Monday 15 October, 1-2pm, Aphra Theatre, University of Kent, Canterbury
Dr Paul Sutton is the Artistic Director of C&T (PhD Kent). Mixing applied theatre and digital media, C&T create collaborative online drama projects for schools, colleges and universities. Examples of these projects include the Livingnewspaper.net – a reinvention of the classic documentary form of the Living Newspaper for the internet age, allowing young people to make drama about issues that matter to them, Stratar.net a performance-based digital mapping tool, and Lip Sync where young people use popular music to create ethnographic music videos. Together these schools and projects form the C&T Network: a sequence of partnerships linking schools in the UK, New York, Washington DC, Nairobi, Beijeng and Tokyo enabling young people to collaborate in creating drama that connects with their lives, cultures and aspirations. Working predominantly through practiced-based research, Paul’s interests reflect those of C&T, excploring the synergies that can be built between drama, performance and digital technologies and the potential for learning and development that can be achieved through this work in an age of increasing globalisation. This work embraces process drama, social media, augmented reality, theatre for development, docu-drama and psycho-geography.
Paul is Multi-Media Editor of RiDE: the Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance and an Artistic Assessor for Arts Council England, for whom he acts as an advisor on digital media. He is also a Director of Multistory and a Trustee of the Sir Barry Jackson TheatreTrust.
To find out more about this workshop please email Nicola Shaughnessy.