Resilient Stages: Live Performing Arts and Crisis Policy after COVID-19
Keynote speaker: Stephanie Fraser, Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie, APPG Dance Co-Chair, board member of Creative Scotland and Chief Executive of Cerebral Palsy Scotland
Online
How do lessons learned from COVID-19 across G7 countries help us create a UK live performing arts sector that is resilient and prepared?
This free online event will assess next steps for live performing arts, drawing on British Academy-funded research that has compared how the live performing arts sector in UK, Germany, Canada, USA, France, Italy and Japan was impacted by COVID-19, and the responses of the sector and governments to the crisis.
It will bring researchers, policymakers and sector representatives together to share ideas about how the recommendations arising from this transnational research can support a UK performing arts sector that is better prepared to face new pandemics, climate-related disasters, demographic change, economic pressures or the impacts of national and international politics.
We are very pleased to be able to include a keynote with Stephanie Fraser, Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie, APPG Dance Co-Chair, board member of Creative Scotland and Chief Executive of Cerebral Palsy Scotland.
She will be joined by members of the transnational research team and by industry stakeholders, key policy officials who are due to attend from ACE, SoLT/UK Theatre and representatives of grassroots organisations, including our partners Something To Aim For.
Speakers will present comparative examples that support recommendations on the following topics:
- Future crisis planning and response
- Research and data
- Skills gaps
- Digital strategy and access
- Building a case for culture
There will be an opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion and debate.
Reserve a spot here. A Zoom link along with full details of presenters and the full agenda will be circulated to registered attendees in the two weeks before the event.
Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts: Lessons to Learn from COVID-19 is supported by the British Academy's Pandemic Preparedness: Lessons to Learn from COVID-19 across the G7 award.
It is led by researchers in the UK from the University of Exeter and the University of Bristol, working in collaboration with colleagues in Canada, USA, Germany, France, Italy and Japan.
Keynote speaker: Stephanie Fraser (Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie)
Trained as a dancer at the Arts Educational School, Tring Park, Stephanie qualified as a Benesh choreologist and worked with English National Ballet. She moved into marketing and development roles with English National Ballet and then with Scottish Ballet before moving sideways in the third sector to become Chief Executive of Cerebral Palsy Scotland. She is a board member of Creative Scotland and also the British Library. As a member of the House of Lords, she co-Chairs the APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) for Dance and has served on the Covid-19 Committee and the Communications and Digital Committee.
