Launched in December 2009, Wales Culture Exchange has been created to complement Science Alliance Cymru. It will provide an opportunity for people with an interest in arts, humanities and social science subjects to meet up to discuss issues around engagement with these areas across Wales.
Membership of the Wales Culture Exchange is free. To join the network, please click here.
Wales Culture Exchange Event
Thursday 3rd November 2011, 3.30 – 5.30 pm
Japan Room, Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5AL
To book a place please visit:
http://walescultureexchange.eventbrite.com/
This event will focus on Cardiff becoming part of a prestigious new Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council that will drive forward creative and digital innovation and bring benefits to education, society and business.
In partnership with the University of the West of England (UWE), the universities of Bristol, Exeter and Bath, as well as Bristol’s Watershed and a wide range of creative industry partners, Cardiff will become part of the new Research and Enterprise in Arts and Creative Technologies Hub (REACT) for Bristol, the South West of England and South Wales.
The Hubs will have the task of building new partnerships and entrepreneurial capacity in the creative economy and increasing the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.
The REACT Hub will be directed by Professor Jonathan Dovey of UWE’s Digital Cultures Research Centre and based in Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. Clare Reddington Director of iShed, a subsidiary of Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio, is the Executive Producer for REACT.
Welsh partners in the project include Chapter, Welsh National Opera and the Do Lectures, an organisation based in Cardigan. Professor Ian Hargreaves, Chair of Digital Economy in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and Cardiff Business School will lead the Cardiff team’s involvement.
15:30 – 16:00 Registration, Japan Room, Level 3
16:00 Welcome, Japan Room
Professor Hamish Fyfe, Professor of the Arts and Society, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan
16:10 Research and Enterprise in Arts and Creative Technologies Hub (REACT) for Bristol, the South West of England and South Wales
Professor Jonathan Dovey, Clare Reddington & Professor Ian Hargreaves
16:50 Members’ Announcements
Please contact the Beacon if you would like to make an announcement
17:00 Informal Networking and refreshments served in the Horizons foyer bar, Level 4
17:30 Close
Any queries contact Beacon for Wales – beacon@cardiff.ac.uk
