Speakers Announced for No Boundaries Conference

The first wave of contributors for No Boundaries 2015, the arts and culture industry’s annual conference, has been announced. The conference takes place here at HOME and at Watershed, Bristol on Tue 29 – Wed 30 Sep 2015.

The international programme of speakers announced so far includes:

Mary Lou Aleskie, Executive Director, International Festival of Ideas

Nick Cohen, writer and political commentator on The Observer

Sam Colt, Head of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Odgers Berndtson

Basma El Husseiny, Action for Hope, Cairo

Natalia Kaliada, founding Co-Artistic Director of the Belarus Free Theatre

Vasif Korton, Turkish Curator and Director of Programmes at Salt, Istanbul

David Lockwood, Director, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

David Sproxton, Executive Chairman and co-founder of Aardman Animations

Kully Thiarai, Executive Director, Cast, Doncaster

Jo Verrent, Senior Producer, Unlimited

Alice Webb, Director, BBC Children’s and HOME Trustee

No Boundaries is part of Arts Council England’s State Of The Arts programme, and in Sep 2015 HOME and Watershed will live-link to provide delegates with a rich and diverse schedule of events, plus connected breakout areas for conversation and networking designed to bring ideas, spaces and delegates together. In addition to the main contributions, No Boundaries will also present cutting edge entertainment with The Money, an “urgent, playful” (the Guardian) piece of game theatre from Exeter-based Kaleider, for the first time running simultaneously in Bristol and Manchester.

For more information and to book your place at this year’s conference, please visit nb2015.org