The Arts Conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to the arts today and will run in conjunction with the various arts festivals held in Edinburgh each August, including the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Edinburgh Art Festival, the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Conference presenters will include key artists involved in these festivals, and the conference itself will serve as an intellectual platform for festival themes and other topics related to the general theme of the conference: Arts of Engagement. Conference speakers and performers will include leading contributors in all areas of the arts – artists, curators, writers, theorists and policymakers - as well as papers, colloquia and workshop presentations by artists in all disciplines (visual, performing and literary) and arts researchers. This is a conference for any person with an interest in, and a concern for, arts practice, arts theory and research, curatorial and museum studies, and arts education in any of its forms and in any of its sites. For further information, CLICK HERE.