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All information is subject to change. Last updated on April 25, 2024. Scroll below to explore PER24 ISPA Congress programming! Perth
Scheduled Events Times in Western Australia Time
(all times and program subject to change) Anthony Field Academy (AFA) Day 1 & Pre-Congress9:00am - 4:00pm
Registration/ Check-in 9:30am
Welcome to CountrySpeaker
Barry McGuire
9:55am
Please move as a group to the State Theatre Centre rehearsal room 10:00am - 11:30am
AFA Session One: Welcome and IntroductionsFacilitator
Jo Thomas
11:30am - 12:00pm
Morning Tea (Or if you are searching for a great coffee nearby, try ELLIO – 2 minute walk). 12:00pm - 1:00pm
AFA Session Two: Global Arts Leadership ContextsWe have invited three extraordinary international arts leaders to discuss their existing practice, how they got to where they are, what success has looked like for them, and what challenges have taught them along the way. Speakers1:00pm - 2:00pm
2:00pm - 3:30pm
AFA Session Three: Leading organisations of the futureWith a focus on their global signature research piece The Compelling Employment Offer, the team from the Advisory Board for the Arts will present the findings, and then guide a discussion on what leaders need to know about nurturing and developing the workforce of the future. Speakers3:30pm - 4:00pm
Afternoon Tea 4:00pm - 5:00pm
AFA Session Four: The “Multi’s” of LeadershipParticipants will be asked to select from a selection of case studies, and engage in a series of group discussions about how to respond to these issues through a variety of lenses, or the “multi’s” of leadership. Facilitator
Jo Thomas
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Academy Networking Please join the boards and staff from PAC Australia and ISPA for an informal networking event. 7:00pm - 10:30pm
Where are Congress delegates hanging out tonight? PICA bar (Perth Cultural Centre) Perth
Scheduled Events Times in Western Australia Time
(all times and program subject to change) Anthony Field Academy (AFA) Day 2 & Congress Day 18:00am - 1:00pm
ISPA Board / Committee Meetings (by invitation) 8:00am | Program 9:00am - 6:00pm
Registration/ Check-in 11:00am - 1:00pm
AFA Session five: Creative Wellbeing WorkshopUsing your creativity for professional work is both rewarding and taxing. While making money from our passion is a privilege, burnout is a reality and creative practice can be difficult to maintain over the long term. How can creatives maintain relative balance between flourishing and falling, while safeguarding our inspiration? Creative Wellbeing is a unique workshop that discusses the importance of understanding, respecting and protecting our most important professional assets as artists – our ability to create, innovate and imagine. Facilitators1:00pm - 2:00pm
2:00pm - 4:00pm
AFA Closing SessionIn this closing session, participants will be asked to summarise their key takeaways from the Academy, including what issues they want to bring to the Congress. During this session we will also seek volunteers to represent the Academy participants and the emerging leader cohort at the Congress, particular at Wednesday’s long table session Young Leaders Respond. Facilitators
Karilyn Brown
6:00pm - 6:45pm
Registration / Check in and Opening Night Performance – The Other Side of MeState Theatre Centre, Heath Ledger Theatre Tickets to this performance are free with your Congress registration but require advanced sign-up. Let us know you are coming by completing the ticket form. Click here to check out other performances that are included with the Congress registration. Delegates who have registered for the opening night performance of The Other Side of Me have received your tickets when you collected your name badge. If you haven’t registered and would still like to attend, please see the Congress team at the State Theatre Centre box office. There are still tickets available for purchase if you are not a Congress delegate or would like to bring a guest. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Registration/ Check-in 8:15pm
Light Dinner Please ensure you have your ISPA Congress badge for entry to ISPA’s food & beverage collection area at Yagan Square. 7:15pm - 8:15pm
Opening Ceremony and Welcome to CountryRegistered delegates are welcome to head over to Yagan Square Amphitheatre for a light meal preceding the official Congress Welcome to Country, welcomes from local dignitaries and the very special opening concert with Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse. The opening concert is open to the public for all participants not registered for the Congress. Join us for the Welcome to Country ceremony, and welcomes from local dignitaries including the WA Minister for the Arts, and Lord Mayor of the City of Perth. Lanie Chopping (Director General, DLGSC), Ingrid Cumming (Cultural Representative), Criena Gehrke (PAC Australia, Chair), Alfonso Leal del Ojo (ISPA, Chair-Elect), Hon. David Templeman (Minister for Culture and the Arts), Mayor Basil Zempilas (City of Perth) 8:30pm - 10:00pm
Opening Concert
Gina Williams & Guy Ghouse
Perth
Scheduled Events Times in Western Australia Time
(all times and program subject to change) 9:00am - 4:00pm
Registration/Check-in (coffee service) 10:00am - 11:00am
Congress Provocation and Opening KeynoteAustralian cultural leader, and Perth ISPA Thinker-in-Residence, Wesley Enoch will deliver a provocation on the congress theme and what’s on his mind when he thinks about the breakthroughs we’ve seen and are yet to see in the performing arts. More content to come. Over his 30 year career in the performing arts, Iain Grandage has become one of Australia’s most highly regarded collaborative artists. Recently completing his five year tenure as Artistic Director of Perth Festival, in his keynote address, Iain will provide his perspectives on artistic programming and the role of the arts in reflecting the world back to itself, in a time where we’ve never needed it more, and simultaneously meeting the audience where they are at in a complex and difficult world. Presenters11:00am - 11:30am
Morning Tea 11:30am - 11:45am
Regional Update - AAPPACSpeaker
Yvonne Tham
11:45am - 1:00pm
Panel - Transformative LeadershipWith great leadership comes great breakthroughs. Navigating the deeply challenging contexts of recent years, this panel will platform their brave examples of transformation, embedding sustainability, equity, and access as the prevailing goals, and the creative and cultural breakthroughs that have emerged. Speakers & Facilitator*
Wesley Enoch*
Emil Kang
Grace Okereke
Daniel Riley 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Lunch 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Breakout - Driving AttendanceIn 2023, the Advisory Board for the Arts (ABA) undertook the Driving Attendance study to review marketing resource deployment, activities, and other behaviours to quantitatively assess the marketing drivers behind healthy attendance. This session presents the global study findings from this signature piece of research from ABA. Long table - Young Leaders Respond A long table is a physical space and non-hierarchical process for people gathering in conversations on topics of communal concern. It allows for an abundant, free flow of ideas, opinions, information and energy. Facilitator
Natalie Chan Roundtables - Cultural Exchange Join an intimate roundtable discussion with cultural leaders discussing the future of arts markets and gatherings, touring and mobility, our young audiences, and breakthroughs in creative practice and exchange. 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Roundtable Recap During this session, today’s roundtable hosts will bring the conversations from their tables back to the delegates providing reflections, provoking new contributions, and presenting opportunities to keep the conversation
going.
7:30pm
Performance - Silence, Karul ProjectsTickets to this performance are free with your Congress registration but require advanced sign-up. Let us know you are coming by completing the ticket form. Click here to check out other performances that are included with the Congress registration. 8:30pm - 10:30pm
Where are Congress delegates hanging out tonight? Meet the artists and producers of Silence at: Varnish, 75 King Street, Perth Other hangout location: Stables Bar 888 Hay Street, Perth Perth
Scheduled Events Times in Western Australia Time
(all times and program subject to change) 9:00am - 4:00pm
Registration/Check-in (coffee service) 10:00am - 12:00pm
Pitch New WorksHostClick to view the handout and learn more about the Pitch Projects!
Wesley Enoch 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Delegates transfer to Perth Concert Hall Delegates move to the Perth Concert Hall for lunch, ProEx and afternoon sessions – a relaxed, 15 minute walk through sunny Perth. If you require support to get to Perth Concert Hall please contact Congress staff. 12:30pm - 2:30pm
ProEx/Lunch 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Conversation Circle: Re-Indigenisation of PracticeThe call to re-indigenise leadership and cultural practice involves the transformation of thinking and understanding that amplifies Indigenous worldviews, languages and voices, and embraces Indigenous stories and insights. This conversation circle delves into the importance of re-Indigenising space and practice and why it’s an imperative for the performing arts moving forward. 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Breakout - The Ethics of Arts PartnershipsWhere do we draw the line about what we will and will not support, or who supports us? With a focus on fossil fuels and climate change, in this provocative and artist-led conversation, we’ll discuss how to be lead by your ethical compass, and how the art workers and artists can raise their voices in this contested space, along with the tools that are available to agitate for change. Speaker
Kelli McCluskey Roundtables - Cultural Exchange What does the next roundtable conversation reveal? Hosted by leaders in their fields, take a deep dive into the ethics of arts partnerships, new research into sustainable practices, the future of producing, and the creative practice of leading international artists. 4:00pm - 6:30pm
Explore Perth!There is no time like now to set up meetings, social gatherings, or take some time to explore Perth, before the evening performance and networking program commences. 6:00pm and 7:30pm
Fake, Mark Haslam and kdmindustriesTickets to this performance are free with your Congress registration but require advanced sign-up. Let us know you are coming by completing the ticket form. Click here to check out other performances that are included with the Congress registration. 7:00pm - 9:30pm
I'm With Her, Victoria Midwinter Pitt (Opening night performance)State Theatre Centre, Studio Underground Tickets to this performance are free with your Congress registration but require advanced sign-up. Let us know you are coming by completing the ticket form. Click here to check out other performances that are included with the Congress registration. 8:30pm - 10:30pm
Where are Congress delegates hanging out tonight? This evening’s Networking Drinks are supported by PERTH FESTIVAL who have kindly put a tab on the bar – but once it runs out, it runs out and will convert to a cash bar. With thanks to PERTH FESTIVAL. Perth
Scheduled Events Times in Western Australia Time
(all times and program subject to change) 9:00am - 12:30pm
Registration/Check-in (coffee service) 10:00am - 10:15am
Regional Update – PAC AustraliaSpeaker
Katherine Connor 10:15am - 11:30am
Panel - Competing Desires and the Sustainability ImperativeTo achieve sustainability in all its forms often requires balancing competing desires and confronting those challenges with the urgency they demand. This panel picks apart the issues of our finite resources, the juggle to meet our current needs, exploring how we can ensure abundance into the future. 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Performance
JULIA by Steamworks Arts 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Closing Session - Into the Next DimensionWhat are the breakthroughs we still urgently need? As a global sector, where do we see ourselves in 10, 20 or 100 years from now, and what is our individual and collective responsibility right now to ensure that this viewpoint is optimistic and, more importantly, realised with abundance and equity? In this closing session, we invite four leaders to envisage where we need to go, and what it might take to get us there. Then our inspired and inspiring Thinker-in-Residence, Wesley Enoch, will recap the important conversations of the Congress and leave us with some final thoughts as we move onward with the passionate pursuit of our purpose. Speakers & Facilitator*1:30pm - 2:00pm
Delegate transfer to City Beach (Coach transport provided) 2:30pm - 5:30pm
Closing Lunch and Performance No trip to West Australia is complete without setting your eyes on a west coast sunset, and even dipping your toes in the Indian Ocean. The closing lunch sees us venture to City Beach, to take in the final showcase performance Black Brass, indulge in some beach-side fare, watch the sun set over the ocean and squeeze in every possible moment of networking as we wrap up Perth ISPA 2024. 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Delegate transfer back to Perth (Coach transport provided) Delegates attending I’m With Her at the State Theatre Centre should ensure they catch one of the first coaches to make the show in comfortable time. 7:00pm - 9:30pm
I'm With Her, Victoria Midwinter PittState Theatre Centre, Studio Underground This is your second opportunity to see this incredible work, if you missed out on Thursday evening (or want to see it again!) Tickets to this performance are free with your Congress registration but require advanced sign-up. Let us know you are coming by completing the ticket form. Click here to check out other performances that are included with the Congress registration. 7:00pm - 11:30pm
Final Networking Drinks Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) rooftop bar, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth WA 6000, Australia This evening’s final evening networking drinks will be an opportunity to get all (or as many) delegates to meet at one late night spot where we can continue the burning discussions from the Congress and provide further networking opportunities in a relaxed environment. This final gathering will also bring delegates to experience String Symphony from Spare Parts Puppet Theatre – an unmissable, large scale and interactive installation. Questions?Find your answerFAQContact Magda Mazurekmmazurek[at]ispa[dot]org |
