When: Wednesday 11 February, 1-2pm
Who: For artists & arts workers in the Midlands
Where: Online, via Zoom, booking required
How can organisations use storytelling, qualitative impact, and advocacy to articulate value when funders prioritise measurement. In a funding landscape increasingly shaped by performance indicators and numerical measures of impact, how can visual arts organisations articulate what matters, beyond tick-box metrics. In this session, led by Eleonora (Ele) Belfiore, we will explore how narrative, qualitative impact, advocacy, and deeper conceptions of cultural value can complement (and challenge) dominant measurement frameworks.
We will consider:
- What gets lost when value is reduced to numbers?
- What if the impetus to measure and quantify led to a weaker ‘case for the arts’?
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What other approaches beyond quantification might lead to compelling articulations of value?
Hosted by Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands (CVAN EM) & CVAN WM. Bi-monthly Better Together sessions are framed by a different urgent topic that is relevant to the East and West Midlands and wider arts and culture sector.
Access:
- Online event, closed captions will be available during the session.
- The session will be recorded.
- Please contact info@cvaneastmidlands.co.uk with access queries.`
Speaker bio:
Eleonora (Ele) Belfiore joined Coventry University in September 2024, as Professor of Space, Place and Creative Economies, and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Creative Economies. She was previously inaugural Interdisciplinary Director for Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity at University of Aberdeen. She has published extensively on cultural politics and policy, and particularly the place that notions of the ‘social impacts’ of the arts have had in British cultural policy discourses. She is one of the world leading scholars in cultural value research. For Palgrave, she edits the book series New Directions in Cultural Policy Research, which has published 21 volumes to date, and she is Co-Editor in Chief journal Cultural Trends. Ele is committed to the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion in Higher Education, and she is one of the founding members and Co-Director of the Women In Academia Support Network, a trans-inclusive and intersectional charity that brings together over 15,500 women and non-binary members from across the world to support one another and pushes for gender parity and more equitable working conditions in Higher Education.