ELIA | Leadership Symposium 2023

ELIA Leadership Symposium 2023 The Beginning of Now gathers global thinkers, arts education leaders, researchers, policymakers, changemakers, and strategists to a city steeped in a radical tradition.

Out of the dark soil, new shoots grow.

Against the backdrop of global urgencies, the cost-of-living crisis, armed conflict, ecological emergencies, and social injustice, the ways students learn and perceive their role in the future are rapidly evolving. Educators face growing pressures to remain authentic in a highly metricized educational market.

ELIA Leadership Symposium 2023 invites participants to provoke, stimulate, experiment and exchange as they empower each other with the confidence and foresight to take actionable steps forward. Be inspired by one of the birthplaces of the industrial revolution, the first modern city, advocates of the western vegetarian movement, aimed to be zero carbon by 2038, famed for its music scene, artists, writers, football clubs, and the splitting of the atom – Manchester.

• Engage and experiment with democratic and generative processes to spark a powerful call to action – The Manchester Provocation.
• Immerse into the Symposium’s hive mind and pose new narratives for higher arts education.
• Debate new political ideologies, leadership theories, and post-Brexit perspectives, facilitating a mindset that radical change is within reach.
• Explore new and alternative leadership models which will pave new ways of thinking and creating.
• Initiate a working framework that will feed into ELIA’s future strategic priorities.

Coalesce with your international colleagues. Share your ideas, manifestos, research projects, and methodologies on how the future should be and start implementing. This is the beginning of now.

Pricing

• Single member pass: 500 EURO
• Combi member deal: 800 EURO
• Non-member pass: 900 EURO

Early bird registration deadline: 30 June 2023

Final registration deadline: 4 October 2023

Register here.