WORKSHOPS AND MENTORING

Since retiring from Oily Cart in 2018, Tim has continued to do training workshops and mentoring. Here are some of his recent engagements.

Participants in large paper hats and black costumes kneel on the floor. They are holding up handkerchiefs and playing peekaboo.

Sun-pucho rehearse scratch performance in a special school in Sendai, Japan 2019.

2024

5 July

Book signing and talk with NYU Drama students in London

5 February

Théatre Motus, Montréal

Zoom seminar/discussion on creating POOL SHOWS for young people with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities.

WAVING 2001. Kasia Haddad and Jonny Quick in the pool with 2 participants and their companions. Musician: Suzanne Worrica. Photo: Justin Leighton

2023

December

Théatre Motus, Montréal

Zoom seminar/discussion on how to adapt company’s production: TREE, a world in itself, for young people with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities.

October

Sensory Theatre workshop with Oily Cart in London for Italian children’s theatre makers interested in broadening accessibility, an ASSITEJ training event.

January

Session is to develop Playground Artists thinking and practice as they begin to develop creative ideas for working with children aged 18-36 months and children in SEND settings. Ashford in Kent.

Oily Cart’s Super Sensory Share. Discussion of Sensory Theatre book with Helen Nicholson, Professor of Theatre and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London, at Battersea Arts Centre.

2022

November

Zoom with Jonathan Shmidt Chapman’s Sensory Theatre class at Northwestern University in Illinois.

March and April 

Last days mentoring Different Planet Arts, based in Lewes. Different Planet Arts produces unique sensory theatre and immersive arts experiences and delivers Inclusive Play Skills Training, for children and young people with complex disabilities.

8 April 

Zoom talk on Facebook’s Upfront Performance Network about publication of book on Sensory Theatre in August and revival of Stranden (The Beach) for Scen:se in Sweden. 

July

Lecture and one day workshop with NYU Drama students in London

2021

Théatre Motus, Montreal, Canada

Rose Bruford College – Introduction to Sensory Theatre Practice

2019

Creating with the Cart, Oily Cart Summer School, London

Theatre for Youth Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

Arizona State University, Tucson, USA

Marphy’s Playhouse, Chengdu, China

Workshops with Hospital Theatre Project in Tokyo, Japan

2018

Big Umbrella Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, USA

Creating with the Cart, Oily Cart Summer School, London

Scen:se, Sweden