- Venue
- Cinema 1, Dundee Contemporary Arts
- Date
- Saturday, October 1, 2011
- Address
- Dundee Contemporary Arts 152 Nethergate Dundee DD1 4DY
- Location
- Scotland
AHM’s third and final symposium will bring together speakers who are prominent in promoting the role of art and culture in shaping Scotland’s future. We will also bring together the themes of our first two symposia and reference the historic conference “What Kind of Scotland?” that took place in Edinburgh in1973. Organised by the magazine Scottish International we believe it to be of particular relevance to the present debate about Scotland’s future as a nation and as a society. The keynote address will be delivered by Gerry Hassan, a leading writer and critic on culture and politics, Presentations will be given by Jenny Brownrigg Exhibition Director The Glasgow School of Art, artist Ross Sinclair and Jean Urquhart MSP. Gerry Hassan, the main speaker, has consistently argued the case for cultural change and transformation ” It is time to start living dangerously and take risks. To think and act beyond tribes and labels. Instead, we need to develop new forms of engagement, discussion and debate, developing spaces, forums and places which aid this. This is time for humility, courage and listening, for trying a different kind of politics. It is time to start living, breathing and taking part in the new Scotland.”
