Helen gives lectures, presentations and workshops about
UpStage and cyberformance.
She regularly delivers remote presentations using UpStage and other
online communication tools, and often these presentations take the form
of performances, in collaboration with on-site and online colleagues.
Along with Vicki Smith and other UpStage artists, Helen
participates in regular Open
Walkthroughs held in UpStage, providing
online training sessions for newbies and jamming/improv opportunities
for regular UpStagers; check the UpStage
web site for date and
time of the next session and how to request a guest login.
International Frauen Theater Festival, "Online, offline, on-stage, UpStage" workshop on hybrid online-offline performance, with Sara Larsdotter Hallqvist, Frankfurt, 1 October 2022
Transit Festival, cyberformance masterclass, Denmark, 9 June 2022
Solos Ferteis, Magdalena Festival, Brasilia, Brasil, 21-29 July 2018; Magdalena München presentation and work-in-progress presentation
Summer School Artist in Residence, Northumbria University, UK; May 2018; We Have a Situation!
UpStage workshop (remote) for digital performance students at the University of South Wales, January 2018;
UpStage workshop (remote) for digital performance students at the University of South Wales, January 2017;
Artist in Residence, Disruptive Media Learning Lab, Coventry University,
UK; 2016; We Have a Situation!
Artist
in Residence, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham UK:
workshops and lectures on digital storytelling, cyberformance, creating
with QR codes and Zappar codes; September 2015;
Manchester Literature Festival, October 2015: one-day workshop on
"Building
Immersive Stories", with Sarah Hymas;
TransHackFeminist, Calafou, August 2015: UpStage workshop and performance;
Artist
in Residence, University of the Creative Arts Farnham, March
2014; presentations and workshops about cyberformance, performance
created with students;
UpStage presentation, Flossie, November 2013, with Vicki Smith in
New Zealand;
UpStage workshop, York St John University, November 2013;
Cyberformance workshop, Transit Festival, Denmark, June 2013 - in
collaboration with Gabriella Sacco; performance workshop with participants
in Denmark, New Zealand and Brasil using streaming and UpStage;
We have
a situation! - March-May 2013, four workshops (4-5
days) for artists and non-artist participants to research an issue,
learn about cyberformance and UpStage, and create and present a
cyberformance then host a networked discussion about the issue;
documentation on the We
have a situation! web site;
Conference on Intermediality, Theatricality, Performance, (Re)-presentation
and the New Media , 24-30 May 2007, Centre de Recherche sur L'Intermedialite
(CRI), Universite de Montreal, Canada - presented a paper on UpStage,
Cyberformance, and the Intermedial Audience (pending publication in
the conference papers);
Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education, Rotorua December
2006;
UpStage workshop, Whitireia Polytechnic, November 2006;
Ongoing since 2004, design and delivery of online cyberformance workshops in the UpStage platform, including writing user manuals and other documentation.
WebWorks: designed and taught a four-month full-time course in web development for unemployed
women, Outlook Resources, Wellington, 1999.
Career Ys: designed and delivered a six-month programme of career-planning workshops and
mentoring for young women, YWCA, Wellington, 1996.
BATS Theatre Seminar Series: coordinated a series of theatre production
seminars for the Wellington theatre community, 1994.
