An exciting panel of experts will debate and discuss the contribution of creativity and the arts to education at a special Question Time event hosted and organised by the University of Winchester.
The Arts and Creativity Question Time panel comprises:
The event on Monday, 23 February builds on the success of last year’s Education Question Time hosted by Victoria Derbyshire.
The Arts and Creativity Question Time will be chaired by Professor Bill Lucas - Professor of Learning and Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester and co-creator of the Expansive Education Network.
The discussion in the Stripe Auditorium will take place before an invited audience of 300 from within the University and beyond. The audience will include young people currently studying at the University’s partner colleges and schools as well as representatives from arts organisations and charities in the region.
Issues likely to come up for discussion include:
Invited audience members can submit questions related to these themes prior to the event via the Eventbrite booking page (before 13 February). Some audience members will be able to ask an associated question on the night.
Question Time will be livestreamed to a wider audience as well.
As with last year’s education event, Arts and Creativity Question Time will be a valuable real-world learning experience for students from across the Faculty of Education and the Arts (EDA) and the wider University.
Students play key roles in running the event as members of the organising committee and hosts on the night.
Students across EDA are liaising with the University’s conferencing team; marketing the event via social media and designing publicity flyers; filming the debate for livestreaming; reporting on the event; and providing entertainment at the reception on the evening.
Dr Cathy Gower, Dean of EDA, said: "The University of Winchester has a proud tradition of transforming lives through our sustained commitment to the arts, creativity and education.
“This event is a wonderful opportunity to bring together our exceptional students, accomplished alumni, and a panel of leading experts in the field. This promises to be a thought-provoking discussion on some of the most pressing issues in relation to the contribution of creativity and arts to education in all its forms.”
The University of Winchester works with a wide range of stakeholders in the Createch industries, arts-related charities, and educational settings. Students go on to be employed as makers, creatives and educationalists in many of these areas. The University also works with more than 430 schools and colleges across 12 local authorities and train 700 students annually to work in primary and secondary schools.
Tickets are available on the booking page HERE where there are also details on how ask a question.
The evening will from 5pm to 8pm, starting with a drinks reception from 5pm in the Stripe before Question Time at 6pm.
Parking will be available in the nearby Dytche car park, but guests are encouraged to use public transport if possible.
Audience members can donate to student nominated charity, Create - a multi-award-winning organisation reducing isolation and enhancing wellbeing through the creative arts. Donations can be made via the Eventbrite booking page or on the night via a QR code.
About the Chairman Professor Bill Lucas
Bill is known internationally as a speaker on the subjects of learning, change, creativity, healthcare improvement and leadership. He founded the University of Winchester’s Centre for Real-World learning in 2008. In 2017, Bill was appointed by the OECD as co-chair of the strategic advisory group for the 2021 PISA test of Creative Thinking. In 2022, Bill was appointed to the Global Institute of Creative Thinking as chair of its advisory board. Bill co-leads the Fellowship Programme of THIS.Institute, The Healthcare Studies Institute at the University of Cambridge. He also curates an online platform, Creativity Exchange, for Arts Council England.
Giles Martin
Emmy and Grammy Award-winning music producer, songwriter and composer, Giles has extensive experience working with some of the world’s biggest selling artists and has been critically acclaimed for his record production, live show, television and film creation.
His stage production credits include Music Director for The Beatles LOVE resident show in Las Vegas with Cirque Du Soleil and Sound of Magic for Disney. Film production credits include the Elton John biopic Rocketman, the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black as well as working on projects with Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Matthew Vaughn and Peter Jackson.
Sally Bacon
Sally is Executive Co-Chair of the Cultural Learning Alliance, which she founded in 2009 to ensure every child can experience an arts-rich education. She is co-author (with Pauline Tambling) of 2003’s The Arts in Schools: Foundations for the Future.
She was Director of the Clore Duffield Foundation for more than 20 years, where she led grant-making activity across the cultural, education and social sectors – distributing more than £150m. She chaired steering groups which led to the creation of Clore Leadership (for the cultural sector) and Clore Social Leadership for the wider charity sector.
Sally studied for a PhD in English Literature and Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge, ran the Poetry Society’s education programme and was Children’s Programmes Manager and children’s books editor for the National Trust. Sally is programme lead for the Mildred Fund which supports visual art programmes for teenagers, and is Learning Advisor for Goodwood Art Foundation.
She is chair of FrameWorks UK, which provides communications research and support to reframe social issues and is a trustee of Koestler Arts, which supports people in the criminal justice system to change their lives through participation in the arts. She was awarded an OBE in 2017 for services to cultural learning.
Phil Gibby
Phil Gibby is Arts Council England’s area director for the south-west. He joined from Welsh National Opera where he was director of development and communications.
Previously Phil held a number of senior roles at one of the Prince of Wales’s charities, Arts & Business, and headed the marketing and development department at Bristol Old Vic.
Phil, who began his career as a journalist, has chaired and served as trustee of a number of cultural, charitable and educational organisations in Bristol (where he’s lived for 26 years), Wales and the wider south-west.
Deryck Newland
Deryck is Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Play to the Crowd, an Arts and Education Charity incorporating the Theatre Royal Winchester, the Hat Fair outdoor arts festival and a range of community and young people’s projects including Playmakers Youth Theatre. The charity’s vision is to ‘Delight and Unite Communities’.
Before coming to Winchester in 2017, Deryck spent five years as CEO and Artistic Director of Pavilion Dance South West and before that he was Artistic Director of Salisbury Arts Centre for five years.
Prior to working in arts management, he spent 15 years designing, teaching and managing performing arts courses in secondary schools and further education colleges.
Deryck believes Arts and Education have the power to transform lives and are fundamental to a life worth living.
In 2023 Deryck was made an Honorary Fellow of The University of Winchester for services to the arts.
Marnie Seymour
Marnie is a Senior Fellow in Knowledge Exchange (KE) and MA Education Programme Leader at the University of Winchester. With oversight of KE and Innovation across the Department, she is Academic Lead for their NPQ (National Professional Qualifications for School Leadership) and ECF (Early Career Framework) provision.
She is a member of The Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) CPD forum and Special Interest Group (SIG) for Teachers’ CPDL. She is Chair of Trustees for the University of Winchester Academy Trust.
Marnie is a key member of the team leading research for a five-year programme funded by Arts Council England, establishing a Creativity Collaborative of schools to develop pedagogies that foster pupils’ creative thinking.
Dr Laura Lee
Dr Laura Lee is a guitarist, producer, creative technologist, and artistic practitioner with an interdisciplinary approach to the arts, music, and collaboration. Laura is a lecturer in Music Performance and Production at the University of Winchester.
Laura is passionate about building conversations in academia, the creative industries, and the arts world. As a practice-based researcher, her PhD ‘Post-Rock Composition and Performance Practice: Authenticity, Liveness, Creativity and Technology’ developed new approaches to music technology that blur the boundaries between studio and stage.
As director of Not Clean Creative, Laura supports individual artists and creative companies to explore their full potential through instinct-led communal music production, collaborating with arts organisations, the music industry, and creative companies such as Ableton, Universal, West End Centre, and Forward for Wiz Trust.
Alex Greenwood
Alex is a second-year film production student with a passion for filmmaking and the arts.
Alex has engaged with the social impact of film and media through his work as a submissions reviewer for Winchester’s Divergent Visions festival and by helping curate film screenings in Alton as part of his course’s short film club, Short Cuts.
He writes: “Central to my academic and artistic vision is the role of film, media, and the arts as a facet of social and economic activity, and how emerging technologies such as recent developments in Artificial Intelligence shift the balance of power.”
Back to media centre