The Rural Cultural Summit 

The Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain, London, Tuesday May 23^rd 2006

10.00am Registration and coffee.

A Cultural Strategy for Rural England;

New arts and cultural partnerships for; rural regeneration, rural youth, creative rural industries, urban / rural cultural diversity partnerships, rural social inclusion, food sovereignty and sustainable rural communities

10.40am   Welcome  -Stephen Deuchar, Director Tate Britain

‘Give us the Tools and we will finish the Job’ (Winston Churchill, 1941) 

10.50am

Farming and rural community leaders call for cultural entitlement and new arts investment for rural England

• Gillian van der Meer – Chair RCF  Introduction to the Rural Cultural Forum and the Rural Cultural Summit Chair (am)

• 11.am   Dr Andrew Clark, Head of Policy Services, National Farmers Union  (NFU)

• Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, Deputy President, Country Land and Business Association  (CLA)

• Tom Oliver  Policy Director, Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE)
• Lord Peter Melchett   Policy Director, Soil Association   
• Silvia Brown  Chief Executive, Action with Communities in Rural England  (ACRE)

12.15pm

· Dr Stuart Burgess, Government Rural Advocate, Chairman Countryside Agency

· Dame Sue Street, Permanent Secretary, Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS)

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                Sir Christopher Frayling, Chairman Arts Council England  (ACE) 

12.45pm

• Questions

1.00pm

• Lunch

2.00pm.

The New Rural Challenge; promoting cultural diversity, environmental and economic sustainability.

New urban/rural, European, creative industries and cultural diversity partnerships for the rural community.

• Tony Cooke, Afternoon Chair  

Chair, New Fields - The Farmers Biennale; the first European Biennale of Rural Art and Agriculture, Yorkshire 2009

• Dr Ian Hunter, Fellowship Director National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)  - The New Creative Rural Industries

• Mama Toro Adeniran-Kane MBE, African Women Arts and Heritage Development International Network (AWAD) - Women and Rural Enterprise

• Dr Geetha Upadhyaya, Kala Sangam South Asian Arts, - proposed  Rural Cultural Diversities Conference, Bradford April 2007     

• Michael Hart, Small Family Farms Alliance. – a proposed European network and partnership for Rural and Farming Culture Speakers from Via Campensina, CPE, and Plataforma Rural - the EU and International rural organisations tbc

3.45 pm

· Plenary and close

The Rural Cultural Forum wishes to thank Arts Council England for its Financial support for the

Rural Cultural Summit.