High Time: Leadership from a disability perspective
Hosted by the Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP) and DALI (Disability Action Learning Initiative), High Time is an open dialogue for emerging and current disabled leaders within the creative and cultural sectors. Confirmed speakers are Dame Jane Campbell, Government Independent Living Review Panel; and Alison Walsh, Channel 4. Plus an open mic with other disabled leaders from the sector, a presentation or two and an opportunity to debate leadership issues from a disability perspective. This event will bring together key disabled leaders to discuss, explore and identify effective action to be taken in leadership.
When? Thursday 31 January 2008, 10.30am – 4.00pm
Where? Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Booking deadline: Friday 11 January 2008
To book and for more information: Contact: Cultural Leadership Programme, Email: lydia at culturalleadership.org.uk, Tel: 020 7015 1835
Conference – High Time: Leadership from a disability perspective December 23, 2007
Call for Papers: Conference for Creative Economy in Canada November 24, 2007
Call for Papers: Conference for Creative Economy in Canada Deadline – December 7 The conference Board of Canada and The Department of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada, are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the International Forum on Creative Economy. Papers are welcome in either of Canada’s official languages, French or English. This International Forum will include keynote speakers, presentations, lectures, and other activities aimed at examining recent evidence on the arts and cultural sector as an important engine of economic growth. Papers must address one or more of the four Forum themes listed below. 1. Creative Economy in Transition: Arts and Culture in Domestic and Global Markets
2. Measuring Arts and Culture as an Economic and Social Engine of a Country’s Wealth
3. Consumption Dynamics: Consumers Driving Change
4. Innovation and Research: Mobilizing New Practices
All abstract submissions should be provided by email to Barbara Fennessy at fennessy@conferenceboard.ca.
Moving Matters: supporting disabled dance students in Higher Education November 12, 2007
Moving Matters: supporting disabled dance students in Higher Education
This day will provide an opportunity for all those involved in delivering practical dance activities in HE to share successes, fears and aspirations in supporting disabled dance students. The focus will be principally on exploring strategies for supporting students with physical and sensory disabilities.
The aim of the day is to share good practice and different approaches to teaching and learning to enable teachers to develop expertise and confidence in this work. The day will include opportunities to observe and participate in practical dance activities, including tutor-led technique-based sessions as well as creative, choreographic workshops. Themes will include:
- language and terminology in the delivery of practical classes
- developing learning outcomes, assessment criteria
- how learning is demonstrable and can be assessed
- learning support; how to provide it and manage it within small teaching teams
- entry onto courses and exit into the profession
- disabled and non-disabled students working together
Contributions to the day are invited. These may be in a variety of forms including papers, practical activities and poster presentations.
The day will take place at Coventry University in the Ellen Terry Arts and Media Centre, home to the Performing Arts Department and the BA (Hons) Dance and Professional Practice course. The building has studio spaces as well as lecture theatres and seminar rooms, and is fully accessible.
The dance team at Coventry University has developed a wealth of experience and expertise in teaching and learning methodology within this field by working closely with disabled dance students on the course and their learning support assistants, and will share their experiences as part of the day. The event is a follow-up to the conference in March this year, held at Coventry University and hosted in conjunction with SCODHE and Independent Dance; ‘Dance and Disability; Strategies for Inclusion in HE and Beyond’.
For further information about contributing a presentation at this event please contact: Ralph Brown, Projects Officer Tel: 
01524 593545
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The deadline for proposals is 12 October 2007.
Details of travel information and accommodation for delegates attending this event are available on: http://www.palatine.ac.uk/events/view/782/
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Conference! Crossing Boundaries: Investigating the nexus among arts, education, and community Conference November 16, 2006
Crossing Boundaries: Investigating the nexus among arts, education, and community Conference
May 9-12, 2007
University of Regina, Regina Saskatchewan
http://scratchpost.uregina.ca/cb/
Organized by the Arts Education program, Faculty of Education, University of Regina and members of the arts and cultural community of the university and the province, the conference invites interested participants to a gathering of emerging and established artists and arts educators in a multidisciplinary environment of arts and education practice.
This conference provides the opportunity for arts and learning researchers, public funders, program developers, administrators and policy makers to network, discuss common mandates, and engage in strategic planning at the local, provincial, and national level.
Themes and Goals of the Conference:
• to share your creative ideas, processes, and works of art
• to celebrate successes
• to consider issues and developments in arts and education
• to provide professional development
• to explore topics in teacher education
• to develop visions for the future
The conference provides an opportunity for artists and arts educators to come together and share creative ideas, processes and works of art. I want to encourage dance colleagues to present their work at this conference. It is an opportunity for dance researchers, educators, choreographers and artists to come together and share their work. It is also a good time for the dance community to network with artists and educators from other arts areas and to plan future developments with funders, program developers, and administrators at the local, provincial, national and international level.
There is also a pre-conference workshop (May 8-9) on Arts-based Research, facilitated by Dr. Karen Bond from Temple University in Philadelphia. http://www.temple.edu/boyer/appdev/dport.asp?portID=393
Her workshop description says, “In arts education, creative alternative ways of conceptualizing, analyzing, interpreting and representing research has increasingly taken centre stage in university programs, conferences and scholarly journals. In this workshop Dr. Karen Bond will lead an exploration and commentary on arts-based methodologies and studies.”
