hours ago, then I decided I'd write one.So get going, and it'd be grand to see them here...See More
A blog post by Samantha Butler was featuredOn encouraging young audiences (or their parents) to take risks
http://www.itstheforest.comWhy should parents bring their children to see something like my company's dance piece 'The Forest'?When it’s half term and I scan the pages of the ‘what’s on for children’ sections of magazines I want to know that the experiences I choose for my children will be, to be honest, worth the effort, that they will enjoy it, that they will be enriched in some way, in any way, by what they’ve seen.I want to take them…See More
A blog post by David Harradine was featuredSome 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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