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Day 1 Programme - Tuesday, November 22 2011 (scroll down for Day 2 Programme)

Time Toynbee Studios : Theatre Toynbee Hall : Main Hall
9.00   REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
9.30

Warm-up Workshop with Ansuman Biswas

 
10.00

Opening Address : Pat Kane - Play's the Thing?

 
10.30 Keynote: The Wellbeing Agenda : A Tour D'Horizon - Professor Felicia Huppert 10.30-12.35 Bruce Wall of London Shakespeare Workout leads a workshop on 'Self Creation'

10.55

MORNING BREAK

 

11.15

 

11.20

 

Speed talk competition winner Jules Evans on democratising the definitions of wellbeing

Panel : What's Missing from the Agenda?

Chris Groves and Libby Brooks join Professor Felicia Huppert, Jules Evans and Pat Kane

 
12.15

REALITY BYTE : Alex Fradera's Improv Moment

 

12.35

1.25

LUNCH BREAK

Donatella Massimilla and Matthew Taylor on the Edge Project

 
1.30

Keynote: Economic growth or systemic change? - William Davies

1.25-2.55 Improvisation for Dealing with Uncertainty - Alex Fradera
1.55

Response by Andrew Simms

 
2.20

Panel: Exapnding the Paradigms

Indy Johar joins Andrew Simms, William Davies and Pat Kane in debate

 

2.50

 

2.55

Speed talk winner Kate Massey on Applied Drama for adolescent mental health service users

BREAK

 
3.15 REALITY BYTE : Alice Taylor's Makers and Players Parallel Session 3.15 - 5.00
Prison Arts : A Global Perspective introduced by Dr Alan Clarke (UK) and Becky Mer (USA)
3.35

Panel: How Can We Make It Happen? A Street-level Guide

Marek Kohn, Bridget McKenzie and Ben Irvine join Alice Taylor and Pat Kane

With Agnes Bohley and Holger Syrbe (Germany), Sabine Sandberger (Austria).
4.35

REALITY BYTE : Ben Irvine on being a practical philosopher (and why you should be one too)

 
5.00

END

Day 2 Programme - Wednesday, November 23 2011

Time Toynbee Studios : Theatre Toynbee Hall : Main Hall
9.00   REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
9.30

REALITY BYTE: Lottie Child's Street Training

 

9.50

9.55

Speed talk competition winner Alice Ferguson on freeing the streets for children to play

E-tools for Transition, with Dawson King, Matthew Taylor and Maryjane Stevens

 
10.20

Keynote: What possibilities for sustainable wellbeing does networked and gaming culture bring us? - Bill Thompson

WORKSHOP 10.20 - 12.00
Led by Maryjane Stevens of Escape Artists: Tools for Transition: Working with drama to enhance community wellbeing
 
10.45

FIRST MORNING BREAK

 

10.55

11.40

Panel: Wellbeing / Cyberbeing? Anne McCrossan and Bridget McKenzie join Bill Thompson and Pat Kane

SECOND MORNING BREAK

 

11.50

Keynote: Pay Attention! Who Are You? - Gay Watson

WORKSHOP (12.00 - 1.00) Play Tactics: Situationist, Dada and Fluxist techniques with Hannah Hull
12.10

Keynote: Wholeheartedness - Ansuman Biswas

 
12.25

Panel: True change starts within : Ed Halliwell joins Gay Watson and Ansuman Biswas. Chaired by Indra Adnan

 
1.00

LUNCH

 
1.45

Play and Contemporary Art: Hannah Hull

PARALLEL SESSION: 1.45 - 2.40: The 9 speed talk competition runners-up
2.05

Panel: Art, Play and Society -  Lottie Child and Alex Fradera join Hannah Hull

 

2.40

2.50

FIRST AFTERNOON BREAK

Keynote: No limits to happiness? Humanity 2.0, “smart suffering” and the wellbeing debate - Steve Fuller

2.50-3.45 Tent City University - Anyone can teach, everyone can learn

Led by James Sevitt of Occupy London

3.10

Panel: Wellbeing and Humanity 2.0 - responses by Gay Watson, Bill Thompson, and Jonathan Rowson

 
3.45

SECOND AFTERNOON BREAK

 
3.55

Panel: The Future of Wellbeing - Steve Fuller, Indra Adnan, Dougald Hine, Mike Harris and Jonathan Rowson

 
4.55

Wrap up: Pat Kane

 
5.00 END