‘Liverpool has three cards in its hands: Impacts 08, North West Culture Observatory and Culture Campus …’ Aileen McEvoy, Executive Director, Arts Council North West

‘Culture Campus provides a unique and growing forum… a space for ideas to flourish …an innovation river’, Professor Sara Selwood

The Culture Campus vision is to establish Liverpool as an internationally renowned centre for excellence in innovative collaboration between the higher education and cultural sectors, so helping to attract and retain the talent and creativity, vital to the future success of the City Region and to achieve Liverpool’s ambition to be a thriving international city by 2024.

These were the opening statements for the Culture Campus Liverpool Conference which brought together 150 academics and cultural sector practitioners from across the city the three Vice Chancellors and a range of keynote speakers to engage in cross-sector dialogue and help take forward the vision for Culture Campus. A myriad of new developments and collaborations have emerged.

Future seminars in the Culture Campus Liverpool Networking series will include the following topics:

- Optimising the use of exhibition space, facilities and equipment
- The Knowledge Quarter and Liverpool’s creative sectors
- Evaluation Toolkits
- Models of joint working
- CPD Needs Study presentation

Further information:
Kerry Pickard t: 0151 291 3608   e: kerrypickard@cityoflearning.org.uk
 
Previous seminars in the Culture Campus Liverpool Networking series:

‘Culture and Health: Meeting Points and the Space Between'
7 May 2010 at The Capstone, The Creative Campus, Liverpool Hope University

CPD and the Cultural Sector in the Liverpool City region
27 April 2010 at the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool
 
Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Seminar
4 March 10, at LJMU Art and Design Academy

Peter Ward, Chair of SMAC (Small and Medium Arts Collective), an umbrella body for forty plus cultural organisations in the city will be giving a presentation on SMAC.
12 February 10, 3.30pm at University of Liverpool

Student Volunteering, Placements and Internships in the Cultural Sector
Seminar/Workshop Session
13 January 2010 at Liverpool John Moores University

The Leverhulme Trust Bid 'Beauty' Theme
Working session
24 November 2009 at Tate Liverpool

Cultural Capital: Innovation, Investment, Implementation, Culture Campus Liverpool Conference,
25 June 2009 at Liverpool Hope University, Cornerstone, Everton

The London Consortium Presentation and discussion with Professor Stephen Connor
20 May 09, at Tate Liverpool

The Tate’s Research Strategy and their collaborations with higher education institutions with Professor Nigel  Llewellyn, Head of Research, Tate
3 December 2008 at Liverpool John Moores University 

LCACE (London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise) Seminar
Presentation and discussion with Sally Taylor, Director, LCACE
5 November 2008 at Tate Liverpool

Arts Council and HE Strategy Session and discussion with Aileen McEvoy, External Relations and Development  Director, Arts Council North West
5 September 2008 at University of Liverpool
 
CULTURE CAMPUS BOARD MEMBERS
Dr Christoph Grunenberg, (Chair), Director, Tate Liverpool
Lewis Biggs,  Director, Liverpool Biennial
Professor John Belchem, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool
Professor Bill Chambers, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Liverpool Hope University
Professor Roger Webster, Dean of Media, Arts and Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University
Working closely with LARC Liverpool Arts Regeneration Consortium through Belinda Kidd