Symposium schedule

• Peter Jenkinson – Cultural Broker
• Christiana Galanopoulou – Artistic Director, MIR Festival

Questions and feedback

• Peter (notes)
• Christiana (video + notes)

• Ensuring a warm welcome for culture on your doorstep?
  How have artists and large arts organisations working in a variety of contexts in Birmingham ensured that the community participation they seek is both authentic and welcome?
  Speakers from: Birmingham Opera Company, Birmingham Hippodrome Artists in Residence – Reel Access; Mohsen Keiany; Eleanor Hoad; dna3d dance.

• Place + art = scene?
  The recipe is simple: find a disused industrial space, put some art work in it, and wait for the new artistic scene to explode. Or is it? An exploration of the myths, challenges and delights of culture-led regeneration.
  Speakers from: Stan’s Café, La Tabacalera.

• New perspectives: travel is “seeing with new eyes”.
  A number of artists share stories of international collaboration and exchange with South Africa. How has this experience informed and developed these artists’ practice and what have they brought home with them?
  Speakers from: Friction Arts, James Webb (artist).

• The festival curator is dead – long live the festival curator!
  In an age of crowdsourcing, popular vote and uncertain budgets how can festivals reflect and promote both the stories of the world and those of their geographic location?
  Speakers from: BE Festival, Airan Berg, MIR Festival.

• Making art happen in improbable places
  Hear how artists and producers overcome the inherent challenges of presenting music under a roundabout; craft in a mobile can and art in the biggest shopping arcade in Europe.
  Speakers from: Meshed Media/Created in Birmingham, Craftspace, Flyover Show.

• Ensuring a warm welcome.
• Place + art = scene?
• Travel is “seeing with new eyes”.
• The festival curator is dead.
• Making art happen in improbable places.

• See 12pm

• Airan Berg (Linz Capital of Culture)

• Sue Beardsmore’s roundup
• Questions for the panel