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Neil Cameron's 34 years of
experience are evident in his popular training programmes and
lectures.
Teaching
Neil Cameron runs courses in festival design, community ritual and
celebration and investigates ‘meaning’ within these contexts.
Recent training programmes include workshops in partnership with
Events Tasmania (an arm of the Tasmania State Government) on how
to run festivals that reflect community and individual meaning.
Neil Cameron also teaches at universities, colleges and other
educational institutions. Most of his courses are designed to meet
clients needs and are popularly attended. He uses a unique
categorising process to analyse different types of festival,
rituals and celebrations throughout the world and demonstrates how
this system can help design meaning in these events today.
He uses myth, the arts, archetype, anthropology, cultural
development theories and cognitive studies to determine what
happens to people in cultural experience and explores why these
experiences are important to healthy human development.
Participants have included cultural workers, festival
administrators, drama students, local and state government
employees, artists, teachers, performers and students.
Ranging
from one-day workshops to one month residences, the courses are
tailored to meet the needs of the client. The number of
participants varies; Neil Cameron’s colleagues are often brought
in to support the larger training programmes.
Lectures and talks
Neil Cameron conducts lectures and talks on many aspects of his
work, specialising in the meaning of celebration, the nature of
ritual in the community context and its relationship to cultural
development. His lectures are graphically supported by videos and
slides. |
