Acta community theatre’s ‘cycle of engagement’ and foundation worker programme: creating pathways into cultural participation and work

IF 0.3 3区 艺术学 0 THEATER
Kerrie Schaefer, A. Abdulla, Neil Beddow, J. Cook, Hiba Elhindi, Ingrid Jones, Tracey Harvey, K. Hopkins, Rosalie Pordes, Sara Snook, Helen Tomlin
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ABSTRACT This article expounds acta’s model of participatory community theatre developed over the years since the organisation was founded in 1985. It examines how acta’s commitment to access and participation has come to be enshrined in the ‘cycle of engagement’ which offers multiple pathways into and through participation in theatre making. Recently, these pathways into experiencing and making theatre have been extended into (paid) training and employment through the launch of the Foundation Worker (FW) programme. The article examines acta’s Foundation Worker programme which offers first jobs with training and mentoring to those new to the community/participtory arts workforce, whether recent arts graduates, community theatre participants or civil society/third sector workers. It is argued that the co-articulation of the cycle of engagement and the Foundation Worker programme reflects acta’s democratic and developmental ethos of theatre making. The aim of this piece is to contextualise acta’s history and development as a community theatre company and to outline the pathways into employment and training that acta’s FW programme offers. The paper is co-authored with acta and FWs (in third-person voice) after a focus group at the acta Centre, Bedminster, in July 2019, with follow up over email.
Acta社区剧院的“参与周期”和基金会工作人员计划:创造进入文化参与和工作的途径
本文阐述了acta自1985年成立以来,多年来发展起来的参与式社区戏剧模式。它考察了acta对获取和参与的承诺如何被体现在“参与循环”中,该循环为参与戏剧制作提供了多种途径。最近,通过启动基金会工作人员(FW)计划,这些体验和制作戏剧的途径已扩展到(有偿)培训和就业。本文探讨了acta的基础工作者计划,该计划为社区/参与性艺术劳动力的新员工提供培训和指导的第一份工作,无论是最近的艺术毕业生,社区剧院参与者还是民间社会/第三部门的工作人员。有人认为,参与周期和基础工作者计划的共同衔接反映了acta的戏剧制作的民主和发展精神。这篇文章的目的是将acta作为一个社区戏剧公司的历史和发展置于背景下,并概述acta的FW项目提供的就业和培训途径。该论文是在2019年7月贝德明斯特acta中心的一个焦点小组之后与acta和FWs共同撰写的(第三人称声音),并通过电子邮件进行了跟进。
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