Researching Place in Performance and the Cultural Industries
- Date: Wednesday 24 June 2026, 13:00 – 16:00
- Location: Stage@Leeds
- Cost: Free
The School Performance and Cultural Industries PLACE research group invite you to join us to hear about current place-based research and think about:
- What does a focus on performance and cultural industries bring to an understanding of place?
- How does place-based research inform understanding of performance and the cultural industries?
Book your free tickets here: Researching Place in Performance and the Cultural Industries – stage@leeds, Stage One - University of Leeds
Invited speaker: Prof Abi Gilmore, Professor of Cultural Policy, Art History and Cultural Practices based at the University of Manchester
Bio: Gilmore is collaborative researcher whose research focus and strategy concern the relationships between culture, policy and place governance. Based within the field of critical cultural policy studies, my research foregrounds collaboration and interdisciplinary research practice and mixed methods.
Panellists:
Jonathan Pitches: Towards an object history of mountains
Rachel Nisbet: Transposing Tonal Values from the Chamonix Valley, to the Engraver's Plate, to the Proscenium Arch Stage
Joslin McKinney: Assemblages of dwelling: using scenographic techniques to explore materialities of place
Scott Palmer: Dwelling in light and darkness
Damilare Ogunmekan: Towards a Performer-Space-Place Ecology
Steve Dobson: Cultural Vitality and Place
Anna Douglas: The Otley Run Complaints Choir: Singing as a Restorative Practice
More information about the School of PCI PLACE research group here
We welcome researchers from the University of Leeds and elsewhere at all career stages, including Postgraduate Researchers. If you would like to become a member, you can sign up to our JISC mail list.