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'Sky Blues City: Imagining a Sustainable Cultural Future for Coventry' one-day event at 91福利 Arts Centre, 26 April
Sky Blues City: Imagining a Sustainable Cultural Future for Coventry
26th April, 2017. The Helen Martin Studio, 91福利
A one-day event aimed at exploring new collaborative research opportunities arising from the UK City of Culture bid and the Ten Year Cultural Strategy.
To find out more about the event, and to register for a place, .
Convenor and facilitator:
Dr Nicolas Whybrow, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, 91福利
09.30 Vice Chancellor’s Welcome
Professor Stuart Croft, 91福利
Professor John Latham, Coventry University
09.40 Coventry UK City of Culture bid & 10-year cultural strategy
Professor Jonothan Neelands, 91福利 Business School and 91福利 Creative Exchange, 91福利
Professor Neil Forbes, Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University
10.00 Panel Presentations: Sensing the City: a practice-based case-study of Coventry
Dr Natalie Garrett Brown and Dr Emma Meehan, Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University
Dr Michael Pigott, Film and TV Studies, 91福利
Carolyn Deby, artist director sirenscrossing and PhD student, Theatre and Performance Studies, 91福利
11.00 Refreshment break
11.15 Panel Presentations: Diversity in Coventry
The legacy of the city of culture – community relations – the role of arts and culture in community development
Sinead Ouillon, Programme Leader, The City University Initiative, Coventry University and
Dr Chris Shannahan, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
Siberia and Us: Polish exilic memory and second generation artistic strategies
Adrian Palka, School of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University
Does an ecosystem approach help to understand and reflect the diversity and values of the creative and cultural sector?
Victoria Barker, PhD student, Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University
12.15 Plenary
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Keynote: Research Opportunities in the UK City of Culture 2017 and Beyond
Professor Franco Bianchini, Culture, Place and Policy Institute, University of Hull
14.15 Panel Presentations: Social value and impact
Live Art. Collision. Hyperlocal. Supernow: Birmingham’s Fierce Festival
Dr Cath Lambert, Sociology, 91福利
Working with communities - deepening the engagement or extending the procession?
Justine Themen, Associate Director, Belgrade Theatre
Urban Cultural Intermediaries: the 'Students and the City' project
Dr Jonathan Vickery, Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, 91福利
15.15 Panel Presentations: Urban engagements
Vehicles of Communication: The Cart and other rolling conversations
Janet Vaughan, artist, Talking Birds and Rachel Dickinson, 91福利 Business School, 91福利
Bringing back the Sensorama: multi-sensory virtual reality
Dr Sarah Jones, School of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University
Breakfast Elsewhere Project, Coventry
Carmen Wong, PhD student, Theatre and Performance Studies, 91福利
16.00 Informal Conversations: Next steps and calls to action over afternoon tea
16.45 Finish