18 - 19 June 2012, Newcastle, UK

Newcastle University would like to invite you to a Sustaining Creative Economies Conference which is part of ongoing discussions and partnership development with Beijing International Studies University (BISU) around establishing an international Forum with a focus on the creative and cultural industries.

The reason for hosting this conference is to bring together academics, practitioners in and administrators of the creative and cultural industries, government officials and private sector representatives that have an interest in these industries and social renewal.

The creative industries and the creative business sector are increasingly recognized by policy makers and governments around the world as vitally important to the regeneration and economic growth of regions and whole nations. As such the creative industries are also influential in the production of contemporary culture and cultural artifacts of many kinds from films and electronic games to tourism and leisure, landscape, urban design and heritage management to imagined futures and packaged pasts. The creative industries will contribute enormously to the regeneration of formerly industrialized societies but will surely produce their own dysfunction, their own crises of identity and space and their own domains of political contestation. As such, strategists, policy makers, managers, and entrepreneurs all need to better understand creativity's core ingredients to recognise both its rewards and its limitations in promoting social renewal and regeneration.

Venue: Newcastle University Business School, 5 Barrack Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4SE
To find out more please visit the website.

If you have any questions regarding this conference please contact Jenny Hasenfuss at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
We hope you will be able to join us.

Kind regards
Dr Andrew M Law
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/staff/profile/andrew.law