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Arts Minister Tessa Jowell has publicly backed proposals from the Arts Council of England (ACE) to restructure the funding system, abolishing the Regional Arts Boards and creating a single-tier...
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At last someone has officially blown the gaff.
The process of gathering information in an attempt to draw a portrait of the subsidised cultural sector has clearly been so problematic for researchers...
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Salisbury Festival, which was subject to an investigation by the Charities Commission for providing financial support for its non-charitable trading subsidiary, has been praised for the efforts it...
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New proposals to radically reform employment tribunals have been announced by Employment Relations Minister Alan Johnson.
The proposals have stemmed from concerns that the current tribunal system is...
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The last in a series of sculptures has been installed at an old ironworks near Brigand in South Wales, as part of the ?Changing Places? project.
In total, 21 sites across England and Wales,...
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Scottish Arts Council (SAC) has expressed its full support for proposals to create a National Theatre for Scotland, and is to prepare a case to the Scottish Executive for extra money to fund its...
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Under a new agreement between the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) and the National Museum of Photography, Film...
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Dundee Rep Theatre is to be home to Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT), Scotland?s principal contemporary dance company, which has won a Scottish Arts Council Lottery Capital award of over £660,000 to...
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Further details of the Arts Council of England's plans for restructuring the country's arts funding system have been issued with the publication of 'Working Together for the Arts', a document outlining the proposed structures, estimated time-scales and likely costs of merging the efforts of England's national and regional funding bodies.
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ArtsProfessional issue 6 and its section on ?Participation? led me to mull over the implications of this word.
The articles appear to adopt the very common assumption in the professional arts world...
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The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has received a further £2.5m from the Arts Council of England as a step towards securing a more stable future for the orchestra, which over the past two...
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If the arts are to play an important role in improving the well-being of those in hospital and in reinforcing government messages about healthy lifestyles, Mike White argues that substantial evidence...
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Tonic is the arts and environments programme founded in 1992 for the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, writes Josie Aston.
We are a registered charity and our mission is ?to use the arts to...
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More and more artists are working in healthcare settings such as hospitals and healthy living centres. However, up to this point, there have been few if any systematic attempts to understand what...
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The National Network for the Arts in Health (NNAH) has been established to share and extend information and resources in the rapidly expanding field of arts and health, writes Lara Ellen Dose.
It...
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Culture has always been an important motive for travel, and the relative importance of tourism in an area will significantly influence the output and programming of artists and arts organisations....
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Tourists may not have placed Gateshead among the UK?s top ten cultural centres until now, but that is all set to change with the opening in March 2002 of BALTIC, a major new centre for contemporary...
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The visual arts venues in both Bristol and Birmingham are amongst the most highly respected in the country, says Helen Tobias.
Their programmes of permanent and visiting exhibitions offer visitors...
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Before I began working at the Belfast Festival at Queen?s in 1998,as part of my interview I had to give a presentation, explains Margaret McKee.You know the sort of thing - how, in ten minutes, I...
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ARTS CONSULTANTS
Katharine Stuart Associates
Performing Arts Development Consultants. Development of arts in rural areas, urban regeneration, programming, marketing, fundraising, business planning...
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Title Project Manager
Name of Organisation Vital Arts
How long in present post? 3 months
Address The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, E1 1BB
Email [email protected]
What does your...
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Review by Liz Hill
Published by Public Arts (2001, ISBN 0- 95540748-0 e: [email protected])
Designed to ?provide a taste of the breadth of contemporary art in the public realm?, and aimed...
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The arts education offered by 377 schools has been recognised in the first round of Artsmark awards, the new national arts award scheme for schools run by the Arts Council of England.The aim of...
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Oily Cart, the national touring theatre company from South London that works with children with profound and multiple learning difficulties, has been awarded the top prize in the Arts, Culture and...