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Lon Dubinsky speaking in Leiden
On 2 July 2003, a meeting with Dr. Lon Dubinsky will take place in the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden.
Dr Lon Dubinsky will speak on the subject of "Linking Communities, Universities and Museums through Artistic Inquiry: The Kamloops Experience".
Dr. Lon Dubinsky is co-director of The Cultural Future of Small Cities, a long term research project in Kamloops, BC researching the challenges and possibilities facing the art world and cultural heritage in smaller cities. Dr. Dubinsky is a researcher at Kamloops Art Gallery and teaches at the Department of Visual and Performing Arts van het University College of the Cariboo. He has published a.o. the article 'Working Well, Together: Arts-Based Research and the Cultural Future of Small Cities', AI & Society (2002: 16): 332-349.
After the speech it is possile to debate with Dr. Dubinsky on the subject of cultural exchanges between museums and universities. It is also possible to visit the Museum of Ethnology, where a short guided tour at the North-American and Arctic department will take place.
The afternoon is co-organised by the ACSN and supported by the Canadian embassy in the Hague. For more information, contact Leen d'Haenens, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (024-3612322 or 3612372) or Cunera Buijs, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (071-5168800).
Address: Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Steenstraat 1, Leiden (071-5168800)
The museum is 5 mins. walking distance from Leiden Central Railway Station. Paid parking at the Haagweg, Morssingel and Molen De Valk parkings.
Biography of dr. Lon Dubinsky
Dr. Lon Dubinsky studied at Dalhousie, Queen's, New York University and received a Ph.D. in Communications from McGill University. He also teaches part-time in the Master of Fine Arts and Studio programs at Concordia University in Montreal. He writes and lectures on collaborative practice, cultural development, contemporary art, and about links between arts, heritage and literacy education. Invited presentations have been given at many professional conferences and at universities throughout Canada, the U.S. and Europe such as the University of Toronto, Harvard, Erfurt University in Germany and at the Centre for Canadian Studies at Western Washington University as a visiting fellow. Recent writing is found in AI&Society and in the anthologies Canada's Cultural Industries and Beyond The School: Institutional and Community Partnerships in Art Education.
Recent presentations about the initial work of the small cities project were made in 2003 at the CUExpo Conference on University-Community Partnerships in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and in 2002 at the "Cultural Development in Canada's Cities" colloquium of the Canadian Cultural Research Network in Toronto and at the Atlantic Cultural Space Conference in Moncton, New Brunswick.