Guest post by Zane Trow 
The second Australian Theatre Forum will be held from Monday 19th to Wednesday 21st September 2011 at Brisbane Powerhouse during the Brisbane Festival. A steering committee has been formed, and will be “announced soon.”
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This little snippet appears on the Theatre Network Victoria E-News site for June and there is also this elsewhere on the same site.
This’ll give you, dear reader, some background on the Theatre Forum itself and a recent “workshop” held towards planning for the 2011 event.
The first thing to emerge on the list of goals for 2011 is:
- At the next forum in 2011 we want: Better representation of Independent theatre makers (at the Forum and in general)
So my first question is, “Who, from the Independent sector, is going to be on the steering committee”?
And my second question is, “Who from Brisbane is going to be on the steering committee”?
Who from the Independent sector is going to be on the steering committee and who from Brisbane is going to be on the steering committee?
Both seem to me to be reasonable questions, as certainly the planning “workshop” (Towards an Australian Theatre Forum 2011, Tuesday 23 February 2010, Adelaide Festival Centre) seems to me to have been run by the usual suspects, with certainly no Brisbane representation that I can see. I may have missed the Brisbane people in attendance; I may also have missed those same Brisbane people calling for a wide input into the event by seeking opinions from us all so that when they sit on a national, Australia Council-funded forum they can speak about Brisbane theatre from a position of strength and support. Continue reading “Wake Up Call: Australian Theatre Forum – Brisbane 19-21 September 2011”