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Lessons from experience of hard times
A ONE-OFF "recession-beating" tour of Yorkshire which will start on Monday has attracted visitors from China, Singapore, Colombia, Italy, Norway and Ireland.
Experts from across the globe are visiting local success stories that emerged out of the 1980s recession, in a bid to help their own countries.
They will see how factories and mills left derelict by the collapse of traditional industries have been transformed into workspaces for creative industries.
The tour will include Huddersfield's Media Centre, where the four-day fact-finding and learning event is being held, Dean Clough in Halifax, Sheffield's Workstation complex and Barnsley's Digital Media Centre.
Speakers include Pat Kane, author of The Play Ethic and one half of 1980s pop band Hue And Cry, Simon Hill, executive director of Yorkshire Forward and Rob Vincent, the chief executive of Kirklees Council.
"It can be easy to forget just how much our northern towns and cities had to change in the wake of the 80s recession," said Teo Greenstreet, chief executive of The Media Centre, and course leader. "The North suffered more than elsewhere and so we learnt more about how to come through a recession."
n Entrepreneurship, Workspace and the Local Creative Economy takes place at The Media Centre from July 6 to 9. It is a joint initiative by The Media Centre, Kirklees and Barnsley Councils, Creative Clusters and Yorkshire Forward.
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Thursday 24 May 2012
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