PhilaRAT Conference Carriage Ride Challenge, Conference Plans and Calls for Your Input

[Cat Hebert <virtualdrama@juno.com>]

MESSAGE .... INCOMING MESSAGE ... CONFERENCE MESSAGE

As the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema (124 films in 6 theaters
plus two side festivals) sweeps over the city, the PhilaRAT conference
planning committee thought it would be a good time to start sharing
conference ideas to get your reaction, feedforward, input, and above all
else, help.

THE DATES: Thursday June 21st 8PM to Sunday June 24th early afternoon

THE VENUES:
Daytime panels and workshops are being hosted by The Brick Playhouse (100
seat theater, lobby and upstairs rehearsal space) and The Shubin Theater
(?70 seat theater). These theaters are within three city blocks of each
other, are perfect for panels and workshops, and are located right on the
inseam of Philadelphia's South Street section -- the
boardwalk-in-the-city, multicultural, multigenderal, multiincome, GAP
meets Eddie's Tatoos, bar and restaurant crunch zone.
Late night events are set for Theatre Double's 5th floor studio space --
a former TV newsroom set -- and other, as yet unspecified, venues in
center city Philadelphia. 

THE GENERAL SCHEDULE
Thursday night will open with a get-together party at Theatre Double or
another similar venue. Entertainment will be ad-hoc, plus maybe some of
the Carriage Ride Challenge Pieces [see below]. ~8-12PM

Friday and Saturday we start off with trading oh-so-useful failures
stories at 10AM (best to do it when you aren't really awake, eh?) and
then go into a day full of panels and workshops 11-?6, alternating
between The Brick and The Shubin.  Dinner on our own [many, many, many
restaurants in the south street area] followed by discounted tickets to
RAT theater productions (including The Brick, The Shubin, and Theatre
Double) or to RAT Conference Performances being put together by Nick F.
(Note that because of the TCG Conference many Philadelphia theaters that
would be dark late in June will be producing during that week.)
After theater, we come back together for performances of the Carriage
Ride Challenge (3-5 minute pieces created by ... you -- see below).

Sunday morning will be a wrap up, networking, and all around sharing of
tips and bloody mary recipes.

THE WRITER'S CHALLENGE
We'll be taking a horse-drawn carriage ride around Olde Philadelphia,
taking digital photos of places historic, places
not-so-photoloric-or-recognizable. Nick will put the photos on the
website. We'll ask you to create a 3-5 minute performance piece/ play
based on one of the photos. More details, criteria, and deadlines coming
soon. 

PANEL AND WORKSHOP SUGGESTIONS
After a few meetings and brainstorming sessions, we've come up with a few
panels and workshops that seem "natural" for the Philadelphia conference,
but we need lots more suggestions and input to flesh out the conference 
("and to lure you into making the trip", Cat said slyly). If you think
you'll fit into one of these panels, or want to suggest others -- just
... tell us!

How I ScrewedUp (Wally co-ord?)
--Daily sharing of events that should have worked, could have worked,
might have worked, but ...

Solo Performances and Transportable Shows (Nick F. co-ord)
-- panel and hands-on workshop on the art and craft of the one person
show

The theater director and the community(Dwight, Ralph Lewis co-ord)
-- TCG and Director’s Lab Co-Meeting, tentatively set for late afternoon
Saturday, after TCG officially closes.

Diversity in Theater: Workable or just Politically Correct? ()

Future Theater Forms (Cat)
--Ties into TCG Conference theme. Could be a co-meeting
--How is theater going to re-volve to sur-vive? Digital adventures,
interactive scripts, home theaters. Where are we going and why the hell
aren't we planning for it?
[CAT NOTE: I'd like to see digital experimenters and folks working in
out-there non-digital forms on the panel. It would be very nice to have
some demos.]

There were lots of other suggestions, but these were the ones that stuck.


What are your suggestions?  Want to lead that workshop on Shaw and jello
wrestling? We have 2-3 workshop venues and a few open slots.

What sort of panel/workshop would really open your oyster?

Cheers,
Cat Hebert
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