One of the most significant threads to emerge from the publication last week of Rebalancing Our Cultural Capital, our analysis of the regional distribution of arts funding in England, is the almost universal recognition of an imbalance and the widespread acceptance of a need to address the problem. It is now clear that the figures and analysis in this report will indeed fuel a national debate and ultimately will influence public policy, so with that in mind, it is perhaps useful now to... more
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Issue 268: Arts without walls
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Arts without walls
07 Nov 2013Peter Stark, Christopher Gordon and David Powell provide a personal reflection on reactions to Rebalancing Our Cultural Capital, their analysis of England’s regional funding landscape.
Also in this feature
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04 Nov 2013A Charity Commission report recently revealed that the average trustee is white, male and aged 57. To coincide with Trustees’ Week, Neal Green urges everyone to find out more about sitting on an arts board.
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04 Nov 2013Steven Bode compares the current boom-time for artists’ film and video with the very different situation 25 years ago.
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29 Oct 2013Yvonne Farquharson believes that academic research and evaluation are essential to demonstrate the clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of arts in health interventions.
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29 Oct 2013How much has the arts marketing role changed in the last twenty years? Strikingly, says Sarah Chambers, who examines what is now required to market culture.
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29 Oct 2013New approaches are refreshing our ideas about what constitutes art and science, and new technologies are enabling the blurred boundaries between the two to be broken down, according to Dick Penny and Verity McIntosh.
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24 Oct 2013Meurig Bowen sees no problem with the current proliferation of festivals in the UK.
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21 Oct 2013Doncaster’s new arts venue opened in September - a response to negative comments about the town’s history of low engagement with the arts. Kully Thiarai pauses to reflect on the overwhelming welcome that the theatre has received.
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21 Oct 2013The Pensions Regulator recognises that the arts and entertainment industry faces particular challenges with pensions auto-enrolment but urges the industry to act now.
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14 Oct 2013Chris Bannerman tells how he reluctantly became a key driver in a complex collaboration involving choreographers, dancers and academics from the UK, China and Taiwan.
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14 Oct 2013Why do we need festivals? In the first of two articles about festivals, Holly Payton-Lombardo asks if we simply enjoy coming together to celebrate culture − or is it more than that?
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14 Oct 2013Mahmood Reza, a big fan of business planning, explains why it is vital and demystifies some of the terms and tools commonly used.
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07 Oct 2013A new wave of artists’ tours encourages us to look differently at the public spaces (like car parks) we see around us. Bill Aitchison explores these new tours.
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07 Oct 2013Maggie Clarke believes that this is a good time for outdoor arts, with investment, partnerships and networks raising the bar and resulting in a raising worldwide profile.
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07 Oct 2013Walk the Plank seeks to bring out the best in both people and places, as demonstrated by its recent show in Derry-Londonderry. Liz Pugh explains how.
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07 Oct 2013Political work is normally difficult to sell but Tangled Feet’s hard-hitting outdoor shows are in demand, as told by Kat Joyce.
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07 Oct 2013Two arts venues involved in ‘Showtime’, the Mayor of London’s outdoor festival, recognised the positive impact of working outdoors and, as Jane Packham reports, have since formed a consortium with other venues in outer London boroughs.
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07 Oct 2013At Hull’s Freedom Festival the concept of freedom is ambitiously present throughout the three days of events. Graham Chesters explains how.