Artist Development Workshop: Planning & Delivering Your First Workshop

Delivering your first creative workshop for young people, a community group or people who aren’t from a theatre background can be daunting.

Mariana Aristizábal Pardo from Company Three will share tips and ideas on:

• How to plan and structure a session
• Thinking about goals and aims
• Understanding a group’s dynamic
• Reflecting on why you’re doing what you’re doing based on your own practice and, most importantly, games and joy

Company Three is a leading force for change for teenagers in their local community and around the world. They are a theatre company led by the ideas of their 95 members aged 11 – 19. Working in Islington, North London, they make transformative theatre through long-term collaboration between young people and professional theatre-makers. They recruit members through deep-rooted relationships locally and share their practice globally to impact teenagers everywhere. They believe youth theatre can be a place of community, radical art and social change.

Mariana Aristizábal Pardo is Company Three’s Associate Director. She is a Colombian theatre maker based in London. Mariana’s work explores the intersections between cultures and languages through collaborative methodologies. As director, associate director, assistant director and/or facilitator Mariana has worked for theatres like the RSC, Royal Court, Soho Theatre, Chipping Norton, Old Vic Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Blue Elephant, The Omnibus, The Space, Southwark Playhouse, amongst others.

This event is part of artsdepot’s STATIONS Artist Development workshop programme.