Date: Tuesday, 22 October 2024 - Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Location: Irish World Academy

The symposium sessions, bringing together international keynote addresses, engaged workshops, seminars, and performances, are curated around the themes of pedagogical innovations in performing arts teaching and learning (Cláir), the challenges and opportunities of artistic research (Taighde), developing and sustaining meaningful community engagement (Bealach), and the changing role of the artist in academia (Cónaí).

Cláir: Pedagogical innovations in performing arts teaching and learning.

Taighde: The challenges and opportunities of artistic research.

Bealach: Developing and sustaining meaningful community engagement.

Cónaí: The changing role of the artist in academia.

Please join us as we celebrate the present, reflect on the past, and envision a vibrant sustainable future.

Schedule

October 22nd

12.45pm Welcome Reception

1pm - 2pm Lunchtime Concert (Theatre 2)

2pm - 4pm Cláir Roundtable: Pedagogical innovations in performing arts teaching and learning (Theatre 1)

4pm - 5.30pm Book Launch: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: A Life in Music, Cork University Press (Foyer)

6pm - 8pm Session (Foyer)

October 23rd

10am - 12noon Taighde Roundtable: The challenges and opportunities of artistic research (Theatre 1)

1pm - 2.30pm Launch of Luail: Ireland’s National Dance Company (The Living Bridge, Foyer, Irish Chamber Orchestra Building)

2.30pm - 4pm Bealach Roundtable: Developing and sustaining meaningful community engagement (Theatre 1)

4pm - 5.30pm Keynote by Professor Patricia Shehan Campbell (Theatre 2)