Drew Bird: Crossing the threshold of the painting
Tracks
Track 3
| Friday, November 15, 2024 |
| 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Elizabeth Room, Ground Floor |
Details
The workshop will explore alliances between art therapy and drama therapy by staging a painting and playing with the dynamics of place, character and props within the scene. The staged drama will initially set up the prescribed scene of the painting, letting the play unfold by bringing the participants imagination to life. Participants will also explore the frame of the picture and how this resonates with ritual theatre approaches to drama therapy and the importance of threshold crossings in rites of passage that can help manage endings and loss. Within the workshop will also experientially consider the role of boundaries to demark dramatic reality of the painting from everyday reality and how this helps with the development and containment of the imagination.
Speaker
Associate Professor Drew Bird
University Of Melbourne
Crossing the threshold of the painting with Drew Bird
Biography
Dr Drew Bird, U.K. has been a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Dramatherapist in the U.K. for over twenty years. He was Course leader and senior lecturer of the MA in Dramatherapy at the University of Derby for fifteen years. He is currently Associate Professor, senior lecturer and Head of Creative Arts Therapies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He was editor of the British Association of Dramatherapists Journal from September 2020 to March 2023. He is the author of 15 publications and editorials. Recent research interests and publications have focussed on heuristic inquiry, arts-based research and a/ r/tography. He presents at conferences internationally. His background is in working with children and young people who have experienced trauma and adult mental health.
