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The Generating Company, a new circus act based in London, has received an Invention and Innovation award of £73,500 to research and develop a new contemporary circus show, ?Storm?.
The company is...
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Broadening access to the widest possible audience without lowering quality is central to the work of many community arts organisations. Barbara Wheeler Early explains how excellence and accessibility...
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The community music sector has come a long way in the past ten years, and the growth of Sound Sense, the UK development agency for community music, has mirrored that evolution, writes Anita Holford....
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Chances are that if an Arts Council of England officer was asked to list types of organisations delivering the arts they would overlook rural touring schemes, says Kate Lawrance.
A countrywide...
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If ever the arts were desperately needed, it?s in prisons, says Mary Stephenson. Yet prisons are the place you?re least likely to come across creative arts. This is changing and I was lucky enough to...
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Arts Workshop Trust promotes 30,000 learning experiences each year through its programme of arts activities, events and education, writes Marie Kirbyshaw.
We have developed as a result of the...
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Title Co-manager
Name of organisation Mantle Community Arts,
How long in present post? nearly 3 years
Phone 01530 830811 Fax 01530 810231
Email [email protected]
What does...
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The announcement by the Arts Council of England (ACE) of projects worth over £90m that have been admitted to its Arts Capital Programme has been met with delight by the 60 organisations for whom...
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LightCube, the second public artwork in the Skelmersdale image enhancement project is being unveiled on Exchange Island ? one of three artworks to be located on traffic islands in the town.
The...
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Competition by definition leads to the creation of winners and losers ? whether in sport, in business, or indeed, in the arts. The latest round of capital funding announcements from the Arts Council...
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Kirsty Lynn has been named as the new Chief Executive for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She has been a member of the Orchestra?s senior management for three years as Director of...
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A survey assessing the quality of service provided by the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) to its grant applicant has revealed that the overwhelming majority of applicants find SAC to be helpful,...
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A Sector Workforce Development Plan outlining priorities for personal and organisational development in the arts sector for the next three years has been launched by Metier, the National Training...
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Women in Music, the national membership organisation which exists to raise awareness of, and redress the imbalance between the sexes in music, has named the six women composers who will receive...
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Museum Learning Online, a comprehensive set of guidelines on the creation, application and evaluation of online educational materials in the museum sector, has been published by Resource: The Council...
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A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers has discovered that poor data management costs UK businesses more than £1 billion a year.
75% of companies surveyed had experienced problems as a result of faulty...
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In a major post-election shake-up of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Tessa Jowell MP, former junior minister at health and employment who started her career as a psychiatric social...
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The development of a major new project to create a national Playwrights? Studio for Scotland has begun, headed by Faith Liddell, former Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
The year...
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Circus is thriving in the UK with something for everyone, whether professional artist, community participant or audience member. But are we giving it the respect and support it deserves? Dorothy...
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The power of the arts to engage, motivate and empower disaffected young people has been examined in this publication and elsewhere, notes David Alexander.
Of all performing arts forms, circus seems...
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Skylight Circus Arts is based in Rochdale and works with circus arts in a range of community settings, using circus to develop people?s physical, creative and social abilities, writes Jim Riley....
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An additional £25m is to be pumped into support for the over-stretched theatre sector. How far will it go towards solving underlying problems? Charlotte Jones explores some of the implications for...
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Rick Bond shares the lessons he has learned about the process of establishing a Trust to manage an arts organisation.
There was a single defining moment for me when I realised that the transfer...