The Practical Magic of Museum Theatre
We Share, We Play, We Teach
2016 IMTAL Americas Conference
Denver, Colorado
August 26-30, 2016
Opening reception Friday evening, Aug. 26
Sessions begin 9 a.m. on Saturday, August 27
IMTAL Members: $250.00
Non-members: $305.00
Student: $150.00
Single Day: $125.00
Four full days of sharing, playing, and teaching at some of the Denver area's top museums:
Littleton Museum (conference host)
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Denver Art Museum
History Colorado Center
Conference hotel: Residence Inn Denver City Center
Or make reservations via phone by calling either of these numbers directly and asking for IMTAL group reservations:
303-296-3444
800-593-2809
Although our room block has officially closed, thee are still rooms available. Please ask for Kylee Martin at 303-296-3444.
Scheduled:
Keynote:
Jeff Wirth: The Power of Serious Play
Director, InterActive PlayLab, Author of Inter-Active Acting: Acting, Improvisation, and Interacting for Audience Participatory Theatre
Endnote:
David B. Allison: Entertainment, Education, and the Power of Relationships in Museums
Author of Living History: Effective Costumed Interpretation and Enactment at Museums and Historic Sites
Workshops:
Jeff Wirth: The Co-Creative Audience
Audiences are no longer satisfied with observing. They want to engage, to explore, to impact. This workshop offers practical, field-tested techniques to engage audiences as co-creators in the interpretive process. Learn how to establish instant rapport, endow collaborative roles, integrate improvisation with interpretive material, and transform passive spectators into co-creative spect-actors.
Storysmith® Susan Marie Frontczak
Bringing Science to Life!: Biomechanics and Puppetry
Ilana Gustafson and staff of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB8Rf_wMipY
Learn How You Can Facilitate the Creation of Devised Theatre: A Process
Staff of Colonial Williamsburg
Sessions:
Children’s Museum Theatre: Purposeful Magic
Cindy Lou Edwards, Long Island Children’s Museum
Destination Solar System: Managing a Cosmic Scale Production
Mark Webb, Adler Planetarium
Reaching Goals: Assessing and Improving Programming for Children and Families
Aaron Bonds, Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Benevolent Theft: Adopt, Adapt, Improve
Douglas Coler, Discovery Place Science
MTYVA: Engaging the Youngest Visitors
Roberta Gasbarre, Smithsonian Institution
Post Show 2.0
Todd Norris, Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Enactor Overview
Jennifer Moss Logan, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Souvenirs From Tomorrow
Kirk German, Tenement Museum and NYU
Performances:
Art Emergency, CODE RED
Staff of Denver Art Museum
Foxy & Schmoxy: Art Detectives
Staff of Denver Art Museum
A Visit with Madame Curie
Susan Marie Frontczak
Memory Kitchen, Sydney Sales, and Ditch Boss
Staff of History Colorado Center
Journey to Redemption
Staff of Colonial Williamsburg
So You Think You Can Fly
Staff of Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Astronaut on The Surface
Staff of Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Destination Solar System
Staff of Denver Museum of Nature and Science
