Don Rusell Performing Arts Centre
Mon, 2 Apr 2001, 04:15 pmWalter Plinge14 posts in thread
Don Rusell Performing Arts Centre
Mon, 2 Apr 2001, 04:15 pmGreetings to all
I am currently undertaking a review of the Don Russell perf Arts centre in Thornlie / Gosnells for the City of gosnells.
Basically i am interested in any thoughts / views / suggestions you have about the DRPAC. Its obvious that this venue straddles a couple of areas, being Perfromming Arts, community arts, community theatre, community access, class and workshop facilities and so-on. The areas that i am looking at are as follows:
1. establishing the purpose of the DRPAC and placing it within the greater community facilities of the City of Gosnells
2. Alternatives to the current mode of operation and management of the centre
3. the placement of DRPAC within the professional and amateur theatre communities.
Obviously these last two points have some relevance to users of these pages.
Anyway i welcome all thoughts and am willing to disscuss the overall thrust of the document when its prepared. i should stress that it is up to the City of Gosnells if the actual document is for public consultation or not.
i can be contacted by replying to this, or directly at skunkworks@wafringe.com.au, or on 0413 751 552.
For those of you wondering who the hell i am, i am currently the director of the WA Fringe festival, previously i ran The blue room Theartre,... i have just finished being a theatre fund member of the Australia Council,... I am not an arts consultant!
For those that still do not know who i am i am sorry but i cannot waste more space.
Cheers
Tony Bonney
I am currently undertaking a review of the Don Russell perf Arts centre in Thornlie / Gosnells for the City of gosnells.
Basically i am interested in any thoughts / views / suggestions you have about the DRPAC. Its obvious that this venue straddles a couple of areas, being Perfromming Arts, community arts, community theatre, community access, class and workshop facilities and so-on. The areas that i am looking at are as follows:
1. establishing the purpose of the DRPAC and placing it within the greater community facilities of the City of Gosnells
2. Alternatives to the current mode of operation and management of the centre
3. the placement of DRPAC within the professional and amateur theatre communities.
Obviously these last two points have some relevance to users of these pages.
Anyway i welcome all thoughts and am willing to disscuss the overall thrust of the document when its prepared. i should stress that it is up to the City of Gosnells if the actual document is for public consultation or not.
i can be contacted by replying to this, or directly at skunkworks@wafringe.com.au, or on 0413 751 552.
For those of you wondering who the hell i am, i am currently the director of the WA Fringe festival, previously i ran The blue room Theartre,... i have just finished being a theatre fund member of the Australia Council,... I am not an arts consultant!
For those that still do not know who i am i am sorry but i cannot waste more space.
Cheers
Tony Bonney
RE: Don Rusell Performing Arts Centre
Mon, 2 Apr 2001, 10:54 pmHi Tony
Tech Talk is probably as good a place as any to broach this subject - there's usually slightly less noise and traffic in here.
:-)
Doubtless you've taken a bit of time to scan some of the earlier discussions here re. DRPAC.
While perhaps not directly related to the core of your enquiry, they do give some indication of the issues that contributors here have raised in the past.
My limited experience of such inquiries has been that the individual selected to undertake the inquiry is chosen because they are perhaps the person most likely to deliver an outcome in line with predetermined priorities.
This is in no way intended as a slur against Tony as the person undertaking this inquiry. In fact, given Tony's background - particularly at the Blueroom, i would regard his appointment as a very positive step towards a plan for a facility that is firmly grounded in active community involvement.
But, i wonder, rather than asking for ideas from people visiting this forum whether it might not be as or more productive if Tony were to give some idea of the policy directions being considered so that they might be debated?
Would you contemplate proposing a model for managing the use of the space that is in anyway similar to PACS and the Blueroom?What advantages and disadvantages do you perceive in such a model? Is there any relevance in investigating other existing community theatre models?
How would you propose to balance commercial and community access considerations?
What yardsticks should be used to measure that dreadfully misused word "community"?
What relevance or impact, if any, do perceive OzCo's Planning For The Future should have in planning for the management and operation of performing arts facilities at a local government level?
Cheers
Grant
Tech Talk is probably as good a place as any to broach this subject - there's usually slightly less noise and traffic in here.
:-)
Doubtless you've taken a bit of time to scan some of the earlier discussions here re. DRPAC.
While perhaps not directly related to the core of your enquiry, they do give some indication of the issues that contributors here have raised in the past.
My limited experience of such inquiries has been that the individual selected to undertake the inquiry is chosen because they are perhaps the person most likely to deliver an outcome in line with predetermined priorities.
This is in no way intended as a slur against Tony as the person undertaking this inquiry. In fact, given Tony's background - particularly at the Blueroom, i would regard his appointment as a very positive step towards a plan for a facility that is firmly grounded in active community involvement.
But, i wonder, rather than asking for ideas from people visiting this forum whether it might not be as or more productive if Tony were to give some idea of the policy directions being considered so that they might be debated?
Would you contemplate proposing a model for managing the use of the space that is in anyway similar to PACS and the Blueroom?What advantages and disadvantages do you perceive in such a model? Is there any relevance in investigating other existing community theatre models?
How would you propose to balance commercial and community access considerations?
What yardsticks should be used to measure that dreadfully misused word "community"?
What relevance or impact, if any, do perceive OzCo's Planning For The Future should have in planning for the management and operation of performing arts facilities at a local government level?
Cheers
Grant
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