The substance Annual Conference 2008 - After the Event: Culture and Sport - Access and Legacies
Date: 15/07/2008
Venue: The Bridgewater Hall
Address: Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3WS (View Map)
2008 is the year of the Beijing Olympics, Euro 2008 and Liverpool’s City of Culture. Our conference takes place during Manchester’s World Sport 08. It’s the year the Olympiad hands over to London ahead of 2012. Each will claim to deliver an event that everyone can join in. Each will claim a ‘legacy’.
But there are also a myriad of local, smaller events. Cultural community celebrations. Sports festivals. Youth activities. Away from the cameras, how do we organise these to ensure access, benefits and impacts?
There is an imperative that these events all deliver. Great occasions. Openness. Participation. Accessibility. Community development. Legacy.
What’s in it for you?
- After the Event brings together policy makers, event organisers, programme managers, project deliverers. Telling you how it is and how it’s been.
- After the Event will introduce the most recent research to inform, stimulate debate and provoke change. Giving you information on what’s happened and how you can deliver.
- After the Event will showcase good practice; demonstrate techniques; create new connections. It will help make things happen.
- After the Event will be Domestic, European, Global.
After the Event is the second Substance Annual Conference following 2007’s acclaimed ‘Beyond Engagement’ (see www.beyondengagement.org.uk).
substance are an experienced social research company specialist in the areas of sport, youth inclusion and community regeneration. Members hail from backgrounds in leading university research institutes, social enterprise and IT. substance are a cooperative and the Annual Conference is operated on a not for profit basis.
The substance Annual Conference 2008 - After the Event: Culture and Sport - Access and Legacies is organised by Substance
