The London Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 represents a once in a lifetime opportunity for us to demonstrate how amateur and voluntary arts and crafts can provide long-lasting benefits for individuals and their communities.
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Dates:
Sunday 17 to Tuesday 19 June 2012
Venue:
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park, London NW1 7AY
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Cost:
60 EURO (or 50 GBP) per delegate
Travel and accommodation not included.
Agenda:
Sunday 17 June 2012
• Amateo AGM (begins 12.30pm for 1pm).
• Presentation on the 2012 Week of Amateur Arts / Voluntary Arts Week, celebrating amateur arts activity in communities across the Netherlands, Flanders, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (begins 3pm).
• The response of communities to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – performance by one of the amateur arts London 2012 Cultural Olympiad projects.
Monday 18 June
• Measuring the impact of amateur arts activities on communities – a research presentation on the Connected Communities Grassroots Arts research project (organised by Voluntary Arts, the Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Birmingham, the University of Exeter and the University of Glamorgan).
• Inclusive and diverse communities – performance by mixed ability / disability amateur arts group.
Tuesday 19 June
• Inclusive and diverse communities – seminar on disability and benchmarking inclusion in amateur arts activity across Europe (to include speakers from disability arts organisations, the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad ‘Unlimited’ project and the London 2012 Paralympic Games) (ends 3pm).
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