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GradCAM, Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media & 
Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, IADT hosts
 
‘Creative Policies in Practice’ Conference
June 17th, Dún Laoghaire Council Chambers, County Hall, 
Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire.


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This event presents exciting collaborations with key European and US based networks 
promoting arts research and cultural experimentation internationally. It seeks to demonstrate and to consider the concepts, the challenges and the influence of artists and musicians active in the academy and in the public space and to broadly consider how ‘creatives’, while evolving high-level engagement in art practice, are also evolving new relationships and new alliances and performance communities. The conference will be of interest to artists, educators, policy makers and cultural practitioners and will present tangible examples of creatives leading development, impacting on policy, evolving new practices - in the public space.
 
Speakers include among others...
Dr. Michael Wimmer, Director of Educult, Austria, Expert for UNESCO and the Council of Europe in the field of cultural policy, Author of the Austrian National Report “Cultural Policy in Austria” and of the report “Cultural Policy in Slovenia”, and expert of the European Commission on educational and cultural policy issues, head of EDUCULT – Institute for Cultural Policy and Cultural Management, which is engaged in research in the field of creative, cultural and artistic education.
 
Dr Ed Sarath, Professor of Music in the Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan. He is Founder and President of the International Society for Improvised Music and also head of Michigan’s Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies - exploring the foundations of improvisatory creativity in the innermost dimensions of consciousness. Appropriating insights from an emergent worldview called Integral Theory, he illuminates how improvisation and meditation work in tandem to promote creativity and consciousness development. Drawing upon his work as educational reformer, he will reflect on the ramifications of this model for future horizons in education, and by extension, public policy, discussing several projects that he has spearheaded with these aims in mind.
 
Paul Collard is Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture & Education (CCE) in the UK, Paul Collard directs the Government’s flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the creative skills of young people across England; acknowledged as a world leading programme, CCE is transforming teaching and learning across the curriculum; it operates a £40 million a year schools programme, and it is managing, monitoring and evaluating the £25 million “Find your Talent” pilots. Paul joined CCE from Culture10 where he had been creative director; he has a particular interest in the role of culture in urban regeneration and in 1987, he wrote a seminal report on the subject for the UK Government, which argued in favor of many of the strategies that are now commonplace in culturally led urban regeneration projects. He was able to implement many of his ideas between 1993-7 in the North East of England where he developed programmes, which led to the creation of the Angel of the North and The Sage Gateshead. Other positions held include General Manager at the Institute of Contemporary Art and Deputy Controller of the British Film Institute in London.
 
Dr. Michael Wilson is Head of Fine Art at DIT, currently Dean of GradCAM, formerly, director of MaVIS and the BA visual arts practice programmes at IADT (1998-2004) and an associate lecturer at NCAD, CCAD, IADT and TCD. He is a graduate of the NCAD and Trinity College Dublin. ‘It’s still more than the economy, stupid!’; How do questions of the arts, research through the arts and public culture come together? This presentation will introduce the competing ways in which intellectual and cultural work by creative practitioners attempts to re-activate the spaces and possibilities of public encounter, critical debate and cultural renewal. This talk will provide an outline account of how can the world of live culture, the academic world and the world of engaged critical debate may be brought together to enhance civic life.

The ‘Creative Policies in Practice’ conference is co-ordinated by Nollaig Ó Fiongháile, of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM), in collaboration with the Creative 
Policies for Creative Cities Research Network including Paul Collard, Director of Creativity, 
Culture and Education; Oscar Watson, Director of Intercultural Arts; David Faulkner, Deputy 
Director of Newcastle City Council; Angeles Diaz Vieco, Director of Simetrías Fundación 
Internacional; Juan Avila, President of the County Council of Cuenca; Jim Devine, Director of the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire; Richard Shakespear, Director of Department of Environment, Culture and Community; Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
 
The main conference venue is the Dún Laoghaire Council Chamber, other venues hosting events of the DL5-8 programme are the Pavilion Gallery, Sunshine Cafe, Weirs Bar and the Purty Kitchen. We are especially grateful to all our colleagues, both locally and internationally based, for their generosity, encouragement and support in realizing the conference and programme of DL5-8 events and we wish you robust conversations, challenging engagements and an eventful visit to Dún Laoghaire.
 
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Booking a place 
Bookings can be made to attend the conference and DL5-8 events. Refreshments and light lunch are included. We strongly recommend early booking. If you have enquiries about attendance at the conference please contact us with your query conference2010(at)gradcam.ieor +355 (0)1 6461181
Booking rates
Normal Rate: 25 euros
Student Rate: 10 euros
GradCAM Associates: 0 euros

Location
The Main Conference Venue is in the Council Chambers, located in the County Hall, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
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List of speakers, respondants
Speakers and presenters at the conference will include:
Dr Michael Wimmer, Director of Educult
Dr Mick Wilson, Dean of GradCAM
Professor Ed Sarath, ISIM
Paul Collard, Director of Creativity, Culture, & Education &
Oscar Watson, Director of Intercultural Arts.
Nollaig Ó Fiongháile, GradCAM
Angeles Diaz Vieco, Director of Semetrías Fundación Internacionale
 
Respondants
Ruairí Ó Cuív, Public Art Manager, Dublin City Council.
 
Schedule of conference events and activities
 
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