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Indicative Programme

TUESDAY 17th October 2017 Community, Sustainability and Heritage Time Activity Speaker Professional Title Title of presentation 07.00 Exhibitors and organisers can get into building

Main Theatre Chair World Urban Parks 10.00 – 10.15 Dr Anna Steidle Introduction and Welcome and Europe Committee

Chair of World Urban Parks Urban parks in complex and 10.15 - 10.45 Main Theatre Richard Murray Large Parks chaotic times 10.45 – 11.15 Coffee and Exhibition viewing John Moores Liverpool John Moores Healthy parks, Healthy people: 11.30 -12.00 Main Theatre University www.cph.org.uk challenges and opportunities

CEO and President, Central Sustainable Cities, Vibrant 12.00 – 12.45 Main Theatre Doug Blonsky , New York Parks

12.45 – 13.30 Networking Lunch and Exhibition viewing

Walking Tour, New Brighton Wirral Parks & Countryside Coastal Promenade and Technical Tour Creativity, Ecology, Heritage, 13.30 – 15:00 Team and Volunteer Groups Vale Park and Tourism

Tea and Exhibition viewing 15.00-15.45

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Time Activity Speaker Professional Title Title of presentation Workshop/Case Study Main Theatre Tim Geyer Creating a vision for a park: Peter Verdyck Manager Parks & Urban Tackling community 15.45 – 16.15 Case study for Rivierenhof Director Provincial Green Spaces Queanbeyan-Palerang engagement in Australian parks Park Domains Antwerp Region Regional Council

Workshop Main Theatre Smart Parks - Facilitating Matthew Bradbury Sari Suonalainen Challenges facing UK Parks 16.15 – 16.45 sustainable development in Chair UK Parks Alliance Senior Lecturer HAMK sector dynamic park management And CEO Nene Park Trust University Finland

Why count people in urban parks? To preserve and Main Theatre Workshop/Case Study manage: a cross country Raphael Chaplain Keith Anderson Urban agriculture in the Parks in comparison of Miribel 16.45 – 17.15 Digital Marketing Director District of Columbia the District of Columbia – A Jonage (France); Parque Manager Department of Parks USA case study Metropolitano (Chili) and Eco-Counter (England) Main Theatre Workshop/Discussion Meg Cheever Pittsburg’s grey to green Possible impacts of Brexit on 17.15 – 17.45 Founder, President and story: how parks saved an parks CEO Pittsburg Parks industrial city

Conservancy USA

World Urban Parks Congress: October 2017: Programme Planner Marine Promenade, New Brighton, Wirral CH45 2JS

WEDNESDAY 18th October 2017 Community, Sustainability and Heritage Time Activity Speaker Professional Title Title of presentation 07.00 Exhibitors and organisers can get into building

Congress committee Main Theatre 09.00 – 09.15 member Introduction and Welcome

09.15 – 09.30 Main Sponsor

09.30 – 10.30 Coffee and Exhibition viewing District of Columbia Main Theatre The first net zero energy 10.30 – 11.00 Keith Anderson Department of Parks & recreation centre: a case study Recreation Washington DC Ramat Hanadiv and the regional Main Theatre CEO Ramat Hanadiv 11.00 – 11.30 Hugo Jan Trago sustainability partnership with Israel neighbouring municipalities Main Theatre Green Flag & Green 11.30 – 12.00 Paul Todd Promoting Parks Sustainability Heritage Awards Manager

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch and Exhibition viewing

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WEDNESDAY 18th October 2017 Community, Sustainability and Heritage: continued Time Activity Speaker Professional Title Title of presentation Chair World Urban Parks Older Adults and Parks: 13:00 – 14:00 Lecture/Presentation Tim Geyer Older Adults and Parks Advocacy for Change Advocacy Group The CityArchRiver Project: The Executive Director largest public-private 15.00 – 15.45 Lecture/presentation Eric Moraczewski CityArchRiver Foundation partnership in US National Park USA Service History 15.45 – 16.15 Workshop/ discussion group TBC TBC Research in Urban Parks Workshop / discussion Public Partnerships in Urban 16.15 – 16.45 TBC TBC groups Parks The Floral Pavilion Main Theatre: Open to all - A Debate: This house believes that…… 17.30 – 19.00 Chair: Supporting Team Opposing Team 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. The audience will vote with a show of hands Bar will be open

World Urban Parks Congress: October 2017: Programme Planner Marine Promenade, New Brighton, Wirral CH45 2JS

THURSDAY 19th October 2017 Community, Sustainability and Heritage (AT TOWN HALL) Time Activity Speaker Professional Title Title of presentation 09.30 – 10.00 Key note lecture Sir Peter Luff Chair/CEO Heritage

/Ros Kerslake Lottery Fund UK

10.00 – 10.10 Chair of the Friends of Professor Robert Lee Celebrating Birkenhead Park Combined presentation Birkenhead Park 170th anniversary: The 10.10 – 10.20 Elizabeth Davy Kemp Historian park’s historical and present 10.20 - 10.30 Paul Davis Birkenhead Parks day importance, challenges Manager Parks & overcome and future Countryside Department aspirations… Wirral Council 10.45 – 11.30 Coffee 11.10 – 11.30 The influence of Birkenhead Lecture Dr Christy Boylen Ireland Park on parks and gardens in Ireland 11.30 – 11.45 Lecture The Amsterdam Bos: Senior policy advisor Jan Heeren seeking the balance Sports and Recreation

Amsterdam between a historical park and modern challenges 11.45 – 12.15 Lecture The national public park of Expert for garden Saint-Cloud Paris: the long conservation & member term plan for maintaining Anne Marchand of Hortis Centre des the historic park, protecting Monuments Nationaux biodiversity and adapting it to modern activities

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THURSDAY 19th October 2017 Community, Sustainability and Heritage (AT BIRKENHEAD TOWN HALL): continued Time Activity Speaker Professional Title Title of presentation 12.15 – 13.00 Presentation Laure Guillemette Head of the North Green Nantes, the City in a Garden Spaces Department at the City of Nantes

13.00 – 13.45 Buffet lunch / walk around Hamilton Square

13.45 Birkenhead Park / Port Sunlight visits: Heritage buses – Two Groups 14.00 – 15.15 Group A 14.00 -14.45: Group B Walking tour from Birkenhead Park visitor centre Port Sunlight Heritage Centre: Short presentation and Paul Davis & team walk around on own Birkenhead Park Manager, Wirral Parks & Kath Lynch Countryside Department Port Sunlight Village Trust 15.15 – 15.35 Refreshments: Café at Birkenhead Park Visitor 14.45 – 15.15 Refreshments: Tea Room on site Centre 15.35 Pick up Heritage bus to Port Sunlight 15.15: Pick up Heritage bus to Birkenhead Park 16.00 – 16.45 Group A 15.45 – 17.00: Group B Port Sunlight Heritage Centre Walking tour from Birkenhead Park visitor centre Short presentation and walk around on own Paul Davis Kath Lynch Birkenhead Parks Manager Parks & Countryside Port Sunlight Village Trust Department Wirral Council

17.00 Pick up Heritage bus to return to New Brighton Pick up Heritage bus to return to New Brighton

19.00 – Congress Dinner & Awards Evening - The Floral Pavilion

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Friday 20th October 2017: Post Congress Tour

Friday 20th October 2017 Community, Sustainability and Heritage 9:30 – 16.00 , Liverpool and Sefton Council Technical Tour 16.00 Return to New Brighton

Saturday 21st October 2017 Community, Sustainability and Heritage 10.00 – 12.00 Flaybrick Memorial Gardens and Arboretum: Visit Kemp’s Grave – Guided walk and tour Friends of Flaybrick

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch: Williamson Art Gallery.

Presentations: Flaybrick Memorial Garden, John Moffat, Friends of Flaybrick 13:00 – 15:00 The work and life of Edward Kemp, garden designer, Elizabeth Davey

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