From an application of over 115, seventeen projects will receive funding for networking programmes designed to develop future and emerging cultural leaders.
“Spirit in community will die unless there’s someone calling the meeting.”
A leader is best
When people barely know that he(she) exists,
“What happened to the people who said ‘we will represent something in the world’? When did artists start to say ‘we will change the world’?”
This Research papers series offers a timely response to the need for more easily accessible data and knowledge about, and for, artists.
Adventure playgrounds, or junk playgrounds, as they were known, began life as occupied building sites, wastelands and bombsites that had been colonised by city children looking for interesting and adaptable spaces in which they could play in relative privacy away from adults.
It is great that a-n is asking artists and organisations what they think of the recent structural changes at Arts Council England.
The term synchronicity was first used by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe “temporally coincident occurrences of casual events”1.
October saw the formal opening of Elements, the transformed garden and corridor areas at Park House, North Manchester General Hospital. Under the leadership of artists Stella Corrall and Adam Reynolds, service users and staff at Park House have been brought […]
Two major themes emerged during a recent Littoral conference, and both of them had to do with community self-reliance.
In October, after a six-month review period, Arts Council England issued news of the new structure that is designed to create “a more focused, streamlined and effective organisation that is better able to provide national leadership and planning, build new partnerships and make a stronger case for the art”.
Arts Council England has come under heavy fire recently, as debates have raged about how usefully it serves the artistic community and the public.
Artists comment on the Arts Council’s Turning Point Strategy.
Views on cultural policy and the environment for contemporary practice.
Pallas Heights Gallery and Pallas Studios have been forced to close after serving the art and local communities for ten years in the North Inner City of Dublin.
Q Arts Gallery, Derby
22 April – 4 June
A Code of Practice takes commonly-agreed principles of good practice and demonstrates why and how they should be applied.
Arts Council England has announced plans to restructure and refocus the organisation’s national office.
Susannah Silver reports from the Visual Arts Network of South Africa conference.
Outer space investigates the interface between artists’ practice and the socio-political domain. Devised and edited by Esther Salamon, contributors include Chris Batt MLA, Paul Collard Creative Partnerships, Jonathan Davis CABE, David Lammy MP Minister for Culture, Graham Leicester International Futures Forum and Tom Shakespeare.
Following the recent questioning of the relationship between Arts Council England and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, in the light of the publication of the ACE Peer Review at the end of 2005 (see Comment in February a-n Magazine), challenges have been presented to the Scottish and Welsh arts councils that threaten to undermine their continued ‘arm’s length’ relationship with the Government.
‘Cultural Industries: The European Experience’ is a conference being run by EUCLID in association with the Tate Modern on 20 March.
Awards for artists from Scotland and Wales.
Dr Malcolm Miles, Reader in Cultural Theory at University of Plymouth comments.
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.
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