Case for Culture - Sector Conveners Approaches to Consultation
Sectors to consult
with
Museums
Lead organisation
Main Contact
Notes
TWAM
Iain Watson
Heritage
English Heritage
Anna Siddall
Visual arts
CVAN (contemporary
visual arts network)
Generator and Sage
Gateshead
New Writing North
Julia Bell
SIRF - festivals
subgroup
Reuben Kench
NGI
Carol Bell
Sending imminently a survey monkey questionnaire to museums asking for their feedback by
16 Feb. Depending on the response we will consider convening 'drop in' sessions for
museums to discuss the issues and their contribution.
27th February North East HEF meeting; 9th March pm HEF-led consultation event at
Assembly Rooms, Newcastle; Twitter debate - w/c 16 March @EH_NorthEast #C4C2030;
Tees Valley event - w/c 16 March (date tbc) will be in informal setting and informal/fun!
format - to try and get different people/see if we get a different response using a different
format. Invite sent it to: NE HEF (asked to forward to their networks) - members are: ALGAO;
Northern Architecture; National Trust; English Heritage; NECT; IHBC; Historic Houses
Association; Country Landowners Association; NNPA on behalf of national parks and
landscapes; Museums; DCMS Officers Group; HLF; ACE; Natural England; English Heritage.
Local authority conservation officers; Local authority Heritage Champions; Local
development trusts/community partners; Landscape partnerships (via HEF); Archives
network (formerly NERAC); Conservation architects/builders/craftsmen;
Archaeologists/archaeological consultancies.
Visual Arts sector consultation - convened by Contemporary Visual Arts Network on Fri
27/02/15 at Baltic
Sage Gateshead/Generator are holding an event facilitated by Wendy Smith on 19/03/15 at
Sage Gateshead for music promoters/musicians; invitations being issued on 27/02/15.
Wrote to 55 handpicked professional writers from across the North East (of varying ages and
demographics) to solicit views on the seven questions. Will send collated response and will
also include in the list of people consulted editors, literary promoters and those involved
with the wider sector.
Proposal being developed. Likely to include holding several meetings; perhaps north and
south of region, based on a set of starting assumptions that have already been drawn out of
the NECP work.
As per above.
Great North Run
Culture programme
Beth Bate
Music
Writing
Festivals/ major
events; including
sport
Jim Mawdsley/ Jo
Thornton/Ros Rigby
Claire Malcom
As part of Clore Fellowship, exploring how we set a framework for generating really
ambitious ideas as part of the C4C process, including by initiating some conversations with
key artists and producers.
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Case for Culture - Sector Conveners Approaches to Consultation
Sectors to consult
Lead organisation
Main Contact
with
Libraries
NE Society of Chief
Mark Freeman (Stockton
Librarians
MBC)
Universities
Teesside University
Universities subgroup
Gerda Roper
Eric Cross
Design / Creative
Industries
Children and Young
People
Design Event
Karen Nairstone
Bridge
Jeanne Hale
Theatre
Dance
Live
Dance City
TIN Arts
Arc
Jim Beirne
Anthony Baker
Martin Wilson
Annabel Turpin
Creative People and
Places leads
Rebecca Ball
Rachel Adam
Nikki Locke
Combined Arts
Engagement
Notes
Taken C4C to local group of the Society of Chief Librarians but didn't have a session as it
overran - talked through background and took questions away to provide individual
feedback. Responses due mid-Feb.
Addressing the university community 17th Feb
For the University consultation, we have agreed that each university will consult with key
colleagues in our own institutions in the first instance, this will be brought back to the
committee of the 5 Universities to discuss, and a co-ordinated response will be submitted.
We've discussed this briefly with Matthew Jarratt, and agreed that due to several coinciding
deadlines we will be able to submit the sector response by the end of March.
Email survey and 1-2-1 discussions with partners, designers and contemporary craft makers
across the North East.
Targeted conversations with our partners and Cultural Education Leadership conference at
the end of February to highlight the C4C with delegates and get feedback. Jonathan has
agreed to be a member of the panel discussion.
Holding an event at Live on 11th March.
Holding a meeting in Feb and sent out a survey monkey to all our artists database (both
Dance City and TIN)
Circus Central/Five Ring Circus – email & follow up telephone interview with organisation;
email survey to artists/participants if required/appropriate. Arts centres – invite to meeting
to discuss in early March; if can’t attend, phone interview or comments by email. Wunderbar
– email & phone call. Also: email sector conveners for theatre, dance, literature, children &
young people, engagement, diversity offering to send any relevant consultation
invitations/surveys etc. to our ARCADE database of c300 individual artists/practitioners.
Annabel to collate notes and email feedback.
Will make link to Voluntary Arts England
Consulting at least 100 people in the sector through interviews/discussions will take place in
meetings/sessions already in the diary.
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Sectors to consult
Lead organisation
Main Contact
with
Helix Arts
Catherine Hearne
Diversity
Film and TV
Gem Arts
Zendeh
NFM
Tyneside Cinema
Durham
Vikas Kumar
Ben Ayrton
John Tulip
Mark Dobson
Roger Kelly
Sunderland
Helen Connify
NGCV
Declan Baharini
Notes
Key groups:
1. Our own staff (Helix staff completed yesterday and comments shared with colleagues to
give us a sense of what to expect!)
2. Our Critical Friends
3. Our Boards/Trustees
4. Our Contributors
In addition:
consulting with Teesside Arts, Teesside University and MusicInc in Middlesbrough to ensure
thoughts, feelings and ambitions around culture and engagement on Teesside are included.
We're also doing desk research around participatory arts futures too. We're aware of new
academic papers which could well support our findings.
Proposal:
We'll each elicit 3/5 key themes emerging from our consultations. We're then coming
together afternoon 10 March to compare and contrast those themes. We will bring all raw
data with us too to use as evidence. A final document will be produced.
Proposal being developed.
Email out inviting questionnaire responses to us by end Feb and an invite a meeting on
March 9th at Tyneside in early March. Feedback to response to follow.
Discussed at Board meeting 22/01 (Richard Evans spoke to the paper) and agreed to circulate
the presentation to all members of the Board with the request that they consider the
questions within their own sectors/institutions. Some members of the board said they would
meet with local groups and discuss with their own networks and report back. We agreed that
this all the consultation and our own views would be brought back to the next meeting of the
Board on 19th March and have a whole session dedicated to the case for Culture with a view
to getting back to you with the feedback formally on or about the 20th March.
February meeting and will submit our response from there. It will be representative of all
main cultural venues and orgs in Sunderland.
Discussed initially at NGCV meeting on 2nd February. It was agreed that Declan would
support the CEOs to prepare a submission for the consultation on behalf of the 10 member
organisations, which will be a group response, from the partnership perspective. Note: some
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Sectors to consult
Lead organisation
Main Contact
with
Notes
of the individual CEOs who are members of NGCV are also sector convenors for their own
artforms/cultural forms - which will be undertaken separately.
Local authorities
Creative Darlington
Stephen Wiper
North Tyneside
Steve Bishop
Redcar & Cleveland
Borough Council
Malcolm Armstrong
Darlington Borough Council will set up a survey monkey of the questionnaire and e-mail it to
arts and cultural organisations and promote engagement by both individuals and
organisations via the Darlington Borough Council and Darlington for Culture websites.
Closing date of 9pm on Sunday 1 March 2015 for responses. Darlington organisations
approached will include Theatre Hullabaloo, The Forum Music Centre, The Bridge Centre for
Visual Arts, Darlington Music Society and Darlington Piano Society, blimey!, Darlington
Operatic Society, Darlington Folk Club, Darlington R&B Club, ScrapStudio Arts, Identity
Theatre, The D-Project, the Jabberwocky Market/Luxi Ltd, OddManOut, Darlington Civic
Theatre, the Head of Steam Railway Museum, local organisations involved in the 2025
programme. We will distribute via e-mail and hard copy where appropriate. SW will draft a
composite response by Tuesday 3 March 2015 and will hold two Case for Culture debates,
one running 4.15 – 5.15pm and one running 6 – 7pm on Thursday 5 March at the Dolphin
Centre, Darlington, to agree a final draft with Darlington for Culture. The final draft agreed by
Darlington for Culture will be presented to Darlington Borough Council COE meeting of
Thursday 12 March 2015 for sign off – deadline for papers for this meeting being Monday 9
March 2015. Once signed off by the COE meeting SW will send final Darlington response to
Beamish by your 20 March 2015 deadline and cc in Darlington for Culture.
24th February – Culture And Leisure Sub Committee – discussion with Elected Members
26th February – Arts sector in North Tyneside consultation – Whitley Bay
5th March – Heritage sector in North Tyneside consultation - Wallsend
1. An introduction about Case for Culture and the consultation to our network of partner
organisations and individualsWe will ask them to respond to the consultation questions and
return their response to ourselves by a specified date. 2. Host at least one (possibly two)
workshop sessions for members of our network who would prefer to participate in a
discussion. Sessions will be held at Kirkleatham Museum.
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Sectors to consult
Lead organisation
Main Contact
with
Northumberland
Wendy Scott
County Council
Middlesbrough
Anne Besford
Durham
Steve Howell/ Robin
Byers
Hartlepool Borough
Council
David
Worthington/Damien
Wilson
Notes
Northumberland County Council(NCC) Cultural officers and Members will be
responding/debating the questions from the Local Authority perspective by 20th February; A
Northumberland Culture Sector networking event is taking place at Woodhorn on 27th
February 10 – 1pm; Northumberland Culture Partnership(NCP) meeting will be held at
Woodhorn on 5th March 2 – 4pm; Collation and distilling of the consultation will take place
on 11 March and be conducted by Wendy Scott (NCC) Keith Merrin (Chair of the NCP) and
Geof Keys (member of the Northumberland Theatres Partnership); Wendy Scott (NCC) will
email the Northumberland response week beginning 16th March
A mixed member/sector event (invited key people) towards the end of Feb, start of March.
Request for someone from the steering group to help facilitate. See Creative Darlington.
1. Undertake data gathering from a range of people within the local authority cultural sector
through. This will include all disciplines across the sector including Libraries, Museums, Visual
Arts, Theatre, Festival & Events, Public Art. The intention is to engage at all levels with those
working in the sector in local government. A. Focus group session. B. Questionnaire. 2.
Undertaking data gathering from a range of non-cultural areas across local government
including. A. Economic Development. B. Public Health. C. Heritage Landscapes. D. Tourism. 3.
A draft response will be checked and challenged by a number of senior leadership meetings
likely to include. A. Culture & Sport Management Team. B. Durham CC Culture Board. C.
Corporate Management Team. D. Area Action Partnerships.
Working towards the Hartlepool submission and have requested contributions from: Elected
Members involved in Culture in the Borough; Senior Managers in our local authority; the
wider staff team including museums, arts, libraries, tourism, planning, sports, health and
regeneration; the wider cultural sector in the town.
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