The Box, Plymouth
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  • The Box, Tavistock Place, Plymouth PL4 8AX

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What is the future of arts and heritage in our place?
In collaboration with The Box, join University of Plymouth researchers and representatives from heritage and arts organisations from across the South West to share new thinking about arts and heritage in terms of place and place-making. 
This event is the first of many, with the University of Plymouth hosting an annual opportunity to bring together representatives from museums, heritage and arts organisations.
The evening event will create the space to network and connect. Join us for drinks and nibbles, ahead of a welcome from Victoria Pomery, Chief Executive Officer, The Box. We’re then delighted to be joined by our keynote speakers for the evening: Helen Legg, Director of Tate Liverpool sharing her insights into heritage and culture in a port city followed by Osman Yousefzada, an internationally recognised interdisciplinary artist and writer.
This event follows an afternoon event which will create the space to respond to four themes, with insights from presenters and panel discussion, and the opportunity to network and connect.

These events are invite only. If you’d be interested in attending please contact thebridge@plymouth.ac.uk

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Helen Legg

Helen Legg was appointed director of Tate Liverpool in June 2018. Prior to that she was director for seven years of Spike Island, Bristol, a gallery and studio complex where she focused on giving opportunities to emerging and under recognised artists. She curated exhibitions with British and International contemporary artists including Becky Beasley, Charlotte Prodger, Ciara Phillips and Corita Kent, Dewar and Gicquel, Cevdet Erek, Lubaina Himid, Andy Holden, Haroon Mirza, Laure Prouvost, Michael Simpson, Patrick Staff and Maeve Brennan. Previously she was curator at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2005–10), where she was heavily involved in the development of Ikon Eastside, a second gallery and events space based in a former factory building in Digbeth, an industrial area of the city.

Osman Yousefzada

Osman Yousefzada is a British born, internationally recognised interdisciplinary artist and writer who describes his practice as auto ethnographic, where personal stories become political. His South Asian heritage is a strong influence in his craft-inspired, sculptural practice. Born into the diaspora communities of Birmingham, he creates work that reflects and questions the injustices he saw first-hand during his childhood, and which still pervade in the world today. South Asian influences are what many might first see when they encounter his work but it is far broader and unravels global histories, issues of power, colonialities, class and race which continue to be pressing issues of our time.
 

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