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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Aug 12

Reminder: general registration for our annual conference, hosted by Theatre at Warwick, closes TONIGHT!

Please head to the link below before midnight BST to book your place, secure accomodation, and buy a ticket to the conference dinner.

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

TaPRA Conference 2025

warwick.ac.uk

TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Jun 11

DEADLINE: a reminder to anyone hoping to join us at Warwick for our annual conference in August that the early bird rate closes on Sunday (15 June).

Please follow this link to book your place:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · May 16

The AGM, with quorate attendance, held discussion and passed the motion with a 95% majority. This will be carried forward by the Executive. We thank the members who brought this motion, the speakers in the AGM, and the membership for holding this discussion with care.

TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · May 16

At the TaPRA Annual General Meeting on 9 May 2025, the membership passed a motion proposed by a collective of members on 11 April 2025: that TaPRA act on calls by our Palestinian colleagues to participate in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · May 8

Our AGM is tomorrow. Get in touch if you are a current member and haven't had the registration info.

TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · May 2

Details of our (online) AGM next Friday have gone out to members via our newsletter. Please contact us if you are a current member and have not received this information. We look forward to seeing you there.

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T&PRA Postgraduate Community @pgtapra.bsky.social · May 5

CALL FOR PAPERS:

@tapra.bsky.social
TaPRA Postgraduate Symposium - 20th June 2025.

Performing in The Murk
Staging the 'After'
WHAT/WHERE NEXT?

In a time marked by uncertainty, exhaustion, and rupture, how do we gather, reflect, reimagine and rebuild?
For full CFP: tapra.org/postgraduate...

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · May 2

Details of our (online) AGM next Friday have gone out to members via our newsletter. Please contact us if you are a current member and have not received this information. We look forward to seeing you there.

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Dr Joseph Dunne-Howrie @drjdunnehowrie.bsky.social · May 1

Very excited to share the programme for
@tapra.bsky.social symposium 'Futures After the Pandemic: Transmedial Stages and Posthuman Dramaturgies'

Presentations include:

AI and autism
Post-embodied identity
The manosphere
Drag and AI

And much more!

www.bruford.ac.uk/event/tapra-....

TaPRA Interim Event - Futures After the Pandemic: Transmedial Stages and Posthuman Dramaturgies

This TaPRA-funded event is organised by the Performance and New Technologies working group. The conveners would like to invite you to their interim

www.bruford.ac.uk

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Apr 25

Reminder to members that the Performance and New Technologies working group are hosting an interim event titled: Futures After the Pandemic: Transmedial Stages and Posthuman Dramaturgies.

The event runs in-person and online on Friday 9 May 10.00-17.00. Book here:

www.bruford.ac.uk/event/tapra-...

TaPRA Interim Event - Futures After the Pandemic: Transmedial Stages and Posthuman Dramaturgies

This TaPRA-funded event is organised by the Performance and New Technologies working group. The conveners would like to invite you to their interim

www.bruford.ac.uk

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Mar 18

A reminder that our deadline extension ends today (Tuesday 18 March) at midnight.

TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Mar 13

Eight of our working groups and the TaPRA Gallery have extended their Call For Papers deadline to Tuesday 18 March. All details are available on the Warwick website here:

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Mar 13

The Working Groups open are:

- Applied and Social Theatre
- Audience, Experience and Popular Practices
- Bodies and Performance
- Documenting Performance
- Performance and New Technologies
- Performance and Science
- Sound, Voice, and Music
- TaPRA Gallery
- Theatre, Performance and Philosophy

TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Mar 13

Eight of our working groups and the TaPRA Gallery have extended their Call For Papers deadline to Tuesday 18 March. All details are available on the Warwick website here:

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

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Dr Joseph Dunne-Howrie @drjdunnehowrie.bsky.social · Mar 13

CfP EXTENDED! @tapra.bsky.social Perf and New Tech WG 'Postdigital and AI Dramaturgies: Gen Alpha and the Politics of Care in Online Performance' 👇

tapra.org/call-partici...

Submit proposals by midnight 18 March

#Academic #Theatre #AI #Covid #GenZ #GenAlpha #Conference #Digital #Performance

TaPRA 2025 Performance and New Technologies CFP

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Mar 12

More details to come tomorrow but several of the TaPRA working groups have extended their CFPs until Tuesday 18 March. Please the webpage linked for first sight on which are still accepting submissions.

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

Conference Theme, Calls for Papers and Timeline

warwick.ac.uk

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Mar 10

⏰Reminder that the deadline to submit to present, perform, provoke or celebrate at #TaPRA2025 is tonight at midnight. Please use the link on Warwick's page to apply.

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

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Dr. Jami Rogers @publicradionerd.bsky.social · Mar 9

Right. Book chapter on casting in contemporary theatre finished and sent off to the editors. Some of it's alright.

Now I can get back to the fun things...Sam Wanamaker in Liverpool, which was also the subject of an abstract sent to @tapra.bsky.social for forthcoming conference at Warwick.

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Mar 7

Last chance to submit a proposal to give a conference paper at TaPRA (@tapra.bsky.social) 2025 in Warwick! The deadline is this Monday 10 March.

Our WG theme this year is Fun, Playfulness & Pleasure: tapra.org/call-partici...

TaPRA 2025 Audience, Experience & Popular Practices CFP

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Mar 4

A reminder that our annual conference is currently open for submissions. Deadline for applications: 10 March 2025 via the Warwick website linked below. Here's a summary of all the working group themes at a glance!

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

Text reads: TaPRA 2025 working group themes

Text reads: Working Group Themes:
APPLIED & SOCIAL THEATRE- Ways Out: Power and Potencia in Applied Theatre Practices
AUDIENCE, EXPERIENCE AND POPULAR PRACTICES -
BODIES AND PERFORMANCE - Fleshy futurities: Embodied yearning, resistance and grief
DIRECTING AND DRAMATURGY - On Joy and Ecstasy
DOCUMENTING PERFORMANCE - Documents Against Form

Text reads: Working Group Themes:
PERFORMANCE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES -Postdigital and AI Dramaturgies: Gen Alpha and the Politics of Care in Online Performance
PERFORMANCE AND SCIENCE - Intersections: Science-Engaged Performance
PERFORMANCE, IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY - Looking Back to Look Forward: Where Have We Gone Wrong?
PERFORMER TRAINING - Training Beyond (Established) Techniques

Text reads: Working Group Themes:
SCENOGRAPHY - Making and Doing Scenography
SOUND, VOICE AND MUSIC – Interfaces
THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE HISTORIES - Celebration
THEATRE, PERFORMANCE AND PHILOSOPHY - On Performance and Borders

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Elaine McGirr @emmcgirr.bsky.social · Feb 28

This will be great! @tapra.bsky.social #skystorians #c18th

David Coates @davidjcoates.bsky.social · Feb 28

The TaPRA Theatre and Performance Histories group have our next free online lecture on 5 March, 5-6.15pm GMT. Prof. Fiona Ritchie will present “Four Nights in Oxford in 1815: What the End of Dorothy Jordan’s Career Can Tell Us About Women and Regional Theatre”. Sign up: [email protected]

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Dr Joseph Dunne-Howrie @drjdunnehowrie.bsky.social · Feb 13

@tapra.bsky.social Conference. University of Warwick, 27-29 August 2025

Call for Proposals!

#Conference #Theatre #Drama #Performance #AI #COVID #Digital

'Postdigital and AI Dramaturgies: Gen Alpha and the Politics of Care in Online Performance'

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Feb 14

Please follow our dedicated postgrad team! They are amazing.

T&PRA Postgraduate Community @pgtapra.bsky.social · Feb 14

Hello Bluesky!

Right, where are all the postgraduate theatre researchers??

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Feb 12

Joining our annual conference for the first time? We've created a page explaining how things work. Do get in touch with us if you have any questions or worries!

tapra.org/how-tapras-c... #theatre #performance #theatrebluesky

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Dr Joseph Dunne-Howrie @drjdunnehowrie.bsky.social · Feb 4

Call for proposals to the TaPRA 2025 conference is now live!

The theme for the Performance and New Technologies working group is 'Postdigital and AI Dramaturgies: Gen Alpha and the Politics of Care in Online Performance'

#AcademicSky #TheatreSky #AI #Postdigital #Covid

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TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social · Feb 10

Hello, Bluesky! TaPRA checking in. We are so happy to announce that the Call For Papers for this year's annual conference is live on Theatre at Warwick's website. Choose from one of 13 working group themes to submit a paper.

Deadline: 10 March 2025 via webform

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

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