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Alfredo Jarr?s Marx Lounge
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Re:Thinking Trade

by Rosanne Robertson

During its time as a hardware store, Rapid was proud to be the only independent to take up the entire street.

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Emotional learning

by a-n Editorial

Iniva and A Space have produced a new set of Emotional Learning Cards, following the success of the first set ‘What do you feel?’.

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Editorial – 2010 November

by a-n Editorial

In these exceptional times, practitioners and arts professionals need to ensure their messages have clarity when making the case for the arts.

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Re: Great open submission swindle

by Vikky Furse

Stephen Black suggests that many of the major ‘open submission’ art events are less than democratic in their selection, and therefore a disproportionate number of artists are wasting their money by entering (a-n Magazine, September 2010).

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Re: Great open submission swindle

by Rosalind Davis

As an artist who has entered open submissions and as a manager of an artist-led, not for profit gallery space (Core Gallery, Deptford) which held its first open submission this year, I feel I can give a slightly different insight into this subject than those laid out in the last two issues of a-n, as to what your open submission fees actually go towards (a-n Magazine, September and October 2010).

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Interrogation: West Bromwich conference
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State Of Practice

by Richard White

A large gap exists today between the reality of being an artist and the image of The Artist which is portrayed by history and media, and perceived by the general public. Rich White asks what do artists actually do for society, how can they help with regeneration, particularly in a time of recession, and what is its real value?

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Grey Area - NAN Go and See visit to Estonia
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NAN in conversation with Grey Area

by Emilia Telese

In September 2009, Grey Area was granted a NAN Go and See bursary to travel to Estonia for research and development. Emilia Telese talks to Daniel Pryde-Jarman of Grey Area about the bursary and its impact on the group.

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NAN in conversation with Artichoke Studios

by Emilia Telese

In March 2010, Artichoke Studios was awarded a NAN Go and See bursary in order to visit Dynamic Community Arts in Birmingham and Green Close Studios in Melling. Emilia Telese talks to group member Keith Parkinson about the bursary and its impact on the group.

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a-n Magazine October 2010
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a-n Magazine October 2010

by a-n Editorial

Contents include: Artists and curators talking, professional development and rural initiatives features: In Debate: Helen Sloan argues that we need to define the visual arts and stand up for its meaning before taking on philanthropic funding. Kate Genever and poets […]

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Companion Stone at Longshaw Gate
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Companion Stones

by Kate Genever

Artist Kate Genever and poets Jo Bell and Ann Atkinson discuss their collaboration on a public sculpture project in the Peak District, creating contemporary sculptures in response to early eighteenth-century guidestoops that stand across the Derbyshire moorlands.

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Green Jewel
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Supporting professional practice

by a-n Editorial

A guide to career development and training opportunities as well as related services and resources that are designed to help artists and makers take their practice to the next level.

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Rural initiatives

by a-n Editorial

Featuring a selection of the UK’s arts organisations that are providing vivid cultural life to rural areas.

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Il n'y a Plus Rien (There is Nothing Left)
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Artists and Curators Talking

by a-n Editorial

A-n and Axis are launching a new programme of dynamic, practice-led discussions on hospitality, space and contemporary art making, researched and directed by artist, curator and writer Sonya Dyer. Here, she sets out her thinking for the programme.

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Exterior view of Castlefield Gallery
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Gallery as critical friend

by Rosanne Robertson

In the twenty-five years since its foundation, Castlefield Gallery has evolved, adapted and outlived many of the buzz words first used about it, but one thing has remained absolutely constant – its aim to support artists.

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Arts funding – fact or fiction?

by a-n Editorial

On 2 September, the BBC posted a news story on its website claiming that “Two-thirds of people agree with the government’s stance on cutting arts funding and increasing reliance on private cash, a survey has suggested.”

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Vandalism
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Frieze week

by a-n Editorial

Frieze Art Fair 2010 is fast approaching, and with over 170 galleries exhibiting in Regent’s Park this year, London’s most influential art fair is bigger than ever.

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Ludic Automatons
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Curating new technologies

by Charlotte Frost

The annual Craft Curators Forum, a networking and discussion event from the Crafts Council, was held in London 23-24 September.

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Tracking AIR activism

by Emily Speed

Alongside AIR’s campaigns and work looking at the issues affecting artists, a group of AIR activists (myself included) have volunteered to play a more active role; raising awareness of the value of artists. These are early days in what will hopefully prove to be long-term and ever-widening effort, but conversation has begun and some activists already have events planned.

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Nothing is Still
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Commonality across cultures

by Richard Taylor

For twenty-five years Manchester’s Chinese Arts Centre has focused on exchange of creative practice from one culture to another.

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