Stirring the pot in Australia
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During a recent visit to Australia, Caroline visited Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide facilitating a variety of workshops and presentations. Caroline worked with Weave Movement Theatre giving a 3 day intensive workshop through Arts Access Australia which led to Oz Dance Victoria commissioning a new piece for the White Festival in Melbourne. LINK. Caroline was part of the Beyond Access Conference and led a series of artistic exchanges for Arts Access Victoria and was part of the ABC's Conversation Hour hosted by John Faine.
While in Adelaide, Caroline introduced the Dance Agent for Change model to Access2Arts, led a workshop with members of Restless Dance Company. Her time in Adelaide prompted a lot of press activity: Interview with ABC.net, Radio interview (and transcript) with The World Today, and an Interview with Adelaide Now, republished by The Australian. In Sydney, on 3 December, International Day of Disabled People, Caroline gave a no holds barred presentation at the Australia Council for the Arts presenting possibilities for the future. |
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Creative Thinking Network (CTN)
CTN was established as part of Caroline’s role as Scottish Dance Theatre’s Dance Agent for Change. At the conclusion of her post in 2012 it was felt that CTN was an important group to keep running so Creative Scotland have provided funding for CTN to continue to meet until September 2014.
CTN was established to bring together individual artists and arts organisations, across artforms, that have an interest in arts and disability. It is open to anyone that it feels relevant to and group members are encouraged to invite anyone who they feel should to attend.
Independent artists who attend are offered a small fee and have their travel costs covered to acknowledge that attending meetings costs money when you are freelance.
The purpose of the CTN is to bring people together to share information and opportunities, to seek advice and support and potentially to develop new collaborations.
Every CTN meeting starts by those that are present introducing themselves and their organisation, as every meeting has different people attending.
The CTN model is being adopted in Melbourne and in Ireland.
CTN was established as part of Caroline’s role as Scottish Dance Theatre’s Dance Agent for Change. At the conclusion of her post in 2012 it was felt that CTN was an important group to keep running so Creative Scotland have provided funding for CTN to continue to meet until September 2014.
CTN was established to bring together individual artists and arts organisations, across artforms, that have an interest in arts and disability. It is open to anyone that it feels relevant to and group members are encouraged to invite anyone who they feel should to attend.
Independent artists who attend are offered a small fee and have their travel costs covered to acknowledge that attending meetings costs money when you are freelance.
The purpose of the CTN is to bring people together to share information and opportunities, to seek advice and support and potentially to develop new collaborations.
Every CTN meeting starts by those that are present introducing themselves and their organisation, as every meeting has different people attending.
The CTN model is being adopted in Melbourne and in Ireland.
M3 (aka Make Music Move) - Paragon Music and Y Dance
M3 is an inclusive performance project involving music and dance for young people aged (13-20) . The programme is run by Paragon and directed by Paragon's Artist in Association, Caroline Bowditch and Paragon’s Creative Director, Ninian Perry
Who can participate in M3? Anyone can join in this programme, from musicians to dancers with or without disabilities.
What can we do in M3? Young people and dancers can explore and learn about each other. In July 2011 dancers from YDance joined M3 where we explored the relationship between music and dance.
Over M3 helps people of all ages be more confident and be more expressive when they are dancing and relating it to music. The project aims to increase the number of disabled people involved in performing dance throughout Scotland.
M3 is an inclusive performance project involving music and dance for young people aged (13-20) . The programme is run by Paragon and directed by Paragon's Artist in Association, Caroline Bowditch and Paragon’s Creative Director, Ninian Perry
Who can participate in M3? Anyone can join in this programme, from musicians to dancers with or without disabilities.
What can we do in M3? Young people and dancers can explore and learn about each other. In July 2011 dancers from YDance joined M3 where we explored the relationship between music and dance.
Over M3 helps people of all ages be more confident and be more expressive when they are dancing and relating it to music. The project aims to increase the number of disabled people involved in performing dance throughout Scotland.
BLAST Youth Dance Company - Paragon Music and Y Dance
A key part of the Make Music Move Project is our inclusive new youth dance company - Blast. The Company meet one Sunday a month and will perform at a number of high profile events across Scotland.
A key part of the Make Music Move Project is our inclusive new youth dance company - Blast. The Company meet one Sunday a month and will perform at a number of high profile events across Scotland.
Talent Hub - Waterbaby Dance (in collaboration with Janice Parker, Claire Cunningham, Linda Payne and Caroline Bowditch)
We received funding to create a talent hub to support, mentor and train a small group of up-and-coming disabled dancers to develop the skills that will enable them to become confident dance artists and to access a potential future in further education and employment within the arts industry. The project was devised by Linda Payne, Caroline Bowditch, Claire Cunningham and Janice Parker to bridge the gap between disability dance and mainstream dance training.
The talent hub is a collective of experienced independent artists combining their considerable skills in dance, disability, advocacy, teaching, mentoring and autonomy.
We received funding to create a talent hub to support, mentor and train a small group of up-and-coming disabled dancers to develop the skills that will enable them to become confident dance artists and to access a potential future in further education and employment within the arts industry. The project was devised by Linda Payne, Caroline Bowditch, Claire Cunningham and Janice Parker to bridge the gap between disability dance and mainstream dance training.
The talent hub is a collective of experienced independent artists combining their considerable skills in dance, disability, advocacy, teaching, mentoring and autonomy.