Subj: CONFERENCE: Museums, the Arts & Urban Renewal of Liverpool
Posted by Richard Rodger <rgr@leicester.ac.uk>
THE ROLE OF MUSEUMS AND THE ARTS IN THE URBAN RENEWAL OF LIVERPOOL
A public one-day symposium at the Tate Gallery Liverpool on the 21st
October 1995 jointly promoted by the Centre for Continuing Education of
the University of Liverpool and the Centre for Urban History of the
University of Leicester.
10.00 Registration and coffee.
Welcome address, by Anne Macphee (School of Architecture And Building
Engineering, Univ. of Liverpool).
Morning session :
-Pedro Lorente (Centre for Urban History, Univ. of Leicester): Urban
renewal through the arts. Lessons from Liverpool and Marseilles.
[For descriptions of Pedro Lorente's project available from H-Urban,
send a note to listserv@uicvm or listserv@uicvm.uic.edu with the
messages:
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]
-Richard Evans (European Institute for Urban Affairs, John Moores
University): Liverpool's urban renewal initiatives and the arts.
-Antony Beck (Institute of Public Administration and Management,
Liverpool
Univ.): The arts, heritage and Liverpool's urban renewal: who benefits and
how.
-Sue Carmichael (former project co-ordinator for the Liverpool Bid to be
City of Architecture in 1999.): Making connections: Our architectural
townscape and its re-use potentials for museums and the arts.
-Andrew Green (Planning & Transportation Service, Liverpool City
Council):
Liverpool City Council and the evolution of the 'creative quarter'.
-Lewis Biggs (Tate Gallery Liverpool): Museums and welfare: shared
space.
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break
Afternoon session:
-Ken Martin (the View Gallery): New art in old bottles.
-Terry Duffy (British Art and Design Association): The leapfrog effect.
- Kate Stewart (Off Stage Community Arts Resources Centre): Communities
or Art.
-Estelle Newman (Centre for Arts Development Training): The role of
training within the arts & cultural industries sector (the Merseyside
experience).
-Bill Horpe (The Blackie, Great George Cultural Project): Back to the
future?
-Ibrahim Brian Thompson (Liverpool Anti-Racist Community Arts
Association
Ltd): Arts and community. Regeneration or gentrification.
17.00 Plenary session
(chairwoman: Anne Macphee, School of Architecture And Building Engineering,
Univ. of Liverpool).
[Richard Rodger is the editor of URBAN HISTORY.
For a copy of Rodger's H-Urban Survey, send a note to
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