Following the huge success of No Boundaries 2014, the two-day arts and culture sector conference will return in September 2015. Live-linked across two cities and streamed online, No Boundaries 2015 will spark debate, ask challenging questions and present some world-class speakers. 

Watershed will once again host half of the event in Bristol, and Manchester's new purpose-built centre for international contemporary art, HOME, will bring No Boundaries to Manchester for the first time. Pilot Theatre and Bristol Festival of Ideas are also producing the event.

No Boundaries 2015 will follow last year's innovative conference format, and programme details will be revealed in the new year. Tickets will be on sale from February 2015. 

Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair, Arts Council England says: 'Last year’s conference was a huge success and we look forward to a similar meeting of minds in September- something which will be even more important given that by then we will have had a general election and a spending review so the arts and culture landscape may have changed. The State of the Arts events are great platforms to encourage creative thinking and to stimulate debate.'

Director and CEO of HOME Manchester Dave Moutrey, says: 'We are delighted to be teaming up with Watershed, Arts Council England and British Council to produce No Boundaries 2015. Part of the joy of our new HOME is the opportunity to test new ideas, create new experiences and collaborations and break down the boundaries between art forms. We aim to challenge and question with all our work, so it’s fitting that our first major symposium is so in tune with our ambitions.'

No Boundaries forms part of our thought leadership programme State of the Arts; aimed at stimlulating discussion and debate on the present and future of the arts and culture sector in England. As part of this, in November we published Create: A journal of perspectives on the value of arts and culture. You can read the publication online, hear podcasts from the launch event and join the discussion online with #culturematters.