Monday 28 April, 8pm

Paul Heritage's Key Note Address
Everything is Possible Behind the Scenes

Paul Heritage will discuss two of People’s Palace Projects’ current programmes with artists and communities in Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon and London. The lecture will consider the ways and means by which performance seeks to make a difference in situations of extreme crisis, both within the violent contexts of Rio’s favelas and when faced with the seemingly more abstract challenges of climate change. Raising questions about the power of art and the limitations of arts-based interventions, the lecture will draw on the dialogue that PPP is seeking to build between Brazilian cultural practices and artists, audiences and activists in the UK.

People´s Palace Projects (PPP) creates performances,workshops, debates and publications that push the
boundaries of where, how and why art matters. Based at Queen Mary, University of London, where PPP´s founder and Director Paul Heritage is also Professor of Drama, People´s Palace Projects has for 10 years produced theatre that acts for individual and social change in Britain, Burkina Faso and Azerbaijan. PPP is an Associate Company of the Barbican Centre and Paul Heritage is an International Associate of the Young Vic Theatre. He has been made a Knight of the Order of Rio Branco by the Brazilian government and has a studio theatre named after him in a maximum security prison in Brasília.

Tickets £4 (£3 concessions)

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