Building A Creative High Street

Invitation

The Rochdale Borough High Street Foundation invites you to attend this exciting workshope can stimulate more creative activities around the arts, music, heritage, theatre and dance etc

Timetable

1.00pm Welcome

Pam Smith, Executive Director, Rochdale Council

1.05pm Rochdale Arts & Heritage Offer

Andy Kelly, Andy Kelly Associates

1.20pm The Future But Not As We Know It – Retail’s Rapid

Transformation

Paul Turner Mitchell, Chair of Rochdale Borough High Street

Foundation

1.30pm Reinventing the High Street – Finding New Uses for Empty

Shops

Dan Thompson – Empty Shops Network

1.50pm Thinking Beyond Retail

Martin Ballard, The Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre

2.00pm Pop Up Art

Emrys Morgan, The Hive Projects

2.10pm Pop Up Shops – Perfect for starting up, growing or moving your

business

Dan Thompson, Empty Shops Network

2.25pm Business Rates – What you need to know

Ruth Bailey, Rochdale Council

2.30pm Q&A

Questions from the floor

2.45pm Coffee Break

3.00pm An A

‐Z of Place Shaping Ideas

Dan Thompson – Empty Shops Network

3.15pm Breakout Session – Reinventing the High Street

4.00pm Feedback

4.30pm Open Forum Q&A

5.00pm Close

okings: To book your place on this FREE event please email: business@rochdale.gov.uk or Tel: 01706 926700

is the founder of the Empty s Network and an expert in the creative use of empty shops and creating pop shops. He is an artist and writer and was widely acclaimed for leading the #riotcleanup in London last year earning praise from Prime Minister David Cameron. Working with empty shops, Dan has provided advice and support to projects across the UK. We are delighted to invite Dan to share his experiences and talk about building creative high streets within Rochdale boro