Angie Farrow

Angie Farrow is a Senior Lecturer at Massey University who specialises in Theatre and Creative Processes. She has won five awards for her teaching since she came to Massey, including a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award (2010) and last year she was voted ‘Lecturer of the Year’ by Massey students.

Although teaching is her first love, she also writes plays for theatre and radio. She is the author of two anthologies of plays. Plays for Physical Theatre: (Thompson Learning) and Plays for Physical Theatre 11 (Dunmore Press). Her theatre works have been performed in many countries overseas including Canada, U.S.A., Singapore, Australia, and India. She has won numerous national and international prizes for her plays including The Pen is a Mighty Sword International Playwriting Competition for Despatch, and this year her play, Tango Partner received a People’s Choice Award at The Inspirato Festival in Canada. She has just finished writing a full-length play about The Manawatu River that performs in November in Palmerston North.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Thursday 26th Jan - 2.15pm to 3.45pm

Teaching and Diving
The journey of creation

Many creative practitioners use the analogy of diving to describe the journey of creation. When their dive is shallow, their ideas (like the fish) are familiar and predictable. When they dive deep their eyes are opened to all that is exotic and strange in the sea of their imaginations. What can teachers learn from the creative process of artists? What does it take to dive deep? How important is the role of the imagination in the process of teaching? To what extent can pedagogy be seen as an act of creation?