HOORAY IMTAP HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED! Overwhelming positive response to the Raising Our Voices Conference just held in Melbourne also saw the historical moment: the launch of International Museum Theatre Asia Pacific. The launch was announced by Nadya Tkachenco and Patrick Watt at the Immigration Museum on Friday 17th October 2008. In an act of celebration Nadya had a a cake made and Patrick requested Margaret Griffith and Barry Kay share the knife-holding as all others present joined hands to form a giant circle and then the cake was cut. Mark Wallis from "Past Pleasures" UK and keynote speaker also had the knife and represented IMTAL Americas and Europe in doing so. Sam Tidy from the State Library of Victoria asked all in the group to sing the defining note of launch. It all happened with artherial beauty and magic.
The first meeting on IMTAP will take place at Melbourne Museum on Wednesday 19th November at 11.30am. Members who have signed up will receive notice via email.
The Agenda will include:
IMTAP roles including..
•To be the formal conduit for all of us.
•To organise meeting places and discussion
•To organise forums, conferences
•To host events with special guests
•To advocate performance in cultural organisations
•To publish conference papers, research and academic rigor
•To be the formal conduit for all of us.
•To organise meeting places and discussion
•To organise forums, conferences
•To host events with special guests
•To advocate performance in cultural organisations
•To publish conference papers, research and academic rigor
•Formalising the organisation
•Publicing the organisation
•Getting people to be a part of the organisation
•Developing the database
•Hosting the first meeting: 11.30 am at Melbourne Museum and then lunch in Lygon Street. Conference phone will be set up. Wednesday 19th November, 2008
•Review Raising our Voices
•Plan for representation at Monterey in 2009
•Plan for 5th National Forum: or the 1st IMTAP conference in the Asia Pacific region in 2010
•Plan to host IMTAL conference in Melbourne in 2011 and to be announced at the Monterey IMTAL conference in August next year.
•Plan new publications and web site development
We want you
•To join the database
•To come to the meetings if you can
•To have a say in the future directions of our organisation and its mission.
•Don’t send any money. There are no costs: yet! And if there are you are not obliged to pay!
•Support IMTAP or be square!
