You put the ouch in Touch (2012), produced with Aidan Moesby as part of the Everyone project residency at DCA Dundee
All Being Equal
engage Scotland Conference 2012
Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh
20 March 2012
#allbeingequal
Programme
Speakers and contributors
Location
Booking
Bursary places
engage Scotland's 2012 conference will offer participants the opportunity to hear about recent projects, share
learning and take away ideas, knowledge and inspiration.
The conference will reflect on engage Scotland's Everyone programme to improve access to
galleries for disabled people, as well as bringing in a range of other voices and experience. Using the Everyone projects
as a springboard we will think about how focusing on improving access for a specific group of people can have an impact
across the way the whole gallery works - from the boardroom to the front door and beyond.
We will share learning about reaching and working with specific audiences and creating and implementing achievable
equality plans that allow us to drive practice forward. The day will be structured to allow you to take away a bespoke
package of knowledge and the tools to get started, get better or be the best you can be. As with all engage Scotland
events the conference is a great opportunity to share practice and network with colleagues, and non-members of engage
are welcome to attend.
Programme
The programme includes:
- An inspiring keynote speaker and panel discussions
- Breakout sessions and case study presentations
- Soapbox – opportunities to promote and share your practice
- Networking sessions - meet and catch up with colleagues, and share resources
- For those still in town on 21 March, there will also be the chance to see exhibitions across
the city including a tour and drop in session at the fabulously refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Download the full programme here
Speakers and Contributors
Keynote speaker: Ju Gosling
Artist Ju Gosling works mostly with digital lens-based media but also with performance, text and sound. She situates
her work mainly within the theories and traditions of the international Disability Arts movement, and has been artist
in residence at the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) at Holton Lee. Her national touring exhibition,
Abnormal, funded by the Wellcome Trust, recently closed at the Royal College of Surgeons’ Hunterian Museum in London.
While Abnormal was in Edinburgh in 2009, Ju created letterwritingproject.com in response to the exhibits within the
Enlightenments exhibition, and has been instrumental in achieving change. Visit Ju Gosling’s website here.
Conference Facilitator: Jo Verrent
A leading trainer and facilitator in the field of equality and diversity, Jo Verrent believes that ‘different’ is delicious
not divergent; that it adds vibrancy and texture within the creative sector. Her work is about seeking to reframe the perception
of diversity, through myriad events and opportunities – speaking, training, writing, curating, researching and reporting.
She works across sectors at both a front line and a strategic level with individuals, teams and organisations, including national
agencies such as Creative Scotland and Arts Council England. Most recently she has: co-founded
Sync – a national programme looking the interplay between
disability and leadership for ACE, co-authored a series of essays on the creative case for diversity for ACE and is currently
a Clore Fellow for 2011/12, follow her journey here.
Other speakers and contributors include:
Caroline Bowditch - Dance Agent for Change, Scottish Dance Theatre
Katie Bruce - Producer/Curator, Glasgow Life at Gallery of Modern Glasgow
Richie Cumming - Outreach Officer, National Galleries of Scotland
Sarah Derrick - Head of Education at Dundee Contemporary Arts
Zoe Fothergill - Education & Development Curator, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Elizabeth Gibson - Director, Projectability
Kevin Harrison - Director of Artlink Central
Rosemary James - Audience Engagement Officer, Tramway, Glasgow
Aidan Moesby - artist in residence at DCA during the Everyone project
Juliana Muir - artist in residence with Peter Potter Gallery/Sanderson’s Wynd Primary School, during the Everyone project
Kirsten Sams - Manager, Offender Learning, Skills and Employability Services, Motherwell College
Jackie Smith - artist in residence at DCA during the Everyone project
Conference Programmer: Mairi Taylor, Everyone programme Coordinator.
Location
Our Dynamic Earth is an exciting state-of-the-art
science centre and conference venue in the centre of Edinburgh, with great views of Arthur’s Seat and opposite the
landmark Scottish parliament building.
Booking
Fees
(Including delegate pack, lunch and refreshments) |
| £25 |
student/artist bursary * |
| £40 |
personal engage members |
| £80 |
organisational engage members |
| £100 |
members of VAGA/GEM |
| £120 |
non engage members |
A limited number of bursary places are available for students, artists and freelancers. To apply, send an email explaining how
attending the conference will support you in your work and details of where you are based to Sarah Yearsley, engage Scotland Coordinator,
scotland@engage.org by 24 February 2012.
To book, download and complete the booking form here, and send it to
engage, Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA or to info@engage.org.
Alternatively please call us on 020 7729 5858.