- Venue
- Savile Room, Leeds Media Centre
- Date
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009
- Address
- Savile Mount, Leeds. LS7 3HZ.
- Location
- Yorkshire
What can the arts do in society?Discussion eventDate: Tuesday 24 November 2009, 6–8 pmVenue: Savile Room, Leeds Media Centre, Savile Mount, Leeds LS7FREE ADMISSION – FULLY ACCESSIBLE Starting with a presentation about [re]locate and the artist’s motivation for developing the work from a re-examination of events associated with the Stephen Lawrence case, this interdisciplinary event will open up a dialogue about the capacity of the arts in shaping our thinking and actions around wider cultural and socio-political issues. The event is connected to the opening programme at Union 105, ESAs new project space in Chapeltown, Leeds and will be chaired by cultural sociologist and campaigner, Dr Max Farrar, whose work centres on the cultural, political and economic revival of the British multi-ethnic inner cities (with a lifelong focus on Chapeltown and Harehills in Leeds). Panelists: Dr. Tahera Aziz (artist, lecturer), Joe Williams (actor, writer, arts facilitator), Marcia Brown (visual artist, arts tutor), Benedict Phillips (artist, writer, curator) and Khadijah Ibrahiim (poet). To be chaired by Dr. Max Farrar (cultural sociologist).
