When: Thursday 12 January 2023
Time: 10.30 – 3.30PM (in-person), 11.30 – 3.30PM (online)
Location: Mansfield Museum, Leeming St, Mansfield, NG18 1NG & YouTube Livestream
Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands (CVAN EM) is facilitating a discussion day for artists, arts workers and organisations with a focus on those based in Ashfield, Bolsover, Boston, Chesterfield, East Lindsey, NE Derbyshire and Mansfield. These areas were identified as Priority Places by Arts Council England (ACE) in their Delivery Plan for 2021-24.
The forum will focus on exploring place-based fundraising, especially around ACE's Priority and Levelling Up for Culture Places. The ambition for this event is to build confidence and understanding around fundraising avenues and partnership working in the region.
This event is part of a long-term project and will address some of the key findings from recent research into strengthening cultural and creative opportunities in these localities with an emphasis on funding. Comments shared included:
- Small pockets of funding or time limited funding means that creative provision and employment is unsustainable, and impact is minimal.
- The limitations and precarity of funding exclude participants.
- The larger the fund the more competitive the process.
- A need to raise aspirations by helping arts workers and organisations to gain access to knowledges, support, models, and resources that mean they can be more ambitious.
This partnership project with the Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy Programme supported through Networks Funding looks at tackling key issues within the current fundraising environment.
This event is supported and hosted by Mansfield Museum.
Access
The building entrance and room we will use at Mansfield Museum has level access and the venue has accessible toilet facilities. BSL interpreters will support the live event and closed captions will be available to our online audience.
Priority for in-person attendance is given to artists, arts workers and organisations based in East Midlands Priority Places, however attendees from across the region are welcome. Online attendance is open to all.
Schedule
10.30 – 11.30AM: Coffee and networking (in-person only)
Time and space for attendees to meet in-person and chat over coffee.
11.30 – 11.45AM: CVAN EM welcome
CVAN EM Regional Director Colette Griffin and Mansfield Museum Curator Jodie Henshaw will welcome participants.
11.45 – 12.30PM: Partnership working with Saad Eddine Said
CVAN EM Chair Saad Eddine Said will speak on the importance of partnership working. Saad is Artistic Director and CEO of New Art Exchange, Nottingham.
12.30 – 1.30PM: Lunch
Lunch provided by Patchills Pantry, Mansfield.
1.30 – 2.30PM: Strengthening arts fundraising with Mandy Fowler
Mandy Fowler is an independent consultant, curator and producer working in contemporary visual arts.
2.30 – 3PM: Reframing art to cultivate a thriving cultural ecology with Karl Greenwood
Karl Greenwood is the Director of First Art, a Creative People and Places programme working across Ashfield, Mansfield, Bolsover and North East Derbyshire.
3 – 3.15PM: Closing comments
Image credit: The Full Shebang, First Art. Photo by Lamar Francois.