Wednesday 11 November 2015 at 6PM

PUBLIC LECTURE: Northern Powerhouse and Cultural Policy

Dr Ben Walmsley (University of Leeds)

This talk will present and critique the Northern Powerhouse concept from the perspective of the arts. It will explore how cultural policy and arts funding decisions are made, both in theory and in practice, and discuss tensions between funding priorities: should we be funding buildings, or audiences and art?  More Information & Book Now

Dr Walmsley is a Lecturer in Audience Engagement in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. His professional background is in theatre management and producing. In 1997, he directed and produced Ionesco’s La Cantatrice Chauve as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, before moving to Paris, where he managed One World Actors Productions for two years, before moving back to the UK to manage the leading Scottish touring theatre company Benchtours.

He took up a post at the new National Theatre of Scotland in 2006 and was with the company for the first two-and-a-half years of its existence. In 2008, he left Glasgow to take up the post of Senior Lecturer in Arts & Entertainment Management at Leeds Metropolitan University.

His current research interests are related to the qualitative value and impact of theatre from the audience perspective and to issues of strategic arts management and organisational change. He has also published on arts marketing, rural touring, arts & entertainment management and cultural policy.

Ben has been a vigorous blogger on what the emergence of the Northern Powerhouse means for cultural policies in the north of the country.

(Related Event: ICE Roundtable - Northern Powerhouse and Film Policy)

Wednesday 18 November 2015 at 2PM
RESEARCH SEMINAR: “Doing Research with Arts/Media/Cultural Organisations – Their Plans, Your Opportunities”

Aimed primarily at staff, the seminar will introduce current researchers, and potential ones, to the research interests that bodies such as the British Film Institute, Arts Council, Creative England inter alia have. Representatives from such bodies will introduce the role and purpose of research for them, and discuss the type of research, collaborations, projects, and consultancies they are keen to develop with HE. The seminar is aimed at researchers and academics with an interest in film, television, digital media, performance, the creative industries and the cultural economy.

Confirmed to attend from the British Film Institute is Richard Paterson, Head of Research and Scholarship at the BFI, responsible for developing the BFI’s partnerships with higher education; Dr Kion Ahadi, Head of Research at Creative Skillset; James Farmery, Director of Partnerships, Creative England; Vivien Niblett, Senior Officer, Arts Council England.

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Wednesday 2 December 2015 at 6.30PM

PUBLIC EVENT: In Conversation About: 'Works to Know by Heart'

ICE and Tate Liverpool present a public event to discuss Tate Exhibition, ‘An Imagined Museum: works from the Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections’ with guest speaker Darren Pih, curator at Tate Liverpool and Deborah Kermode, Deputy Director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.   ‘You’ve arrived at Tate Liverpool in the future. All of the works of art on display are about to disappear, forever. Which works of art do you want to know by heart, committing them to memory so that your favourite piece lives on?’ The event will take place in the Creative Edge.  More Information & Book Now

If you missed ‘In Conversation About Leonora Carrington’ watch the event HERE

If you missed ‘In Conversation About Jackson Pollock’ watch the event HERE

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