The Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts & Communications (PVAC) renewed the Cultural Policy Issues: New Research at Leeds series, highlighting cultural policy research at the University of Leeds. Through the planned 2014 events, Professor Kate Oakley, Leila Jancovich and David Bell will share their insights on contemporary cultural policy developments. The schedule for the 2014 series is as follows:

18 March 2014
Leila Jancovich, Senior Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University
Cultural Policy in the Public Eye

This discussion will consider the implications of participatory decision making in the arts, through interviews with policy makers, artists and audiences and seeks to consider to what extent such initiatives are able to democratize the arts and what impact this has on art form development.

13 May 2014
David Bell, Senior Lecturer in Critical Human Geography at University of Leeds
Cottage Economy: The ‘Ruralness' of Rural Cultural Industries

The discussion will explore how different understandings of where the countryside is, connect to ideas about what the ruralness of rural cultural industries means. Is it anti-urban, or simply ex-urban? Is it traditional or modern? Is it an export commodity or made for indigenous markets? In each case, the rural is valued differently, and means different things.

The events are free of charge and there is no need to book.

For further information, please contact: George Zifkos, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom; e-mail: G.Zifkos10@leeds.ac.uk; www.pci.leeds.ac.uk

Source: Culturelink Network