2008 is the year of the Beijing Olympics, Euro 2008 and Liverpool’s Capital of Culture.

Our conference takes place during Manchester’s World Sport 08. It’s the
year the Olympiad hands over to London ahead of 2012. Each will claim to deliver
an event that everyone can join in. Each will claim a ‘legacy’.

But there are also a myriad of local, smaller events. Cultural community celebrations.
Sports festivals. Youth activities. Away from the cameras, how do we organise these to
ensure access, benefits and impacts?

There is an imperative that these events all deliver. Great occasions. Openness.
Participation. Accessibility. Community development. Legacy.

What’s in it for you?

After the Event brings together policy makers, event organisers, programme managers, project deliverers. Telling you how it is and how it’s been.

After the Event will introduce the most recent research to inform, stimulate debate
and provoke change. Giving you information on what’s happened and how you can deliver.

After the Event will showcase good practice; demonstrate techniques; create
new connections. It will help make things happen.

After the Event will be Domestic, European, Global.

After the Event is the second Substance

Annual Conference following 2007’s acclaimed ‘Beyond Engagement’
www.beyondengagement.org.uk

Substance will be announcing headline speakers in the near future. Look out for
a full programme, registration details and special offers in the spring. Meanwhile:

• Save the Date Bridgewater Hall, Manchester 15-16th July 2008

• Register your interest at:
www.aftertheevent.substance.coop

• Give Us A Shout.
This is a call to be part of our event.
Send us your proposal: your paper, your project demonstration, your idea,
your desire to be involved. Contact:
info@substance.coop;

After the Event will focus on events of every hue – from the global to the local; from the mega to the mini; from cultural to sports.

It will ask: ‘How do we make them ‘open’? How do we make them work for us? What do we mean by legacy?’