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Participation
Attendance and participation in theatre, street arts and circus in England
Headline data from the Taking Part survey 2005-06
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Participation
From indifference to enthusiasm: patterns of arts attendance in England
Including 2008-09 statistics, this analysis of Taking Part survey data on arts attendance in England is produced in partnership with Tak Wing Chan and John Goldthorpe from the University of Oxford.
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Participation
Arts and Public Engagement: Patterns, processes and levers for change
Following a decline in arts participation, Arts Council Wales commissioned this report to understand the reasons.
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Participation
A passion for excellence: an improvement strategy for culture and sport
Published by the Local Government Association in 2008, this is an official strategy document commissioned by the DCMS under the New Labour administration. It encourages local government working with local partners to improve quality of life, and improve delivery of cultural and sport services to local people.
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Working practice
Art work in 2007
A review of the changing face of work for visual artists using a-n’s regularly researched and published information on jobs and opportunities. Presents an analysis of the key findings for 2007, concentrating on the work areas tracked since 1989, and opportunities such as fellowships, commissions, competitions, exhibitions and residencies.
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Cultural policy
Culture and learning: towards a new agenda
New Labour consultation paper which challenged cultural professionals and educationalists to provide a new and coherent direction for creative learning, and for encouraging creativity through culture.
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Cultural value
The elephant in the room
Maps opportunities and barriers facing the African, Caribbean and Asian visual arts sector.
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Participation
Democratic culture: opening up the arts to everyone
John Holden, writing in 2008, asks what ‘cultural democracy’ might look like, if we had it, and begins by addressing what ‘culture’ means today.
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Participation
Creative Britain: new talents for the new economy
Important at-the-time DCMS document explaining its developing thinking about the creative industries environment and policy.
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Working practice
Working with artists and galleries: a toolkit for the museum and heritage sectors
Case studies, practical information and advice aimed at inspiring contemporary arts activity and different approaches for working with artists.
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Cultural value
Supporting excellence in the arts: from measurement to judgement
DCMS commissioned review of the system of public sector funding for the arts and how it can encourage excellence, risk-taking and innovation. Examines how artistic excellence can encourage wider and deeper engagement with the arts by audiences.
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Creative Industries
Creative industries in the rural East Midlands – regional study report
Overview of research on creative industries in rural areas of the East Midlands published in 2008. Draws together the data studies at district level and a series of case studies, with wider information from other research initiatives to provide analysis of key issues for rural policy making.
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Cultural value
Scotland’s creative industries
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) response to the Scottish Funding Council’s request for advice on Scotland’s position in research relevant to the creative industries.
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Working practice
Biennials and city-wide events
A collection of commissioned essays exploring biennials and city-wide events, edited by Steve Dutton and Jeanine Griffin, with contributions by Jan Vorwoert, Neil Mulholland and John Byrne.
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Creative Industries
Mapping the creative industries in the west of England
Burns Owens Partnership was commissioned to map the creative industries across the City of Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset. Published 2007.
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Cultural value
Public value and the arts in England: discussion and conclusions of the arts debate
Summary of process, discussion and conclusions of Arts Council England’s Arts Debate programme from 2006.
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Cultural value
Capitalising creativity: developing earned income streams in cultural industries organisations.
Written by the author of ‘Size Matters’, this essay indicates some useful routes for a progression from creative to commercial value, using examples to illustrate some practical methods and outcomes.
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Working practice
Made Visible – East Midlands rural visual arts review
Region-wide appraisal document detailing grass-roots work in the East Midlands’ region in 2007. Makes recommendations for the development of a rural and community touring/ exhibition Network.
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Participation
Setting the pace
Outlines Museum, Libraries and Archive Council proposals for five projects which contributed to the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
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Working practice
Boxed In: How cultural diversity policies constrict black artists
Sonia Dyer questions assumptions about non-white artists, curators and administrators that shaped the diversity landscape at the time of writing, and suggests alternative ways forward.
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Cultural value
Staying ahead: the economic performance of the UK’s creative industries
Part of the evidence base for the New Labour Creative Economy Programme, commissioned from The Work Foundation by DCMS in 2007.
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Cultural value
Publicly-funded culture and the creative industries
2007 Demos report that explores the relationship between publicly-funded culture and the creative industries.
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Education
Inspiration, identity, learning: the value of museums – second study
Summary of the independent evaluation by the University of Leicester of the DCMS/ DCSF funded national and regional museums partnership programme of education work in 2006-07.
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Creative Industries
Towards a healthier arts and culture ecology
Summary of the Mission, Models, Money action research project findings.
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Cultural value
The arts, health and wellbeing
Arts Council England’s first national strategy for the arts, health and well-being published in 2007.
