This one day symposium is hosted by De Montfort University Fine Art Department and Leicester Print Workshop with support from DMU Local and the Fine Art Practices Research Group. Through interviews and panel discussions this symposium explores different approaches to making and creating new art work.

Uncertain States bring together artists, collectors, curators and archivists in a day of discussion around the role and artistic importance of the collector and collections within the context of fine art photography.

The Exchange enables artists, cultural and creative Small to Medium Enterprises and Early Career Researchers to collaborate on research and enrich the ecology between the arts, creative industries and Universities.

Sluice__ tours the finalists of the inaugural Sluice_screens ɔc 2015 Prize to Islington Mill in partnership with Caustic Coastal. The evening screening will also mark the launch of the Spring 2016 edition of the biannual Sluice_magazine.

SPUR is hosting a Show + Tell alongside the Martin Parr The Rhubarb Triangle & Other Stories exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield, local students and emerging artists are invited to take part.

Art Is… a day devoted to dialogue, discussions and ideas. This event is focused on thinking about the relationship between art and education and the social function of art.

Working with colleagues in the Netherlands, this symposium will explore the dynamic relationship between artist, curator and organisation; looking at how collaborations on new projects and commissions allows for institutional methodologies and processes to be challenged and changed. Organised by East CVAN.

Featuring contributions from guest speakers and members of the East Midlands’s network,
this event will explore the notion of making things happen; how and why things happen,
who makes things happen, how artists (can) make things happen and will pose the question "What is happening and what needs to happen in the East Midlands?".

Caustic Coastal welcomes Lauren Godfrey for the 2nd talk in the monthly series at Islington Mill taking place on the third Wednesday of every month

Exploring how individual artists specialising in place-making contribute to transforming difficult areas into places in which people choose to live, work, play and invest.

The Value of Artists: A National Conversation
Organised by the Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN )

Artist Hajra Waheed and Prof. Steve Graham, Professor of Cities and Society, University of Newcastle will discuss surveillance and drone technology.Mon 29 Feb 2016 / 16.00-19.00. BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. FREE, booking required

This event is for artists interested in undertaking an artists’ residency and particularly for those who feel they maybe unable to pursue a residency (for whatever reason). Artists who have taken part in residencies are also encouraged to come along and share their experiences.

The event will welcome arts organisations, museums, and freelance artists, curators and producers from across the Arts Council Areas to listen, share, question and challenge their approaches to the Creative Case though case studies, group conversations and 1:1 exchanges.

Develop: Workshop is a one-day professional development event which will include workshops and talks with experts from the international photographic sector. 5 February 2016, 9.30-17.00
Bamburgh House, Market Street, Newcastle upon Tyne

A symposium to accompany Listening, the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition jointly hosted by Art Exchange and Firstsite. Friday 29 January 2016, 1-5.30pm, at the Hexagon, University of Essex

A half day symposium exploring the role and importance of cultural tourism. Wednesday 16 December 2015, 10am - 2pm, Turner Contemporary, Margate. Tickets: £5

This study day will examine some of the issues around the increasingly public and mainstream nature of nudity, stripping and burlesque and the body as a site for dance led experimentation.

Axisweb and Heart of Glass are delighted to present an exciting professional development and networking opportunity for artists, producers and creatives interested in the field of social and collaborative arts practice.

As part of fig-2, the Art Fund Curatorial Practice Workshop, led by Fatos Ustek, will bring together a range of arts and museum professionals to contemplate the future of curating and public institutions.

The Creative Industries Federation invites members of the North East's arts, creative industries and cultural education community to a meeting at BALTIC on Monday 16th November to discuss the issues, challenges and opportunities facing the region's creative future.

A one-day symposium that brings together prominent policy-makers, artists, researchers and health professionals to explore the role of conceptual and empirical research in understanding the cultural sector’s impact on people’s health, wellbeing and social connectedness.