KArtsCon2022 Schedule - Kent Arts Conference

Below is the tentative schedule for KArtsCon2022. Times and activities may be changed in the final line-up due to unforeseen exigencies.

All main events will take place in the Queen’s Hall, Rochester Corn Exchange. A second space adjoining the Queen’s Hall will be the venue for some of the concurrent sessions, unless otherwise specified (e.g. Public Art sessions by Dr Urs Hauenstein will be held in a public location).

MONDAY – 11 July 2022
08:30	Conference Registration and Networking
09:00	Official Welcome – Dr Julian Ng and Dr David Stokes
09:10	Luna Zsigo: The Conference of the Birds
09:50	Bill Lewis: Catching Lorca from Cohen
10:30	Break
10:40	Edwina Jaques: Hidden Women
11:20	Ire Ogueche – Our Gods
12:00	David Stokes: The Professionalisation of Arts in Health and Mental Health Services
12:40	LUNCH
13:30	Valeriya Korchagina : Art of Math and Physics in high-end Film&TV VFX
14:10	Gouhar Pirzada: What Makes Unexpected Art?
14:50	Maria Dremina: Projective Arts Objects in Neurostyling
15:30	Break
15:40	Markus Feichter: Greening Arts Education
16:20	Hugo Hemmi: Art as a Freedom Strategy	Victoria Sonstegard: Four Waves of Feminism Through Art in America
17:10	Sophie Tscholl – Live Performance
17:20	Day 1 Ends
18:00	Indie Book Authors Café

TUESDAY – 12 July 2022
08:30	Day Registration
09:00	Daniel Bernstein: Enhancing Places, Enabling People, Astonishing Audiences
09:40	Bev Hayward & Maxine Chester: Surrealism and Serendipity – A Feminist Praxis
10:20	Ildiko Solti: Expect the Unexpected – shared light as framework in Shakespeare’s Theatre
11:00	Break
11:10	Julie Atwal: Meeting My Dragon – My Creative Journey
11:50	Nasir Nasidi: An Art Historical Analysis of Selected Sacred Sufi Paintings in Kano	Luna Zsigo: Workshop
12:30	LUNCH	From 13:15 – Luna Zsigo: The Conference of the Birds Mural
13:30	Dara Sabeti: NFTs – Your New Blank Canvas
14:10	Pamela Hatton: Tales of the Unexpected
14:50	Danielle Williams: “Live at Bramley’s”
15:30	Break
15:40	Lana Arkhi: Small Wonders
16:20	Peter Hodges: Marlowe’s Complaint
17:20	Presentation of Certificates

WEDNESDAY – 13 July 2022
08:30	Day Registration
09:00	Welcome remarks from Kent Arts Conference and Medway Council
09:15	Roundtable (discussion and audience Q&A) Theme: Reaching new and diverse audiences Join Ideas Test, Cohesion Plus, SEE and CREATE and Origins Untold as they discuss their experiences in making work for new and diverse audiences in Kent Speakers: Tracy Brunt, Gurvinder Sandher, Christopher Sacre, Josephine Carter
10:00	Creating Digital Work for and with Communities Kevin Grist, Artistic Director of Sparked Echo shares tips and discuss opportunities and challenges of working in the digital space for the first time	Arts Council booked sessions only (this time slot prioritises people with access needs see below for more information on how to book)
10:30	Break
11:00	Roundtable (discussion and audience Q&A) Theme: Beyond Kent: working internationally Join Counterpoints Arts, Circo Rum Ba Ba, Arts Canteen, and The Institute of Culture and Creative Industries at The University of Kent (iCCi) to discuss developing international partnerships and taking your work abroad Speakers: David Sefton (Chair), Tom Green, Aser El Saqqa, Marianne Grove, Diane Dever	11:20 – Julian Ng: Musical Theatre and the Unexpected
11:45	Short talks and Q&A Theme: A word from the funders Arts Council England, Freelands Foundation, Colyer Fergusson Charitable Trust, Kent County Council, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Kent Community Foundation and Youth Music introduce themselves and outline current opportunities	12:00 – Ire Ogueche: Zuma Rock – Nature’s Art Gallery
12:45	Funders Fair Meet local, regional, and national funders for 1:1 advice, conversation, and networking Participants: Arts Council (booked sessions only), Freelands Foundation, Colyer Fergusson Charitable Trust, Kent County Council, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Kent Community Foundation and Youth Music	Jonathan Ash: Hidden (Dis)abilities
13:30
15:00	Roundtable (discussion and audience Q&A) Theme: Kent Connections: working regionally across Kent and the South East Chaired by the South East Creative Economy Network (SECEN), Kent County Council, Medway Council, the Colyer Fergusson Charitable Trust, Cement Fields, and the Turner Contemporary will share case studies and discuss the power of regional partnership as well as upcoming opportunities across Medway, Kent and the South East Speakers: Alex Riley of SECEN (Chair), KCC, Paul Cowell of Medway Council, Stephen Fenning of Colyer Fergusson Charitable Trust, John Hartley of Cement Fields, Toby Parkin of Turner Contemporary.
15:45	Networking Break
16:00	Roundtable (discussion and audience Q&A) Theme: Creative Medway Reflections on the journey to create and implement Medway’s unique sector-led cultural strategy Speakers: Pure White Creative and members of the Creative Medway team.
17:00		Join Creative Medway in the bar for some informal networking and to celebrate KArtsCon in Medway!
18:00	Conference Closes

Artists Exhibiting

Jonathan Ash
Julie Atwal
Anne Baldwin
Jill Ann Harper
Edwin Jaques
Carole Jones
Bill Lewis
Jamila Zanna Muhammad
Danielle Williams

MONDAY – 11 July 2022

TUESDAY – 12 July 2022

WEDNESDAY – 13 July 2022

Artists Exhibiting