Newcastle University

9:00-9:30

Registrations and refreshments

Business School

9:30-10: 30

Introductory Speeches

Business School

Welcome note

Vice Chancellor - Chris Brink

Response

Professor Li Xiaomu, Deputy President of Beijing International Studies University & Dean of National Institute of Cultural Development

Social Renewal in context

Professor Mark Shucksmith, Institute for Social Renewal, Newcastle University. 

Setting the Scene, UK

Eric Cross, Dean of Cultural Affairs

10: 30-11: 00

  Coffee

11: 00 – 11: 10

Round Up

Dr Joanne Berry

11: 10 – 11: 30

Cultural and Creative economies in Higher Education

Professor Mo O’Toole and Dr Joanne Berry

11:30-13:00

Keynote Speakers

Philippe Kern, Director, KEA Associates, Brussels, "Towards a Creative Europe".

Andrew Pratt, Professor of Culture Media and Economy, Kings College, London "The Cultural Contradictions of a Creative City".

13:00-14:30

Lunch & Viewing of Exhibition

Business School UG/PG Social Space

14:30-15:45

Practitioner Focus

Insights and analysis from China and the UK

• Erica Whyman, Chief Executive of Northern Stage
• Johannes P. Moehrlein, Speaker from Groningen
• Daniel P A Wallder - Star and Shadow, Community Interest Company, Newcastle upon Tyne.

15:45 – 16: 00

Coffee

16: 00- 16: 50

• Joseph Hillier – Artist
• Rosie Morris - Artist

16: 50- 17: 00

Round Up

Dr Joanne Berry

17:00

End of 1^st day formal programme

17.45

Lord Mayor’s Reception

Silver Gallery, Newcastle City Council

Welcome

Lord Mayor of Newcastle and Leader of Council

Responses

Mr. Wang Xiangwu, Director of Beijng Planning office of Philosophy and Social Science

Mr.Zheng Wen, Section Chief from Ministry of Culture and Trade

19:30

Dinner

SAGE Gateshead

9:15

Registration and refreshments

9:30-11:00

Plenary theme: Social Renewal

Creative and Cultural Industries in Regionalism and Social Renewal:

Dr Paul Greenhalgh and Richard Clark – How well are the accommodation needs of firms in the digital sector addressed by the provision of workspace and premises in Newcastle and Gateshead

David Goodacre  – The Great North Festival

Colin Dilks – the Byker Redevelopment – Creatives, media and Social Renewal

11: 00- 11: 30

Coffee

11: 30-12: 50

Local, Regional and National Governments and Universities in Social Renewal and the Creative Clusters

Dr Nicola Headlam – The ‘Municipal Imagineering’ of the Greater Manchester City Region: A Cautionary Tale

Dan Brain, Communications Manager, Northern Film & Media

Dr Michelle Cooper, Investment Manager, Northstar Ventures (TBC)

Gayle Woodruffe, Production Service Manager, Northern Film & Media

Case study: Piloting public-VC investment structures for the creative industries in the English regions

12: 50- 13: 00

Round up

Gerard Corsane

13:00-14:00

Lunch

Parallel sessions

14: 00- 15: 00

Parallel session 1

Breakout session 1: facilitator Dr Simon Philpott

Artefacts and mediums of Social Renewal: Arts, Popular Culture and Design

Liu Dake, Li Xiaolei and Wang Qijing  - A Comparative Analysis of Exhibition Industry between Beijing and Shanghai and Enlightenments to Beijing

 Jim Mawdsley, CEO of Generator and Dr. Adam Behr, Research Associate, University of Edinburgh- Live Music Exchange

 'The scene-ic route’: Towards a synthesis of theoretical and practical concerns in the development of music scenes in areas of low engagement

Yvette Hawkins - Visual Artist

Breakout session 2

Facilitator: Dr Xuefeng Wang

Cultural heritage as a driver of the creative economy

Li  Jiashan and Ning Xuejun – Industry promote cultural heritage? A case study in Impression Lijiang-show

Wang Haiwen  Li Jiashan - The Heritage and Development of Beijing Jingju: Protection or Marketization

Jon Ward - Cultural Labour in Kent: the working lives of  artists in Margate and Folkestone

15: 15 – 16: 30

Parallel session 2

Breakout session 3:

Facilitator: Panos Piperopoulos

Entrepreneurialism, creativity and passion

Helen Ross – Entrepreneurialism vs. Creativity

Paul Cowie – In-Migration, rural development and creative economies

Natalie Doonan – The Re-creative  City: Writing City and Citizen through Culture and Tourism

Breakout session 4:

Facilitator: Dr Andy Law

Reform within the culture industry in China: key challenges and issues

Li  Xiaomu - Cultural Bonded Area? China’s  Practice

Zhang Guosheng - On the International Competitiveness of Beijing Services Trade

Andy Law: Han and Tang nostalgia: the development and marketisation of Xi’an.

16:30-17:00

Round up of Forum

 Professor Eric Cross, Gerard Corsane, (to lead) with additional comments from Professor Mo O’Toole, Dr Joanne Berry.

18:30

Tour of Theatre Royal

Theatre Royal, Grey Street,

Newcastle upon Tyne

20:00

Farewell Drinks

To be confirmed