Connecting Australia's Music Theatre research, pedagogy and industry.
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Tuesday 16 July
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Copyright 2024 Music Theatre Futures
Connecting Australia's Music Theatre research, pedagogy and industry.
Event category:
All
Panels
Presentations
Research
Workshops
Dates:
All
Monday 15 July
Tuesday 16 July
Instagram / Facebook
Copyright 2024 Music Theatre Futures
Music Theatre Futures 2024 is the first in-person conference for music theatre in Australia.
Music Theatre has a special ability to connect to audiences through the combination of text, bodies, voice, movement, sound, music, design and more. Its multiple points of connection give it a special place in the cultural landscape.
To ensure Music Theatre continues to remain relevant, impactful and able to adapt to an ever-changing world, the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne will host Music Theatre Futures: the first in-person conference for music theatre in Australia. Music Theatre Futures aims to increase the points of connection between the music theatre research, pedagogy and industry sectors, so we can work through some of our greatest challenges together.
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Conference Goals & Objectives
- Increase points of connection across sectors of the discipline to enhance sharing of research, resources, practices, values
- Connect practitioners with new skills, information and networks to support their work facilitating and holding spaces that reflect best practices
- Connect artist-scholars and teachers with approaches to help publish and communicate their practice
- Connect practitioners, researchers, teachers and creatives and instigate conversations and relationships that continue beyond the symposium
- Celebrate and recognise practitioners, academics, artist-scholars, creatives and teachers whose work speaks to the theme of connection
Programming ProcessAn expression of interest (EOI) process occurred, advertised on social media platforms and via the University of Melbourne mailing lists. The EOIs were reviewed by the programming panel:
- Jayde Kirchert (Lecturer in Music Theatre, MTF Convenor, VCA University of Melbourne)
- Dr. Narelle Yeo (Head of Music Theatre Sydney Conservatorium, University of Sydney)
- Fiona Choi (industry consultant and performer).
Additional sessions were added aiming to address and include a diverse range of issues and perspectives.
SupportMusic Theatre Futures is made possible by generous funding from the Victorian College of the Arts Foundation Board, VCA Directorate, University of Melbourne.
AccessibilityAll venues at the Southbank campus are wheelchair accessible. To read more about access services available at our venues, please visit: https://finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/access-our-events
Acknowledgement of CountryThe University of Melbourne acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we work, learn and live: the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples. The University also acknowledges and is grateful to the Traditional Owners, Elders and Knowledge Holders of all Indigenous nations and clans who have been instrumental in our reconciliation journey.