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ARTS SERVICES
St Helens Creative Industries Initiative: http://www.creative-insthelens.org Database of artists and creative industries; Commercial and domestic commissions; Arts in education;...
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Title: Commercial Manager
Name of Organisation: SBC
How long in present post? 3 years
What does your organisation do?
SBC manages a 27-acre site from Waterloo Bridge to County Hall,...
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New five-year strategies for Crafts and Music in Scotland have been published by the Scottish Arts Council (SAC), and a draft strategy for the Visual Arts has also been launched for consultation,...
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News
In a flurry of civic pride, cities across the UK have been delivering their bids to the Department for Culture Media and Sport to be named as European Capital of Culture 2008. With 12 cities in...
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It both easy and in many cases justifiable to look back on the Golden Era of Lottery Capital projects with a very critical eye.
Some of the financial disasters have been spectacular ones, including...
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Felicity Harvest (pictured) has been appointed as the new Regional Executive Director of Southern...
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The legal merger of the Arts Council of England (ACE) with the ten Regional Arts Boards took place on April 1.
The new body has nine regional offices, matching the Government?s regional boundaries,...
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In competition with commercial IT businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire, marketing:arts, the Coventry-based agency specialising in data analysis for the arts and leisure industries, has been...
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Brecon Jazz Festival, one of Europe?s leading Jazz Festivals which attracts over 50,000 people to Brecon each year, is confirmed to go ahead this summer despite financial difficulties which have...
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Welsh Finance Minister Edwina Hart has defended the allocation of £150,000 directly from the Assembly to arts organisations in Wales (ArtsProfessional issue 22 p3), citing section 32 of the...
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The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) is to delegate responsibility for film finance to the Northern Ireland Film...
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A £2.2m artists? studio and events complex opens in Glasgow this week. Wasps Artists? Studios, the first complex of is kind in Scotland, incorporates low-cost studios to support 200 leading and...
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The Scottish Arts Council?s Help Desk, which provides information and advice to artists, arts organisations and members of the public, is extending its opening hours to 9am-5pm Mondays to Fridays....
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Am I the only one to find Peter Hewitt?s plea to free the arts from ?damaging levels of accountability? (ArtsProfessional issue 22, March 25) confusing?
As far as I know, every artist, arts...
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Jumping hurdles, spinning plates and chasing moving goalposts are vivid metaphors for the skills demanded of arts managers. They all apply when it comes to managing a new building or major...
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When Gerry Robinson, Chair of the Arts Council of England, wrote to us in September 1999 after he had paid an official visit to our new base, he described the building as ?probably one of the best...
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A £4m investment in Aberystwyth Arts Centre, made possible through a grant of £2.6m from the Lottery Board of the Arts Council of Wales and the continued support of the University of Wales...
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When Regional Cultural Consortia were originally set up, they were viewed by some as yet another layer of bureaucracy and just an opportunity for talking but with little influence, no teeth and a...
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Case study
Regional Cultural Consortia (RCCs) were set up to provide a route for advising ministers; to stimulate greater strategic coherence between cultural funders, providers and activities; to promote cross...
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Aims
Regional Cultural Consortia aim to champion the whole spectrum of culture and creative interests in each region, including tourism and sport; forge links across this spectrum; and create a...
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A lot of arts policy thinking has gone on in Wales in the past year, including a draft five-year arts development strategy by the Arts Council of Wales (ACW) and the Cultural Strategy for Wales,...
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I have a recurring nightmare and it is this: I work for the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) in the section monitoring cultural strategies and I return to my office on 3 January 2003 to...
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Case study
If I were to sum up my experience of producing a cultural strategy, I would say it was like trying to pin down a cloud. A very lovely cloud, with a blue sky behind. These documents are nebulous to...
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20 frequently heard quotes that we?ll miss from the RABs
As of April 1 the Regional Arts Boards (RABs) are no more, and a Brave New Arts Funding World is upon us. What will we miss about the RABs? A...
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Review by Madeline Hutchins
(Directory of Social Change, 2002, ISBN 1 900360 89 6 £9.95 [£12.79 inc p...