ENGAGE 2006 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The conference is a networking and professional development opportunity for gallery educators, artists, curators, museum educators, teachers, funders and cultural stakeholders.

Find out about the Engage 2006 international conference, with full booking form here http://www.engage.org/conference06/index.aspx

Sally Fort has designed and co-ordinated the break-out programme across a variety of visual arts and other cultural organisations in the North West including sessions on:

  • New extended school plans and what this means for galleries and the visual arts
  • Chinese contemporary art and public participation
  • Working with contemporary visual artists
  • Young people as gallery consultants
  • School and outreach workshop activity as a basis for internal organisational staff training in galleries
  • Mentoring
  • Galleries and Museums as places to improve literacy at Key Stage 2
  • Working with an artists to explore and interpret the outcomes of Every Child Matters
  • Organisational review and change in a small local authority gallery
  • Citizenship and urban culture
  • Galleries and other spaces as places for contemplation and self-reflection
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to working with groups and the visual arts