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In her review of ?Arts For All? Their Policies and Our Culture? (ArtsProfessional issue 4, p12) Mary Schwarz asks whether anyone remembers the National Arts and Media Strategy.
I do, and so do many...
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Review by Andrew Breakwell, Director of Roundabout...
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Title Director of Operations
Name of Organisation Jubilee Arts c/PLEX Project
How long in present post? 18 months
Address Jubilee Arts c/PLEX Project 3rd Floor, West House, Lombard Street...
From issue 05
A fund providing cash support for a wide range of film activities has been established by the Film Council. The Regional Investment for Film in England (RIFE) is an annual commitment of £6m for three...
From issue 05
Aiming to overcome fears commonly held by theatres, that plays aimed at 7 ? 11 year olds will fail to find a financially-viable audience, Pop-Up Theatre is piloting new approaches to targeting this...
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In the same week that the Arts Council of England defers the publication of a document shedding more light on the proposed integration of the Regional Arts Boards into a centrally-driven arts funding...
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The Arts Council of England (ACE) has appointed Peter Jenkinson OBE as National Director of Creative Partnerships, a £40m initiative to develop long-term partnerships between schools, cultural and...
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The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) has published its Equality Scheme, giving full details of the methodology and processes it will be following to assess the extent to which its funding...
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The Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts Scheme, managed by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), is inviting applications for its latest round of awards.
The scheme supports...
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Biomedical research charity, the Wellcome Trust, has commissioned artist Jason Middlebrook to create the UK?s largest public artwork.
The 10ft tall by 370ft long work will form a giant hoarding along...
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The publication of a detailed document answering many questions raised about Arts Council of England (ACE) proposals to absorb the 10 English Regional Arts Boards has been postponed.
Initially...
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Last month saw the opening of two arts facilities in Scotland, both part-funded by the Scottish Arts Council Lottery fund.
The new Birnam Institute in Perthshire will provide a boost for arts...
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Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, is celebrating its most successful year ever with more than 200,000 people attending events ? an increase of 30,000 over last year.
In addition to the 164,000 people...
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The Association of British Orchestras (ABO) has launched a partnership with e-learning specialists ActiveSkills.com, to provide a range of low-cost management training courses over the Internet.
The...
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At a party to celebrate ten years of Jerwood Foundation activities, nearly 400 collaborative partners and past recipients of Jerwood funding, enjoyed an evening of performance and live music at The...
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Northampton?s Victorian theatre, The Royal, and its next door neighbour, state-of-the-art Derngate, are jointly staging Alan Ayckbourn?s ?House...
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The John Hansard Galleryhas joined a European Archive Partnership involved in a major research project to develop a database for contemporary art archives. The project, known as Vektor, is part of...
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The recent Arts Council of England award of £2.5m Arts Capital Lottery funding brings the Roundhouse Trust?s Lottery total to over £3m, and numbers the Arts Council among the four Lottery...
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A windfall from the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) has been the financial bedrock on which Yorkshire Youth and Music?s Sounding Out project has been developed. Jan Hinde explains how and why they...
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NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, is the UK?s first and only national endowment.
The £200m fund, set up with proceeds from the National Lottery, was created by Act...
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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...