Culture Forum North update, March 2017
At the launch of the Forum in Leeds in May last year, our partnerships were credited by Sir Peter Bazalgette, chair of Arts Council England and Prof Andrew Thompson, chief executive of the AHRC, as fundamental to building a resilient cultural sector.
Nearly a year on the Forum has more members, more case studies and acts as a conduit for sharing knowledge, experience and ideas.
We have also embarked, with Arts Council support, on a programme of data-gathering to create a heat map of partnership activity across the North – a repository of experience that will inform new partnerships and future Forum initiatives for the benefit of our sectors.
This update: –
- Announces the date and content for the next Culture Forum North symposium in Hull.
- Asks that you support the data-gathering process by participating in a half-hour (max) telephone interview before the end of May.
- Promotes two freelance contract opportunities to undertake the interviews and a research audit.
- Circulates the notes from the 15 December Forum meeting in Rotherham last December.
- Shares news from our Partners.
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Culture Forum North symposium 2017
Date for your diary
Thursday 22 June 2017
University of Hull
With topics including….
How the Virtuous Triangle of Arts, Higher Education and Business can make for Prosperous Places
Against the backdrop of Hull City of Culture we will explore the potential for three-way collaboration to strengthen communities and economies.
Launching the Culture Forum North HeatMap
A new, accessible resource showcasing models of partnership working in research, skills development and placemaking. See below.
Developing new ideas and activities
On the themes of skills development, place-making and knowledge creation
Networking and work-shopping
Opportunities to chat informally and participate in group discussions responding to business speakers and the HeatMap.
Further information in early April
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The new Culture Forum North HeatMap
Building on discussions at the Forum workshop in Rotherham last December, the Forum is undertaking three pieces of work with the aim of creating an easily accessible archive of material demonstrating the models and spread of partnership activity across the North on the theme of: –
- How the cultural and HE sectors work together to help build a stronger, more skilled and more diverse cultural workforce.
- How the expertise of the small-scale sector across multiple artforms can be supported through HE partnership.
- How research is providing valuable knowledge on the impact of HE/cultural partnership activity.
To create the archive, we depend on our Partners to provide an insight into their activity on these themes.
Rest assured it will be straight forward and quick, involving one word answers to a small number of questions via email, and potentially a twenty-minute telephone discussion.
There will be some time needed from University Partners to identify one piece of research that would be helpful to cultural partners and ensuring that all permissions for use are in place before publication on the CFN website.
We will be in touch shortly.
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See here for the notes from the Forum meeting in Rotherham on 15 December 2016, and the action plan for the creation of the HeatMap.
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Commissioning the HeatMap audit: two paid opportunities
Culture Forum North has been awarded ACE funding for two pieces of work, to source and collate data to contribute to the HeatMap.
- Auditing cultural sector skills development activity delivered in partnership between the cultural and higher education sectors
- Identifying and summarising existing research resources on topics relevant to Culture Forum North areas of interest.
See here for the consultancy briefs, application process and deadlines
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Partner News
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Become a partner
If you would like to be an identified Forum Partner, just contact us at cultureforumnorth@operanorth.co.uk with the following information: –
- The name of your organisation
- Your organisation’s website address
- The name and email address of the contact to appear on the Forum’s website
- A case study from an HE/culture partnership you have been involved in.