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Issue 197
Features this issue
Arts in Hospital
Damian Hebron assesses the current state of arts activity in healthcare settings and find some reasons to be cheerful. Read Taking the pulse »
Lorna Hastings, Christina Finney and Lynda Sullivan highlight how children’s imaginations can transform a hospital stay. Read Art on the ward »
Vayu Naidu and Chris Banfield explore how the arts can make a positive difference to the lives of hospital patients. Read Healthy outlook »
Spotlight on the Recession
Craft has always had the short end of the stick, says Rosy Greenlees, so the recession is just another challenge to be overcome. Read Crafting the future »
Knowing your Audience
Are arts marketers felling forests for fatter brochures, persistently googling their own websites to raise rankings or pounding pavements with promotional giveaways? Ros Fry gathers some answers. Read Need to know »
You can never have too much information about your audience, Ed Newsome has found, and he urges you never to stop asking questions. Read How much is enough? »
My Gurus
Maria Bota reveals the people who have most inspired her. Read Maria Bota's Gurus »
International Focus
Nigel Lavender examines the burgeoning arts economy in Queensland, and highlights how the arts can help to build bridges between Australia’s white and indigenous populations. Read Mind the gap »
Management File: Delivering Excellence
Armed with nothing more than a flipchart, Howard Raynor explains how to improve service performance and produce solid business results. Read Trading up »
Bookshop
Bernard Ross and Clare Segal, Jossey-Bass, ISBN-10: 0787994049 Read The Influential Fundraiser »
Spotlight
What has happened since clustering was introduced to the creative sector? Anna Sachdev examines the progress of some of these partnerships. Read Strength in numbers »
Job Ladder
Arts Professional reveals the career paths of the sector’s senior managers. Read Christopher Barron's Job ladder »
Platform: Local hero
The move by Alun Ffred Jones, Wales’s Heritage Minister, to make cultural provision a statutory duty for local authorities, is being welcomed in Wales and will be followed with envy in the rest of the UK. Neither Scotland nor England places such a statutory duty on its local authorities, and ... read more
Deaf and disabled people engage with Cultural Olympiad Read
News this issue
Wales seeks culture legislation »
A statutory duty on local authorities in Wales to provide sports, heritage and arts has ...
Deaf and disabled people engage with Cultural Olympiad »
Four pieces of work from deaf and disabled artists have been commissioned by Shape, the ...
Creative emphasis in Digital Britain report »
Britain should become a “global centre for the creative industries in the digital age” according ...
Coherent approach to youth culture »
Schools, extended services (which include out-of-school activities, parental support and child care), and arts and ...
Scottish creative industries support »
A central role should be given to creative practitioners in Scotland in order to support ...
Ticket merger may raise prices »
A potential merger between Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc, the international live entertainment ticketing and marketing company, ...
York Theatre Royal is being taken over by young people »
Young people will be taking over the programming and running of York Theatre Royal for ...
Lords licensing battle »
A reintroduction of the ‘two-in-a-bar rule’ (under which two musicians can perform without a public ...
Newsreel »
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has launched Waterside Space... A variety of new measures to put culture at the heart of regeneration have been announced... A new theatre company, Grand Slam, will be launched in Wales this summer.
Changing Faces »
The latest appointments and job moves in the arts and cultural sector