ABSTRACT This article expounds acta’s model of participatory community theatre developed over the years since the organisation was founded in 1985. It examines how acta’s commitment to access and participation has come to be enshrined in the ‘cycle of engagement’ which offers multiple pathways into and through participation in theatre making. Recently, these pathways into experiencing and making theatre have been extended into (paid) training and employment through the launch of the Foundation Worker (FW) programme. The article examines acta’s Foundation Worker programme which offers first jobs with training and mentoring to those new to the community/participtory arts workforce, whether recent arts graduates, community theatre participants or civil society/third sector workers. It is argued that the co-articulation of the cycle of engagement and the Foundation Worker programme reflects acta’s democratic and developmental ethos of theatre making. The aim of this piece is to contextualise acta’s history and development as a community theatre company and to outline the pathways into employment and training that acta’s FW programme offers. The paper is co-authored with acta and FWs (in third-person voice) after a focus group at the acta Centre, Bedminster, in July 2019, with follow up over email.

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Acta 社区剧院的“参与循环”和基金会工作人员计划：为文化参与和工作创造途径

摘要 本文阐述了 Acta 自该组织于 1985 年成立以来多年来发展起来的参与式社区剧院模型。它探讨了 Acta 对获取和参与的承诺如何被载入“参与循环”，该循环提供了进入和通过的多种途径。参与戏剧制作。最近，通过启动基金会工作人员 (FW) 计划，这些体验和制作戏剧的途径已扩展到（有偿）培训和就业。本文探讨了 acta 的 Foundation Worker 计划，该计划为社区/参与性艺术劳动力的新手提供第一份工作，包括培训和指导，无论是最近的艺术毕业生、社区剧院参与者还是民间社会/第三部门工作者。有人认为，参与周期和基金会工作者计划的共同阐述反映了 Acta 的戏剧制作的民主和发展精神。这篇文章的目的是将 acta 作为社区剧院公司的历史和发展背景化，并概述 acta 的 FW 计划提供的就业和培训途径。该论文于 2019 年 7 月在贝德明斯特的 Acta 中心进行了焦点小组讨论后，与 acta 和 FW（以第三人称的声音）共同撰写，并通过电子邮件进行了跟进。