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The UK?s first cultural regional development agency, the North East Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, has been launched to take on the role of supporting the development of the North East?s...
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The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Conservatoire and the University of Central England have announced a new partnership aimed at promoting high levels of education and training in...
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Metier, the National Training Organisation for the arts, has raised funds from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to develop a guide to the new training infrastructure and new opportunities...
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Around 130 entries about venues in Wales have been translated into Welsh on the 24 hour Museum website (http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk).
This, together with the new website of the Council of Museums...
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The National Foundation for Youth Music has launched a new research study into the world of the professional musician today, to inform those responsible for the training and professional development...
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Review by Howard Raynor, Chief Executive, Bridgewater Hall
(Capstone,2001,ISBN 1 84112 125 8,£15.99 [£18.40 inc p...
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The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) believes that classical work will become dull, and might even perish in a vacuum, without the oxygen of complementary and provocative new plays. Simon Reade...
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Michael Nyman, whose music has reached its largest audience by way of film scores, has been commissioned by the Yorkshire Orchestral Consortium (YOC) to create a new orchestral piece, explains...
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It was in the late 1950s just after its opening that the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry pioneered the work of new writers like Arnold Wesker. The theatre made a name for itself by launching one of...
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New Writing North was set up in 1996 to bring some clarity to the new writing ecology of the Northern Arts region, writes Claire Malcolm.
The agency aims to work with both established and aspiring...
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?Creative and cultural education? is on everyone?s lips. But what does it mean in practice? Neil Hoyle considers the evidence.
Having risen through the strata of Whitehall since the National...
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Technically, Copperfields College isn't a failing school, as it?s not in Special Measures, explains Richard Whistler. And it?s important not to use the term ?failing school?, as emotionally it?s...
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The arts curriculum at independent schools such as St Mary?s provides space, time, freedom and the motivation to help students achieve wide ranging academic, social and personal aims, says Carole...
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When I was at school, the worse crime of all was to be caught daydreaming, writes Gerard McCrystal. The philosophy of my old school, St. Columb?s College, was very influenced by the strict discipline...
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In recent years young people, education and participation have moved up the agenda of arts funding bodies and arts organisations.
The upsurge of interest has gained further impetus from increasing...
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They say nothing prepares you for the feelings you have for something so small?or so runs the TV advertisement for a well-known brand of children?s cough mixture. Well, the arrival of http://www....
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Title Lincolnshire Arts Education Co-ordinator
Name of organisation Lincolnshire County Council
How long in present post? About 4 weeks
Address Horncastle Curriculum Centre, Horncastle,...
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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...
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A new agency to promote touring of drama, music and dance in Wales has been launched, based in Aberystwyth. Creu Cymru, meaning ?Creative Wales?, will act as a liaison between theatres and arts...
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A public outcry following the fire which destroyed the Willow Giant next to the M5 in Somerset has led to the setting up of a fund for the re-creation of the sculpture.
The 40-foot high sculpture...
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Change is still in the air: not just at the Regional Arts Boards and the Arts Council of England. Now it is England?s Culture Ministry and Minister, not to mention the Government itself, who are all...
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Christopher Nourse (pictured) is to succeed Carole McPhee as Managing Director of English National Ballet. Executive Director of Rambert Dance Company for the past four years, he will take up his...
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First time title sponsorship from the Bank of Scotland has enabled the Children?s International Theatre Festival, Britain?s biggest performing arts festival for children and young people, to offer...
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Celebrating 20 years of bringing some of the world?s most original, risk-taking and popular artists to the capital, the 2001 London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), marks the end of its...