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Our Forum will celebrate Flute Theatres’ achievements of the last ten years, and ask how we can use our accumulated knowledge and unique skills to be of best use to the world in the next ten. Kelly Hunter and Jamie A Ward will host the forum and take as many questions and ideas as come from the audience. We will be joined by our Flute families from across the world, in the real space and by video link. We want people's voices to be heard. The company has operated outside of mainstream Shakespeare in the UK since 2014 , travelling across the world to major Shakespeare festivals and performing for autistic audiences and those displaced by war in Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Polish, Spanish and Catalan.
Firstly, I want to continue to offer our work where the need is greatest; where exclusion and fear can be met with the welcome and hope of our performances. This will include building our offers to refugee communities here in the UK and across the world. Secondly as our communities of autistic audiences grow older I want to offer a long term plan to support autistic adults with ongoing opportunities for artistic participation- Kelly Hunter
As part of the forum, Jamie will open discussions about the research work that Goldsmiths, University of London, and University College London have been doing together with Flute. Through experiencing a Flute performance, it is clear to anyone involved the enormous impact that Flute’s work can have on those taking part – but this can be hard to capture or quantify from a scientific perspective. Through a series of studies on Flute performances using the latest wearable technology, researchers have been able to uncover previously unnoticed social behaviours among participants, and to help provide new neuroscientific insight into the social benefits of Flute’s work. The scientific discussion will also touch on the latest developments in research methods for studying theatre and its benefits more generally.- Dr Jamie Ward
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Riverside Studios, 101 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith,London, United Kingdom