Convener(s): Jon Beedell

Participants: Georgia Jacob, Phil Eddolls Les Sharp, Stella Hall
Richard Headon and some others in and out..
Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations:

What do promoters want? They want
In addition to year budget to Go for big spectaculars
Companies are pigeonholed
Reliant on artists going to funders to create new work and then sell to promoters…
No income
How 2b more provocative ? do “street theatre’ indoors ?
Flashmobbing
Promoters want more IMPACT it brings big audiences-Big visuals
Where is the big outdoor stuff happening ?
Street theatre is most accessible it’s immediate inclusive participatory and potencially radical
Transforms lives
It’s fresh, lots of unusual images of surprise+ambush+delight. You don’t know who ur audiences is going to be
Festivals of street theatre loosing funding
Ace funding for Sarts touring puts commercial pressure on the companies
Big outdoor work gets large audiences(potentially) should be attractive to funders
HEALTH AND SAFETY
How much impact does small scale st theatre have?
Seed money for artists to think bigger and differently about new projects

TAKE CONTROL OF THE SPACE
Why street theatre:
Unpredictable, in nature, changes during process, your decision that makes it into theatre/ of the moment/ Audiences loves the risk/ people can see each other
Why are we marginalised with this event?
Confrontation but not all about provocation- about MAGIC
Own Material
Has to be responsive
LITTLE MOMENTS THAT CHANGE PEOPLES DAY
Street Theatre has an IMAGE PROBLEM
Must demonstrate to corporate/biz that St Arts works
Selling the effiency of the st art
SMALL MINDED ENGLAND. Everything has to be a great success
EVENT PROMOTERS ARE NOT ARTS PEOPLE

NEXT BIG STREET ART EVENT

ROYAL DE LUXE IN LONDON

WHAT IS PROVOCATIVE:
Raise the level of the Thames. Mock Flood…Global warming
Rivers of blood
On xmas eve 100’s of joseph and mary’s asking for somewhere to stay
Be Hackney for the day. 20 bus loads of multicultural people
Giant inflatable jet lands in London
Change all streets names
Giant rat chased by a penis
A live liver transplant in a shopping centre
All take Hallucenogenic cactus and eat/ fuck dogs
Cardboard citizen and R &d working with real street people and pay them to be apart of a street performance- PIMP theatre- Real life meeting theatre