LECTURE:  
What’s the story? - The Teacher as Artist… The Artist as Teacher... Theatre of the Oppressed.
LECTURER:   
Chrissie Poulter, School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College Dublin. 
CHAIR:  
Paula Murphy, Lecturer in Drama in Education, St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra.
DATE:   
23 March at 8pm.
VENUE:   
St Patrick’s College Drumcondra.

The final lecture in the current Seamus Heaney Lecture Series will be given by Chrissie Poulter of the School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College Dublin on Monday March 23 at 8.00pm in St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra.

As Chrissie prepares to leave Protestant-now-secular Trinity College Dublin for Catholic-now-catholic Trinity College Leeds (Leeds Trinity), she reflects on the role of teacher and artist in the evolving civil society on this island of Ireland. 

“In 1979 I was invited to advise the Northern Ireland Arts Council:

- Can Community Arts benefit this divided city?

- Could a neighbourhood-based model from my elsewhere guarantee some parity of provision for this neighbourhood-based society, for whom the steel-encircled city centre was not a destination-of-choice of an evening?

"I lived and worked in the Belfast barrios for the summer to find out… and further afield on the island over the next 30 years… until my elsewhere faded into a half-remembered story and the lessons I learned here became looked-for in other parts of the un-neighbourly world.

“I travelled to other parts of Europe to create and teach - the language always evolving to include … and exclude … this is me … and/not you … The practice always evolving to include … and not exclude … this is me and you-not-me … So the understanding of how to work with you-not-me grows and crosses its own borders, from art into teaching into business into social policy, into publications and even, for you, into lectures …

“I look forward to speaking with you before I go… of self and other … of fight and flight … of co-existence and community …  of giving and taking … of what I have learned of the role of teacher and artist in the evolving civil society on this island of Ireland.”

More information about Chrissie Poulter can be found at www.chrissiepoulter.com

• Admission free;
• Audience will have an opportunity to address questions to Chrissie after her talk;
• Refreshments served after lecture.

Further details at www.spd.dcu.ie/shl