Upcoming event: Education and creativity
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Creativity in a crisis: Embracing the imagination
3 February 2022, 8pm AEDT. Online.
Free but bookings essential: here.
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A global perspective on nurturing creativity in education.
Join us for a conversation with arts educator, performer, and researcher Dr. Sharon Lierse, who will share with us her observations and insights from extensive travel and research in arts education, spanning multiple countries. Facilitated by Dr Penny Hay, this conversations is sure to be of interest to anyone interested in education, the arts, and the collective imagination.
Dr Sharon Lierse has worked as a lecturer in Australia and Asia, a management consultant for the arts, and as an international curriculum specialist for UNESCO Afghanistan. Her academic roles have included Associate Professor in the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts in Malaysia where she was founder and Managing Editor of the Malaysian Music Journal, lecturer in curriculum at the University of Tasmania, lecturer in Music and Arts Education at Charles Darwin University, and Manager of Professional Learning at the Australian Council for Educational Research. She has published widely and has given conference presentations around the world. Her research interests include lecturing in the arts, the performing arts in an online environment, sustainability in education, and the characteristics of outstanding teaching and how institutions can best support and nurture excellence.
About these conversations:
We are living through a time of intense pressure, constrained and burdened by the impacts of neoliberal politics, climate change, Brexit, growing inequality, Covid and its attendant lockdowns. It is all too easy to buckle under this pressure, to lose hope, to feel alone.
Is there anybody out there? And is this all we have to look forward to?
To answer the first question: Yes. There are others who care. You are not alone. There are individuals, groups, networks, creative ecosystems of visionary people who share your values and hopes and who are creating new art, communities, creative tools and systems.
To answer the second question: No. Our present state does not dictate the future. Alternative futures are possible, futures that heal the planet and the creatures (human and more than human) who live together on it.
Penny and Meredith invite you to meet your fellow imagineers, people determined to explore, play, imagine and create. Please join us in an intimate gathering of interdisciplinary practitioners – practical dreamers and purveyors of hope – to share experiences of research, projects and creative innovations.
Event hosts:
Dr Penny Hay: Artist, educator and researcher, Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning, Senior Lecturer in Arts Education, School of Education; Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries; Bath Spa University and Director of Research, House of Imagination. Signature projects include School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination. Penny’s doctoral research focused on children’s learning identity as artists. She is Co-Investigator on the AHRC Global Challenges Research project ‘Rethinking waste: Compound 13 Lab’ in Mumbai. Penny is a visiting Lecturer at Plymouth College of Art and a National Teaching Fellow, with awards from Action for Children’s Arts and Creative Bath.
Meredith Lewis: Writer, mentor, and transformative facilitator. Has over 25 years’ experience of working in the university, creative, and community sectors including as a manager, project manager, trainer, arts manager, choreographer and performer. This has left her with a love for nurturing innovative projects from light bulb moment to tangible outcomes. Meredith specialises in leading discussions, creative interventions and workshops that help organisations develop creative thinking, handle innovative projects, and manifest humane values.
