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Glasgay was founded by Cordelia Ditton in 1993, establishing Scotland?s first lesbian and gay arts festival as a biennial celebration of the best work internationally and locally across a range of...
From issue 21
The London Gay Symphony Orchestra was founded in May 1996 by a group of friends led by Robin Gordon-Powell, also its first conductor. The orchestra rapidly grew in size and in October 1996 we gave...
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The London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (LGLFF) has roots dating back to 1977, when the National Film Theatre?s Richard Dyer programmed ?Images of Homosexuality?, the first ever focused season of...
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?Customer Care? means thinking about your customers and responding to their needs. But what exactly does this mean for the arts. Beth Aplin explores the key issues.
In commercial organisations, the...
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It is not by chance that the Cambridge Corn Exchange is the only concert hall in the country to have been awarded three consecutive Charter Marks in recognition of the quality of its customer...
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Ticket cancellation has always been a contentious issue, says Graham Berg.
Many venues adopt a no cancellation/no refund policy. Others, in an attempt to enhance their levels of customer care,...
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Thirty five years ago the Watermill opened its doors to the public for the very first time, writes Jill Fraser.
The season lasted only a few weeks. Today the Watermill is open year round. The company...
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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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Review by Dr Janet Summerton, Convenor of Arts and Cultural Management Studies, University of Sussex and a Researcher, Writer and Consultant. (South West Arts, 2001 ISBN 1 874396 29 9 £5.00 [£7.72...
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Title: Administrative Director
Name of Organisation: Richard Alston Dance Company
Phone: 020 7387 0324
Email: [email protected]
How long in present post? Four years
What does your...
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A four year project to bring to bring music to local communities across the UK has been launched by City of London Sinfonia (CLS) in partnership with March...
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A £9m state-of-the-art gallery has been opened in Oldham, marking the completion of the first phase of Oldham Council?s plans to develop a Cultural Quarter in the town.
The Gallery will house...
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A cry often heard from arts organisations working on community-based projects is that sponsors are simply not interested in their work.
We assume that the corporate world is only interested in glitzy...
From issue 20
In ArtsProfessional issue 19 (p4) you mention the ?Culture Online? report published by McKinsey...
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Siobhan Kenny is to be the new Director of Strategy and Communications at the DCMS. She is currently Director of Strategic Communications at the National Magazine Company.
The Arts Council of...
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As the Arts Council of England?s £40m ?Creative Partnerships? initiative prepares to launch in April, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has revealed research findings which...
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News
A programme mix that will include new drama, world cinema, literature and cultural debate is to be launched as part of the BBC’s free-to-air digital channel BBC Four, due to launch next...
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The Arts Council of England has announced the recipients of six dance fellowships worth £30,000 each.
The fellowships have been awarded to Mark Baldwin, Matthew Hawkins, Bode Lawal, Liz Aggiss, Pit...
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Subject to clarification on a range of technical details, the Regional Arts Boards (RABs) around the UK have agreed in principle to transfer into the Arts Council of England (ACE), and a new single...
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A report of a three-year scheme to raise the profile of and access to traditional music within Scottish tourism has concluded that traditional musicians can give a boost to the tourist experience in...
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has received a major confidence boost with an increase in its revenue grant from Liverpool City Council, from £100,000 this year to £800,000 in 2002/3.
As...
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A series of games to help engage children with music-making have been published in a new guide, ?Music for Everyone?.
Aimed specifically at play-workers, many of whom can?t read music or play an...
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The 6th National Street Arts Meeting will take place at the newly-refurbished Dome Complex in Brighton on May 9 and 10.The event is aimed at artists, producers, directors, funding bodies and local...
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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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In the UK we have a huge and inspiring range of summer schools ? from the distinctly specialist to the fairly general, from the small and intimate to those that bring together hundreds of...