Pilot Theatre are cultural leaders in the digital field within the Arts sector. We have used emergent technologies in our work since 1997 and have always looked to develop and share the potential opportunities for arts organisations . We are keen to discover and share the possibilities that these technologies have to offer in terms of Artistic Creation, access, engagement and organisational development.
Shift Happens - Episode iv - A New Hope - will be held in York on July 5th 2012
This will be a day full of inspiring speakers, delivering 'TED' style talks, as well as provocations, debates, discussions and hands on opportunities to discover how the emergent technologies are shaping and changing the things we now do. Get to understand more clearly how these ideas are shifting the ways we connect and communicate, and how we can harness and creatively develop their use for our work, and our world.
There will be space to discuss, and share ideas and to be part of this extraordinarily unique event - We will provide the best locally sourced food for you from Henshallwood's Delicatessen and Manjit's kitchen, we promise to provide the most amazing coffee that is roasted right here in this beautiful city of York, as well as Betty's tea and one or two surprises during the day...
We promise you stimulating conversations, encounters and new connections, as well as delivering premiere performances and music especially for you right here in the heart of the city at the Theatre Royal.
Join us...We are opening bookings for this at 9.am on April 5th here...(last year the TEDxYork tickets were gone in less than an hour so set your diaries...)
We have also managed to keep the costs down and to keep the ticket price the same as the 2010 level, thanks to support from Arts Council England, Science City York and the City of York Council
So far we have speaking and presenting...
Clay Shirky - Professor of New Media at NYU - Author of 'Cognitive Surplus' & 'Here Comes Everybody' - Live from New York
Lyn Gardner - Blogger - Guardian Theatre Critic - Author of 5 novels - The 'Olivia' stories
Bill Thompson - BBC Click broadcaster - writer and presenter - a hack and a pundit...
Sam West - Actor, Director, Writer and speaker
John Knell- Intelligence Agency - Speaker - provocateur
Mariann Hardey - Associate Director for the Centre for Communication University of Durham
Daniel Bye - Writer - Director - Performer - developing #TAG2012 with Dan Rebellato
Rachel Coldicutt - Co-founder of Caper, and previously Head of Digital Media at the Royal Opera House. Founder of Culture Hack, digital strategist and maker
Dick Penny- Director of Watershed, Bristol, Chair of Bristol Old Vic - he is a connector and provocateur in shaping the Arts in the Digital space.
Laura Sillars- Is Artistic Director of Site Gallery, Sheffield - a recent recipient of NESTA/AHRC/ACE Digital Innovation funding
Peter Gregson - Cellist and Composer who plays a Colin Irving acoustic cello and a custom five string Eric Jensen electric cello. He is an Eventide Artist and an Apogee Electronics Artist.
Rebekka Kill - Head of School at The Leeds School of Art, Architecture and Design at Leeds Metropolitan University will present a deeply autobiographical account of her obsession with music and her, more recent, obsession with social media. The parallels between these two will be explored using music and played on DJ decks. - "Facebook is like Disco, and Twitter is like Punk."
Herb Kim - Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Herb Kim has lived in the UK since 1997. He lives in Liverpool and works in Gateshead. He is perhaps best known as the Founder & Host of the Thinking Digital Conference
Honor Harger - is a curator interested in art and technology, and the director of Lighthouse, a digital culture agency in Brighton
Dave Moutrey - CEO of the new build GMAC in Manchester - The new Cultureplex that will be the home for Cornerhouse and the Library Theatre
Yatterbox - The new 'York' start-up created by Matt Freckleton - focusing on social media outputs and aggregation of data
Henry Raby - Poetry - spoken word artist - Letters from 'The Man to The Boy'
Chris Thorpe - Artist - Writer - performer - Live from Lisbon
Manjit Kaur - Number one Chaat Station - all day - Manjit's Kitchen - will provide Punjabi vegetarian 'cones' for your delight
Marcus Romer - Artistic Director of Pilot Theatre will curate and introduce the day
Music by Emjay - vintage and classic selector, on the 45 vinyl. Resident "Stir it Up" Leeds
Pilot Theatre have been running Shift Happens Conferences in partnership with ACE since 2008. The genesis of this as an event followed Artistic Director, Marcus Romer's visit to the TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design - www.ted.com) in 2007, on a travel bursary from ACE. Ensuing discussions with ACE enabled support to seed fund the first Shift Happens conference in 2008 hosted at York Theatre Royal. An inspiring set of speakers and events together with response from participants sparked a further plan to create Shift Happens as an annual event.
Spring-boarding from this we developed the next two annual Shift Happens conferences, and in year two (2009), we were able to hear keynotes from Charlie Leadbeater and Bill Thompson, as well as providing digital upskilling events for the sector. This was a two day event where we were
joined by Lyn Gardner from The Guardian who blogged the event.
In 2010 we ran ALT/Shift Shift Happens 3 looking at Arts / Learning / Technology (ALT)
With keynotes this time from Sir Ken Robinson from LA (Creativity / Education specialist) and Alice Greenwald (Sept 11 Memorial Museum Director) from New York. We also managed to bring over to York, Jonathan Harris, a Digital Artist from Brooklyn to present an hour keynote. All this was supported with Artistic commissions and sector upskilling over the two day conference.
videos of all the talks are here shift-happens.co.uk
We have now been granted the TEDx Licence, which allows us to operate a TED based conference. This is a worldwide sharing and innovation led initiative. We ran TedxYork 2011
We will be running Shift Happens Episode lV - A New Hope on July 5th 2012
- to provide inspiring content that we can share with the whole Arts Sector
- to provoke and examine new thinking
- to generate new ideas for collaboration and connection
- to provide networking opportunities and a space and a time to re-examine our relationship with the
- shifting digital landscape
- to increase organisations' digital capacity
- to inspire and offer leadership examples by providing provocation, debate and keynote challenges
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