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Independent Adviser. Culture and Regeneration Policy, Programmes and Projects Peter Stark has over thirty-five years direct experience of leadership and management in the cultural sector and of the interaction of that sector with issues of economic and social regeneration. His career to date has included work: • as a designer and director of community arts centres • as a chief executive in the arts funding system • as co-ordinator of major cultural capital projects for local government • as an adviser, consultant, trainer and teacher • as a director of centres of research, training and consultancy in HE • directly with artists and as an occasional performer • as a national cultural policy advocate The work has been set in inner cities, in rural areas and in Newtowns in the UK and – since 2000 – in locations throughout South Africa principally Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay (previously Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape working with their Development Agencies as well as working on elements of national cultural policy. During these last six years, working until 2003 in his role as Professor of Cultural Policy and Management at Northumbria University he developed Centres of applied research in Newcastle/Gateshead (at Holy Jesus Hospital) working closely with Professor Chris Bailey and in Johannesburg (at Wits School of Arts) where the first Cultural Management Masters courses in Arts, Culture and Heritage Management are now well established. Immediately prior to this phase of his work in the new century, as Director of Northern Arts and then Special Projects Adviser to Gateshead Council through the 1990s, Peter had played a major role in the conception and development of Gateshead Quays - at the heart of the culture led regeneration of his native Tyneside in North East England. In 1990 he had been awarded the OBE for services to Northern Arts in the 1980s. During 2005/6, Peter will be completing the current phase of projects in South Africa and consolidating his bases for the future in Newcastle/Gateshead and at the Johannesburg CCPM before a sequence of international research visits integrated with ongoing work during 2006 – 2008 made possible by the award of a major bursary by Arts Council England. During this period he will be considering and developing options for continuing work and study in his established fields of principal interest over the following decade.
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