Re:ACT - TEDxRoyalCentralSchool 2018

TEDxRoyalCentralSchool is an independently organised TED event, run by and for members of the community at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.A TEDx event is a local gathering where live TED-like talks and videos previously recorded at TED conferences are shared with the community. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis. The content and design of each TEDx event is unique and developed independently, but all of them have features in common.

TEDxRoyalCentralSchool

Re:ACT is the second TEDxRoyalCentralSchool event. Following the success of 'The Next Stage', we invite you to Re:ACT to the world, the arts &amp; your community. Bringing together a stellar line-up of speakers from a range of disciplines, TEDxRoyalCentralSchool is set to open the doors of one of the countries top drama schools for a day of exploration, inquisition and, most importantly, ideas. Taking place on Saturday 27th October in the Embassy Theatre, this community-led initiative will explore ideas worth sharing from a small and specialised conservatoire. It's time to Re:ACT.
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Registration will open at 09:30, with the event starting promptly at 10:00. Please arrive in good time to register, grab a cup of coffee and find your seat. Latecomers will be admitted at a convenient opportunity between talks. The talks are due to finish at 15:30, followed by a complimentary drinks reception. We encourage you to stay after the talks to further discuss, explore and react to the incredible ideas that have been shared. A full schedule for the day will be released soon. 
Confirmed Speakers:
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Selina Busby is an academic and theatre practitioner who makes performances with community groups at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is a principal lecturer in Applied Theatre, teaching on both the BA Drama, Applied Theatre and Education and the MA Applied Theatre courses. As a practitioner, she works in prison settings, youth theatres, and with young people living in adverse conditions both in the UK and internationally, with current projects including work with communities who have experienced homelessness or who live in informal housing settlements in India and New York and also those in the prison system in England and in Malta. 
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Leah is the Politics Editor for gal-dem, a magazine written by women of colour and non-binary people of colour. She also works at Imkaan, a black feminist organisation which is dedicated to addressing violence against Black and minoritised women and girls. Leah writes and speaks about race, gender, migration and state and border violence.
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Cheri Shone embarked on a degree as a mature student in her 40’s, she is dyslexic and the first in her family to study at this level. One thought she did have while studying was that she did not want to become a professional dyslexic. She is now a Specialist Support Tutor so that worked out well! Christian, a student at Central, has been dyslexic all of his life and as a child, wished he was a caveman (because Cavemen didn’t need to read or write!).  
Together they look to explore the possibilities of Alternative Assessment as a way to facilitate inclusion and promote excellence in Higher Education.
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Shirley Anne Tate is Professor of Race and Education and Director of the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality in the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, UK and Honorary Professor (Chair Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation) at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.  
Her area of research is Black diaspora studies broadly and her research interests are institutional racism, the body, affect, beauty, 'race' performativity  and Caribbean decolonial studies while paying attention to the intersections of 'race' and gender. She has written widely on these topics.
Her talk will explore the Black attainment gap within equality, diversity and inclusion contexts in UK universities and looks at whether or not decolonizing the curriculum could positively impact outcomes.
 
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Eratle is a freelance film director, writer and producer, who just graduated from MA Actor Training and Coaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her newly founded company Glorious Montage Ltd. aims to build up the bridge of cultural exchange in film industries between China and UK.
As a Chinese woman who has been working in the British cultural industry over 5 years, Eratle will share her exploration of the notion of self under a Western gaze.
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At a time when most people cannot name an Ancient Greek or Roman story, much less understand their relevance, James explores the continuing impact that Ancient Greek and Roman stories still have on our lives, whether we realise it or not.
James is an actor. He has spent years, balancing this with a career in business development, specifically in education. He also enjoys a fascination with the ancient world and before embarking down the acting path he studied a BA Hons Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at University of Warwick, where he combined a love of the theatre with an appreciation for where it all began. He want on to gain an MA in Acting where his thesis focused on the work of Steven Berkoff, specifically his reimagining and interpretation of classic stories. This talk is based on two strands of James' life that have shaped and defined him.
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Ramatoulie is a recent graduate of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. A writer and film enthusiast, she spends most of her time introverting in cinemas, bookshops and her room, all whilst daydreaming about the hundreds of stories she’s eventually going to write. 
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Clio Unger is a researcher and dramaturg Currently, she is undertaking her PhD at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, where she works on the politics of the lecture performance and the distribution of knowledge academic and artistic institutions. She was awarded the International Federation for Theatre Research’s New Scholars Prize, and her essay was published in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Previously, Clio has trained and worked as a dramaturg in Munich and New York City, where she worked with both theatre and performance artists as well as contemporary dancers. She is excited to share some of her current research with the TEDx community.
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Evi Stamatiou is a Greek, UK-based, award-winning actress, writer, director and creative producer who works internationally across stage and screen. She has worked on the training of performers since 2003, in a variety of contexts, including schools, community settings, conservatoires and universities. She is close to completion of a PhD in Training the Socially Engaged Actor at RCSSD. She investigates how the application of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of taste and symbolic power to theatre-making can help performers unpick their own biases and engage broader audiences. She has published articles with academic publishers on practice research, performer training, political performance and musical theatre. Her work focuses on migration and she currently develops a musical on the subject. She brings together socially engaged theatre with comedy’s and musical’s entertaining theatrical language, with the aim to develop new audiences for socially engaged works. You can see more about Evi’s work at <A HREF="http://www.evistamatiou.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.evistamatiou.com</A>
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Dr Ellen Pruyne has a master’s degree in education and a doctorate in human development and psychology. She is the Impact Manager at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and on the side is writing a comedic novel set in the world of 80s rock-n-roll. She believes that we have been much too permissive with our parents and must address their behavioural problems before it is too late. 
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Elizabeth is a consultant clinical psychologist who has spent the last 15 years working with children both within the NHS and privately. She has a Masters in Child Development and during her career she has helped families to tackle everything from toddler tantrums to teenage meltdowns as well as more complex and challenging mental health difficulties. Her first book, Unplugged Parenting, was be published in September 2017. Elizabeth has three children of her own.
 
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