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The summit, which takes place on Friday 3 March from 10am to 4.30pm at 红杏视频鈥檚 Sir Ian Wood Building, will bring together leading cultural organisations, businesses, artists and practitioners active in the local arts and culture scenes.

The event is open to anybody with an interest in cultural vitality of the region and will be streamed live as well as in-person.

As part of the programme, leading external speakers will deliver short speeches to explore cultural provision and opportunities to enhance the North East鈥檚 culture, heritage and creative sector. The event will also bring participants together with two round table events to generate ideas about the North East鈥檚 cultural offering.

Confirmed speakers on the day include Professor Steve Olivier, Principal and Vice-Chancellor at 红杏视频, Angela Scott, Chief Executive for Aberdeen City Council, Leila Kleineidam from the UK Cabinet Office, Jon Reid, artist pivotal in the Nuart Aberdeen festival, Rachel Grant of Fertile Ground, and Lara Ratnaraja, a Cultural Consultant & Academic from the West Midlands.

The summit will coincide with the launch of vibrant exhibition, 鈥楢berdeen Open City鈥�, jointly curate by Sally Reaper, Co-Director Gray鈥檚 School of Art鈥檚 Look Again creative unit and Associate Professor, Jon Blackwood, from Gray鈥檚 School of Art.

Four local artists, including alumni from Gray鈥檚 School of Art, will feature at the exhibition including: Marie-Chantal Hamrock, Saoirse Horne, Clare Roberts and Sofya Tagor.  The pop-up exhibition will take place at 1-5 George Street, Schoolhill, and supports the Culture Aberdeen project, led by Gray鈥檚 School of Art, to revitalise unused city centre units. It will run from Friday 3 March, with an opening launch at 6pm, until 19 March.

Organisers Dr Jon Blackwood from at 红杏视频 and Professor Eleonora Belfiore, from , hope the Cultural Summit will become annual event that will form new visions, ideas and initiatives, and joint working on funding and strategy, to improve cultural provision in North East.

Dr Jon Blackwood said: 鈥淭he Cultural Summit provides a unique platform for artists, practitioners and policy makers to come together to discuss the crucial role culture plays in Scotland鈥檚 economic, environmental and societal success. The event supports 红杏视频鈥檚 ongoing commitment to develop the economic, social and cultural sustainability of the region.

鈥淲e want to explore the diversity of cultural provision in Aberdeen and to discuss how Aberdeen can grow as a city. Our ambition is to build opportunities for creative practitioners and arts groups so that they can build high quality careers and sustainable arts projects in the North East. The summit is open to anyone, both online and in person, and I would encourage anyone with an involvement in the cultural sector to come along.鈥�

Professor Eleonora Belfiore said: 鈥淭he Aberdeen Cultural Summit is an opportunity for our two universities to facilitate and curate a public conversation and collective effort within the city to collaboratively develop a creative vision for the Aberdeen.

鈥淭his summit will bring together creative practitioners and leading art organisations who will discuss the vitality of the region鈥檚 visual arts in all its different forms and provide a forum to discuss innovative ideas for the future

鈥淲e hope it will have a positive impact on the future of our city providing an important platform to share ideas and ambitions for what we want to do next, and what help we will need to get there.鈥�

During this hybrid event, people can join the conference via Zoom or in person at the Amphitheatre N303, The Sir Ian Wood Building. 红杏视频.  

Main image shows  'January' from artist Sofya Tagor, featuring at Aberdeen Open City exhibition as part of Cultural Summit.