The event will combine short stimulating presentations, questions and answers, panel discussions and facilitated discussion groups.

All participants will receive in advance, a copy of a literature review of research, from the past 10-15 years, on the impact of large-scale cultural events, commissioned from the Impacts 08 team.

This is a rare opportunity for just 80 participants with a shared interest in large-scale events and research to come together to share their experience of commissioning and using research to bid for and evaluate big events; ask questions of others with more or different experience; and look at ways in which our use of research in this context is changing.

Chaired by Dr Sara Selwood and with guest speakers including Sir Bob Scott, leader of Liverpool's bid to be European Capital of Culture; Dr Beatriz Garcia, Director Impacts 08; John Gold, Professor of Urban Historical Geography, Maggie Gold, Senior Lecturer, Arts and Heritage Management; Stella Hall, Creative Director, Culture 10, and John Kennedy, former Director of Cork, European Capital of Culture. Further speakers to be announced.

There will be an informal networking evening from 6.30pm, on the 22 October, and a full day from 9.15am to 4pm on the 23 October.

The BIG Question will be held at the Holiday Inn in Liverpool, Lime Street, opposite the train station.

Subscribers can attend both the networking session and the full day for £75. Non-subscribers can attend both sessions for £100. Non-subscribers can take out a new subscription to the Digest and attend both sessions for £140, representing a saving of nearly 50% on a year's subcription.
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Contact the Arts Research Digest office at enquiries@arts-research-digest.com to register or for further information.  This event is limited to 80 participants on a first-come first-served basis, so don't delay, contact our office to reserve your place.

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Published three times a year in hard copy and now also available online as a fully searchable research archive.

Subscribers can access 12 years of the research we've summarised through their own unique password and username. Each time a new issue is published the archive is added to, providing you with the most up-to-date information and an expanding resource on new research in the arts.

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