Time

 Activity/Session 

12:00 – 14:00

 Registration and lunch 
 Tours of the Opera House

14:00 – 15:30

 Keynote Session: Tim Crouch
 What we Talk about When We Talk About Theatre

15:30 – 16:00 

 Tea, coffee and cake

16:00 – 16:15 

Introduction from Pat Moylan
 Chairman of The Arts Council

16:15 – 17:15 

  Panel Discussion: The Uses of Crisis
 Annette Clancy, Andrew McIlroy, Mark Robinson, Alistair Spalding
 Chair: Loughlin Deegan
 

17:15 – 18:15 

  Breakout Session: The Uses of Crisis
 With Annette Clancy, Andrew McIlroy, Mark Robinson, Alistair Spalding
 

18:15 – 19:00 

 Break
 
  There will also be a number of sidebar meetings taking place at the time including NASC and NOMAD meetings of venue managers in the Opera House and a meeting of the network of theatres seating less than 120 hosted by Wexford Arts Centre.  

19:00 – 20:00

 Evening reception and an opportunity to meet members and staff of the Arts Council informally
 
 Reception sponsored by PJT Insurance Services.

20:00 – late

 Dinner in Whites Hotel
 
 Theatrical Cavaliers Quiz
 sponsored by Tickets.com
 
 Dancing 'til late 

Time>

 Activity/Session 

09:00 – 11:30 

 Tea, coffee and scones will be served all morning 

09:00 – 10:00

 Delegates have a choice of sessions as follows:
 
  Theatre Forum AGM
 
  Yoga with Sorcha Carroll
 
  Improve your Website with Heather Maitland
 
  Writing Workshop with Gavin Kostick:
 Improving Your Script 
 

09:30 – 10:30

  Meet the Arts Council  

10:15 – 11:15

 Delegates have a choice of sessions as follows:
 
  Presentation of 2008 Audience Benchmarking
 Research by Heather Maitland
 
 http://www.theatreforumireland.com/index.php/tf/Annual-Conference-2009/Corn-Exchange-Ensemble-Theatre-Workshop-by-Annie-Ryan Corn Exchange Ensemble Theatre Workshop by Annie Ryan
 
  Workshop with Jason Byrne
 
  Writing Workshop with Gavin Kostick: About Time
 
  Brief Encounters . a form of speed dating!
  

11:30 – 12:30

 The Great Turning: Building Resilient Arts
 Organisations with Clare Cooper 
 

12:30 – 13:30 

Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 

 Making the Public Case for the Arts
 Mary Cloake, Mark Mortell, Charlie O.Neill
 Chair: Fiach Mac Conghail
 

 Delegates have a choice of sessions as follows:
 
  Sponsorship and Philanthropy in a New Age for
 the Arts with Sarah Dempsey (Ulster Bank), Stuart
 McLaughlin (Business to Arts) and Prof Tony
 Meenaghan (UCD)
 
  Leadership and Self-Reliance session with Colin Hicks
 
  Making Meaning in the Theatre: Contexts for
 Interpretation between Artist, Audience and Critic
 with Peter Crawley, Tom Creed, Sara Keating and Jo Mangan. Chair: Thomas Conway
 
  Aesthetics and Innovation in Irish Performance:
 AWOL or Alive? with Jason Byrne, Richard Gregory,
 Gavin Quinn and Noelia Ruiz. Chair: Willie White
 
 

16:00 – 16:30 

Closing session