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From: Trijntje Ytsma <T.Ytsma@ioe.ac.uk>
Date: 19 May 2015 at 13:44
Subject: SIG NOTICE: Festival Cultures conference, UEA, Friday 22 May,
confirmed programme
To: Trijntje Ytsma <T.Ytsma@ioe.ac.uk>
From: Lucy Green
Sent: 19 May 2015 13:36
To: Trijntje Ytsma
Subject: SIG NOTICE: Festival Cultures conference, UEA, Friday 22 May,
confirmed programme
... 4 x academic researchers, 3 x festival directors, 2 x archives, 1
x Director of BBC Music ... an AHRC Connected Communities event.
Confirmed programme below.
Friday 22nd May
The Thomas Paine Study Centre, University of East Anglia
10.00-10.30 Registration, coffee
10.30-10.45 Welcome and introduction - Prof George McKay, UEA
George McKay, UEA/AHRC Leadership Fellow for Connected Communities programme
10.45-11.30 Keynote 1 Prof Tim Wall,
Birmingham City University
Radio One on the Road: creating that festival spirit for live radio broadcasts
11.30-13.00 Session 2 Researching festival
Chair: Prof John Street, UEA
· Dr Chris Anderton, Southampton Solent University, author of
Music Festivals in the UK (Ashgate, 2016)
· Dr Roxy Robinson, Leeds Beckett University, author of Festival
Culture and the Politics of Participation (forthcoming December 2015)
13.00-14.00 Lunch & exhibition / screening
14:00-15:30 Session 3 How does a festival reflect its
environment? Festival directors speak
Chair: Dr Karen Smyth, UEA
· John Cumming, Director, EFG London Jazz Festival
· William Galinsky, Artistic Director, Norfolk & Norwich Festival
· Ben Robinson, Director, Kendal Calling
15.30-16.00 Coffee break & exhibition / screening
16.00-17.00 Keynote 2 BBC perspectives
Bob Shennan, Controller of BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music, and Director BBC
Music, in conversation with Prof Tim Wall, to include audience Q&A
Through the day:
Exhibition of East Anglian Fairs Archive, presenting photographs,
posters and memorabilia from the fairs, which ran from 1972-1986, as
an important regional seasonal festival / alternative gathering.
Festival films from the East Anglian Film Archive, screening of
archival films of local festivals and jamming sessions from the 1960s
and 1970s.
Prof George McKay
AHRC Leadership Fellow, Connected Communities Programme
Film, Television & Media Studies (FTM)
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
tel +44 (0)779 1077 074; +44 (0)1603 592152
connected-communities.org georgemckay.org
Shakin' All Over: Popular Music & Disability (University of Michigan
Press, 2013)
ed., The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture (Bloomsbury, 2015)
