Theatre and Performance Studies News

Sky Blues City: Imagining a Sustainable Cultural Future for Coventry

26^th April, 2017. The Helen Martin Studio, University of Warwick

A one-day event aimed at exploring new collaborative research opportunities arising from the UK City of Culture bid and the Ten Year Cultural Strategy.

To find out more about the event, and to register for a place, CLICK HERE.

Convenor and facilitator:

Dr Nicolas Whybrow, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick

09.30 Vice Chancellor’s Welcome

Professor Stuart Croft, University of Warwick

Professor John Latham, Coventry University

09.40 Coventry UK City of Culture bid & 10-year cultural strategy

Professor Jonothan Neelands, Warwick Business School and Warwick Creative Exchange, University of Warwick

Professor Neil Forbes, Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University

10.00 Panel Presentations: Sensing the City: a practice-based case-study of Coventry

Dr Natalie Garrett Brown and Dr Emma Meehan, Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University

Dr Michael Pigott, Film and TV Studies, University of Warwick

Carolyn Deby, artist director sirenscrossing and PhD student, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick

11.00 Refreshment break

11.15 Panel Presentations: Diversity in Coventry

The legacy of the city of culture – community relations – the role of arts and culture in community development

Sinead Ouillon, Programme Leader, The City University Initiative, Coventry University and

Dr Chris Shannahan, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University

Siberia and Us: Polish exilic memory and second generation artistic strategies

Adrian Palka, School of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University

Does an ecosystem approach help to understand and reflect the diversity and values of the creative and cultural sector?

Victoria Barker, PhD student, Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University

12.15 Plenary

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Keynote: Research Opportunities in the UK City of Culture 2017 and Beyond

Professor Franco Bianchini, Culture, Place and Policy Institute, University of Hull

14.15 Panel Presentations: Social value and impact

Live Art. Collision. Hyperlocal. Supernow: Birmingham’s Fierce Festival

Dr Cath Lambert, Sociology, University of Warwick

Working with communities - deepening the engagement or extending the procession?

Justine Themen, Associate Director, Belgrade Theatre

Urban Cultural Intermediaries: the 'Students and the City' project

Dr Jonathan Vickery, Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick

15.15 Panel Presentations: Urban engagements

Vehicles of Communication: The Cart and other rolling conversations

Janet Vaughan, artist, Talking Birds and Rachel Dickinson, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Bringing back the Sensorama: multi-sensory virtual reality

Dr Sarah Jones, School of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University

Breakfast Elsewhere Project, Coventry

Carmen Wong, PhD student, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick

16.00 Informal Conversations: Next steps and calls to action over afternoon tea

16.45 Finish