International Day of the Girl Child – 11 October
Next Tuesday is the tenth anniversary of this important campaign. Many agencies and charities are suggesting ways to make a difference on the day.
33,000 girls become child brides every day (World Economic Forum, 2019)’
Supporting neurosignature diversity at work
We all have a unique neurosignature depending on how our brains are wired; recognising and honouring how each of us thinks, learns and communicates is essential. This article offers five actions to help.
- Ask people what they like doing and what they find most draining (obvious questions that are not often asked)
- Schedule a meeting free day
- Go video optional
- Say no to toxic behaviour
- Embrace different communication styles
Dormant Assets Consultation – have your say!
Important consultation on the use of dormant assets (in the region of £738 millions). Please contribute, the deadline is 23;45 on Sunday.
Dormant assets are financial assets like money in bank accounts, stocks and shares in companies, pension funds, or even insurance policies, whose owners (or heirs) have not claimed them or are unknown.
Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest
If you are going to be in Cambridge over the next few months there is a great exhibition at the Fitzwilliam looking at the interplay between money, power and dissent over the past 250 years. The programming seems rather prescient.
The Art of Remembering: Research, Action and Healing
If you have some time on the 14th November and are in the Newcastle area this looks like a really thought provoking symposium.
The symposium sets out to explore how museums and heritage sites, artists, curators, academics and communities have responded to both commemorated and suppressed historic events, and the ways in which they forge new social, cultural and artistic alliances, connecting past conflicts with today’s movements for human rights.
NCACE Festival of Cultural Knowledge Exchange 10-14 October
Some cracking sessions in this wide-ranging programme next week, available online.
The festival is a space for fresh considerations and perspectives on cultural knowledge exchange between Higher Education and the Arts and Cultural Sector