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This event features a conversation with Brett Berquist UC Amokapua | Assistant Vice Chancellor Engagement and Philip Aldridge CE of the Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre of Christchurch. As both organisations look to celebrate milestone anniversaries in 2023, Brett & Philip will discuss how we celebrate such milestones, acknowledging the past and future of community facing organisations.

Brett Berquist serves as Amokapua | Assistant Vice Chancellor Engagement at UC. He leads UC’s engagement, institutional advancement, and strategic partnerships at a local, national and international level. He brings three decades of university experience in several countries, from lecturer to department head to senior administrator. His passion is collaboratively developing and implementing strategy to help institutions address changing conditions, demographics, and objectives.His research interests include community engagement, work integrated learning, nternationalization and related government policies, outcomes of international learning mobility, quality assurance in mobility and transnational education. He is active in a number of professional associations and external reviews. He co-chaired the Global Internship Conference from 2012 to 2019.

Philip Aldridge read History and History of Art at university before a classical acting training at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He worked for a decade in the English theatre and on television in The Bill, Boon, Emmerdale, Silent Witness, East Enders and four series of the comedy KYTV. He left the theatre to work in corporate finance in London and New York before selling the company he had established. In 2002 he and his family moved to Hawkes Bay. In 2005 he returned to the theatre as Chief Executive of The Court Theatre, became Chairman of the Bank of New Zealand in Canterbury in 2012 and joined The Arts Centre as Director in 2018. He became an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit in 2012.