Hi Just a quick catch up post from here with thoughts…
1 Coffee good2 Weather hot
3 Coffee hot
4 Sea Cold
5 Bar Italia good
6 Head hot
7 Pizza Napoli good
8 Thinking time good
9 Book good
10 Making plans good
11 Good times
12 All good
Archive | July, 2010
2 Weather hot
3 Coffee hot
4 Sea Cold
5 Bar Italia good
6 Head hot
7 Pizza Napoli good
8 Thinking time good
9 Book good
10 Making plans good
11 Good times
12 All good
enjoying the weather, coffee and ideas http://youkissbythebook.com
Bar Italia
28 Jul2 Weather hot
3 Coffee hot
4 Sea Cold
5 Bar Italia good
6 Head hot
7 Pizza Napoli good
8 Thinking time good
9 Book good
10 Making plans good
11 Good times
12 All good
Final set design day for R&J
26 Jul
A beautiful day here in York as we wait for the production and design team to arrive.
In the meantime a quick peek at the model in the Model box that was sent to me by our designer, Chloe Lamford. We will be needing about 600 bunches of flowers to fill the shrine and we may well be asking people to help us or send us bunches of natural looking silk flowers wrapped in cellophane… We will let you know…but it would be great if people want to send bunches to Pilot Theatre at York Theatre Royal 🙂Script work #kissbythebook #oldschool
25 Jul
Paper, pencil, ruler, moleskine notepad, wristwatch, script in a file –
Old school style working through the R&J script. Beautiful day in the garden though andenjoying the weather, coffee and ideas http://youkissbythebook.com
I’ve been thinking…
24 Jul
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20+ things I have been thinking today, about…
1 The new production of R&J which starts rehearsing in three weeks, as I am sure there is something I have forgotten to do
2 The fact that we are opening a different show next week at the Byre in Scotland – and Mandy Smith who directed it is off up there to see it in.??
2a The fact that??I can’t get there to see it as I am going to be away – (see 3)
3 The notion of a holiday – and how that is going to get squeezed in to the time, and whether it is possible to actually switch off these days properly. I mean really properly, because, (see 4)
4 Arts funding and the shifting landscape that we are now entering as a country. What this means for potential future plans, programmes and personnel
4a The difficulty about switching off – properly
4b Shaving my head today and cutting the grass
5 Why when I shave my head I always mow the grass on the same day and realise afterwards
6 What to have for tea – and more importantly have I got everything ready for a holiday
7 The answer to the latter part of (6) is no
8 Not at all.
9 Being woefully unprepared for the holiday and thinking back about (1) again
10 Missing seeing Hansel and Gretel at The Byre (see2)
11 Coming back to thinking about (4) again
12 As thinking about (4) will impact on the ability to deliver 22 week tours like the production of ??(1) possibly. Or maybe differently
13 So I have been thinking about future possibilities.
14 Which brings me back to (4a) How to switch off
15 So what i did do was – shave my head. Then cut the grass.
16 Then started back at (1) again
17 A resolution about (6) is – seafood risotto
18 A good plan
19?? Thinking about this picture again -??
20?? A Rodin in Buenos Aires I found earlier this year
20a Thinking I must make plans to get back there again…
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The Stage / Features / A meeting of minds
15 JulA meeting of minds
Published Thursday 15 July 2010 at 13:51
Setting up the Skype Chat with Sir Ken Robinson for Shift Happens Photo by @documentally
Artistic director of Pilot Theatre Marcus Romer talks about the highlights of this year???s Shift Happens event at the York Theatre Royal, and the unique challenges and opportunities that face the sector as the line between the arts and technology becomes increasingly blurred
For the last three years, I???ve curated an annual conference focussing on the opportunities that technology has to offer the arts.
Last week, Pilot Theatre???s third annual Shift Happens event took place at York Theatre Royal and, this time, the focus was on arts, learning and technology.
We had 27 speakers take to the stage to share their insights, stories, and provide provocations for discussion and debate.
Our 300 delegates and participants were able to hear a eclectic range of speakers. Keynote speeches were delivered by Ken Robinson – author, and educator, Alice Greenwald from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York, Jonathan Harris, the artist from Brooklyn, John McGrath from National Theatre Wales, DK from MediaSnackers and Lyn Gardner from The Guardian.
We were joined by Andy Field from Forest Fringe, Clare Reddington from Watershed and David Sabel from NT Live at the National Theatre. Meanwhile, we also heard from green arts organisation Julie???s Bicycle, as well as Mind the Gap, Slung Low, Body>Data>Space and my own Pilot Theatre.
Using new technology, we were able to provide Skype links across the world – Robinson spoke to the conference live from LA.
There, he shared his thoughts about the shifts in the cultural landscape, explaining that we are now entering a period where we need an educational revolution in how we create learning opportunities so that young people can survive and thrive in a changing world.
???What is coming down the track is more important than what has gone before,??? he explained and also made clear that we need to have a global responsibility, as we connect, communicate and share creative ideas.
Indeed, the common theme at Shift Happens was that we need to take a longer world view about how and what we are creating, and more importantly, why and for whom.
In his keynote, DK talked about literacy in this new landscape, saying that we all need to be able to ???learn, unlearn and relearn??? to keep us moving forward and why sometimes it is beneficial to look to the sides first and learn from other sectors and how they are navigating their way too.
The live connection to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum and the address by its director Greenwald was very moving.
The ability for us to be able to hear and question her live across the Atlantic from a theatre building built before the French Revolution was testament itself to the fact that shifts do happen.
Going forward, it???s important not to just ask what can the technology do for us, but what can we do with the technology. So, social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are key to the evolution of the sector.
Gardner raised this point, as she talked about the changes since last year???s conference, when there was much scepticism about Twitter.
She pointed out that now, more than ever, in a tough funding climate, we need to connect as a sector that is grown up, joined up and more open.
She also highlighted the importance of online networks and sites such as artsfunding.ning.com which has grown to more than 400 members in three weeks.
The future of arts funding was, of course, on people???s minds. But, refreshingly, the main themes of the event were about wider creative thinking and the longer view.
The arts world needs to think about the big shifts which will affect us all – climate, global financial stability and how we find new ways to connect and communicate – and what the arts??? response to all this is. We need new models and ideas and, as a creative sector, we are well placed to be able to do this.
That is not to say that all that is new is necessarily better, but as a sector we must embrace the possibilities, and realise that these new platforms are not just for marketing and another way to ???push??? your product.
They are about a genuine two-way engagement and conversation. They have immense creative potential and we have some exciting artists pushing these boundaries.
As Field said: ???Bring art and technology together to dream stupid, impossibly grand visions of what the future might look like.???
Over the course of the event, people were able to discuss the conference using social media site Twitter.
The use of the #shifthappens hashtag meant that people could share nuggets, links and pictures inspired from the live talks. Again, amplifying, remixing and sharing the ideas that surface.
We shared with more than 280,000 people those two days, and made more than two million impressions with people via Twitter – many of whom were following the conference remotely in other parts of the planet. This would have been unthinkable only a few years ago – and shows just how new technology can help people engage with us, as a sector.
As Herb Kim, director of Codeworks and Thinking Digital said – the challenge for all of us is ???go big or go home???.
For the full list of talks and links please visit us at: shift-happens.co.uk, shifthappens.ning.com, artsfunding.ning.com, pilot-theatre.com
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Working on the R&J script for @pilot_theatre
14 Jul
In my office at home with a ruler and pencil and on paper in a folder, with pictures on the wall stuck on with blu-tac
Today I am an #oldschool theatre director 🙂
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