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It?s always fascinating to look beyond our own shores and see the sort of arts funding decisions that are made in other countries. This is certainly the case with Australia (p10).For example, since...
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Bradford Council has appointed Paul Brookes as Campaign Director in the city?s efforts to become European Capital of Culture 2008. He was formerly Chief Executive of The Culture Company, and prior...
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A comprehensive database of professional drama and dance touring activity in Scotland has been compiled as part of the Touring Development Project set up earlier this year by the Scottish Arts...
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The Theatres Advisory Council (TAC), which was set up in 1962 as an umbrella forum for members of the theatre profession, has voted to abolish itself in its current form, and will cease to function...
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The future of arts and culture is to be the focus of a month of debate this November, hosted by the Institute of Ideas working in partnership with key arts centres and institutions including Tate...
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Britain?s cultural links with New York are being celebrated in the two-week ?UKwithNY? Festival in Manhattan this month.
Originally entitled ?UKinNY?, the programme of events has been reduced in the...
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Merseyside Music Development Agency and North West Arts Board (NWAB) have been held up as role models of good practice for their work in helping the music industry to overcome barriers to accessing...
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As a result of positive feedback from young people attending Sheffield Theatres? production of Edward II, during which over 4,000 of the 23,000 audience members were aged 16?26, a ?young people...
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Covent Garden Festival has announced that it is to wind up, 11 years after it was first established.
The announcement, made by Festival Director, Kenneth Richardson came after the end of a seven-year...
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The Arts in Your Church ? A Practical Guide provides a tool for planning various arts events in Church and the local community. Written by Fiona Bond, the book also features 10 case studies. Contact...
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Review by Rosemary Curtis, Personnel Solutions in the Arts
(Second Edition, DSC, 2001, ISBN 1 900360 72 1, £42 for Voluntary Organisations, £60 for others [£50.50 inc. p...
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Newsletters are a medium unexplored by many organisations and companies, and yet they can offer the power to cement customer relations, as well as promote business. Brian Holmes looks at the pros and...
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Poetry Express is the quarterly newsletter of Survivors? Poetry, a national literature organisation dedicated to promoting poetry written by survivors of mental distress, explains Emma Watson.
The...
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Artyfacts has been in existence since 1994, and the format has remained unchanged: a four-page monthly arts information leaflet focusing on local events, projects and organisations in...
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The publication of the UK?s most comprehensive compendium of statistics relating to subsidised arts was met by a storm of protest when its publisher, the Policy Studies Institute, drew attention to...
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As Australians prepare for a Federal election in the closing months of 2001, many in the arts are again raising the question of whether Australia should have a national cultural policy. Sarah Gardner...
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Just over 10% of Australia?s population live outside the major urban centres, hugging the coastline, explains Tim Roberts. Approximately 2.3m people are spread throughout regional Australia, covering...
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The key to a more successful transition from government to private support for the arts lies in finding business partners that are appropriate and compatible, and developing relationships that are...
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Post: Manager Research
Name of Organisation: Arts Victoria
Length of service: Five years
Address: Private Bag 1, South Melbourne VIC 3121,Australia
Phone: 00 61 3 9954 5052
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Barclays PLC is to become the largest ever business sponsor of the Royal National Theatre and sole sponsor of three major exhibitions at The British Museum, the National Gallery and Tate Britain.
The...
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The Arts Councils of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have introduced a flexible new approach to the funding of UK theatre, opera and ballet tours.
The new strategy, which is to take...
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One of the issues implicit in the current centralisation/regionalisation debate in the English arts funding system is drawn into sharp relief by the welcome announcement that the funding bodies in...
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I hope you won't mind a small correction to your interesting feature on the competition hotting up to be Britain's European Capital of Culture in 2008 (ArtsProfessional issue 9, September 10,p5)....
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Nicholas Hytner is to succeed Trevor Nunn as the Director of the Royal National Theatre, with effect from April 2003. Hytner was an Associate Director of the National Theatre from 1990 to 1997, and...