Thurs 23 February 2023

11am -12.30pm

Inclusivity and relevance are included in Arts Council England’s Investment Principles:

“That England’s diversity is fully reflected in the organisations and individuals we support and in the culture they produce”.

The session will use creative mediums of other people’s words combined with Euton’s own experience alongside some initiatives happening in Oxford to make a case for a different approach to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) - One not of writing policies and employing EDI personnel but taking action.

A safe space will be created where experiences can be shared, questions asked and participants be open with each other to begin to start thinking about meaningful and impactful actions. Participants to the training will leave with the confidence to start conversations about EDI in their organisation and start taking steps which address your mission statement and the people you create work with and for.

This training is for professionals working at venues within the house southeast theatre network. It would be ideal for any venue who has programmed the house tour SOLD in Spring 2023 (which Euton is the director for) but is also open to other venues looking at EDI.

Venues may wish to send associate or attached artists as well but please indicate the venue in the comments section when registering.

If you have any additional needs, such as BSL interpretation, please get in touch with Meghan at meghan@housetheatre.org.uk as soon as possible.

About Euton Daley MBE

Euton is an artistic director, producer, writer, teacher and trainer with over 40 years’ experience working professionally with artists, community groups, students and young people. He is a visiting tutor on the Oxford University Department of Educational Studies (PGCE Options) where he inputs into developing and using creativity in the classroom. For the past 3 yrs he has been working with students on the visual arts course at Oxford Brookes University around the social and political context in which artists makes work.

Currently part of an unique Knowledge Exchange between both universities and his recent production – Still Breathing – through a unique collaboration amongst art practitioners and researchers which seeks to reclaim a history of African-Caribbean Oxford and an exploration diversifying the cultural spaces in Oxford.

His focus and practice is on community development through the arts with recent experience includes leading Pegasus Theatre (1990-2013) as its Artistic Director/CEO; Arts Development Officer – Oxford City Council (2015-2020). He has mentored and supported companies including Tavaziva Dance, Sakoba, Body Politic, Kuumba Nia Arts, Gonzo Moose, Wild Boor Ideas, Justice in Motion and Peepolykus to name a few. He is an active member of the Oxford Cultural Anti-Racism Alliance which has developed a manifesto for radical change within the cultural sector in Oxford.

Euton was made an MBE in 2008 for services to the arts and young people. In 2013, Oxford City Council awarded him a Certificate of Honour for his contribution to the young people of Oxford across theatre, dance and creative learning. In 2015 he was awarded a Fellowship of Rose Bruford College where he studied Community Theatre Arts from 1978-1981

Euton Daley/Unlock the Chains Collective make and produce theatre that explores the Black experience through the fusion of dance, music, song and spoken word/performance poetry and bring artists together to explore their cultural heritage and stories to develop a Black Arts aesthetics. He has two published performance poetry collection and is currently writing a third.