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.

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. As educators, we 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 we 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.  Find out more.

ELIA Leadership Symposium 2023 will be hosted by Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University.

What to expect
–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 let’s start implementing. This is the beginning of now.  

Check the agenda here / register today.

Early Bird registration deadline: June 30, 2023
Final registration deadline: October 4, 2023

Choose a package option to suit your needs: A single member pass (one participant), combi member deal (two particants and more) and non-member pass (one participant). Note: if you purchase the combi deal for two participants or more from the same institution, you can add extra participants for a reduced fee of 400 EUR per person!

Each option includes access to all Symposium sessions, social and cultural gatherings, as well as wonderful networking opportunities (online and in-person) and of course ELIA team support.

Still got questions? Contact: info [​at​] elia-artschools.org. See you there!