tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345209873745134052023-11-16T03:28:43.421+00:00The Huddersfield SalonThe Huddersfield Salon is a new space in Huddersfield for people who are interested in hearing provocative ideas from engaging speakers, and participating in stimulating debate.Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-17804620980466090032010-09-22T11:55:00.002+01:002010-09-22T11:59:35.694+01:0028 September 2010: is it time to call a truce on the 'war on drugs'?We all know how to respond to the threat of drugs in our communities, don’t we? All we need to do is stop them entering the country whilst encouraging our children to just say ‘no’ – drugs are evil and dangerous and drug-users equally so.<br /><br />Yet we also know that this is a war no one is winning, a fact increasingly acknowledged by politicians, law enforcers, policy advisers and governments around the world. Despite billions of pounds spent annually, worldwide, in trying to control drug production, supply and use, cocaine and heroin consumption has been rising consistently.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Darryl Bickler</span>, a former criminal law and human rights solicitor and co-founder of the <a href="http://www.drugequality.org/">Drug Equality Alliance</a>, believes that sensible use of drugs can benefit the individual and society and that we must stop misusing both the law and the language to create the fear and prejudices that continue to restrain any sensible change in attitude and policy.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Peart</span> of <a href="http://www.lifeline.org.uk/">Lifeline Kirklees</a>, a local drug and alcohol treatment service, will be talking how the organisation works with people who are badly affected by substance misuse, and explain some of the issues surrounding the drugs debate.<br /><br />Come along, join the debate, and tell us what you think.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The details:</span><br /><br />Tuesday 28 September 2010<br /><br />Doors open 6.00<br />Debate starts 6.30<br /><br />Café Ollo<br />The Media Centre<br />7 Northumberland Street<br />Huddersfield<br />HD1 1RL<br /><br />£2.50 or donation<br /><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]-->Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-17520136065468413092010-05-14T12:17:00.002+01:002010-06-08T16:39:58.695+01:0008 June 2010: 'The Right to Offend?'<span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><div>Sticks and Stones Do we have a right to be protected from those who would offend our values, or is it our right to free speech that matters?</div><div><br /></div><div>Tim Black from Spiked Online visits from London to passionately defend freedom of speech. He argues that, for a democracy to thrive, for ideas to be thoroughly and rigorously debated, there can be no right to freedom from offence. He believes that no value or idea, if it is to be worth anything, should be beyond questioning, no matter how offended some might be. To claim offence, as it stands right now, simply closes down debate.</div><div><br /></div><div>He is challenged by local lass, Fakhara Rehman who is coordinator for The Kirklees Faith Forum. Fakhara urges caution and says that with the right to freedom of speech comes responsibility. She suggests that the media shapes our view of the world - what we 'know' about current affairs and what's going on in the world is through the news. But is the news really a source of information? Or is it a manipulation tool and we’re not really as free in our minds as we think we are?</div><div><br /></div><div>Enough to get you started? Come and join us for a lively debate!</div><div><br /></div><div>Refreshments available.</div></span></span>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-76958465880826487192010-02-26T11:36:00.000+00:002010-02-26T11:40:26.085+00:00'The Death of Democracy?'<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Akzidenz Grotesk', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><h3 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-decoration: none; "></h3><span><span>Date: Tuesday 30th March 2010, 06:00pm - 08:30pm</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Akzidenz Grotesk', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Venue: Cafe Ollo, The Media Centre</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Akzidenz Grotesk', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Akzidenz Grotesk', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Provocative udeas and a stimulating debate in Cafe Ollo. March's events looks at 'The Death of Democracy?'</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Akzidenz Grotesk', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Akzidenz Grotesk', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Please watch this space for more information.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Akzidenz Grotesk', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><div class="cnt"><div class="body"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "></p></div></div></span></div>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-71682763493803692242010-01-12T13:19:00.002+00:002010-01-12T13:26:35.103+00:00Are we training enough creatives -- or too many?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Akzidenz Grotesk', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><div class="meta"><p class="date" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Are we training enough creatives - or too many? Are degrees in the creative arts a passport to the future or just conning the kids? </p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw recently visited the Huddersfield Media Centre. He has said that: "Our cultural and creative industries have been a British success story in recent years. They have continued to grow strongly during the global downturn and will provide a lot of the future jobs and growth the country needs."</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This optimism has driven a massive increase in the number of people being trained in creative subjects in British colleges and universities. But when they graduate are they what the industry wants… and can there ever be enough jobs to employ more than a fraction of them anyway?</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Andrew Blake, Associate Head of the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London says the rhetoric around the creative industries, skills and education is getting way out of hand. He believes we are educating far too many people for jobs that will not exist and that the best many people can look forward to is a life of self-exploitation followed by abandonment of their vocation for a more sustainable career. Unless, that is, they are the scion of the comfortable classes who are prepared to subsidise their offspring indefinitely in unpaid internships for a callous and increasingly exclusive industry.</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Opposing this viewpoint will be Emma Hunt, Dean of the School of Art and Design at the University of Huddersfield.</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Huddersfield Salon, Tuesday 26 January 2010</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Doors open 6.00</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Debate starts 6.30</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Café Ollo</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Media Centre</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">7 Northumberland Street</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Huddersfield</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">HD1 1RL</p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">£2.50 or donation</p><p></p><p></p></div></span>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com138tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-16114531794919156002009-10-06T14:55:00.002+01:002009-10-06T14:56:42.669+01:00Throw open the borders, is it time for a radical response to immigration?The Huddersfield Salon is a new space in Huddersfield for people who are interested in hearing provocative ideas from engaging speakers, and participating in stimulating debate.<br /><br />October's event asks - "Throw open the borders, is it time for a radical response to immigration?"<br /><br />The venue is open from 18:00, debate starts at 18:30.<br /><br />Refreshments will be available at the bar.<br /><br />Suggested donation - £2.50<br /><br />Cafe Ollo<br />The Media Centre<br />7 Northumberland St<br />Huddersfield<br />HD1 1RL<br /><br />www.the-media-centre.co.ukHuddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-50862872279399724792009-09-24T16:55:00.000+01:002009-09-24T16:57:17.481+01:00Huddersfield Salon: Shopping till we drop?<div class="body"> <p><b>Shopping till we drop?</b></p> <p><b>Is the British obsession with supermarkets killing pour towns?</b></p> <p>Love them or loathe them supermarkets have become an integral part of our lives… but are we letting them kill off our towns?</p> <p>Are you in the pro camp? You find them convenient and good value… you don’t understand what the fuss is about?</p> <p>Or are you frightened that our towns will be consumed by too many supermarkets?</p> <p>Come and join us in a lively debate!</p> <p>Doors open at 18:00, debate starts at 18:30.</p> <p>Suggested contribution: £2.50 (more if you can)</p> <p>Refeshments will be available at the bar.</p> <p>The next Huddersfield Salon will take place on 27th Oct and 24th Nov. Subjects will include immigration and death of family.</p></div>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-33280394883447044272009-06-22T09:22:00.002+01:002009-06-22T09:31:47.621+01:00Assisted suicide – a personal choice or a criminal act?Tuesday 30th June Doors open at 6.00pm, debate starts at 6.30pm<br /><br />Helping someone to take their own life is not only illegal but simply wrong, or is it a humane and respectful response to the rights of the individual.<br /><br />Martin Johnson <span style="font-size:85%;">RN, MSc, PhD</span> is professor in Nursing, University of Salford and editor, Nurse Education Today “It is an individual’s choice to decide how they are cared for. This includes being able if they wish, to end their life because of chronic and incurable pain and suffering.”<br /><br />Dr Hans-Christian Raabe <span style="font-size:85%;">MD MRCP MRCGP DRCOG</span> is a Manchester GP and medical coordinator of the Council for Heath and Wholeness “The real danger is that once you accept killing as the solution to a single problem, then what is to stop it being as the answer to hundreds of other problems?”<br /><br />Entrance: Suggested contribution £2.50 (more if you can)<br /><br />Pay at the door<br /><br />Refreshments are available at the bar<br /><br /><a href="http://tnij.com/mD7IM">Café Ollo, The Media Centre, Northumberland Street, Huddersfield HD1 1RL</a> (2mins from train station)<br /><br />For more information:<br /><br />Tel: 01484 483010<br /><br />Email: info@the-media-centre.co.uk<br /><br />http://huddersfieldsalon.blogspot.comHuddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-47755994083335093852009-05-11T21:09:00.004+01:002009-05-11T23:00:07.098+01:00Freedom of the Streets ? Booze and the regulation of social life<span style="font-weight: bold;">Tuesday 19th May</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">doors open at 6.00pm, debate starts at 6.30pm</span><br /><br />Is the extension of laws limiting alcohol consumption in public places reclaiming the streets from the drunks on behalf of the silent majority? Or is it one more step towards a town centre police state?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Josie Appleton</span>, author of 'Against the Booze Bans - and the Hyperregulation of Public Space' says "Over the past few years, cracking open a can in the street has become not just rude, but illegal. The State is now the arbiter on questions of social etiquette which were previously decided by individuals and communities themselves."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chris Walsh</span> is Principal Community Safety Officer, Safer Stronger Communities, Kirklees Council. He manages a team of community safety officers who work in partnership to manage the impact of alcohol-fuelled violence, crime and anti-social behaviour in town centres across the district.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Entrance: suggested contribution £2.50, pay at the door.</span>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-64930665621801913952009-03-26T11:38:00.006+00:002009-04-20T15:43:12.665+01:00Wind turbines: energy saviours or blots on the landscape?The next Huddersfield Salon event will take place on the 28th April between 6 and 8.30pm, the debate itself starts at 6.30pm.<br /><br />The subject of the debate is 'Wind turbines: energy saviours or blots on the landscape?'<br /><br />Speakers:<br /><br /><a href="http://www2.hud.ac.uk/staffprofiles/staffcv.php?staffid=158"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr Julia Meaton</span></a> - Head of Strategy & Marketing Centre at <a href="http://www2.hud.ac.uk/uhbs/">Huddersfield University Business School</a>, Julia has a keen interest in ethical and environmental issues. Recent <a href="http://www2.hud.ac.uk/staffprofiles/staffcv.php?staffid=158#research">research</a> is looking at Environmental Management and Corporate Social Responsibility, ranging from a study of environmental grassroots movements in the UK to an analysis of environmental management in Saudi Arabian businesses.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jane Davis</span> - Jane farms a smallholding in Spalding, South Lincolnshire with her husband Julian. Jane is a retired health professional and has been involved with mainly rural communities since 1980. Following the installation of <a href="http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/04/29/abandoned-home-because-of-wind-farm/">wind-turbines near their home</a>, to which they didn’t object, Jane has spoken at countless meetings across the country about the disastrous effect this has had on their lives. She and her husband gave evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Economics of Renewable Energy.<br /><br />Suggested contribution £2.50 (more if you can)<br />Pay at the door, refreshments are available at the bar.<br /><br />Other dates for your diary:<br />19 May, 30June, 29 September, 27 October, 24 November<br />Subjects to be confirmed<br /><br />Café Ollo, The Media Centre<br />Northumberland Street, Huddersfield HD1 1RL (2 mins from train station)<br /><br />Call 01484 483010 for more information<br /><br /><br /><br />some further reading/information:<br /><a href="http://www.ageofstupid.net/">The Age of Stupid</a> - drama-documentary-animation hybrid which stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/21/renewableenergy.alternativeenergy">The Danish island of Samso and how they are selling power from their windfarms back to the national grid</a> - an interesting article from the Guardian, 21 September 08, about how a Danish island is benefiting from wind power, and the response of English people when they presented their ideas here.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/6420/">Windmills of the Mind</a> by Tim Black, in Spiked magazine, 01 April 09 - an article about <span class="articleAbstract">why a minister’s pledge to make opposition to windfarms as unacceptable as refusing to wear a seatbelt is revealing.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/6359/">A provocative review of The Age of Stupid</a> by Brendan O'Neill, from Spiked magazine, 16 March 09<br /><br /><br /></span>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-42115625189950377932009-02-26T15:31:00.011+00:002009-03-18T10:45:20.528+00:00Parenting Skills: essential attributes or fads we should send to the naughty step?<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span>Tuesday 24th March - 6:00pm til 8:30 pm</span></span><br /><br />Speakers<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jennie Bristow</span> - freelance writer and researcher, author of the '<a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/issues/C109/">Guide to Subversive Parenting</a>', has two young daughters<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jo Pitt</span> - recently retired as Regional Director of the <a href="http://www.parentingacademy.org/">National Academy for Parenting Practitioners</a>, a mother of four and grandmother<br /><br />Entrance: Suggested contribution £2.50 (more if you can), pay at the door, refreshments are available at the bar<br /><br />Other Dates for your diary: 28th April, 19th May, 30th June, 29th Sept, 27th Oct, 24th Nov - Subjects to be confirmed<br /><br />Cafe Ollo, The Media Centre<br />Northumberland Street, Huddersfield<br /><br />Tel: 01484 483010 for more information<br /><br /><br /><iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=cafe+ollo+,+7+northumberland+street,+Huddersfield,+England&sll=36.244273,-95.712891&sspn=31.339397,64.335938&ie=UTF8&s=AARTsJr1HiSHHb90qBJmtsgs3pHqAl1Sew&ll=53.64797,-1.782575&spn=0.008903,0.018239&z=15&iwloc=A&output=embed" frameborder="0" height="350" scrolling="no" width="425"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=cafe+ollo+,+7+northumberland+street,+Huddersfield,+England&sll=36.244273,-95.712891&sspn=31.339397,64.335938&ie=UTF8&ll=53.64797,-1.782575&spn=0.008903,0.018239&z=15&iwloc=A" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;">View Larger Map</a></small>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-15427321973281202302009-02-12T16:54:00.008+00:002009-03-18T11:13:53.209+00:00‘Don’t get me started…..on Broken Communities.’The Huddersfield Salon 24th February 2009
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<br />... are our communities under threat? Is state intervention part of the problem? Do you think the state is interfering in our business too much? Or is it the responsibility of the state to intervene? ...
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<br /><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2008/speaker_detail/368/">Dave Clement</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2008/speaker_detail/368/">s</a></span>, author of ‘<a href="http://us.macmillan.com/thefutureofcommunity">The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated</a>’, argues that “We are constantly being told that communities are under threat, that we are losing a sense of community. In reality the notion of community in Britain is actually threatened by the very thing intended to protect it; relentless government and third party interventions bent on imposing their own forms of social cohesion on the population.”
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<br />Our second speaker; <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Bridget Crabtree</span>, Community Manager for the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/bxyt4v">Netherhall Learning Campus</a> in Huddersfield, will be presenting her ideas about community and government intervention. With several years experience of working within communities in Kirklees, she is in the ideal position to tell us why state intervention may be needed.
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<br />The tenth in a series of successful topical debates held at <a href="http://www.the-media-centre.co.uk/">The Media Centre in Huddersfield</a>, the Salon aims to bring provocative ideas from engaging speakers to its audience to stimulate exciting debate.
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<br />With ‘change’ being the global word of the moment, both economically and environmentally, perhaps it’s a time for change in the way our communities work.
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<br />Starting at 6pm on Tuesday 24th February at Café Ollo in the Media Centre on Northumberland Street, the event normally finishes at 8:30pm.<div>
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Two speakers are presenting us with their viewpoints.<br /><br />The first speaker, <a href="http://www2.hud.ac.uk/hhs/staff/shumvab.php">Valerie Bryson</a> (professor of politics, school of human and health sciences, University of Huddersfield) will be considering whether we have come far enough, and that addressing feminist questions is increasingly urgent for our society.<br /><br />The other speaker, <a href="http://www.lmu.ac.uk/health/menshealth/people/white.htm">Alan White</a> (professor of Men’s Health, Leeds Metropolitan University) asks why there is no male equivalent, and considers how feminism shapes a man's view of the world.<br /><br />Date: Tuesday, 9th December<br />Time: 6.00pm – 8.30pm<br />Tickets: £5.00<br /><br />Price includes soup and a sandwich, mulled wine and mince pies.<br /><br /><a href="http://pdfmenot.com/view/http://pdfmenot.com/store_local/234feb15fc5462d68f08b4e4060243cd.pdf">View or download the poster</a><br /><div><br /></div>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-70645727351202940842008-11-05T10:24:00.005+00:002008-11-06T17:01:32.697+00:00Grass Roots or Gala Performance: Where should the arts spend be going?<span style="font-weight: bold;">Tuesday, 11th November 2008 - Grass Roots or Gala Performance: Where should the arts spend be going?</span><br /><br />Join us for what may well be our most provocative Salon yet, as we ask ‘Grass Roots or Gala Performance: Where should the arts spend be going?’<br /><br />In an evening that promises to deliver a few fireworks of its own, Franco Bianchini, Professor of Cultural Policy & Planning Faculty of Arts & Society, Leeds Metropolitan University of Leeds, and Andrew McGill, Head of Arts and Events at Leeds City Council, will be discussing the role of culture in the new financial climate; how culture can be co-opted for political ends, about the nature of spectacle and its role in engaging the public, and whether money is better spent on grassroots and infrastructure development or big spectacles and performances.<br /><br />With the Festival of Light coming up in Huddersfield, we think that this will be a lively debate for all! Everyone’s welcome – the evening should be of interest to anyone with something to say about how our arts spend is delivered. Come along and have your say!<br /><br />Speakers:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Franco Bianchini</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Profesor of Cultural Policy & Planning Faculty of Arts & Society<br />Leeds Metropolitan University</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Andrew McGill</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Head of Arts and Events<br />Leeds City Council </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Event details<br /><br />Venue: Cafe Ollo, The Media Centre<br />7 Northumberland St, Huddersfield, HD1 1RL</span><br />Time: 6:00 - 8:30pm<br />Tickets: £5 available form The Media Centre reception or telephone 01484 483 000 ( price includes soup and a sandwich)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.the-media-centre.co.uk/">www.the-media-centre.co.uk</a>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-39118155445534521462008-10-09T15:34:00.006+01:002008-10-09T16:27:22.003+01:00Should we be protected from ourselves?<span style="font-family:arial;">On Thursday 16 October, the Fine Bunch return with the first Salon of the autumn season, asking ‘Should we be protected from ourselves?’</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Life is full of risks but where do we draw the line between what's acceptable and what isn't? If we want to eat, drink or smoke ourselves to death, is it our decision or should the government have a say? Where does the role of the state end, and personal responsibility begin? And which risks are worth taking?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The Salon is an open event for anyone who is interested in a lively discussion, whether you’re think that we should be taking more risks or exercising more caution. This promises to be one of our most provocative debates yet, so please come along and hear what the speakers have to say, and join in with your own thoughts.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Speakers </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Angus Kennedy</span>, technology consultant and freelance writer, says "it seems that every new risk that is identified, no matter how minor, has to be responded to with some new moralising campaign or draconian measure to restrict our liberties further." </span><br /><a href="http://www.instituteofideas.com/people/angus_kennedy.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.instituteofideas.com/people/angus_kennedy.html</span></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Graham Carson</span> from Drury PSM, who promote health and safety management in companies, will be taking the view that sensible risk management is a positive thing.</span><br /><a href="http://www.drurypsm.com"><span style="font-family:arial;">www.drurypsm.com</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Event Details</span><br /><br />Thursday 16 October 2008, 6.30 till 8.30pm<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Tickets £5.00 from The Media Centre reception or by calling 01484 483000</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield HD1 1RL</span><br /><br /><iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=The+Media+Centre,+7+Northumberland+St,+Huddersfield,+Kirklees+HD1,+United+Kingdom&sll=53.647494,-1.782926&sspn=0.009272,0.019312&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FeaeMgMdV9Pk_w&t=h&s=AARTsJoAqL2uZJVMYFdQ0Zlat-JOQ2L3lw&ll=53.655576,-1.778584&spn=0.017803,0.034332&z=14&iwloc=A&output=embed" scrolling="no" width="400" frameborder="0" height="350"></iframe><br /><small style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=The+Media+Centre,+7+Northumberland+St,+Huddersfield,+Kirklees+HD1,+United+Kingdom&sll=53.647494,-1.782926&sspn=0.009272,0.019312&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FeaeMgMdV9Pk_w&t=h&ll=53.655576,-1.778584&spn=0.017803,0.034332&z=14&iwloc=A&source=embed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;">View Larger Map</a></small>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-20463825713493081562008-06-12T12:36:00.004+01:002008-06-12T14:38:33.224+01:00Brands can save the world – or are we being greenwashed into another marketing ploy?<p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="MsoNormal">As part of an International Brand Circle Event in <st1:place st="on">Huddersfield</st1:place> we are delighted to present a June one off special Salon event.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><br />Speakers:<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clive Woodger</span>, Architect at SCG London, A major brand implementation consultancy<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nicola Turner</span>, Liberal Democrat candidate for <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Colne</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Valley</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Hudderfield.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><br />As pressure builds for producers to present themselves as part of an environmental solution and consumers get more demanding in their desire to reduce energy impact and be part of the answer, are we all being hoodwinked or greenwashed by cynical marketing that frankly is part of the problem?</p><p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="MsoNormal">Wednesday 18 June 2008, 6.00pm for 6.30pm start.<br /><o:p></o:p></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>Tickets £5 on the door (ticket price includes soup and a sandwich)</p><p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="MsoNormal">Venue: Cafe Ollo, The Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield<br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">The Salon will take a break over the summer. Look out for further details of the Autumn programme including: ‘</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The F word: has the battle been won or do we still need feminism?</span>’ and ‘<span style="font-weight: bold;">What are we frightened of? Fear and risk in modern society’</span>.</span></p>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-50621960368263332902008-04-09T16:51:00.003+01:002008-04-09T16:54:10.016+01:00Should childhood come with a health warning?<o:p> </o:p>Whether it’s stranger danger, the internet or just playing in the street, our children are portrayed as being in constant danger. The government feels it must launch a campaign this week to encourage children to play outdoors – the way their parents and grandparents always used to. This, in the light of a recent survey that shows that one in four eight-to-ten year olds have never played outside without an adult present; and one in three parents will not even allow older children aged eight to fifteen to play outside the house or garden. <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>Are we over-protective of our children? Child psychologist and former primary school teacher, Dr Helen Guldberg, certainly thinks so. She believes that an obsession with protecting children from all risks is depriving them of valuable learning experiences.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>Putting a different point of view will be Hazel Wigmore, a local champion of children’s causes.<span style=""> </span>Hazel believes that it’s not childhood but parenting that should come with a health warning. Children are more aware of risk than we give them credit for. Maybe we should spend our energies discouraging adults from having children as ‘lifestyle accessories’.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><o:p></o:p><br />The Salon is an open event for anyone who is interested in a lively discussion. Whether you are a parent, professional, interested in the future of our planet, or even a young person yourself. This promises to be one of our liveliest debates yet, so please come along and hear what the speakers have to say, and join in with your own thoughts.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tickets £5.00 from The Media Centre reception or by calling 0870 990 5000</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Media Centre, <st1:address st="on"><st1:street st="on">7 Northumberland Street</st1:Street>, <st1:city st="on">Huddersfield</st1:City> <st1:postalcode st="on">HD1 1RL</st1:PostalCode></st1:address><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Huddersfield Salon is organised by A Fine Bunch of people: an informal grouping of local cultural leaders including senior members of most of the major Kirklees Arts Organisations. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Speakers details:<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Dr Hazel Wigmore<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Huddersfield-born Hazel Wigmore founded the National Children’s Centre at Brian Jackson House in the town. She pioneered professional standards, training and registration for childminding, and created the Crying Baby Hotline and the Playtrain Nursery at Huddersfield Station. Whilst chairing the National Under-fives Group, she assisted in drafting The Children Act and also chaired the BBC Children in Need Awards panel in the North East and the BBC National Committee on Community Action.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Serving on the Parliamentary All Party Group for Under Fives led to Dr Wigmore succeeding Lady Plowden in chairing the national association for voluntary organisations working with under fives.<span style=""> </span>This in turn gave her the opportunity to work with the Under Secretary of State’s Office in framing the pre-school sections of The Children Act.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Her young people’s work has included pioneering fatherhood classes in youth detention centres and prisons,<span style=""> </span>the SUPERDADS project giving young fathers supervised access to their children and the COOL project for school refusers.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Dr Helene Guldberg<o:p></o:p></b><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Dr Helene Guldberg is co-founder and Managing Editor of spiked-online, the first custom-built online current affairs publication in the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Her writing - in publications from spiked-online and the New Scientist to the Independent and Guardian - specialises on issues of science and society, human psychology and child development.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">After working as a primary school teacher for a few years, Guldberg obtained a PhD in developmental psychology from the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:placename st="on">Manchester</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> in 1999. She currently teaches a post-graduate course in child development (as part of an MA in Education) with the Open University, and an undergraduate course in child development at Centres for Academic Programs Abroad (CAPA) and the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES).</p> <p class="MsoNormal">She is now working on a book for Vision Paperbacks on children’s lives - exploring how they have changed, and the impact on children’s development.</p>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-587607354913041192008-03-07T09:09:00.002+00:002008-03-07T09:16:10.923+00:00Sustainability - good for the planet but bad for architecture?<p class="MsoNormal">The visit of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to <st1:place st="on">Huddersfield</st1:place> last May will be remembered for widespread public celebration in glorious weather. The Royal pair were actually in town to open two new buildings – phase three of The Media Centre, and a social housing scheme in Primrose Hill. These developments were deemed extra special because they employ the very latest in eco-friendly building and maintenance techniques. <st1:place st="on">Huddersfield</st1:place> is pleased to be acknowledged as a leader in the field of sustainable building and architecture, which everyone now agrees is the way forward. Or do they?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">One man who certainly does not agree is Austin Williams, who will be telling us, in no uncertain terms, why. The London-based architect and Director of the Future Cities project, will be speaking at the March meeting of the Salon.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Williams believes that the job of architects is to design great buildings, but they are being prevented from doing this by politically correct box-ticking exercises such as the need to be sustainable. He says the "...green mire that architecture finds itself in today can only get worse unless it begins to break free of the low aspirational, sanctimonious, petty-minded, misanthropic, miserablism that sustainability represents."<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Putting forward a rather different point of view will be Carl Meddings, who is Principal Lecturer in Architecture at the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:placename st="on">Huddersfield</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, a centre of excellence in sustainable architecture. <span style="" lang="EN-US">Since qualifying in 1990 has also had considerable experience in private practice with Rod Hackney Architects, Hodder Associates and then his own practices Core Architects and Bareham Architects.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 13 March, 6.30pm<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Venue: Cafe Ollo, The Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></span></p>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-89936475938218785402008-02-05T16:40:00.000+00:002008-02-05T16:45:27.529+00:00New Salon Dates for Spring 2008<div> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Monday 18 February - Obesity - are we bingeing on another scare story?</span></span></b></strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Speakers: Rob Lyons, Deputy editor of Spiked Online (see <a title="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/issues/C34/" href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/issues/C34/">http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/issues/C34/</a> and <a title="http://www.robertlyons.co.uk/" href="http://www.robertlyons.co.uk/">http://www.robertlyons.co.uk</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Lyons</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"> argues: "Just fill in the gaps with obesity/climate change/bird flu/whatever and you have a ready-made panic, ... in response to which Something Must Be Done - usually by the government, because we feckless individuals are too weak to do it ourselves. "<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"></span></span><strong><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Thursday 13 March - Sustainability - good for the planet but bad for architecture?</span></span></b></strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Speaker: Austin Williams (Director of the Future Cities Project <a title="http://www.futurecities.org.uk/articles/art141103.html" href="http://www.futurecities.org.uk/articles/art141103.html">http://www.futurecities.org.uk/articles/art141103.html</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Williams argues that the "...green mire that architecture finds itself in today can only get worse unless it begins to break free of the low aspirational, sanctimonious, petty-minded, misanthropic, miserablism that sustainability represents."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Wednesday 16 April - Should childhood come with a health warning?</span></span></b></strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Speakers: Helene Guldberg (Founder of Spiked, see <a title="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/1657/" href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/1657/">http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/1657/</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Guldberg argues "At a time when government, the media and advocacy groups are constantly panicking about children and their wellbeing, is it any wonder that fear for our kids is widespread in society? Couldn’t it be a self-fulfilling prophecy?"</span></span></p>Venue: Cafe Ollo, The Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield.<br /><br />Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm; refreshments available from 6.00pm.<br /><br />Tickets can be purchased by visiting The Media Centre reception or by calling 0870 990 5000.<p class="MsoNormal">Ticket price: £5.00 or £12.00 for three.<br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-64682934293070674512007-11-23T14:22:00.001+00:002007-11-23T14:23:25.231+00:00Is Multiculturalism Dead?<span lang="EN-US">Not long ago <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Britain</st1:country-region></st1:place> was proud to proclaim itself a multicultural society in which all cultures were welcome and celebrated in their diversity. Whilst <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region> might not be a perfect society, it felt it was managing its diversity a lot better than most other places. Then a series of seismic events came along - the northern milltown riots of 2001, 9/11, 7/7 – and <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region> started to ask itself what multiculturalism really meant. The mood of skepticism was even voiced by the Commission for Racial Equality whose Chairman, Trevor Phillips proclaimed “We are sleepwalking our way to segregation. <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region> must scrap multiculturalism”.</span><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The talk now is of building greater integration and cohesion rather than in highlighting people’s difference. Does this mean that multiculturalism is a discredited failure or can it make a comeback as an idea? Is integration simply another word for assimilation? Is government trying to create a one-size-fits-all model of British citizenship under the pretext that diversity is a threat to our security? Are their any emerging alternative models which might take us beyond the current dispute?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Speakers</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">Munira Mirza</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> will argue that multiculturalism is dead </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Someone from the <b style="">Respect Trust</b> will make a defence of multiculturalism</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">Phil Wood</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> will make the case for Interculturalism as a new model.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Munira Mirza</b> is a writer and researcher on issues related to cultural policy and identity. She is co-author of the report <i style="">Living Apart Together: British Muslims and the Paradox of Multiculturalism. </i>She also edited the book <i style="">Culture Vultures: Is <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> arts policy damaging the arts?</i> and in 2005 she presented the BBC Radio 4 documentary series, <i style="">The Business of Race</i>. She is a founding member of the Manifesto Club, a new organisation that aims to champion humanist politics in the 21st century. Originally from Oldham she is now based in east <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Phil Wood</b> has been a partner in Comedia since 2000. Prior to that he worked for Kirklees Council variously as a community development worker, assistant head of culture and director of the Creative Town Initiative. He is now directs Comedia’s <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Intercultural</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">City</st1:placetype></st1:place> project and is the co-author (with Charles Landry) of <i style="">The Intercultural City: Planning for Diversity Advantage</i>, to be published in December 2007. He has been an advisor to the government’s Commission on Integration and Cohesion, Council of Europe and British Council on cultural diversity issues.</p>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-76246817110206446742007-10-29T14:38:00.000+00:002007-10-29T14:58:21.145+00:00some photographs from the first Salon event<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQdefoLJMvqgy-x_NM7PK4_fANgHKUTF8uvUaMGpxoA8E_hFpt0ZwEQ-tVO4hsTt48CvLm24QobyU-1UnAE-GpGBOv1LxU3_eUpdwx3GlN3qd_qYAQhGCmVUFc71yq3NmC8rNPrx1R5Z3i/s1600-h/DSC_0068.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQdefoLJMvqgy-x_NM7PK4_fANgHKUTF8uvUaMGpxoA8E_hFpt0ZwEQ-tVO4hsTt48CvLm24QobyU-1UnAE-GpGBOv1LxU3_eUpdwx3GlN3qd_qYAQhGCmVUFc71yq3NmC8rNPrx1R5Z3i/s320/DSC_0068.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126769245673301474" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Charles Landry<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDzn6YJygXGz511vmHEQlSkr29S4c8HFNd48hDNBx8xvJb67B59332dzyqnhkTiKiRUX-U9hczvY3OVk_R-0jwQQA17KXkuUafR68PZxRP0WtjBxrdxkne85KrhjiW0ovyzuG_ugEOLS02/s1600-h/DSC_0080.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDzn6YJygXGz511vmHEQlSkr29S4c8HFNd48hDNBx8xvJb67B59332dzyqnhkTiKiRUX-U9hczvY3OVk_R-0jwQQA17KXkuUafR68PZxRP0WtjBxrdxkne85KrhjiW0ovyzuG_ugEOLS02/s320/DSC_0080.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126769606450554354" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Paul Chatterton<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhmPkbYjd4kMG90ypLaPsoUqkg4H3GPaYQFwKemojMrGnEzcrH-zM0Ys9aW87YbNkjz6ElbT5C36PEuUa-JoTPiGEiYRlnsOnHretYHWUQaKCnpeJ6ZNVnCUHTX95mfygekeseBe4AGifl/s1600-h/DSC_0088.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhmPkbYjd4kMG90ypLaPsoUqkg4H3GPaYQFwKemojMrGnEzcrH-zM0Ys9aW87YbNkjz6ElbT5C36PEuUa-JoTPiGEiYRlnsOnHretYHWUQaKCnpeJ6ZNVnCUHTX95mfygekeseBe4AGifl/s320/DSC_0088.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126770237810746882" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Phil Wood and Paul Chatterton<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmHSRKGS96G1Dw95Fo_qQzmDLpIzJVbWSxMDMXvw4kxp5wQzyn2IyTGe4pUa6wQlWwYW5ICqpN4OVQhRV5b_3dIRSrfLpAgbwrzsCMjI8hS16xPgI2-kOtS3FGIlIciK1eOPZON6mrVvG/s1600-h/DSC_0137.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmHSRKGS96G1Dw95Fo_qQzmDLpIzJVbWSxMDMXvw4kxp5wQzyn2IyTGe4pUa6wQlWwYW5ICqpN4OVQhRV5b_3dIRSrfLpAgbwrzsCMjI8hS16xPgI2-kOtS3FGIlIciK1eOPZON6mrVvG/s320/DSC_0137.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126771122574009890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Charles Landry and Paul Chatterton<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPz42xP7O2q0WtPhr0I_O37ZxBtlX94nNaCo3t_tz1T4zaj2OSuKTPHwTqTjwZslgZPN3rYUJMr-8WQ8jPy7GC8r9cacRxmcbJ0m56lH9pF1iHvcpLeliH2_A_0JRWqFbN8OFBeWF5Ssz9/s1600-h/DSC_0124.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPz42xP7O2q0WtPhr0I_O37ZxBtlX94nNaCo3t_tz1T4zaj2OSuKTPHwTqTjwZslgZPN3rYUJMr-8WQ8jPy7GC8r9cacRxmcbJ0m56lH9pF1iHvcpLeliH2_A_0JRWqFbN8OFBeWF5Ssz9/s320/DSC_0124.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126770443969177106" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Victoria Minton responds to the debate, watched by Adrian Sinclair<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQWHckWmOvrnQaPiJM3K8mGlZPvM9HmDSSGf3pRuXXdLcmhlX0btyz_AF5ySQC-BVkXwhk8a6hqakBW7EfQXLUk6ZDIB0ZDMJQo07NEPXX-oZRtg5iOM3kUNIl_AVaKYSuwCILv5JfycD/s1600-h/DSC_0151.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQWHckWmOvrnQaPiJM3K8mGlZPvM9HmDSSGf3pRuXXdLcmhlX0btyz_AF5ySQC-BVkXwhk8a6hqakBW7EfQXLUk6ZDIB0ZDMJQo07NEPXX-oZRtg5iOM3kUNIl_AVaKYSuwCILv5JfycD/s320/DSC_0151.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126771461876426290" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />The audience respond to the debate<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />all photographs are © Katy HayleyHuddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-78479854195497084782007-10-22T17:06:00.001+01:002007-10-22T17:06:43.920+01:00Are You Happy Now?<p><span lang="EN-US">The Examiner tells us <st1:place st="on">Huddersfield</st1:place> is the happiest town in the North of England. When all’s said and done is achieving happiness what the striving’s all about. Or is happiness just the latest fad?</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There was a time when a government might see its goal as making its people more secure, or more wealthy or more equal. However David Halpern, adviser to the Tony Blair, told the BBC that within the next 10 years the government would be measured against how <i style="">happy</i> it made everybody. Conservative leader David Cameron has got in the act too, saying there is more to life than making money, and arguing that improving people's happiness is a key challenge for politicians.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In ‘The Happiness Formula’ the BBC constructed a 4-part TV series on something most of us never even knew existed – the science of happiness. We watched their campaign to ‘Make Slough Happy’, as if happiness was something that can be measured like GDP or shoe size.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Surely no-one sets out in life with the purpose of not being happy but is the pursuit of happiness what life is all about? Is it really a proper place for scientists and politicians to be trampling over?<span style=""> </span>Isn’t the pursuit of our own happiness our business – not theirs? Can you really demonstrate that changes in economic or social policy will make us more or less happy? Isn’t there also a danger of the private sector make a pseudo-science of happiness as a way of selling us lots of ‘wellness’ remedies and lifestyles that we don’t really need?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">Tess Peasgood</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> is advising the Government on how happiness research can be factored into resource allocation. <b style="">Dolan Cummings</b> is not at all happy with this sort of thing.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Speakers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"></st1:city></st1:place></span><b style="">Tessa Peasgood</b> is at the <st1:placename st="on">Tanaka</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">School</st1:placetype>, Imperial College London and is also connected to the Centre for Well-being in Public Policy at <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Sheffield</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Her current research explores the relationship between an individual´s happiness and satisfaction with life and their resources, specifically their income and health. She is also exploring questions relating to the role of subjective well-being indicators for informing public policy, and the implications of happiness research for government allocation of resources.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Dolan Cummings</b> is the editorial and research director at the <st1:placetype st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">Ideas</st1:placename> in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>, and a co-organiser of the annual Battle of Ideas festival. He edits the reviews website Culture Wars, for which he writes about theatre, film and books. He is also the editor of Debating Humanism, a collection of essays exploring different conceptions of humanist politics, and a co-founder of the Manifesto Club.</p>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-2068605349526902662007-09-19T13:28:00.000+01:002007-09-19T13:35:36.250+01:00Are we a Creative Town yet?<span style="font-size:100%;">A debate featuring Charles Landry and Paul Chatterton.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The American cities guru Richard Florida has said that: “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Time after time the people I speak with say there are signals that a place “gets it” – that it embraces the culture of the Creative Age”.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">So does <st1:place st="on">Huddersfield</st1:place> ‘get it’?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Someone must have thought so once because in 1997 <st1:place st="on">Huddersfield</st1:place> dubbed itself ‘The Creative Town’. The inspiration for that bold gesture came from <b style="">Charles Landry</b>, who went on to celebrate the town as an model for how small places could reinvent themselves in his book <i style="">The Creative City.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">We have invited Landry back to take the pulse of the town. Ten years on what does he feel about the creative city in general as an idea and has <st1:place st="on">Huddersfield</st1:place> fulfilled the promise he thought it showed back in 1997? And what new insights does he have to share from his most recent book <i style="">The Art of City-making</i>?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">Paul Chatterton</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">, from the <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">Leeds</st1:placename>, was never convinced by the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Creative</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">City</st1:placetype></st1:place> idea. He describes it as “a comfortable ‘feel good’ concept for consultants, policy makers and politicians rather than a serious agenda for radical change”. We have invited him along to challenge Landry and put forward his own ideal of how <st1:place st="on">Huddersfield</st1:place> and towns like them should be going forward.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">More information at:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.charleslandry.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">http://www.charleslandry.com</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/p.chatterton/">http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/p.chatterton/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/p.chatterton/"> </a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="">Charles Landry</b> is the founder of Comedia. He is a leading advisor on city revitalization and has worked throughout the world, most recently as ‘thinker in residence’ for the city of <st1:city st="on">Perth</st1:city>, <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. His books include <i style="">The Art of City Making</i> (2006); <i style="">The <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Creative</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">City</st1:placetype></st1:place>: A toolkit for Urban Innovators</i> (2000), published to widespread acclaim; <i style="">Riding the Rapids: Urban Life in an Age of Complexity</i> (2004) and, with Marc Pachter, <i style="">Culture @ the Crossroads</i> (2001). His association with Kirklees first began in 1993 when he advised the Council on its first cultural policy. He was a board member of the Huddersfield Creative Town Initiative from 1997 to 2000.</span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="">Dr Paul Chatterton</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> is a geography lecturer at the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">Leeds</st1:placename></st1:place>, his home town. His interest is in urban change and regeneration policy and alternative models for organising social and economic life and his work focuses on both British cities and <st1:place st="on">Latin America</st1:place>. He did a major study of the growing night-time economy in 6 cities. His two current projects are <a href="http://www.autonomousgeographies.org/"><i style="">autonomousgeographies.org</i></a> which explores the ways in which social activists and community groups are developing self-managed models for organising social and economic life beyond the welfare state; and <i style="">Who runs Cities?</i> (see <a href="http://www.whorunsleeds.org.uk">www.whorunsleeds.org.uk</a>) which promotes citizen engagement in urban governance.</span></p>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334520987374513405.post-90819493778946711062007-09-18T16:16:00.000+01:002007-09-18T16:18:38.248+01:00Don't get me started!<p class="description">The Huddersfield Salon is a new space in <st1:place st="on">Huddersfield</st1:place> for people who are interested in hearing provocative ideas from engaging speakers, and participating in stimulating debate.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Three upcoming dates for your diary:</p><p class="MsoNormal">Monday 8<sup>th</sup> October<br />6.30 till 8.30pm<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">‘Are we a creative town yet?’</span><br />Speakers: Dr Paul Chatterton (<st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">leeds</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>) and Charles Landry (Comedia)<o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 8<sup>th</sup> November<br />6.30 till 8.30pm<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">‘Are you happy now?’</span><br />Speakers: Dolan Cummings (<st1:placetype st="on">institute</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:placename st="on">Ideas</st1:PlaceName>) and Tessa Peasgood (<st1:placename st="on">Imperial</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 6<sup>th</sup> December<br />6.30 till 8.30pm<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">‘Is multiculturalism dead?’</span><br />Speakers: Munira Mirza (The Manifesto Club) and Phil Wood</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">VENUE:</span> Café Ollo, The Media Centre, <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Northumberland Street</st1:address></st1:Street>, <st1:place st="on">Huddersfield</st1:place></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ticket price: </span>£5.00 or £12.00 for three, available from The Media Centre reception or telephone 0870 990 5000</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Refreshments available.<br /><o:p></o:p><br />Brought to you by a Fine Bunch of people.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Huddersfield Salonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715200958889012217noreply@blogger.com1