Creative Rural Conference - call for papers and participants

Call for papers and participants for an "Arts, Enterprise and Place in the Rural Creative Economy" Conference to take place at Newcastle University on 12 & 13 January 2022.

This conference focuses upon the artistic people, communities and businesses in the rural creative economy and seeks to facilitate a discussion around invisible micro-economies inside the creative economy in rural areas.

The call is for papers, roundtables and organised panels featuring academics, artists, musicians, promoters, festival/venue organisers, policy makers, and those involved in local authority or cultural tourism with an interest. Papers will be considered on the following theme that relate to rural places and:

• The economic sustainability of artistic livelihoods in the rural creative economy
• Enterprise and communities in music, venues and festival performing arts in the Rural Creative economy
• Statistical invisibility and rural data sources for self-employed artists and micro- or part-time-enterprises
• Relations between artistic genres, marketing and place in rural areas
• Methodological approaches to rural creative economies
• Fungibility of economic, social and cultural capital in rural place
• Role of local government and the state in facilitating creative entrepreneurial rural areas
• The branding and performance of rurality in music and art

This conference at Newcastle University brings together those researchers, practitioners and artists who study, govern, perform and/or make a living in the rural creative economy. The conference seeks to encourage a cross-disciplinary discussion between academics, practitioners and policy makers with interests in micro-enterprise and the rural creative economy.

Please submit your abstract to creativerural@newcastle.ac.uk by 31st August 2021. This conference is part of the AHRC-funded project Music in the Rural Creative Economy, and welcomes approaches from those who wish to collaborate in this event.

Further details here.