What Now for Widening Participation in the Arts?

Date:Wednesday 11 February 2008

Venue: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Piccadilly, London

The programme includes:

An opportunity to hear two of the UK’s leading academics on equalities, race and higher education.

Dr Penny Jane Burke, Institute of Education, University of London, and co-author of Reconceptualising Lifelong Learning
Professor David Gillborn, Institute of Education, University of London, Editor of Race, Ethnicity and Education and author of Racism and Education: coincidence or conspiracy?

Sharon Laurent, Course Tutor, BTEC National Diploma in Art and Design, Hackney Community College

Film screenings and presentations by students who have entered higher education through NALN progression agreements

Workshop presentations from NALN projects and widening participation projects from across the UK

Conference dinner at BAFTA.

Special guests:

Grayson Perry, Artist and Patron of NALN
Kwame Kwei-Armah, Actor, Playwright, and Governor of University of the Arts London

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