Rosa Parks Symposium
20th Rosa Parks Symposium 2024
Theme: Creating a reimagined sense of inclusion through arts and culture
Date: 12 December 2024
Venue: Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford
Time: 10:00 am - 15:30 pm
The Centre for Inclusion and Diversity (CfID) is happy to host the 20th Rosa Parks Symposium. Our overarching theme for this year is “Creating a reimagined sense of inclusion through arts and culture”. This theme has been chosen as a prelude to kickstart conversations and set expectations as Bradford prepares to host the City of Culture Festival in 2025. It is intended to trigger enthusiasm and generate interest and reflections on how we can leverage the power of culture and creativity in developing a shared sense of identity, pride, and connectedness within and between communities.
Register for your free place here.
Rosa Parks with Dr Martin Luther King, circa 1955
Thematic areas to guide discussion and reflections:
- Growing inclusion: Leveraging the transformative power of the creative sector.
- Community resistance through art.
- Fixing broken communities through cultural solutions.
- (Dis) Connected: Ways we often break & rebuild communities.
These sub-themes will be explored through keynote presentations, panel/roundtable discussions, and art activities by schools. Details to be confirmed later.
Who is the Symposium for?
- senior leaders and members of governing bodies
- people and culture directors and professionals, EDI leads and professionals.
- frontline staff in public, private, voluntary and community sector organisations
- researchers
- students and pupils
- trade unions and other practitioners.
The symposium provides a space to work to find innovative ways in which the arts and cultural sector can become a vehicle to reach wider communities, understand and celebrate our diversity and deepen social bonds among groups.
I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
Rosa Parks