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Mike Stubbs

Mike Stubbs, who is Director of FACT, was previously Head of Exhibitions at the world leading and state of the art Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI).

Mike joined ACMI in 2003, initially as Curatorial Manager before becoming Head of Exhibitions the following year. During the three years, he has contributed to positioning the venue as one of the world’s leading moving image centres.

Mike moved to Melbourne from Dundee, where in 2000 he became Dundee University’s School of Television Imaging’s first Senior Research Resident. In this period he contributed to a body of research and consultancies including Freefall, Peterborough’s first new media art show, a study into suicide and self-harm in West Scotland and advising on media resources for Site Gallery in Sheffield.

Between 1987 and 2000, Mike was Founding Director at Hull Time Based Arts (HTBA), a position that won him recognition as a primary promoter of new media in an international context. Over this 13-year period, he took HTBA – an artists’ run collective of humble beginning - to becoming one of England’s significant agencies for experimental art, making a significant contribution to the cultural and social generation of Kingston Upon Hull.

Jasmine Wilson

Jasmine Wilson trained at London Contemporary Dance School. Since graduating Jasmine has worked in contemporary dance as a performer, teacher and manager. She joined Wayne McGregor | Random Dance in 1997 working as General Manager and Education Officer and was appointed Co Director of Creative Learning in April 2007 with responsibility for activity with participants under 16. She has managed and taught on projects with a wide variety of participants, in a diverse range of locations such as Canary Wharf tube station, Goresbrook Housing Estate and Crown Street car park in Ipswich. Jasmine managed both of Random’s children’s projects, digit01 and Alpha and also performed in digit01. Jasmine acted as choreographer’s assistant to Wayne McGregor on Harry Potter 4: Goblet of Fire, Peter Hall’s You Never Can Tell and Salome at ENO.
Jasmine Wilson
Co Director of Creative Learning

Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Ave, London, EC1R 4TN
Mobile: +44 7981 881366
Office: +44 20 7278 6015
www.randomdance.org

Susanne Burns

Susanne Burns is a freelance management consultant with 26 years of senior management experience in the cultural sector. Her work has encompassed dance, theatre, music and the visual arts. She currently has a diverse portfolio of clients, including Tate Liverpool, LARC, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Curious Minds. She is also currently working on the Arts Council England Dance Mapping research and recently carried out the evaluation of the Next Steps/ Dance Links project for Youth Dance England.

Her arts management career began when she joined Northern Arts as their first Dance Officer in 1984 and she has since worked for a range of funding bodies on a freelance basis as well as working at senior management level for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and FACT.

She has extensive experience of working in Higher Education as she was Head of Management at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts from 1994 -2001 where she ran the Arts Management undergraduate programme and is now engaged part time by Liverpool John Moores University, where she leads a new MA programme in Cultural Leadership. She is an external examiner and contributes guest teaching throughout the UK.

She is Chair of the Foundation for Community Dance and a member of the Management Group for the longitudinal Impacts08 research into the impact of Liverpool’s year as Capital of Culture 2008.

Emma Gladstone

Producer Emma Gladstone joined Sadler's Wells in 2005. Her programming and producing there includes off-site performances – Focus on Forsythe, Victoria & Albert Museum, Latitude Festival - installations, dance film nights, and work for young audiences in Sadler’s Wells Theatre and the Lilian Baylis Studio. Emma is also Director of the Jerwood Studio at Sadler's Wells research programme, which test drives new ideas and collaborations for the main stage.

Before becoming deskbound Emma danced for many years, getting her Equity card to work with choreographer Arlene Phillips while still at school. She co-founded and directed Adventures in Motion Pictures with Matthew Bourne following post-graduate studies at Laban Centre, London and performed with Lea Anderson’s The Cholmondeleys for eight years. Prior to working at Sadler’s Wells Emma was Associate Director at The Place Theatre, London 1997 – 2002 where she launched OffSpring, a season of work for young people. Emma was co-director of production company Crying Out Loud 2002- 2005, and has a History degree from Manchester University.

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Ruth Churchill Dower

Ruth Churchill Dower is the Director of Isaacs UK (www.isaacsuk.co.uk), a cultural learning consultancy working across the arts, cultural and early educational communities.

Isaacs UK believe that all children are entitled to creative and cultural opportunities that support their learning, playing and being. How we go about building the capacity of the arts, cultural and educational sectors to support young children’s creative hunger is the big question. This is where Isaacs UK focuses its work, to better understand and meet the challenges of a rapidly changing society, and to unlock the creative potential of all those involved in building our children’s present and future landscapes.

Isaacs provides specialist support in areas of early years, arts in education, networked learning partnerships, professional development, online learning, evaluation and impact assessments, research and evaluation.

One of the main networks run by Isaacs UK is Earlyarts (www.earlyarts.co.uk), a professional development network for arts, cultural and early years professionals working creatively with young children and families. Ruth recently won the Ogunte Women’s Social Leadership Awards 2009 for her work in building Earlyarts to make real change happen in young children’s lives.

Ruth has worked on developing arts, cultural, early education and learning strategies in both policy and practice, with clients such as Futurelab, Arts Council England, CAPE UK, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, National Museums Liverpool, Canterbury Children’s Centre, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, and Creative Partnerships.

Previously, Ruth was Headed of Lifelong Learning at Metier, the National Training Organisation for the Arts and Entertainment Industries; Arts Officer with Norwich City Council; and Manager of the Dacorum Borough Arts scheme, a professional development programme for artists and schools. Ruth has also been a visiting lecturer at University of Hertfordshire, University of East Anglia, and Norwich School of Art and Design.

She has published a range of papers, articles and guides in the areas of creative practice in early years, online learning and knowledge management. The most recent ones being:

• Ruth Churchill Dower (2008) Fostering Creative Learning for 3-5 year-olds in Four International Settings, chapter 9 of Creative Learning 3-11 and How We Document It, edited by Anna Craft, Teresa Cremin and Pamela Burnard. Published by Trentham Books, ISBN: 978-1-85856-410-4.
• Ruth Churchill Dower (2006) Imagination for Life and Learning , Yorkshire, Arts Council England, ISSN/ISBN: 0-7287-1191-5
• Ruth Churchill Dower, Helen Sims, Chris Hoy (2006) Search for Meaning - The Children's Curriculum, Bradford, Canterbury Nursery School and Centre for Children and Families.
• Fiona Anderson; Tim Caulton; Ruth Churchill Dower; Pat Cochrane; Dr Catherine Burke (2006) Cultural Entitlement: the capacities of cultural and creative organisations in the Yorkshire region to deliver a ‘cultural entitlement’ agenda in schools, , Arts Council England, Creative Partnerships, Leeds University, Yorkshire Museums Libraries and Archive Service.

Ruth is a Director and board member of Germination, a cultural production company. She is also a member of Small Size (European network for the diffusion of performing arts for children), EUnetART (European Network of arts organisations for children and young people), a fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts) and works as an Expert Advisor to Youth Music.

Ruth has a degree in theatre, is a practicing musician, and also enjoys contemporary dance. She lives in Yorkshire with two young children and spends any free time in the hills and mountains paragliding.

 










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