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Scottish Opera For All (SOFA), the Education and Outreach Unit of Scottish Opera, has presented consistently high quality performances by children and young people as a culmination of its annual...
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Oakham International Summer School (OISS), running now for three years, is the Tallis Scholars? summer school at Oakham in Rutland. It came into being after a masterclass at Stamford Arts Centre in...
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Summer school is an opportunity to turn up the heat: an intensity of experience in which the participants have to really engage with each other as individuals and in a group, work, writes Deborah...
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It is pouring with rain and the mist has obscured the view across the hills and out to the sea. You are part of a group of twenty or so performers, writers and directors pressing along ancient...
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Review by Madeline Hutchins, Trainer and Consultant
(Directory of Social Change, 2001, ISBN 1 900360 88 8, £7.95 [£10.67 inc p...
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The development of the Internet has presented lawyers with a host of new legal challenges, many of which are unresolved. Josh Smith considers the measures that artists and art galleries need to take...
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New ideas have the potential to be valuable commodities so need to be safeguarded throughout their development, writes Joe Meaney.
The Invention...
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Protection of intellectual property was considered for a long time to be a dull and technical subject and something that most people in the white heat of creation would worry about later, writes...
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It is useful to distinguish between Property and Intellectual Property (IP) for the purposes of insurance, explains Mark Boon. Insuring artwork, recordings and film falls under the heading Property,...
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Arts organisations across Scotland and Wales are celebrating announcements by their respective governments, of major increases in arts funding.
The National Assembly for Wales is to increase its...
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Jonathan Church?s first season as Artistic Director at Birmingham Repertory Theatre has seen attendances rise by 92% in comparison with the autumn/winter 2000 season.
92,000 people came to see a...
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Every issue of ArtsProfessional is crammed with news of people changing their jobs ? moving on, moving up, or this week, in the case of Tamara Malcolm (see below), moving into retirement.
How...
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After 14 years as Artistic Director, Vicky Ireland (pictured) is to leave Polka Theatre at the end of the summer to devote more time to freelance writing, directing and international work.
Tamara...
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TAG Theatre Company, Scotland?s national theatre company for young people, is to be assisted by the Education Service of the Scottish Parliament on its next project, ?Making Changes?, which will...
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The Film Council has issued a consultation document setting out its proposals for the distribution of specialised films, and support for cinema education and cinema exhibition.
Under the proposals, £...
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A new symphony orchestra is to be formed as part of Bristol?s bid to be named European Capital of Culture 2008.The West of England Philharmonic, to be run by members on a self-governing basis, will...
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?Blacking Up?, a one-day event by Scotland?s Theatre Workshop featuring a dynamic piece of forum theatre in which the audience will explore issues of employment and disability, is to tour throughout...
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Britain?s largest display space for contemporary craft is to be developed in North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, with European funding of £1.14m. The new centre, to be known as The Hub, will develop the...
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Responsibility for High Peak, currently in the North West Arts Board region, is to transfer to East Midlands Arts (EMA) at the beginning of April.
The move means that EMA?s boundaries will reflect...
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The first International Festival of Musical Theatre in Cardiff is to be staged from October 14 ? November 3, and will be the world?s first ever major international event for this artform.
Festival...
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An information line is to be launched to help those working in the arts sector find out about training opportunities. Metier, the national training organisation for arts and entertainment which has...
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Pundits speculate that as many as 80% of tickets will be sold online by 2005. But Roger Tomlinson holds to his belief that even if the ticket sales operation changes beyond recognition, the Box...
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Ensuring an Excellent Night Out for English National Opera?s customers is what our Box Office is all about, writes Lynne Sinnamon.
By making that all important ticket purchase easy and hassle free,...
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I?ve been fortunate to work with some fantastic people who work on the front line, writes Adrian Phillips.
Whilst training Box Office staff, I?ve got to discuss the job that they do and what they...
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This week sees the publication of the Arts Council of England?s strategy and report on street arts. Will this document help to bring a marginalised sector into the funding system, asks Maggie Clark....