Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events
CCPS Research Seminar: 'Valuing' El Sistema in the UK
On Wednesday 5th November we'll be hosting the first of this term's CCPS Research seminars.
Dr. Mark Rimmer of the University of East Anglia will be talking about his recent AHRC funded research into the British variant of the Venezualan El Sistema model of participatory music education. An abstract of the paper and a bio of Mark is below.
The seminar will start at 5.30 pm and wil be held in G50 of Millburn House. Please let Paula Watkins know on p.watkins@warwick.ac.uk if you plan to attend.
All Roads Lead to Coventry
On 16th September Warwick Creative Exchange invited artists, cultural producers, and Coventry City Council officers to join academics from Warwick and Coventry on a series of walks through Coventry designed to ‘reimagine’ the city and the place of arts and culture within it. The ten walks took participants through Coventry’s varied cityscape of leafy suburbs, ancient buildings, brutal modernism and municipal parks, finally crossing the ringroad into the City Centre where we gathered at EGO performance space to reflect on our journeys. Along the way the walkers visited museums, theatres and local landmarks as well as stopping to talk to local people about the city.
The project was supported by Warwick’s Humanities Research Fund and the Institute of Advanced Study, with the aim of engaging Warwick researchers in the development of a new vision for the city’s arts and culture. The event was facilitated by Warwick Creative Exchange, Coventry Artspace and Warwick Arts Centre. To find out more, please visit the or the .
AHRC Project Workshop
Cultural value and social justice: Towards a collaborative agenda, 15th July 2014
This workshop is an integral part of the AHRC funded project which aims to develop a social justice approach to current debates around cultural value, cultural politics, and cultural policy, especially in relation to arts funding and development strategies. The project is led by Dr Eleonora Belfiore, of the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at Warwick University in partnership with David Lambert and Leanne Taylor of the independent cultural consultancy cultural solutions UK.
The workshop will be an opportunity for the team to share interim findings and incorporate insights, reflections and critiques emerging from the day in the final project report. We also hope that the day of intense debate will result in the formation of new relationships, co-operations and conversation to develop a shared, collaborative and interdisciplinary research and practice agenda that straddles the academia/cultural sector/policy divides.
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