Conference 19: Presentations

Here are the Conference 19 speaker presentations.

Please note that not all speakers did presentations and where speakers did, the visuals were often designed to work alongside their speeches, so may not provide the complete narrative.

Theatres and their Communities: People at the Centre

Some theatre makers are choosing to make and present their work in non-traditional spaces such as shops and railway arches. What motivates them to work in these different spaces and what are the artistic and audience possibilities they create?

Battersea Arts Centre

ACE Capital Works! Building Transformation

Theatres and their communities

Different Spaces: New Possibilities

Some theatre makers are choosing to make and present their work in non-traditional spaces such as shops and railway arches. What motivates them to work in these different spaces and what are the artistic and audience possibilities they create?

Theatre Absolute & Shop Front Theatre

Theatre Deli

Different New

Welcoming our Audience

What makes a theatre truly welcoming? How can we build and adapt our theatres to remove the barriers which stop them being accessible and inclusive spaces?

Devonshire Park, Eastbourne

Polka Theatre

Theatre Royal Wakefield

Welcoming audiences

Capital Projects Lightning Round

A high-speed overview of projects offering a taste of current theatre building trends across the UK and the people considerations informing them.

Theatr Clwyd

Leeds Playhouse. You can also watch a video about the theatre's rebrand by Reggie London

Woolwich Works

Octagon, Bolton

Boulevard Theatre, London

Fairfield Halls, Croydon

Birmingham Rep

Shakespeare North

Capital round

People-Centred Design

How do we engage with our audiences and other stakeholders to ensure their views directly inform our theatre capital projects? How does a democratic design process work and does it make for more ‘democratic’ theatre spaces?

Derby Museums 

Contact Theatre Manchester 

64 Million Artists - read the transcript of David Micklem's presentation here.

People centred design

Photographs by Sharron Wallace.