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Birmingham Hippodrome, which closed for re-development in February 2000, has re-opened to the public.
The £29m development project has enabled the venue to make significant improvements to...
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Aiming to address the artistic needs of the culturally diverse communities in its region, West Midlands Arts (WMA) has launched a new action plan for Black and Minority Ethnic arts. The action plan...
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A new art project is filling the advertising space on a Piccadilly Line tube train with works by 42 contemporary artists, poets, photographers, fashion designers and musicians.
Gavin Turk, John...
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The winners of the first annual Jerwood Circus Awards, awarded to aspiring and talented circus creators to create new shows or acts, have been announced by Lord Puttnam, Chairman of the National...
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?Cultural Exchanges?, a week of talks, performances and exhibitions, is taking place from November 19-23 at De Montfort University, Leicester. The event includes a talk by Hilary Carty, Director of...
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Review by Rosalyn Fry, arts marketing consultant and trainer
(Arts Marketing Association, 2001, ISBN 1903315042 2001 £10 [£12.50 incl p...
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The government?s Education Action Zones aim to raise standards of learning in deprived areas and encourage innovation and change in schools and colleges. How can the arts contribute to that...
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The East Middlesbrough Education Action Zone was set up in 1998 to help schools raise their achievement levels, explains Amanda Smith.
Its commitment to the arts developed through a relationship with...
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The Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah!?s ?Silas Marner? project is a four-part programme of interactive theatre at the heart of Richmond Hill Achievement Zone?s broad-reaching initiative to raise...
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Feature
In July 1999, Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre became the first theatre in the UK to sell tickets online. Kate Cripps explores the bewildering range of ticketing opportunities offered by the Internet.
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In the last couple of decades of the 20th century most people have associated incubators with babies; but in the first few decades of this century, they will be associated more with business...
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Some things to think about prior to signing up?.
1 Get to know the incubator manager. This person could be crucial to the success of your business. Good ones will save you time and money and...
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Sheffield?s Cultural Industries Quarter (CIQ) is a 30 hectare area on the edge of the city centre zoned in 1988 for businesses in cultural production, explains Simon Evans.
In a city better known...
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The real forces that make ?creative clusters? work and thrive are not necessarily always understood, says Robert Sakula.
The essential power comes from the individuals who have been drawn together...
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ARTS SERVICES
St Helens Creative Industries Initiative : http://www.creative-in-sthelens.org Database of artists and creative industries; Commercial and domestic commissions; Arts in education;...
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Title: Music Animateur
Name of Organisation: The Music Zone
Length of service: One and a half years
Phone: 01752 366400
Fax: 01752 367630
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://...
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A new report from the independent Regional Museums Task Force, examining the problems facing regional museums, has persuaded Arts Minister Tessa Blackstone of the necessity to reorganise the...
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?Bank of Time?, an online art project created by artist multimedia collective Futurenatural and funded by the Arts Council of England?s New Media Projects fund, was one of the nominees in the...
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Somehow, it always seems that the ?museums and galleries? world faces up to its problems in a somewhat calmer way than the ?arts? (p1).
Faced with a crisis in the regions, a Task Force involving...
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Birmingham Repertory Theatre, whose Chief Executive, John Stalker, leaves at the end of the year to become Chief Executive of Festival City Theatres in Edinburgh, has announced the appointment of...
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Before we all get too euphoric over the National Foundation for Youth Music?s Instrument Swap Scheme ArtsProfessional issue 12, October 22), may I ask where the money is coming from to pay for the...
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The Royal Shakespeare Company?s (RSC) plans to create a new waterfront theatre village, has been met with a storm of protest, after it was made clear that the plans would involve the demolition of...
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Following speculation in the media about the effect of the events of September 11 on London?s West End, Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), the second largest theatre-owning group across the UK which...
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Tate Modern, which has welcomed over 7 million people since it opened eighteen months ago, has been awarded the first ever Prime Minister?s Award for Better Public Building.
Now the most popular...