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Welcome to the Summer 2007 season of the Arts & Architecture Club FREE lecture series.

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	Date	Event
	Tuesday 26th June. At The Burslem School of Art. 7:30 start	Liverpool City of Culture 2008: The role of Arts and Cultural Organisations in Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008 Kim Graham Born and brought up in North Staffordshire, Kim has studied and taught ceramics. She has worked in various community arts projects and local authorities. She now works for Liverpool Culture Company as the arts infrastructure manager. This lecture will look at - The Role of Liverpool City Council, Liverpool Culture Company and The Arts Council. -Cultural Strategy and Legacy post 2008 - Impacts 08 – The Liverpool Model research and evaluation programme. Kim will also be talking to us about the role of arts and cultural organisations and how they contribute to the 2008 artistic programme.
	Tuesday 17th July. At The Burslem School of Art. 7:30 start	‘Cultural Regeneration through Communities’ Alan Simpson Alan Simpson is an architect and urbanist, teacher and writer. He has worked across the U.K. and Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Russia and the united states, often in collaboration with national and local agencies, universities, mixed community and interest group, and interdisciplinary professional teams, brought together to respond to critical urban planning, urban design problems and opportunities. He has taught at the universities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Liverpool, university collage London and was Fitzgibbon professor of architecture and Urban Design at Carnegie Mellon university, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Formally head of urban renaissance he is currently Yorkshire forward’s renaissance champion.
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	Tuesday 29th May. At The Burslem School of Art. 7:30 start	‘The Sustainable School’ Craig White of Architects White Design and Catriona Stewart Head teacher of Kingsmead Primary School, Cheshire. A topical lecture about the award winning school Kingsmead primary school in Mid Cheshire. It is an exemplar of sustainable design and construction. This ethos informs every aspect of the design from its orientation on the site, to the selection of natural and local materials, use of natural ventilation and day-lighting and the landscape concept. Each classroom has an interrupted view to green space. The school was opened in September 2004 and it was hoped that it would be used as the blueprint for all schools within Cheshire. The Kingsmead School project was a partnership between Cheshire County Council, builder Willmott Dixon and architect White Design. Click here for a PDF copy of Craigs Presentation.
	Tuesday 24th April. At The Burslem School of Art. 7:30 start	Connecting Heritage with Education: Engaging Young People and places Ann Todd, Heritage Open Days. Ann has always been passionate about Learning, teaching both in the UK and abroad. A former teacher and then Head of Education at English Heritage Anne is now the Heritage Open Days Education Manager at The Civic Trust. The lecture will look at why it is important to connect Heritage with Education or Learning. We need to know about the past in all its richness, the people who created it and discover possible connections- how it impacts on our present and our future. It is important that we are aware of how we are involved with our environment and how we can influence it.
	Tuesday 5th Dec At The Burslem School of Art. 7.00 for a 7:30 start	*"Art in Regeneration"* Denis O’Connor & Bernie Rutter, Sculpture Works. ‘Sculpture Works’ designed and fabricated ‘Privilege’ in Etruria and are now working on additional pieces of public art in the North Staffordshire, including a key gateway site. To express the spirit of the community, Sculpture Works aim to visually enhance an area whilst acknowledging and celebrating its rich heritage and culture.
	Tuesday 21st November At The Burslem School of Art. 7.00 for a 7:30 start	"Streets Ahead" by Peter Piet, Director of Urban Design, Project Centre Peter Piet will be talking about how urban design principles can be applied to traditional streetscape engineering design. Peter is a CABE Space enabler and has lectured extensively on streetscape design issues. He worked as a landscape architect and joined Project Centre to develop a landscape and urban design team concentrating on streetscape design.
	Tuesday 31st October At The Burslem School of Art. 7.00 for a 7:30 start	*"Narrative and Symbolism in Architecture"* by Jean Murphy, Architect, Agenda 21 Architects Jean Murphy will be taking us through a personal exploration of the use of the form, colour and decoration to evoke cultural and mythological references in Architecture. Jean has worked with several architectural practices over a period of 25 years. Most recently with John Outram Associates and then Penoyre & Prasad. She is currently with Agenda 21 Architects