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CW for Regen Seminar Series
WHAT NEXT FOR PUBLIC ART?
AUSTERITY OR OPPORTUNITY?
A seminar by Maggie Bolt
Image: Dream by Jaume Plensa, St Helen’s, Cheshire
Wednesday 9 March 2011, 2-5 p.m
Burnley Mechanics, Manchester Road, Burnley BB11 1BH
FREE
Over the past eight months the landscape for cultural activity and development has dramatically shifted. Partners and methods of delivery are changing daily, and the focus on quality environments and the need to ensure that thoughtful practice informs thoughtful places has been swept over by a surge of cost cutting, shedding of professions and a culture of austerity. But hard times shouldn’t equate with poverty of thinking - in fact it is even more important, when resources are tight, to explore the left field and embrace creativity and innovation. Maggie Bolt will be talking about the challenges she thinks public art now faces, where new partnerships might be found and what we need to do in order to equip us for this very different world.
Maggie’s talk will be followed by local case studies of public art projects across Pennine Lancashire and discussion.
This seminar is free and open to anyone, but will be of particular relevance to those working in regeneration, planning, housing market renewal, development control, community and arts services.
Maggie Bolt has over 25 years experience in the contemporary visual art field. She is a creative and strategic thinker, who has specialised in the field of public art and is widely recognised as one of the key players in this sector nationally and internationally
This seminar is the last in a series organised by the Creativity Works for Regeneration Group.
The seminar is FREE, and will take place in the Tudor Room at Burnley Mechanics, Manchester Road, Burnley. Tea/coffee/biscuits provided.
To book a place, please contact Lucy Green on lucy@midpenninearts.org.uk
For further information please contact Piotr Bienkowski on piotr.bienkowski@blackburn.gov.uk
These seminars are funded by Lancashire County Council through their Public Art Allocation.
YOUR SPACE: THE ARTS, LEARNING, AND PARTICIPATION
IN REGENERATION
A seminar by Jane Field (Beam)
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Wednesday 26 January, 2-5 p.m
Burnley Mechanics, Manchester Road, Burnley BB11 1BH
FREE
Jane Field will be exploring how public art can be used in regeneration, with particular focus on two key programmes delivered by Beam: Interconnections and People Changing Places. Both programmes bring together the community, young people and the local authority with artists and other creative professionals to stimulate thinking, gain new skills and learning around regeneration and involve them in place-making.
Jane’s talk will be followed by local case studies of public art projects across Pennine Lancashire and discussion.
This seminar is free and open to anyone, but will be of particular relevance to those working in regeneration, planning, housing market renewal, development control, community and arts services.
Jane Field is Director of Programmes and Services at Beam. Beam is a company dedicated to involving people in the imaginative understanding and improvement of the public realm – our urban and rural streets, buildings, parks, neighbourhoods and public spaces. Jane has 25 years experience in the education sector, and is responsible for the design, development and delivery of a wide range of learning programmes and projects. www.beam.uk.net
This seminar is part of a series organised by the Creativity Works for Regeneration Group.
These seminars are funded by Lancashire County Council through their Public Art Allocation.
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INSIDE AND ALONGSIDE DIS/INTEGRATED ARTWORKS
A seminar by Nayan Kulkarni
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Image Mirrie Dancers, Site 10, Shetland (Nayan Kulkarni)
Wed 15 Dec 2010, 2-5pmBurnley Mechanics, Manchester Road, Burnley, BB11 1BH
FREE
Drawing from his ongoing studio based research and recent public projects, Nayan Kulkarni will examine the processes through which artworks are conceived and delivered in very different commissioning contexts. In particular he will focus on issues of integration and autonomy, examining the formal and informal role of an artist in a project delivery team.
Nayan's talk will be followed by local case studies of public art projects across Pennine Lancashire and discussion.
This seminar is free and open to anyone but will be of particular interest to those working in regeneration, planning, housing market renewal, development control, community and arts services.
Nayan Kulkarni's practice engages with ideas of site specificity, time, technology and perception. These themes are manifested in work that is generated from specific concepts, processes or places through diverse media such as light, video, installation, sculpture and photography. Underpinning his practice is an ongoing theoretical and technological research base in digital media and computer controlled artificial light. See nkprojects.co.uk for more infomation.
This seminar is part of a series organised by the Creativity Works for Regeneration Group and funded by Lancashire County Council through their Public Art Allocation.
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Creativity Works succeeds in Grants for the Arts bid.
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