Posting for Michaela Butter, Nottingham City Museums

Conference announcement:
THE ART OF REGENERATION, CAN CITIES BE REVITALISED WITHOUT CULTURE?
an international conference
Nottingham, England, 7th, 8th and 9th March 1996

Session and speaker summary:

1. Cities, culture and regeneration:
Urban culture redefined, (David Taylor, English Partnerships UK);
Can cities be revitalised without culture? (Charles Landry, Commedia,
UK);  The Arts Council and urban regeneration (Lord Gowrie, Chairman,
Arts Council of Great Britain);

2. The arts and urban regeneration:
Themes for a new century - rethinking the relationship between
culture and urban planning (Franco Bianchini, CPRU De Montfort
University, Leicester UK);  Within reach? - The role of the arts in
Belfast's regeneration (Tony McCusker, Chief Executive, Making
Belfast Work, Northern Ireland);  Building successful communities
(Bob McNulty, Partners for Livable Communities, Washington DC, USA)

3. The arts and social cohesion:
Living the difference - the meaning of social cohesion for East and
West (Professor Hermann Glaser, Rostal, Germany);  Accomodating
neighbours - approaches to cultural inclusiveness in Helsinki
(Professor Antii Karisto, University of Helsinki, Finland);  Old
cultures, new horizons - the contribution of Britain's black arts
groups (Usha Prashar, member of the Arts Council, UK - to be
confirmed).

4. The arts and community empowerment:
Citizenship in the modern city - whose community, whose empowerment?
(Geoff Mulgan, Director, Demos, UK);  Industrial cultures and the
cultural industries - can the arts have an impact on employment
markets? (Christine Hamilton, Deputy Director, Scottish Arts Council,
UK);  The material of change - Aboriginal cultures as a source of
empowerment (Katrina Power, Chair, Tandanya, Adelaide, South
Australia).

5. Planning for change:
By accident or design - can culture be planned (Professor Colin
Mercer Griffiths University, Brisbane, Australia);  You can get
there from here - regeneration and the arts in Kirklees (Phil Wood,
Cultural Services, Kirklees Metropolitan Council, UK);  Predicting
the unpredictable - are there principles of success? (Francois
Matarasso, Comedia, UK);  Beyond the inner ring road - the Council of
Europe "Culture and Neighbourhoods" Project (Eduardo Delgado,
Observatory InterArts, Barcelona, Spain);  What has it got to do with
us anyway? - the role of the arts in a divided nation (Carol
Steinberg, Department of the Arts, Culture, Science and Tourism,
South Africa);

Overall conference fee with all extras but excluding accomodation
understood to be stlg285 pounds sterling, but please confirm.

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