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A new fund for museums, galleries and collections within the higher education sector is offering awards of up to £30,000.
Managed by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the fund will cover the...
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Following a multi-million pound redevelopment, funded in part by the Scottish Arts Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Tolbooth in Stirling has opened as a new arts venue and the new base for...
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A fundamental challenge for educators and academics is how to deliver the effective training and education of cultural managers who will be required to deal creatively with radically new social,...
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In 1997, Sound Sense employed two people, part-time, from a central base, and funding came largely from the Arts Council of England (ACE), explains Anita Holford.
Five years on turnover has...
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Job titles change with time and fashion, writes Ken Bennett-Hunter. Directors used to be producers; stage managers used to be stage directors; stage technicians used to be carpenters or electricians...
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Throughout the years and around the world, actors, directors, writers, technicians and just about everyone else involved in the performing arts have been able to take advantage of established routes...
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A scheme to encourage the inclusion of artists within architectural project design teams emphasises collaboration and an equal status for the artist among the architects and structural engineers....
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There are few examples of true collaboration between art and architecture, notes Vivienne Francis.
Attempts at marrying the two have not always been successful, with art often seen as the decorative...
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Persistence Works provides studio space in Sheffield city centre for seventy-four of the artists of Yorkshire ArtSpace Society (YAS), writes Jacqueline Yallop.
The development of purpose-built...
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If you drive along the south coast road past Dymchurch and into the windswept Dungeness peninsula, you might catch a glimpse of one of Britain?s defunct inter-war acoustic defence experiments. Just...
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Review by Jo Gillibrand, Director of Smart - Marketing the Arts around Surrey, the audience development agency for Surrey and borders e: [email protected]
(Comedia 2001 ISBN: 1 873667 18 3, £9...
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Title: Project co-ordinator, MADE
Name of Organisation: Midlands architecture and the designed environment (Currently part of RIBA West Midlands)
Address: RIBA West Midlands, Birmingham and...
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ARTS SERVICES
St Helens Creative Industries Initiative: http://www.creative-insthelens.org Database of artists and creative industries; Commercial and domestic commissions; Arts in education;...
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Following the strategic directions laid down in its five-year plan, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) has allocated more than £5.7m to 113 arts organisations throughout Northern Ireland,...
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In collaboration with the Royal National Institute for the Blind, Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) has become the first independent cinema in the UK, and the only venue in Scotland, to pilot the DTS (...
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Having fought a long and public battle opposing the Arts Council of England?s (ACE) plan to create a single national arts funding organisation, the highly-regarded Robert Hutchison has quietly and...
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Following the announcement by the Board of Southern Arts that it has agreed in principle to transfer its staff, assets and liabilities to a single national arts funding body on March 31, Robert...
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The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) has launched a new Code of Practice advising businesses and services in Britain how to overcome physical barriers to access for disabled people.
The DRC is...
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The Dome Concert Hall in Brighton, which was due to re-open on February 24 after a £22m re-building and refurbishment project, finally opened its doors for the first time on March 2 with two...
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The National Foundation for Youth Music (Youth Music) is to launch a new phase of initiatives, partnerships, and funding programmes which will assist the promotion of music-making for children and...
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Hallogen Ltd, the operator of Bridgewater Hall, has been formally appointed as the operator of Urbis, the new landmark cultural project set in Manchester?s Cathedral Gardens.
The £30m Urbis...
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Glasgow City Council?s Cultural and Leisure Services committee has appointed The Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd (ATG) as the management contractor for the King?s Theatre in Glasgow.
As well as serving...
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A new pricing strategy at West Yorkshire Playhouse has seen the launch of a £3 ticket band, which is available to anyone aged 26 or under, for any production from Mondays to Wednesdays inclusive....
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Research investigating attitudes toward the arts and their effect on people at work has revealed that senior business executives believe opportunities for artistic activity at work can help to...
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The notion of ?gay and lesbian? art seems so straightforward but hides all sorts of thorny issues. David Leddy examines the pitfalls.
Many arts professionals are interested in creating or marketing...