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Heritage, Legacy & Leadership
: Ideas and Interventions An International
Symposium Date: Friday 22 February 2008 Venue: The Chamber, City Hall, More Place, London,
SE1 2AA, UK For more information
and to apply to attend this free one-day
symposium: Download the registration
form: www.culturalleadership.org.uk Call: 00 44 (0)
7809 194 947 Transport: Train/Tube: London Bridge
(Jubilee, Northern Lines and Mainline Station) Tower Hill (Circle &
District Line) Tower Gateway (Docklands
Light Railway) Buses: 42, 47, 78, 381,
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PROGRAMME
OVERVIEW This groundbreaking
symposium will deliver a crucial and dynamic international exchange to
explore the issues, thinking, experiences and practices needed to support
innovative leadership in the heritage sector. With contributions
from a line up of distinguished speakers including: Doudou Diène, the
United Nations’ special rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism and
xenophobia, who will open the symposium with a keynote speech addressing
heritage and cultural pluralism. Aimed at a diverse range
of heritage and cultural sector professionals, established and emerging
leaders from within the UK and internationally, the symposium will create
a thought leadership platform with the strategic objective of stimulating,
championing and recognising the role and impact of diverse cultural voices
on the British heritage landscape. Two critical themes,
Cultural Democracy and Cultural Ownership will be at the
core of the discussion. Participants will engage in developing fresh
thinking and providing new insights into:
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Media contacts:
Beverley Mason and Julie
Reynolds, Medar Pysden on t: 00 44 (0) 7809
194 947 or 00 44 (0)20 8944 6752 / 07941 724 425 e: [log in to unmask] Organised and funded by
the Cultural Leadership Programme and the Mayor of London's office/
Mayor’s Commission on African and Asian Heritage. Partners include
the Museums, Libraries and Archives Partnership, London Museums Hub
through Renaissance London, English Heritage, MLA London and the Museums
Association. |