Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts is delighted to invite all those involved in the development of Musical Theatre to attend…

CANDE 2010

Creative Collaboration: How Are We Shaping the Future of Musical Theatre?

When? 15th - 17th June 2010

Where? Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (www.lipa.ac.uk)

The 2010 CANDE Conference has an ambitious aim: to explore a new strategy for teaching and developing musical theatre in higher education.

To do this, we’re inviting the finest experts in the field to set the agenda and schedule for the conference

You

We all want to help our students realise their individuality as creative artists, but we are somewhat limited by the demands of the work available to them in the musical theatre industry.

This conference proposes that through creative collaboration, between educators and between artists, we can actually change the future of the musical theatre industry.

Instead of just preparing students to meet commercial demands, there is the potential for us to nurture creative collaborators who can make their own demands on the industry, to accommodate their creative needs and abilities. We want to empower them and enable change.

Open Space Technology

The conference will use Open Space Technology, which is a very simple way for the delegates to self-organise the entire event. Over two and a half days, for just £117.50 everyone who has a vested interest in the education of musical theatre students can:

·         DESIGN THE CONFERENCE AGENDA: raise whatever issue you are passionate about, and address it in discussion with others who are passionate about that same issue.

·         DESIGN THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: choose your own timetable, so you spend exactly the right amount of time on everything.

·         DESIGN THE FUTURE: call action groups on the things about which you are most passionate, and ring the changes.

This conference has no keynote speakers. It has no expert panels. There is no call for papers. And the best part is: you don’t have to do anything except be passionate about whatever you are already passionate about.

Who should come?

Organisations are encouraged to bring several people, and in the case of educational institutions we’d like it if one of those people was a student, current or graduate. Individual educators are also welcome to attend, as are practitioners. The conference is about teaching musical theatre in higher education, not only to actors, but to all creative practitioners involved in musical theatre.

If there’s anything you’d like to change about musical theatre education, then you are the right person to be there. If you’re just passionate about musicals, then you should be there. If you think you have something else going on those days and you’re not sure: cancel that thing, and be there! We literally cannot do it without you.

There are 100 places available at CANDE 2010. To book your places, complete the attached booking form for each delegate and return it with payment to Lydia Bates, Conference Co-ordinator, LIPA, Mount Street, Liverpool, L1 9HF.

To find out more about the conference:

Visit the conference pages at http://www.lipa.ac.uk/cande2010

Join the Facebook group “How are we shaping the future of Musical Theatre”

Follow @LIPA_Ext on twitter

or contact Lydia Bates, Conference Co-ordinator on L.Bates@lipa.ac.uk, +44 (0)151 330 3136