Teaching and Educational projects

Promenade Promotions can design and deliver specially tailored projects for a wide range of education institutions.

Upcoming Talks

“A treasure trove of joy and rapture – the lost history of pierrots and concert parties rediscovered through postcards” – Picture Postcard Monthly, June 2018

Recent Talks and Lectures

Dates of talks/papers for teaching & research:

‘In the Belly of the Beast: The Itinerant British Showman and the definition of ‘Seer Performance’’. Popular Entertainment Studies, March 2017
Paper: for ‘A Million Pictures AHRC project “A Fantastical Phantasmagorical Phenomenon for the Twenty-First Century – ghosts, gauzes and grandiloquence.” (2017)
Lecture: ‘“The wonder of all wonders that ever the world has wondered at…”- nineteenth century itinerant peepshows and their re-imagining for a digital age.’ Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University (2017)
‘The History of Commedia costume in popular British performance’ for costume & design BA course at Bournemouth University (2018 & 2015)
Keynote speech at ACE’s Arts Fund-raising & Philanthropy Fellowships (2013)
‘Travelling peepshows – past and present’ The Magic Lantern (Autumn 2016)
‘My Pierrot Hero’, Banjo Mandolin Guitar journal(Summer 2015)
‘New Terms for Old Turns’,New Theatre Quarterly Volume III Number 10 (May 1987)

Exeter University – ‘Flea circuses, showmanship & pantomime’ Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network, Cambridge University – ‘19th century peep-shows re-imagined in the digital age’ for the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) Plymouth Art College – ‘Commedia Costume into the Modern Age’. Bournemouth University – ‘The history, evolution & meaning of the British pierrot tradition’ Bournemouth University – ‘The history, evolution & meaning of the British pierrot tradition’

Recent Projects

Exeter University M.A. – (Module 1 and ‘3^rd Year Practical Essay’ & ‘Acting & non-Acting’ sections)
In association with DAISI (Devon Arts in Schools Initiative) Tony worked on an outdoor arts project with secondary school students from Dawlish & Teignmouth to create an outdoor Mummers play for Autumn 2013
Noye’s Fludde (June 2013)
Somerset play centres (Summer/Autumn 2013) – English as an Additional Language (EAL) storytelling sessions & workshops for early years & their parents.