Manifesto for Change: Reimagining social inclusion in the arts
Event Information
Manifesto for Change: Reimagining social inclusion in the arts, is an online networking event that invites you to reimagine social inclusion in the arts
Thursday 24 June 2021, 5.30-7.30pm
Hosted on Airmeet, a new digital platform, this event will facilitate a series of innovative and playful digital engagements, enabling participants (you) to build new networks with contributors from different parts of the world, participate in challenging dialogues across disciplines and join a global discussion about social inclusion, arts practice, funding and policy.
This online networking event brings together experts from the arts and cultural sectors and other disciplinary fields to discuss how social inclusion in the arts might be re-configured to better respond to the global challenges facing the post-pandemic world.
Meet the Contributors
- Connie Bell
- Cleve Jackson
- Erwin Maas
- Jonathan Man
- Rasheeda Nalumoso
- Amanda Stuart Fisher
- Sue Williams
Connie Bell is one of the founding members of Decolonising The Archive, as a Consultant, Memory Worker and Cultural Producer her work explores decolonial methodologies, memory as technology and the futurity of diasporic narratives hidden in theatre archives. Currently she is leading on the overarching project of building a Pan African Archive via digital logging and interface, for the purpose of sustainable African/ Caribbean Community Development in Britain on DTA LIVE RADIO.
Cleve Jackson is an Independent Social Work Educator, Consultant & Freelance Trainer. He is a qualified social worker and a former social work manager. Cleve has most recently worked as a teaching fellow and tutor in the Social Department at Royal Holloway University and currently supports students as a practice educator.
Cleve has extensive experience in children and families social work and also works as a freelance trainer and consultant. Cleve is interested in issues of race and gender, creativity and emotional resilience within social work.
Erwin Maas is a New York based international theatre maker, curator, and educator from the Netherlands. He has worked extensively in Australia, Europe, South Africa, South Korea and USA. He is the Co-founding Director of the Pan-African Creative Exchange, Fellowship Director for International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY), and Programming Director of the Off-Broadway Origin Theatre Company.
From 2015 to 2019, Maas was the Artistic/Creative Director of the International Society for Performing Arts (ISPA). He currently teaches at CUNY Brooklyn College’s MFA Performance & Interactive-Media-Arts Program. Erwin is a core-member of Theater Without Borders, Georgetown University’s Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics and the Netherland-America Foundation Cultural Committee. He serves on the Artistic Advisory Board of ISSUE Project Room Brooklyn, First Nation Spiderwoman Theater, and DecadesOut, an organization at the intersection of Arts-Science-Policy. His website is www.erwinmaas.com.
Jonathan Man is a theatre director, dramaturg & cultural producer. Previously he co-created the Chinese Arts Now festival, and was co-artistic director for Yellow Earth Theatre.
His is an alumni of the Stage One New Producers Workshop, and Step Change - the National Theatre’s arts leadership & management programme. His directing credits include “Monkey!” (Polka Theatre), “wAve”, a modern Medea (Yellow Earth/national tour), “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Southwark Playhouse/Better Bankside Award winner), double bill: “Magical Chair” by Mary Mazzilli & “There is Only One Wayne Lee” by Roy Williams (Lumenis Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Beijing International Fringe Festival), and “Turandot Reimagined” (SOAS university, Tete a Tete opera festival, Grimeborne Festival at the Arcola); and dramaturg for the musical “Tokyo Rose” (Burnt Lemon Theatre).
He has had residencies at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, and University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Jonathan has been programmed for the BEAM musical theatre showcase this autumn with the new musical project in development “Follow The Light”, about the lives of a modern Chinese family in Britain.
Rasheeda Nalumoso is a Creative Producer with twelve years experience working across theatre, dance and the visual arts. Currently Programme Manager with the British Council East Africa Arts based in Kampala Uganda, Rasheeda was the Creative Producer for KLA ART’ 18 with visual arts organisation 32 Degrees East, Ugandan Arts Trust, a free public art festival that took place in August 2018 with and for the city of Kampala.
Amanda Stuart Fisher is a Reader in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her research has been published in journals such as Performance Research, Studies in Theatre and Performance and Research in Drama Education: The journal of applied theatre. In 2020 she published her monograph: Performing the Testimonial: Rethinking verbatim dramaturgies (MUP 2020) and her co-edited book (with James Thompson) Performing Care: New perspectives on socially engaged performance.
Sue Williams is an artist and creative at heart that originally trained as a painter. Recognising and experiencing numerous barriers that she experienced as a disabled person developing a creative practise in the arts she began to focus and work in equality. Initially this involved developing, designing and delivering a range of projects promoting inclusion and equality. Latterly her work has focused on working in large public sector organisations to develop equality policy and strategy. She is specifically interested in the complexity and challenges of developing initiatives that promote cultural change and equality at an institutional level.
She has previously worked as a Senior Diversity Officer at Arts Council England’s National Office developing national policy, strategy, funding streams and exploratory commissioning programmes. As a result she has developed has an in-depth understanding of equality legislation and its application within organisational settings and policy making. Sue was also the Disability Co-ordinator at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
After leaving the Arts Council Sue completed a Masters in Illustration at Camberwell College of Art. She currently splits her time between working in higher education and pursuing her own artistic practice. She has undertaken residencies in Australia and at the Watershed in Bristol, selling and exhibiting her work (whenever possible). She remains passionate about and committed to equality and inclusion in the arts.
The event will be hosted via air meet. You will be contacted with more information about how to access the event nearer the time.
Book your place for Manifesto for Change: Reimagining social inclusion in the arts
This event is a part of the Forum for Social Engagement and Inclusion in the Arts and Cultural Industries Summer Event Series, Manifesto for Change: Re-imagining social engagement and inclusion in the arts.