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Outside: Activating Cloth to Enhance the Way We Live
An international conference and forum for practicing artists, craftspeople, activists, curators, students and volunteers who are excited by the potential of cloth to enhance the way we live in contemporary society today.
Venue: Creative Arts Building (CAB), University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH
Cost: £80 (Reduced fee for students and unaffiliated practitioners £40)
Book: www.store.hud.ac.uk
Programme
9:30 am
CAB Atrium: coffee and registration
10:00 am
CAG 07/08: Welcome to Outside: conference
10:20 am
Keynote Speaker: Access + Engage by Professor Jennifer Marsh, Director International Fiber Collaborative, Kansas, USA
11:25 am
Keynote Speaker: Heartlands by writer/curator June Hill
11:55 am
Refreshments
12:10 pm
Keynote Speaker: The Red Thread by Professor Lesley Millar MBE, University of the Creative Arts
1:40 pm
Series of peer reviewed papers, with speakers confirmed to date including Philippa Lawrence; Dr. Karen Dennis; Jan Bowman and Charlotte Cullen
3:40 pm
Tea and Cake with Betsy: Informal Keynote by Craft Activist Betsy Greer, Washington, USA
4:30 pm
Plenary led by Betsy Greer
5.00pm
Close of conference
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