Defining values
Julia Rowntree, with Russell Willis Taylor and Anna Ledgard, reveal how a focus on practical and effective ways to create real val…
Posts
Untangling TUPE
In a drive for financial sustainability, many arts organisations have been thinking of restructuring, but the regulations covering…
Turning the Tide
Alastair Fairley reveals how a community of artists and a hard-nosed drive for publicity put Hastings firmly on the cultural map
Learning together creatively
When the whole community gets involved in an arts project, the result is something much larger than the sum of its parts. Miranda…
A creative space
Boo Chapple has been courting a creative community online
Collective effort
Godfrey Worsdale explains how a partnership between BALTIC and the University of Northumbria is building a unique cultural hub in…
A stake in Deptford
Gavin Barlow discusses cultural regeneration, the social divide and how the Albany is helping Deptford to avoid becoming ‘so-hip…
Soap and glory
This year QUAD set out to involve all 250,000 residents of Derby in a Soap Opera. Peter Bonnell explains how they went about it
Up in the air
Simon Wales describes how a creative and cultural space in West Bromwich has transformed its ecosystem with a community of floatin…
Life at the OUTPOST
Leigh Sneade describes how an innovative membership scheme took a Norwich art gallery into the heart of an international community
Take the money and run?
Jane Trowell shines a light on the issues that arts organisations will be faced with if they prepare to gear up their drive for sp…
Festival fever
Running a free festival is not without risk, but David Hill explains why it’s a risk worth taking
Then and now
June will see publication of the last ever issue of a-n Magazine after 32 years, making space for new programmes from a-n The Arti…
Mind the gap
Has the time come for a new arts investment fund? Graham Henderson makes the case
Swings and roundabouts
Rick Bond weighs up the implications of transferring to a trust
Cultural economy
Yvette Vaughan Jones looks towards a Creative Europe 2014 – and beyond
A new environment
Gemma Williams describes how she helps autistic children become more creative and communicative by crawling on all fours dressed a…
A burden shared
Can personal wellbeing improve when we start to focus on others’ wellbeing? Matthew Taylor describes a mental health project tha…
Drama with dementia
Lowri Evans explains how the Library Theatre Company is engaging older people with memory loss through storytelling
The art of future-building
Bridget McKenzie makes the case for a more eco-conscious arts sector, working to help restore the biosphere and generate capital f…
Life stories
Kate Massey-Chase sees storytelling as fundamental to wellbeing because it helps us to understand who we are
Healthy, social, creative
In 2010, as the health sector faced major changes and public sector cuts were about to bite, why did Voluntary Arts chose to targe…
Improvising mathematics
Alex Fradera and Edmund Harriss explain how theatrical techniques can help improve communication skills, inspire collaboration and…
The art of playfulness
Play is a fundamental part of artistic projects that aim to improve the lives of disabled people, says Ciara Brennan
