13 large meetings with lectures, workshops, and training opportunities are scheduled to be spread over several days and will be held annually during the 4 years project.
The Creative Forums will be attended by PLATFORM shift+ delegates and will also be open to a local/regional public audience including young people. Global audiences will be connected through digital channels as each forum will be livestreamed.
Each Creative Forum focuses on a different aspect of the theatre/technology partnership linked into specific phases of PLATFORM shift+. Select the forums below to expand and find out more about the event, including videos of the speakers:
In the first 3 seasons the Creative Forums took place at a single theatre partner location. In the final season each theatre creates its own Creative Forum at its home location (in 10 European cities). In order to involve young people as audiences/participants in season 3 an International Youth Encounter took place alongside the Creative Forum in Tallinn. In season 4 young people will participate in the 10 Creative Forums fully as performers, co-creators and audience. Creative Forum: Theatre Massalia (France) Marseille (La Friche la Belle de Mai) 31th March, 2018 #VIVANT/ (#LIVING) The Creative Forum took place in collaboration with a key structure in this field: ZINC Digital Art and Culture theatremassalia.com/evenement/vivant Massalia Web trotters live-stream Creative Forum: Teatro Elsinor in Forlì (Italy) April 24th, 2018 Forli (Italy) The Creative Forum Forlì, hosted by the Province of Forlì-Cesena in Piazza Morgagni, is an event aimed at new generations. It started in February 2018 with a series of shows presented at Testori Theatre and ends on April 24th with the Creative Forum Day. At this day it will be possible to participate freely in conferences, seminars and practical workshops. The experiences are aimed at gaining new digital and technological skills and the exploration of the relationship between technology and art. Together the participants will reflect the use of digital tools and the impact they have on our lives. Thanks to live streaming the event will not only reach not the local audience but also an international one, thus becoming a global multimedia event. Creative Forum: tjg.Theater Junge Generation (Germany) May 5th, 2018 Dresden Themes & Speakers: How can customer data from ticketing be used efficiently to increase revenue and overall seat occupation? Creative Forum: Kolibri Theatre (Hungary) Kaposvár, University of Kaposvár, 7th May 2018 Kolibri Theatre organises its national Creative Forum as part of the yearly Assitej-festival in order to give an opportunity to the visitors to learn more about the latest digital technologies, discovering new aspects, questions connected with Internet. The programme will contain three TED style talks from international experts, and two hands-on workshops. The latest experiment of using binaural sound in theatre in collaboration with Teatret Vårt (Norway) and the Small Theatre Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic) will be presented. In this playful demonstration audience members / participants can visit three different locations with their headsets individually. They’ll listen to pre-recorded soundscapes during their they discover the dramaturgical function in each story. The three short pieces follow the structure of different genres like ghost story and thriller in which sound effects plays the most important role. Creators: Cecilie Lundsholt, Ingvar Kristensen, Elisabet Topp, György Vidovszky, Gergely Blahó, Patricia Pajor, Veronika Riedlbauchová, Jan Čtvrtník, Jan Pisa Creative Forum: Teatro O Bando (Portugal) Palmela, 17th June 2018 A moment to talk about the digital world, the new technologies and the way we interact with them and they interact with us. A moment to ask how the media uses the information we use. A moment where national and international speakers become workshop leaders and vice-versa. A moment to reach young professionals and theatre amateurs that have different groups and initiatives and want to know how they can become technically more independent, more autonomous, more comfortable with using digital tools in a DIY mode, without expensive equipment or serial number budgets. With the participation of Dirk Neldner (media thought designer), Ponto Zurca (sound designers), Contrapeso (light designers), Dragonfly (photo and drone designers), Le Nomade Village (French video and media designers), Elsinore Centro di Produzione Teatrale (Italian co-production partner), Pilot Theatre (British co-production partner) Creative Forum:Emergency Exit Arts (Great Britain) London, 27-28 September 2018 TECHNOLOGY AS MAGIC This Autumn Emergency Exit Arts will invite curious people of all ages to our Creative Forum to explore and discover digital technology and its relationship with theatre and the arts. This day long experience fuses together provocations, seminars and practical workshops inspired by the theme “Technology as Magic”. The event will reveal inventive and innovative digital arts practice that enchants people and enhances public spaces. As part of the Creative Forum delegates will be dazzled by industry professionals as they share the knowledge, ideas and magic that leads to the creation of playful, interactive experiences and visual spectacle. Creative Forum:Pilot Theatre (Great Britain) York, 1 – 2 October 2018 Continue: Videogames and Culture Leading practitioners from cross artform projects will unite to exchange secrets and perspectives from the bleeding edge of multimedia storytelling and narrative. Brought to you by Pilot, The British Games Institute (BGI) and York Mediale, this ambitious two-day melting pot of ideas features industry heavy-weight speakers from the cultural and gaming sectors, open discussion and candid sharing, a micro-game jam and exclusive project demos from immersive tech to theatre. Creative Forum: Teatret VAT (Estonia) in co-operation with HITSA (Information Technology Foundation for Education) Tallinn, 11th October, 2018 As part of a bigger conference the focus will be on new technological possibilities, that schools are trying out. It will talk about success-stories and also about failures and dangers in that field. The Creative Forum will open more the theme of creativeness and innovation in theatre, that can also be useful for educational field. A forum theatre presentation will take place. Creative Forum : University of Agder (Norway) Kristiansand, 12th October 2018 The theatre section at Department of Visual Arts and Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts University of is giving their Creative National Forum the day before the official opening of, and in collaboration with, SAND International Festival of Performing Arts for a Young Audience. There will be several paralleled sessions of workshop conducted by staff from Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Engineering and Science and from invited international guests. Among others are The Gob Squad Arts Collective giving one of the workshops, and a plenum talk about the project My Square Lady.
“Languages, humanities, ways of communication, tools…, living shows have been impacted and, sometimes, transformed by Digital”.
Based on the artist Michaël Cros’ research topic for his ÜBM show, we imagined a day of reflection, meetings and practice to question our relationship to the Living (human, animal, plant, microbial …) in a digital world.
Artists, academics, hackers… have questioned and delivered their point of view. They also put us to work in a series of 5 workshops, which aimed to introduce in a playful way, artistic and citizen uses we can have of it.”
Digital technologies effect all working worlds – including the theatre. And in the digital world, the digital concerns all areas: the art, the processes in the company, communication with each other and with the audience. The Creative Forum will be part of the 10th Saxon Theater Meeting and is inviting the employees of all departments, trades and ensembles of the Saxon theaters to spend an afternoon learning about the developments and possibilities of the digital in the theater – on stage, behind the stage, in offices and workshops. Experts will give an overview of current topics in 30-minute lectures.
Simon Glöcklhofer and Hannes Tronsberg (actori GmbH, Munich)
What additional earnings potential do innovative (digital) pricing strategies offer cultural institutions?
Simon Glöcklhofer and Hannes Tronsberg (actori GmbH, Munich)
How can I design digital discourses as a theater and involve my target group(s)?
Anne Aschenbrenner and Marc Lippuner (Die Kulturfritzen, Berlin and Vienna)
What makes a successful theater website?
Christoph Macha (dramaturg, tjg theater junge generation Dresden)
What chances and opportunities do the latest technologies such as social VR / AR / AI offer the stages and the theater of the future?
Björn Lengers and Marcel Karnapke (CyberRäuber, Berlin)
What do theaters need, what do actors need to learn to bring the new technologies to the stage?
Björn Lengers and Marcel Karnapke (CyberRäuber, Berlin)
Digital media practice in the performing arts: what else needs to be done?
Mario Simon (Head of Video Department, Schauspiel Dortmund)
Why are social media guidelines so important?
Melanie Janka (Social Media Manager, Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden)
How does Digital Modernity change the storytelling techniques and contents of the theater?
Michael Eickhoff (Chief Dramaturg, Schauspiel Dortmund)
What do digital media have to do with puppetry?
Julian Jungel (Teacher for the Artistic Workshop Teaching, Academy of Dramatic Arts “Ernst Busch” in the study of contemporary puppetry, Berlin)
What new forms does a theater invent that is digitized?
Daniel Wetzel (director and co-founder of Rimini Protokoll, Athens and Berlin)
Which narrative of the digital world can adapt a stage drama?
Clara Ehrenwerth (dramaturg, author and managing director of the game theater collective machina eX, Leipzig)
The conference will be in Estonian and English and will be live streamed.