Programme announced for the first national #turningpointnetwork event

The final programme has been announced for the first meeting of people from across the various visual arts strategy groups, that make up the Turning Point Network.

Hosted by BALTIC and Turning Point North East, this event will bring together over 100 leading figures from across the visual arts in England.

It will be a day of discussion and debate that attempts to 'define the moment', and explore how co-operation through the Turning Point Network might contribute to a stronger visual arts.

More information about the programme can be found here, on the roomman website.

For anyone not attending and who wants to follow the conversation online, I (and other attendees too, I hope) will be making regular posts to Twitter, using the #turningpointnetwork tag.

Thanks to support from the Archive team at BALTIC, we will be posting vox-pops collected throughout the day on the Turning Point North East website (currently in development).

A second national event is also now in planning. It will be hosted by Turning Point South East during Spring 2010, at a venue to be confirmed. This second event will invite into the conversation many people who, although not working through one of the visual arts groups, are critical to the full realisation of this emerging national network. 

If you have any questions about this event please do contact Simon Zimmerman via the contact page. 

For more information about the genesis of this first event, and to learn more about who was invited to attend, please click here now.