NEW APPROACHES TO NEW AUDIENCES: Seeing young audiences through young people’s eyes
Take Over Project Final Conference | 17 July 2017 | Avignon
On 17th July Take Over Project partners and Youth Board members as well as cultural professionals from across Europe met together for the final Take Over conference NEW APPROACHES TO NEW AUDIENCES as part of Festival d’Avignon.
Outcomes of the project were discussed and conference participants had a chance to debate and share their experience in audience development. A Learning Kit that summarises partner’s journey through the project was presented to the participants.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE LEARNING KIT
Following an open call for participants delegates from the following organisations received a travel grant to attend the final Take Over project conference.
- Fuel, UK
- Sound and Music, UK
- 420 People Dance, Czech Republic
- The Horsfall @42nd Street, UK
- Flaming Nora, UK
- Don Branko Sbutega Foundation, International Festval KotorArt – Don Branko’s music days, Montenegro
- Ian Thomas Abbott, UK
- STPLN - Föreningen Stapelbädden, Sweden
- Komuna/Warszawa Theatre, Poland
- Miniatura Theatre, Poland
- Krokodil, Serbia
- Musical Youth of Novi Sad, Serbia
- Yolanda Mercy, UK
- Thesis Theatre Company, Greece
- PLEGMA NGO, Greece
- Rete Teatrale Aretina, Italy
- Teatro Kismet / Teatri di Bari, Italy
- Catalyst, Italy
- Marija Milovanovic, Serbia
- Art Stations Foundation, Poland
Final Conference Programme included:
2.30pm: Welcome and Introduction
Silke Pillinger, British Council Director Arts, EU Europe
2.40pm: Keynote speech 'Take me over: social boundaries, emancipation and audience development'
Goran Tomka, Lecturer at UNESCO Chair in Cultural policy and management, Belgrade
3.10pm: Presentation of Take Over project
Hear from our partners in Poland, Greece, Serbia and Italy about the Take Over Project
3.30pm: Panel discussion
Project partcipants join a panel discussion chaired by James Mackenzie-Blackman, Executive Director, New Adventures Company, London.
4.30pm: Presenation of the Learning Kit
By Vassilis Charalamnidis, Artistic Director, Bios, Greece and Akis Chontasis, Bios Youth Board Director.
4.40pm: Youth Board Voices
Presentation of project outcomes from young people's perspective.
5pm: Networking Reception
Following the final conference all delegates were invited complete a questionnaire.
Please click here to take part.
