The event includes:
The conference will not finish with the presentations, but will continue with a nice picnic, wine and a great opportunity to network.
You can find more details below:
This is a conference hosted by Leeds Metropolitan University in association with Cultural Trends journal.
9.30 am REGISTRATION (refreshments will be provided)
10.00 - 10.15 Introduction: Leila Jancovich, Leeds Metropolitan University
10.15 - 11.15 Opening session 1: Policy analysis
chaired by James Doeser, Arts Council England
David Stevenson: Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
“What’s the problem again? The influence of the implicit in participation and engagement research”
Chris Bailey, Leeds Metropolitan University:
“Audience development – the archaeology of an idea and its potential rebirth”
Dr. Anna Villaroya, University of Barcelona and Kaat Peters Forum voor Amateurkunsten, Flanders:
“Policies on active cultural participation in Europe”
Dr. Andrew Miles, University of Manchester
“Everyday participation”
11.15 – 12.00 Q+A
12.00 – 1 pm LUNCH
1.00-2.00 Parallel sessions
1 - International Dimensions
Parallel session 2 - Engagement strategies
Dr. Asu Aksoy, Istanbul Bilgi University: “The Unequal Terrain of Emerging Civic Culture in Turkey: The Role of the Arts and the State”
Ruth Melville, University of Essex: “Feeling Champion: Exploring the experience of being a Liverpool Community Cultural Champion”
Andries Van der Broek The Netherlands Institute for Social Research: “The art loving Dutch?”
Dr. Ben Walmsley , Leeds Metropolitan University: “Participation and engagement as articulated by theatre-makers and goers”
Dr. Teunis IJdens Cultuurnetwerk Nederland: “Cultural participation policies: exit or reset?”
Pauline Hadaway, Belfast Exposed gallery of photography : “When the caravan moves on…: rebuilding cultural policy from arts practice in an age of austerity”
2.00 - 2.45pm Q+A in parallel sessions
2.45 - 3.00 Tea and coffee
3.00 - 4.00 Parallel sessions
3 - Place and Geography
4 - Socially engaged practice
Orian Brook, University of St Andrews: “Distance from a venue as a missing factor in explaining arts attendance”
Ben Jones, University of Newcastle: “The potential for socially engaged digital art as a grassroots medium”
Dr. Abigail Gilmore, University of Manchester: “Cold spots, crap towns and cultural deserts”
Ursula Troche, published performance poet, writer and photographer: “Creative Desires and Few Opportunities: battling social structures”
Elaine Speight, artist and curator: “From Place making to Place listening: A Reconsideration of Place within the Commissioning of Socially Engaged Art”
Dr. Sophie Hope, Birkbeck College, London: “Practice Based Research into Cultural Democracy and the Commissioning of Art to Effect Social Change”
Dr. Helen Pheby, Yorkshire Sculpture Park: “Subgroup psychological barriers to participation and engagement”
Toby Lowe, Helix Arts: “A definition of participatory arts”
4.00 - 4.45
Q+A in parallel sessions
4. 45 - 5.30 SUMMING UP:
Franco Bianchini, Leeds Metropolitan University and Sara Selwood, Cultural Trends
5.30 - 7.00 Drinks in grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park
To book a place go online to http://onlinestore.leedsmet.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=102&deptid=4&catid=2.
More Information
www.participationandengagement-arts.co.uk
Please find below two very good resources by Dr. David O’Brien on culture, its measurement, economics in the context of central government decision-making.
On the need for economic valuation http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/2011/01/31/arts-and-culture-economic-value-in-time-of-austerity/#more-7111
And its limits http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/dave-obrien/economics-and-cultural-sector-can-they-achieve-more-diplomatic-relationship
A very good report from the International Futures Forum on the ability to help people who fund the arts develop better policies if we use ecological thinking to understand how the arts work in society and in the economy.
http://www.watershed.co.uk/sites/default/files/publications/2011-03-15/Watershed_IFF_Report_online.pdf
We would like to share with you a very interesting report looking at the impacts of participation in heritage at the museum.
http://eastanglianlife.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Investing-in-culture-and-communities-SROI-at-MEAL-MB-Assoc-2010.pdf
New Model Visual: Arts Institutions and Social Engagement
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/school_of_social_work/research/pru/files/wzw_nmi_report.pdf
“Excellence and quality of art forms is at the heart of the sector. It is therefore important to recognise the value of the sector as a core part of the broader arts ecology which is driven by creative practice, both in relation to keeping traditional art forms alive and developing new and innovative creative products.” Our Creative and Talent: the voluntary and amateur arts in England. DCMS / Arts Council England (2008)
The Epic Awards 2011 are an initiative of Voluntary Arts, the national development agency for arts participation. Voluntary Arts offers information, advice, training and development opportunities to those in the voluntary arts sector, from small local groups to large national organisations.
To get involved or to find out more about the awards: http://epicawards.co.uk/
CLOSING DATE: 30th of November 2011.
The registration for the fifth event in our Participation & Engagement in the Arts seminar series on “The Role Of Technology In Participation And Engagement In The Arts” is now open.
Places are free, but limited. In order to attend the seminar series, please contact us on participationandengagement-arts@leedsmet.ac.uk to reserve your place as soon as possible.
This session is hosted by the Cultural Lab and the Newcastle University and will focus on the role of the technology on the participation and engagement in arts. We look forward to hearing presentations from Miss Sarah Cook - Lecturer and Researcher, University of Sunderland; Rachel Clarke - Artist & PhD student, Culture Lab, Newcastle University; Roots and Wings (CIC) and Arts Council.Culture Lab is located on Newcastle University Campus Grand Assembly Rooms, King’s Walk, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU (http://culturelab.ncl.ac.uk/about/contact). More information on how to reach Newcastle University, can be found on: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/visit/travel/.
Thanks to everyone who attended our event this week, hosted by the Institute of Cultural Capital and held at the Art & Design Academy in Liverpool. We enjoyed fantastic presentations from James Doeser, Research & Knowledge Officer at Arts Council England; Dr Abigail Gilmore, Director of the Centre for Arts Management & Cultural Policy at the University of Manchester; Sarah Thornton, Artistic Director of Collective Encounters in Liverpool and Dr Ian Hunter, Project Director and Lead Artist at LITTORAL Arts Trust.
All resources from the seminar can be downloaded at Previous Events & Seminars.
We are excited to announce our Summer 2012 conference, on participation and engagement in the arts and in association with the Cultural Trends journal. We are now accepting abstract submissions. Please download our call for papers here.