Where do you work? How does your surrounding sound, smell, what is its texture? What does it tell? And how does it inform your practice? Who actually shapes the landscape around you? What does its structure tell about its past and future? What would it look like if it was drawn by your neighbour living two doors away?
Dublin Theatre Festival and Theatre Forum invite theatre makers, curators, dramaturgs, directors, thinkers and producers from Ireland and abroad for an international school, Forecast. A School of Thinking-With – a digital space of common learning and sharing practices. During the 17 days the school participants will take part in online workshops, lectures and conversations, as well as watching festival performances online. Participants will also have time to take a break from the tiring online environment and delve into offline wanderings in our local contexts.
The workshops, conversations and lectures will be run by guest international performing arts makers and thinkers, invited especially for the school. Their practices, based on diverse contexts and backgrounds, are deeply political and poetic at the same time. In their everyday work, they dismantle dominating power and colonial structures and practice a feminist approach not only as a topic, but as the very logic of their work and as a the way of building relationships with their audiences.
Forecast. A School of Thinking-With runs 30 September - 17 October 2021. The school will happen mostly online, but keeping in mind the level of screen fatigue, afternoons will be free from zoom. Applications are invited from anyone working professionally in theatre and the performing arts. The school is international, which means that applications are open to artists and art professionals based either in Ireland or abroad.
