When: Friday 8 March 2024, 10.30-4PM
Location: Hub, Navigation Wharf, Carre Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 7TW
Attending: Booking is essential
Who
Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands (CVAN EM) is facilitating a discussion day for artists, arts workers and organisations based in Lincolnshire, and working within the visual arts sector.
What
Artists and arts workers will lead and contribute to conversations around the shifting arts and culture landscape in the county and their collective ambitions for Lincolnshire. Equally important to the conversation will be the opportunity to acknowledge, share and reflect on struggles, falterings and failings.
Why
Almost a year into the current Arts Council England (ACE) 2023-26 portfolio, CVAN EM presents an opportunity to hear from Lincolnshire's National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs), existing arts and culture provision and ongoing, artist-led and grassroots developments.
Over the 2023-26 NPO period ACE is investing more than £2 million each year across 8 organisations across Lincolnshire in a move to shift investment from almost exclusively going to the big cities, as part of ACE's Priority and Levelling Up for Culture Places, which include Boston, East Lindsey and North Kesteven.
How
The forum will create space for (re)connecting and provide an essential opportunity for open and constructive dialogue guided by Tanya Akrofi, who will act as Chair. Forum participants will take on the role of presenters and panellists across several discussions throughout the day.
Programme
What's here (Morning Sessions)
Sessions before lunch will focus on what's here, what's new and what can we expect.
10.30-11AM: Tea, coffee & welcome
11-11.40AM: Session #1: Together We Are Powerful
Presenter Kate Genever (artist) will be joined by panellists Lucy Lumb (Hub) and Lesley Farrell (Hub) to speak about Together We Are Powerful, a project which took place at Hub in 2023.
11.40-12.20PM: Session #2: ACE NPO OK Let's Go
Presenter Lydia Rusling (East Lindsey District Council) will be joined by panellists Jason Wilsher-Mills (artist) and Liz Kelleher (arts educator) to speak about new investment in the county.
12.20-1PM: Session #3: Barbican 2.0
Presenter Sally Denton (Barbican Creative Hub) will be joined by panellists Nick Jones (Transported) and Harriet Plewis (artist) to speak about Lincoln city centre's new creative hub.
1-1.50PM: Lunch & connect
What's out there (Afternoon Sessions)
Sessions after lunch will focus on what's out there, what's missing and what's still to come.
1.50-2.30PM: Session #4: Artist Resident-sea
Artist Harriet Plewis will be joined by panellists Lydia Rusling (ELDC) and Kate Genever (artist) to speak about Harriet's 2023 North Sea Observatory Artist Residency.
2.30-3.10PM: Session #5: Artist-led
Presenter Daniel Sean Kelly (Two Queens) will be joined by panellists Oliver Ventress (artist) and Tara Munroe (Opal22) to speak about the artist-led.
3.10-3.50PM: Session #6: In with the new
Presenter Liz Kelleher (arts educator) will be joined by panellists Jenny Gleadell (Lincoln Museum) and Daniel Sean Kelly (Two Queens) to speak about new artist-led activity.
3.50-4PM: Closing comments
4-5PM: Opportunity to visit Hub's current exhibition
About This Event
Contemporary Visual Arts in Lincolnshire follows on from last year's What change do you want to see through culture? forum, with a focus on ACE's Priority and Levelling Up for Culture Places in the region.
This event is supported and hosted by the Hub, Sleaford.
Access
- There is lift access to all floors
- Two accessible toilets on the ground floor
- Seating for delegates will be provided
- Assistance dogs welcome throughout
- Wheelchair and buggy friendly
- Accessible parking spaces available in Eastgate Car Park
Contact: colette@cvaneastmidlands.co.uk