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The National Foundation for Youth Music?s First Steps programme is testing the theory that music develops children?s brain power, by funding musical projects for pre-natal babies, pre-school...
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Rather a lot of my professional life has been absorbed in the development of audiences, reflects Janet Robertson, desperately seeking ways to offer the ?road-to-Damascus-arts-conversion experience?...
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Like many arts professionals, I have tried over the years to bend my ideas to fit the criteria of funding bodies, says Pippa Smith. This one was different ? it was created in response to a specific...
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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: Director
Name of Organisation: Imaginate
Length of service: Six years
Address: 45a George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2HT
Phone: 0131 225 8050
Email: [email protected]
What does...
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An audit of Wales? performing arts venues carried out on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales has revealed that a capital injection of over £60m is required if Wales is to support an...
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The National Foundation for Youth Music (Youth Music) has earmarked £2m to help more young people gain access to musical instruments.
The Instrument Swap Scheme and Instrument Purchase Programme...
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It?s always fascinating to look beyond our own shores and see the sort of arts funding decisions that are made in other countries. This is certainly the case with Australia (p10).For example, since...
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Bradford Council has appointed Paul Brookes as Campaign Director in the city?s efforts to become European Capital of Culture 2008. He was formerly Chief Executive of The Culture Company, and prior...
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A comprehensive database of professional drama and dance touring activity in Scotland has been compiled as part of the Touring Development Project set up earlier this year by the Scottish Arts...
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The Theatres Advisory Council (TAC), which was set up in 1962 as an umbrella forum for members of the theatre profession, has voted to abolish itself in its current form, and will cease to function...
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The future of arts and culture is to be the focus of a month of debate this November, hosted by the Institute of Ideas working in partnership with key arts centres and institutions including Tate...
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Britain?s cultural links with New York are being celebrated in the two-week ?UKwithNY? Festival in Manhattan this month.
Originally entitled ?UKinNY?, the programme of events has been reduced in the...
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Merseyside Music Development Agency and North West Arts Board (NWAB) have been held up as role models of good practice for their work in helping the music industry to overcome barriers to accessing...
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As a result of positive feedback from young people attending Sheffield Theatres? production of Edward II, during which over 4,000 of the 23,000 audience members were aged 16?26, a ?young people...
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Covent Garden Festival has announced that it is to wind up, 11 years after it was first established.
The announcement, made by Festival Director, Kenneth Richardson came after the end of a seven-year...
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The Arts in Your Church ? A Practical Guide provides a tool for planning various arts events in Church and the local community. Written by Fiona Bond, the book also features 10 case studies. Contact...
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Review by Rosemary Curtis, Personnel Solutions in the Arts
(Second Edition, DSC, 2001, ISBN 1 900360 72 1, £42 for Voluntary Organisations, £60 for others [£50.50 inc. p...
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Newsletters are a medium unexplored by many organisations and companies, and yet they can offer the power to cement customer relations, as well as promote business. Brian Holmes looks at the pros and...
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Poetry Express is the quarterly newsletter of Survivors? Poetry, a national literature organisation dedicated to promoting poetry written by survivors of mental distress, explains Emma Watson.
The...
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Artyfacts has been in existence since 1994, and the format has remained unchanged: a four-page monthly arts information leaflet focusing on local events, projects and organisations in...
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The publication of the UK?s most comprehensive compendium of statistics relating to subsidised arts was met by a storm of protest when its publisher, the Policy Studies Institute, drew attention to...
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As Australians prepare for a Federal election in the closing months of 2001, many in the arts are again raising the question of whether Australia should have a national cultural policy. Sarah Gardner...
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Just over 10% of Australia?s population live outside the major urban centres, hugging the coastline, explains Tim Roberts. Approximately 2.3m people are spread throughout regional Australia, covering...
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The key to a more successful transition from government to private support for the arts lies in finding business partners that are appropriate and compatible, and developing relationships that are...