Community Bridge Building Conference
A groundbreaking conference on community bridge building
Friday 15 February, Vaughan College, University of Leicester
The conference will explore how community bridge building and intercultural engagement can contribute to community cohesion and to reducing racism and extremism. We will discuss lessons learned from a wide range of experiences, including those from Leicester.
The conference follows on from a series of workshops and events held in Leicester which have looked in depth at how practitioners from different fields contribute, if at all, to building community bridges.
Conference Aims:
To bring together practitioners, academics and policy makers to look at practical ways of developing community bridges to create community cohesion and reduce racism and extremism.
Attendee Benefits
- Meet and share experiences
- Learn what is being done in Leicester, across the region and nationally
- Meet projects that are creating community bridges and working interculturally
- Network with other organisations and professionals
Who should attend?
- Community Groups
- Voluntary Organisations
- Statutory agencies
- Central and local government agencies
- European agencies
- European pracitioners with an interest in developing bridge building schemes to reduce extremism
- Academics
Agenda
- 1.00pm - Registration
- 1.15pm - Buffet Lunch
- 2.00pm - Asaf Hussain, Welcome and housekeeping
- 2.10pm - Mark Thompson, Pro Vice- Chancellor, University of Leicester, Introduction
- 2.20pm - Dean Tams, Regional Director, NACRO, Building bridges through sports
- 2.35pm - Paul Barrand, Artist, Using arts to bridge communities
- 2.50pm John Ryan, Comedian, Comedy & humour building unity
- TEA BREAK
- 3.30pm - Steve White, Chair, School Development Support Agency
- 3.55pm - Hamza Vayani, Chief Executive, Youth Voice
- 4.20pm - Rodney Green, Chief Executive, Leicester City Council
- 4.45pm - Ted Cantle, Director Improvement and Development Agency for local government
- 5.10pm - Questions
- 5.25pm - Closing Remarks, Paul Hackwood, Archdeacon of Loughborough
Details
You can download a full conference brochure.
You can register now for a nominal cost of £35 which includes buffet lunch and a delegates pack that will include FREE copies of our latest publications including: The Intercultural State, Flavours of Leicester comic book and Belgrave Memories.
An extra £10 will reserve you a seat at the Richard Attenborough Centre for a night of Intercultural Comedy as a finale to the Leicester Comedy Festival. As places to the conference and the Comedy Show are limited, seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Please send a cheque made payable to East Midlands Economic Network with your name and address and dietary requirements to: EMEN, PO Box 7845, Leicester, LE3 1WY. Alternatively, you can register on line at www.emen.org.uk.
You can contact the EMEN on info@emen.org.uk or by calling 07915 641 292.
Ticket prices have been kept low thanks to the support of the Equality & Human Rights Commission. Please note Vaughan College offers good accessibility for all.
last updated: 23-01-2008 18:56