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Following on from Remember Saro-Wiwa, Five proposals for London-based public art project The Living Memorial are short-listed.

Gunpowder Park, the new ninety-hectare country park at the top of Greater London, has launched Bright Sparks, a major new award scheme for creative practitioners who want to work with the “physical and social aspects of open space”.

Fourteen projects have been announced as recipients of the Sciart Awards 2005.

Michael Pinsky is the latest artist commissioned as part of COAST, a four-year arts project to raise the cultural and aesthetic profile of Essex’s coastal area.

The Bombay Sapphire Prize 2005 – at £20,000, the world’s largest annual award for artists, designers and architects working with glass – has been presented to glassmakers Anne Brodie, Ruth Dupré and Louise Gilbert Scott.

Lee-Anne Hampson is the UK-based winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards.

Next year, employer organisation Creative and Cultural Skills will produce a comprehensive skills strategy, as the first stage of a new programme of support delivering new creative apprenticeships, better careers support for newcomers and a new management and leadership programme.