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£1,500 up for grabs in Bristol’s hottest open exhibition prize.

Pioneering a new model for international residencies, Three Points of Contact brings artists together across a triangle of UK venues to collaborate, research – and just see what happens.

Artes Mundi’s Social Contours: Art at the Borders symposium in Cardiff successfully provided a Welsh context in which to discuss the work of the prize’s international artists.

Installation artist Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva has been selected to undertake the 2013 Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award Artist Residency at mima, Middlesbrough.

In the second in our Christmas series offering alternatives to the high street, we highlight selling shows and pop-up shops in Sheffield, Bristol, London, Cheshire and Suffolk.

The recent INTERPLAY event, organised by Bristol’s Hand In Glove collective, brought together artist-led groups from across the South-West and beyond. The co-Director of Redruth’s Back Lane West describes its ‘egalitarian atmosphere of possibility’.

The fifth Artes Mundi Prize has been awarded to Mexican artist Teresa Margolles.

ALISN’s Conference for Emerging Organisers explored the complexities of being an artist-organiser, and provided a useful forum for informal networking and discussion.

Artist Noemi Lakmaier is raising awareness, and money, for disability arts by spending four weeks painting shoes in a pop-space in the City of London. We pay her a visit to find out more.

Presented as part of the Festival of Blackboards 2012 in Islington, the School for Change event explored the latest developments in policy affecting arts and cultural education in England’s schools.

Why follow the crowd when you could buy gifts of original work by artists and makers? In the first in our series leading up to Christmas, we pick out five selling shows worth checking out this week.