Learn & Grow!
Register now for one of the Centre’s upcoming trainings in Washington, DC, and Seattle, Washington, in conjunction with Gatherings to Grow Playback Theatre, hosted by the Arts Rising North America Initiative.

September 30-October 1 is a unique opportunity to join playback theatre founder Jonathan Fox and next-generation leader Kimberly Rattley for Supervision for Playback Leaders. Topics include company mission, financial management, and ethics. Open to company leaders, emerging leaders, long-standing company members, or by special permission. Held close to DC in Silver Spring, Maryland.

On October 14-15, delve into The Beauty of the Form with new executive director Sarah Urech, deepen your artistry in playback acting and conducting, and expand your repertoire of playback forms. Held in Seattle, Washington.

For more information, as well as special discounts, click the course titles. And learn about the Arts Rising Gatherings.

It’s an exciting time in playback theatre’s development – come be part of the growth!

www.playbackcentre.org

2010: May 21-23

Findhorn, NE Scotland

Transformations for Teaching –creating learning communities. Playback plays a role.

http://www.northernlightsteachers.org/

takes place in Snowdonia at Noddfa, Conwy Old Road, Penmaenmawr, North Wales LL34 6YF

Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st October

Playback Theatre in the Mountains

hosted by Brian Tasker and ECCO Playback Theatre Company

Greetings! You are warmly invited to a long weekend of sharing your skills and stories with other Playbackers from around the UK and from across the water.  Let’s gather together to meet, talk and do Playback Theatre in the beautiful setting of the Welsh mountains this coming autumn.  An opportunity to catch up with old friends and make new ones.

Cost: £150 all-inclusive   (Thursday dinner to Sunday lunch)

All administration and booking requests to briantasker@hotmail.com

As well as the School of Playback Theatre (United Kingdom), there are now several Schools of Playback Theatre in Europe which are afiliated to the Centre for Playback Theatre (USA). 

These are the contact details and websites for information on courses.

Germany: http://www.playbackschule.com/sommerschule08.html
or contact:

Marlies Arping    marliesarping@web.de
Marianne Tobler    marianto@dataway.ch

Italy: http://www.playback-theatre.it/
or contact:

Nadia Lotti   info@playback-theatre.it

and the newly formed Skandinavisk Playbackteater Studio

May 7-8  PLAYBACK FOR ORGANISATIONAL CONSULTANTS / Tim van Ness Location: Residential, outside of Stockholm, Sweden Language: English  June 25-28  THE ARTICULATE BODY / Hannah Fox (selected topic) Location: Stockholm, Sweden Language: English  Nov 4-7 THE ART OF CONDUCTING / Di Adderley (selected topic) Location: Outside of Oslo, Norway Language: English

contact: Synne Platander   synne.platander@comhem.se

Kristallvägen 127S-126 79 Hägersten+46 -(0)73 987 56 72

The 2009 European Playback Gathering took place August 27-30 in Crimea. “Playback Theatre on the Black Sea” was successfully hosted by our Russian and Ukrainian Playback friends in the seaside resort of Andreevka.

http://playbacktheatre.ru/index.php

Mirror Mirror of the UK have offered to host the next European Gathering – anticipated for the summer of 2012!!!

SOCIAL MIRRORS: CONFRONTING CULTURES

Oasi di Cavoretto, Turin (Italy)  2010: June 23 – 27 Wednesday to Sunday

A 5-day international meeting on Playback Theatre exploring theoretical issues, exchanging experiences, workshops, performances & sharing. For Playbackers and their families.

Cost: €450/500     Hosted by the Italian school of Playback Theatre:

www.playback-theatre.it

info@playback-theatre.it

The Centre for Playback Theatre

in association with The School of Playback Theatre (UK) & Mirror Mirror Playback Theatre

presents a week-long training with Jonathan Fox

Location: Plymouth

Cost: TBC 

Description: Plymouth is an ancient community whose long-time residents have had to make space for political refugees and other immigrants, in addition to dealing with the challenges of growth. In many ways the city has responded with generosity and imagination, but problems remain—problems recognizable to communities throughout the world.  This training will focus on ways playback theatre can ease tensions, build bridges, and create a space for an integrated community narrative. The training will include input from community leaders and a performance of Mirror Mirror, the local playback theatre company, which has been working on these issues. Participants will be invited to share their own potential playback theatre projects on immigration-related topics for implementation in their home communities. 

Application required.

Prerequisite: Core Training, six months in a pt company, or by special permission  

For application requests and enquiries please write to Centre for Playback Theatre  playbackcentre@hvi.net

www.playbackcentre.org

Four members of Playback Theatre New York City visited London and ran a workshop for young people at the Lancaster Youth Centre (RBK&C) on 21-4-08. UK PT folks from True Heart Theatre and Bristol PT came along too. Check out this Youtube film….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNkvvU6dwjc

Later that week, PTNYC – Baba, Dawn, Paul, & Yako – were joined by Rose and Valerie from Breathing Fire PT in Bristol, and Karin from PT Zurich, to offer a Playback Theatre performance (26-4-08) for the International WorldWork Conference hosted in London. Terrific!

…was hosted by Mirror Mirror Playback Theatre

at the Mountbatten Centre, PLYMOUTH  Devon
Thurs 30th October – Sun 2nd November
40+ Playbackers came together and shared stories and skills. Pics to come soon.A big Thankyou to Mirror Mirror Playback Theatre who hosted us: www.mirrormirrortheatre.co.uk

Dear Colleagues, Jonathan Fox, the founder of the Centre for Playback Theatre and the founder of Playback Theatre itself, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Kassel, Germany. The doctorate recognizes Jonathan for “artistic and scholarly achievement in theatre.” The Education and Humanities faculty, representing education, philosophy, theology, psychoanalytic psychology, and music, were unanimous in this decision. The University of Kassel has awarded only four honorary doctorates in its history: this the first to an American, and the first that honors a recipient for both scholarly and artistic achievement. At the end of April there will be an award ceremony and a one-day academic conference at the University. It is a wonderful and well-merited recognition, not just of Jonathan and his more than thirty years of extraordinary work, but also of Playback Theatre itself.  We can be proud of him and of ourselves too.

FOR PICTURES AND A REPORT FROM MARCUS HUEHN ON THE EVENTS AT KASSEL CLICK ON THIS LINK

http://projektpurpur.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=117