ITAC6

01-09-2022

SENTRALEN, OSLO

The ITAC6 theme — ART AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE — explores the intersections of teaching artistry with education, health, environment, and society in the 2020s.

Program Info

WHEN: 1-3. September 2022
WHERE: Sentralen, Oslo Norway
PRICE: 400 / 240 EUR - Daypass 120 EUR

CONFERENCE PASS (CLOSED)

Information for the digital part of ITAC6

In addition to our in-person programme ITAC6 will offer a comprehensive online programme before and during ITAC6 Oslo. Information about the digital program and link to the live feed can be found below.

DIGITAL ITAC6 INFORMATION

ITAC conferences are the world’s dedicated gathering space for artists who work in communities, schools, and beyond, using their practice to create positive social change. Marking the 10th anniversary of our biennial gatherings, ITAC will return to its inaugural conference site — Oslo, Norway —on 1st -3rd September 2022. Since 2012 the ITAC conferences have been taking place in a different part of the world every 2 years, to give Teaching Artists (known by different titles such as community artist, participatory artist, socially-engaged artist, artist-educator, etc.) the space for international networking, professional development, accessing next, best, and radical practices, partnership building, knowledge exchanges and more. For ITAC6 the conference offers both in-person and online programming for delegates – we encourage you to apply to attend in either format.

ITAC6 will be taking place from the 1st to the 3rd of September with over 60 sessions in multiple disciplines. These sessions will be led by 80 teaching artists/participatory artists/ community artists from around 36 countries

Our in-person programme will include excursions to local arts venues and institutions, to showcase the vibrant participatory arts practice happening in Norway. These events will take place outside of our main conference venue, but guidance and support about how to access your chosen venue will be provided when you sign up.

PROGRAM

Eric Booth’s Inaugural Keynote

Think of a decade as a chapter. ITAC turns ten at ITAC6, and Eric Booth’s keynote will address the beginning of Chapter Two for ITAC. What can ITAC be and do now that we have thousands of members and projects happening around the world? Eric always walks his teaching artist talk, so you can expect engagement. Chapter Two will be about action and empowerment. We have the raw materials in our Chapter One global network—what change can we bring into the world and into the careers and lives of artists who work in the center of communities and educational settings? This keynote marks the turn to ITAC: Chapter Two.

Teaspoon of Light

by Professor Peter O’Connor, at the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation, The University of Auckland.

"Every morning Marley buried her face in her dream cloth. She could smell Noni’s chocolate cake, hear the sound of rain on the roof, feel her mum’s warm hand in hers when crossing the road. Early one morning the world changed and her dream cloth tore …”

A creative workshop addressing the role of teaching artists in times of crisis. Using dance, music and the visual arts, the whole congregation will work together to help Marley get her dreams and wishes back. In these days of never ending crises, this might be the vital gift teaching artists give the world.

SUBSDANS

Subsdans is an inclusive dance studio in the center of Oslo. They do courses in various street dance styles. In addition to the basics, you learn combinations and freestyle in the classes. They are concerned with quality, joy of dancing, community and originality. That is precisely why we focus on teaching basic steps, technique and providing cultural context within the styles as a basis for individual development. Subsdans has a good environment with great variation in age and you meet dancers from 4 to 60 years old. All of our educators have a strong passion for giving to students and helping students achieve their goals.

DNA? AND?

DNA? AND? is Oslo-based, and has existed since 2013, with frequent workshops and gigging. They have played at the All Ears- and Blow Out festivals in Oslo, Sonic Protest in Paris and Le Guess Who in Utrecht, and have collaborated with legendary musicians like NU Unruh (Einstürtzende Neubauten), Hans Magnus Ryan (Motorpsycho) and Hamid Drake (Herbie Hancock).
DNA? AND? lets people meet through music across borders of normalities, contributes to tear down the walls between those who have- and those who lack disabilities, and make everyone understand that not only can the youngsters learn something from us. We can also learn from them.

Reception at Oslo City Hall

The mayor of Oslo Marianne Borgen invites all delegates and presenters for a reception at Oslo City Hall. The event includes a welcome speech by the mayor, finger food and drinks, as well as a private guided tour focusing on the art in the building. This red brick construction of two towers hosts many important events during the year. One of the most significant is the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, which takes place every December 10, on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. And now ITAC6 will be hosted.

The City Hall is decorated with Norwegian art from 1900 to 1950, with the representation of different motifs related to Norwegian culture and working life. There is a 49-bell carillon, the largest in the Nordic countries, which you will hear all around the downtown of Oslo every hour.

Hildegunn Øiseth

Hildegunn Øiseth plays on the horn that never runs dry, distinct and with a personal gusto that makes both untested and classic refrains quiver like new creations. After many years of traveling with her horn as companion in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, she returns home and allows the trumpet to sound playfully liberated. Surely a new wellspring in the cosmopolitan landscape of music.

BIG UMBRELLA: Expanding Arts Experiences with and for Neurodiverse Audiences

by Lincoln Center Eduaction

Lincoln Center's Big Umbrella creates spaces that are radically welcoming and socially inclusive for neurodiverse artists, teaching artists, families and kids. This interactive workshop and presentation will highlight choice-making, multi-modal content and facilitator flexibility while opening a dialogue about considerations and questions when developing programming for neurodiverse audiences.

The Embodied Catalyst; Dancing with/of/about/on/within/for you

체화된촉매제: 당신과/을/대해/안의/위해춤추기

By KACES (Korea Arts & Culture Education Service)

How does dance play as a catalyst for connecting people? Featuring the collected voices of 13 Korean dance teaching artists, this session invites you to a live performance of lived experience where film, sound, and dance are interplayed.

Moderator: Jeehye Suh
Performers: Hyosub Bae, HyeonSeok Lee, Laehyuk Kim, Jisoo Gong, Yuseon Lee
Sound: Bagagee Viphex13
Costume: Yunjin Lee
Film: SecondCrack
Coordinator: Sunghee Lee
Director: Hwan Jung Jae

Lørenskog School Band

Lørenskog Marching Band belongs to all primary schools in Lørenskog municipality. The corps consists of approx. 120 musicians aged 8 - 19 divided into four units according to age. The corps focuses on community with acceptance, diversity and integration across gender, age, level, background and identity. In June the band took part in the flag raising of the Pride flag at the Storting which was an important marking both historically and for the corps as a whole. The band has a conducting team of five members who work closely together across units, age and level. This is part of the educational common thread for the community, both socially and musically.

All This and More

«All This and More" is a global participatory performance event that focuses on the problem that by 2050 there will be 1.5billion climate refugees seeking shelter in all our major cities. We are staging a major performance intervention to bring this event horizon to the streets of Oslo and need your participation. If you are a climate conscious activist or humanitarian concerned about people who must flee their homes because of war, famine, or global warming. Get in touch to be part of this major event or wait until the 3rd of September to see." Concept by Simon Sharkey of "The Necessary Space" Co-directed by Henriette Blakstadd and Claudia Lucacel for ITAC6. Produced by Seanse Art Center

Øyonn Groven Myhren

Øyonn Groven Myhren is a composer and leading Norwegian Folk musician. She is known for her kveding, a Norwegian Folk vocal tradition, and plays the harp and seljefløyte (Norwegian willow flute). Øyonn maintains a versatile repertoire of folk and medieval music, with ballads as specialty. Singing in both regular and folk music scales, her voice is remarkable and pure.

Closing Plenary

What initiated the ITAC Conferences and Maintained Our World-Wide Network in Participatory Arts, and What is Needed in the Future?
From Oslo 2012 - Brisbane 2014 - Edinburgh 2016 - New York 2018 - Seoul 2020 and Oslo 2022!

Panel conversation and closing plenary led by Madeleine McGirk

Ceremonial Handover to ITAC7 Hosts and Artistic Closing!

Excursions Oslo

National Museeum

National Museeum TOUR A:
Urskogen Silva

During the visit, the pupils will see works of art in the collection and experience how the images can be a starting point for conversations and thoughts about nature and nature conservation.

In the primeval forest Silva, students are invited into a universe that opens up curiosity about both art and nature. Silva means forest in Latin. In science, all plants, animals and organisms have both Norwegian and Latin names.

Loss of biodiversity among the biggest environmental threats in the world, but what can we do to take care of life on earth? During the museum visit, the students get to experience how artists and researchers have worked with the forest as a theme and motif throughout the ages. The magical story starts in the exhibition with the art of painting and continues in the primeval forest Silva, the digital workshop. The children join in a story where they help save the primeval forest.

National Museeum

Den angrende Maria Magdalena» ITAC6 Seanse

National Museeum TOUR B: - Man in and through art

How has man been portrayed in art throughout the ages?

In "People in and through art" we take a closer look at artistic representations of gender and the body, and how ideals and norms have changed. The aim is to create reflection around visual expression, identity and the diversity of the human body, where we together challenge stereotypes.

The program starts in the exhibition with a journey from antiquity to the present day. You will hear about the artists behind the works and the time they lived in. Then we go to the workshop and make collages based on the various works of art we have seen. We end with a conversation.

Tøyen Orchestra

TOUR: Project Tøyen Orchestra

Tøyen orchestra is a unique colorful multicultural orchestra that works closely with Tøyen School and Oslo School of the Arts. Under the motto: "All children have the right to learn to play one instrument", the orchestra constantly reaches new heights, and has become an important source of unity, friendship, learning, community and joy in the Old Oslo district. Which is an area with a lot of child poverty, unemployment, social distress and municipal apartments

The orchestra has its origins in Tøyen school's music and culture program The orchestra was established in 2018, and counts about 80 members divided into three different orchestras, based on age and level. Since 2009, Tøyen School has had an area of focus on music. All students from grade 3th – 7th receive training in groups on an orchestral instrument in the ordinary music lessons.

X-Ray Youth Culture Center

TOUR: X-Ray Youth Culture Center

For over 25 years, X-Ray Youth Culture Center has given most young people in Oslo and the surrounding area the opportunity to discover, take care of and develop their resources in dance, music, film and multimedia. By taking responsibility for the operation and contents of the house themselves, the young people have learned to take responsibility, find out and express their situation, their opinions and their commitment. X-Ray's value base ensures that young people gain power over their own situation, master new situations and build self-confidence, self-respect and respect for others. Empowerment, inclusion, multiculturalism and human rights are core values in the business. With the help of pedagogical, socio-pedagogical and artistic tools, a wide range of young people discover the feeling of community and developing efforts, which help the individual to handle and manage the process we all go through - from being a child and youth to becoming an adult.

KULTURTANKEN

TOUR: KULTURTANKEN

How do artists present and communicate art to a younger audience?

In this tour BANDONEON, an artistic program within Den Kulturelle Skolesekken(DKS) in Viken county municipality will be shown. The sisters Åsbjørg and Rannveig Ryeng, playing bandoneon and violin, will perform in front of a live target group – children aged 10-12 years. There will also be a talk about "Why do Norway have a national programme for arts and culture in Norwegian schools? What is the background, organization and how is the programme financed? Arts for Young Audiences Norway/Kulturtanken owns the national responsibility for The Cultural schoolbag(TGS). The visit to Kulturtanken ends up with questions and discussion with artists, children and the visiting audience.

Kloden

TOUR: Kloden Theatre

- Performing arts in urban and artistic development. Kloden Theatre is one of Norways’ newest performing art institutions focusing on the young audience. The theatre is located in the middle Oslos biggest city development project, Hovinbyen - which today is an industry area outside the city center. In only a few years it is predicted that Hovinbyen will house up to 100 000 people and offer the same total amount of jobs and vacancies.

How can a theatre institution be a resource in positive social change in a new neighborhood? How can artists and the young audience together create spaces to live and stay? How can art be a common third place for inhabitants with different social and cultural backgrounds in the area? The theatre has great ambitions and will be a unique place for artistic development with national and international projects in the field of performing arts for the young audience.

The tour will guide you the new main street of the area Kabelgata, where you will get to visit the current Pilot scene and get insight into the plans for the main theater house that will open in 2025. You will also get to meet an artist who works with creating performing arts in public space before we end up at Tårnet Kulturarena, one of Oslos tallest buildings with an amazing view of the city, fjord and forests.

Theater Vildenvei

TOUR: Theater Vildenvei

For 25 years, Teater Vildenvei has been a theater in mental health care, mainly based at Gaustad, Clinic for Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital. It first started as an offer at the Sinsen District Psychiatric Center (DPS), and was later expanded. The theater has had well over a hundred actors over time on various and makeshift stages and staged plays with dramas, comedies, musicals, children's theater and a poetry programme. The performances have been seen by many both at home and abroad. From 2017, they are part of Bydel Tøyen upgrading with a location at Akivitetetshuset K1 where they play their shows and have become part of Tøyen Unlimited - Performing arts in urban and artistic development.

ITAC Collaborative Projects

ITAC IMPACT: Climate, activating communities in response to the climate crisis - Raz Salvarita (Philippines) Uses Teaching Artistry to engage and activate local community members to become advocates for change in relation to the climate crisis.

SOS, School of the (Im)possible, using play and imagination to create social change - Francine Kliemann, Plato Cultural (Brazil).The project uses immersive fictional narratives to explore the climate crisis with young people, and encourage them to imagine new futures.

The Young and Emerging Leaders Forum (YELF), cultivating youth leadership in Teaching Artistry - Jeff Poulin (USA) This cohort was founded to address the absence of youth-led projects and voices in leadership positions throughout the arts and culture sectors.

The Launch of ITACs New Social Impact in Teaching Artistry Course - Gowri Svoor (USA) ITAC has launched the first ever online course - Teaching Artistry for Social Impact! After more than a year of development and planning, we are delighted to share this new, free resource with our field.

Teaching Artists Asia Project, building a community of practice working for & with the disability community - Jeffrey Tan (Singapore) It explores inclusive practice efforts and collaborative approaches to work with & for the disabilities community across Asia. It aims to document, advocate, and connect teaching artists working in this sector, primarily in Singapore, Australia, Korea, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

ITAC Innovator Cohort 2022, approaches to international Teaching Artist resource & community building - Peter Atsu Adaletey (Ghana), Becky Baumwoll (USA), Jeff Mather (USA), Sudebi Thakurata (India), Yvonne Wyroslawska (UK). Hear from the 2022 cohort of ITAC Innovators about the work they are doing to address gaps in their field, equip the sector with new tools, and why they feel this work is urgent.

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Program Schedule

Thursday 1. September 2022

09:00 - 10:00

Registration and Morning Coffee/Tea

10:00 - 11:15

Opening ITAC6

WELCOME CEREMONY
Musical Call with Hildegunn Øiseth
Welcome to presenters and delegates from 35 countries
Opening Speech with special guest
Performance with SUBSDANS
ITAC Hosts - greetings from Oslo 2012 to Seoul 2020
Info from Seanse Team
Musical Call to Action with Hildegunn Øiseth

11:15 - 11:30

Short break

11:30 - 12:30

Art as a Catalyst for Change

Eric Booth’s Inaugural Keynote

12:30 - 12:45

ITAC Collaborative Projects

ITAC IMPACT: Climate, activating communities in response to the climate crisis with Raz Salvarita

12:45 - 13:30

Lunch

Lunch and Poster Conversations in the Marble Hall

13:30 - 14:15