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General debates
| Topic | Started by | Replies | Last Post |
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| THREAT TO GROUND-BREAKING DANCE COMPANY | Green Candle Dance Company | 0 | 22/04/2008 01:33 PM |
| The McMaster Report | ArtsProfessional | 10 | 12/02/2008 10:08 AM |
| LOSING YOUR FUNDING? | ArtsProfessional | 46 | 04/04/2008 01:20 PM |
| Projection vs Reality | ArtsProfessional | 0 | 14/12/2007 09:20 AM |
ArtsProfessional Articles
| Topic | Started by | Replies | Last Post |
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| Re: Public funding, private world | ArtsProfessional | 5 | 07/05/2008 01:55 PM |
| Re: Courageous conversations | ArtsProfessional | 3 | 21/04/2008 05:19 PM |
| Re: A&B arts investment programme wiped out | ArtsProfessional | 3 | 12/02/2008 03:38 PM |
| Re: From measurement to judgement? | ArtsProfessional | 2 | 24/01/2008 12:21 PM |
The Blogs
Sometimes controversial, always entertaining, our blogs reflect all areas of the arts and are written by well respected industry experts with their fingers on the pulse. So keep your eyes on these pages and post comments to our bloggers to let them know if you agree with them... or not!
Editor's Blog
Jackboot funding?
Catherine Rose 25 March 2008 10:05 AM
Catherine Rose is the editor of ArtsProfessional magazine. She is also a freelance consultant, writer and project manager.
It may sound like alarmism, or even paranoia, but the growing propensity for government and government-funded bodies to use funding instrumentally is becoming extremely worrying. Even with the idea of the ‘excellence agenda’ taking hold, it’s clear that instrumentalism is very much alive. It isn’t only in the arts sector that this is a problem: see today’s interview in the Guardian of charity activist Andy Benson (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/mar/19/voluntarysector). He has established a new organisation “to mobilise support between community and voluntary ... read more >
The Real World
Neil Rathmell 30 April 2008 16:51 PM
I have become a historical artefact, a piece of living history, a resource for the primary school classroom. One of my daughters, the one who is a primary school teacher, called me a few weeks ago to ask if I... read more
Good News Day
Neil Rathmell 01 April 2008 07:48 AM
Today’s announcement of a new strategy for the arts for children and young people has taken everyone by surprise. Some of us – cynics like me who have been accusing the government of doing nothing but run one pilot after... read more
The Majority
Simon Kensdale 31 March 2008 09:29 AM
Most people are not interested in art.
This is a fair depiction of social reality. To be more exact – whilst there are only a very few people who are opposed to art (see previous blog) there are... read more
Mending Fences
Christopher Gordon 27 March 2008 10:21 AM
ACE’s new chief executive in his first major speech (Liverpool, 13 March) chose to focus on the importance of local authorities and wants shared aims in funding and delivery. At least that sounds better than the statement from a key... read more
It's only children
Neil Rathmell 05 March 2008 10:35 AM
At least one of the regional offices of Arts Council England was brave enough to hold a briefing session on the new ‘cultural offer’. (If my information is correct, that should read ‘only one’. If not, you can take it... read more
I, Robot?
Mark Robinson 27 February 2008 07:54 AM
People will have their own opinions of the Arts Council's recent regular funding decisions. Obviously these were never going to please everyone, and it's quite understandable some people are going to get upset, angry and organised, and that these concerns... read more
Going round in circles
Neil Rathmell 22 February 2008 11:46 AM
Chocks away! Another pilot takes off! This time it’s to find out whether you can give every school child in the country five hours a week of high quality cultural activities on £15 a year.
With so many pilots... read more
Talent v Entitlement: No Contest
Paul Harman 15 February 2008 09:05 AM
The arts are not like sport. Sorry, but the coming big fight for Gold Medals between USA and China does not enthral me. If they need to show how well they train kids to run faster than horses, balance like... read more
Metamorphosing our Mindsets
Clare Cooper 03 January 2008 12:21 PM
It’s the time of year to make new resolutions so let’s throw caution to the wind, wrench ourselves from our comfort zones and confront the hardest of the brutal facts (see my last blog) holding us back from developing our... read more
The Vision Thing
Alice Devitt 29 November 2007 10:37 AM
I spend a great deal of time trying to wrest thinking from my clients to enable me to develop marketing, fundraising and communications strategies. Arts organisations realise they have to give me their box office data, their financial records and... read more
Right to your Reply
Gillian Bates 26 November 2007 16:45 PM
When I was a trainee journalist we were taught a golden rule: if you ever wrote anything even slightly challenging or controversial about any person or organisation, they must have the right to reply.
The second golden rule was... read more
Blague, Black, Blog
Paul Harman 26 November 2007 16:20 PM
Tiens! A debut blog de Paris! Childrens Theatre is active in 82 countries and I can vouch for a dozen in the last three weeks. Here in Paris I’m playing in a bilingual co-production about the thousand year love/hate relationship... read more
The Writing on the Wall: Why organisational development needs to become the ‘new rock ‘n’ roll’
Clare Cooper 26 November 2007 16:17 PM
“The architecture that sustains the world’s growing interdependence is under great strain …. it needs to be re-crafted and re-invigorated, but this requires pre-conditions that are lacking: intellectual conviction and a high degree of trust and common values between the... read more
Arts Policy: who makes it and for whom?
Christopher Gordon 26 November 2007 16:11 PM
At a recent seminar in Turin I heard a smart Italian woman gave a vivid description of the country she was leaving because she no longer wished to work in it. The cultural sector had suffered a serious erosion of... read more