Achates: Collective Resilience
Join us for a one-day forum at Shakespeare’s Globe exploring collective resilience and how we can test this against the real conditions cultural organisations and artists are facing today.
Co-hosted by Shakespeare’s Globe and Achates, this one-day event will delve beyond the regular conference structure, with dynamic, working rooms for Pressure Point Labs, Future Stress Tests and tool-building opportunities, plus chances throughout the day and at the post-event Reception for a sharing of knowledge and learnings with peers.
The day brings together the whole cultural eco-system: cultural leaders, CEOs, Artistic Directors, Trustees, artists, freelancers, educators, producers, practitioners, micro-charities, larger organisations, independent/commercial charities and sector partners to work collectively to move forwards.
Throughout the event, you’ll consider themes including business model pressure, governance, care, inclusion, artistic practice, civic responsibility, climate, technology and more, with confirmed sessions so far such as ‘The artist is not the shock absorber’ and ‘Care is infrastructure’.
The programme is currently built around four key principles: start with the real case; build across scale; make every session do work; and end with action. Every attendee should leave with practical thinking they can apply.
There will be a choice of sessions to join. Further details to follow including the the full schedule for the day.
Resilience is not how long you can endure damage. It is whether you can change before damage becomes identity.
DETAILS
TICKETS
Early bird prices until 31 December* – see prices below
*includes a £3 per order transaction fee
If you are unable to attend, why not give someone else the opportunity to be in this collective resilience learning and networking space by paying-it-forward? See below for more details
This event takes place on-site at the Underglobe
Running time 9.00am – 7.00pm
Plan your visit
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Access
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Voices on the day
We have invited 25 leading industry peers to share their experiences of collective resilience, their journeys, learnings and practical advice.
Confirmed speakers and sessions so far include:
Stella Kanu, CEO, Shakespeare’s Globe
Building Resilience at Shakespeare’s Globe
Caroline McCormick, Director, Achates
Why Collective Resilience, Why Now?
Yinka Shonibare CBE, Co-Founder, Yinka Shonibare Foundation
A Vision of the Future – The Purpose Led Organisation
Jo Verrent, Director, Unlimited
The Artist is not the Shock Absorber
Sara Wajid MBE, Co-CEO, Birmingham Museums Trust
Purpose Under Pressure
James Pidgeon, Executive Director, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Climate, Weather and the Open-air Theatre Problem
Hosted by
Caroline McCormick, Director of Achates: “In 2024 Achates had the privilege of working with Stella and the team at Shakespeare’s Globe to develop a new purpose-led business model and approach. We are honoured that the Globe will now lead a conversation with the entire sector about the urgent need for business model evolution, the factors that are inhibiting this change and the remarkable strengths and assets we can unlock in our organisations enabling us to go beyond resource dependency.”
Stella Kanu, Chief Executive of Shakespeare’s Globe: “Collective Resilience faces head on the challenges everyone in the arts space is confronting. Resilience cannot be treated only as a financial or organisational problem. It must be tested against the real conditions cultural organisations and artists are facing now: care, inclusion, artistic practice, community responsibility, business model pressure, governance, climate, technology and the survival of the wider ecology that makes cultural work possible. Resilience is not how long you can endure damage. It is whether you can change before damage becomes identity; our industry cannot call itself resilient if artists are the shock absorbers. Collective Resilience will bring everyone who works across culture together to roll up our sleeves, test our thinking and find practical answers, so that we are fit and ready for what comes next.”
Schedule
Thursday 11 March
Full schedule to follow
9.00am Registration, tea, coffee and pastries
9.30am Welcome: Why Collective Resilience, why here, why now?
9.40am–1.00pm Sessions
1.00pm–2.15pm Lunch
2.15pm–5.00pm Sessions
5.00pm Closing: What we heard, what we owe each other
Until 7.00pm Drinks and networking
Lunch will be provided.
What type of ticket should I buy?
Early bird discount (10% off) applies to all price types except Achates Community members – until 31 December
Individual
Artists, Freelancers, Creative Practitioners £165*
Large not-for-profit organisation
One person from an organisation with 100 or more employees £381*
Medium not-for-profit organisation
One person from an organisation with 26–99 employees £273*
Small not-for-profit organisation
One person from an organisation with 1–25 employees £192*
Consultancy
Consultancies with more than one staff member £381*
Achates Community Member
Named member ticket £159* (no early bird price)
* price includes a £3 per order transaction fee
If you are unable to attend, why not give someone else the opportunity to be in this collective resilience learning and networking space by paying-it-forward? Contact our Box Office for more details.
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