Arts, culture and heritage organisations are being invited to participate in the annual Charity Awards. An independent panel of judges is looking for examples of excellence, together with ideas and...
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Arts People
Marian Anderson
I first discovered this great lady when I was at Music College. Marian, an African American opera singer, was one of the world’s greatest mezzo contraltos. She rose to fame in...
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Feature
There’s no point having a website if no-one knows it’s there. Heather Maitland shares some tips on getting noticed on the web
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Jim Beirne discusses a series of social enterprises designed to create additional income streams, based around creative and physical assets
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Richard Hall shares his personal experiences of being made redundant from Arts Council England
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Feature
WWW.DISABILITYARTSONLINE.ORG.UK
Disability Arts Online provides lots of information on the disability arts sector, for artists and art lovers. There is loads of news on the latest exhibitions,...
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Feature
Alongside the arguments for the economic value of the arts, and the influence of the subsidised arts on the commercial arts sector, reading through this week’s issue, I’m struck by some...
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Opinion
Like pretty much every Internet user, I have pop-up blockers on my web browser, spam filters on my email and always ignore the adverts on web pages, and yet just a couple days ago I found myself...
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Opinion
This week (7-11 Feb) is Social Media Week, the third annual celebration of the growing popularity of Social Media. This growth has been phenomenal: if Facebook was a country it would be the world...
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Opinion
This lunchtime, I took a trip around the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. I strolled through (selected) corridors as if I was the only person there, found old pictures I love, and new favourites...
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Opinion
A penchant for illusion has been around for years. Illusionists and tricksters are everywhere from the Victorian theatres of the past to modern day filmmakers and, of course, Derren Brown.
Is...
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Opinion
I tend to get quite hung up on what exactly 'art' is, and I have pondered seemingly endlessly on this matter. Recently I've been developing a theory that art, or that is what can be deemed to have...
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Opinion
Yesterday the movers and shakers and grey old men of the arts industry met at State of the Arts, a conference ‘to debate issues around resilience, audience and the value of arts and culture....
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Opinion
Being advertised at is easy to ignore. I barely glance at the right-hand side of Facebook now, and if you have tweeted about how amazing your product is, chances are I’ll have scrolled right on...
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Opinion
At a recent Devoted and Disgruntled satellite event, I met two members of Filskit Theatre – a company using innovative projection techniques to make work for younger audiences. As producer of...
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Opinion
Sitting at my desk this week I had two really rubbish pieces of news in less than half an hour.
First, I was told AFoundation was closing. An ambitious contemporary arts venue, AFoundation was...
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Opinion
Politics, as Andrew Neil recently pointed out, has gone posh. The music scene has never been posher. So what about arts and culture? Have those years of New Labour investment in training, sectoral...
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Opinion
The latest statistics published by VIDA have re-sparked debates in the blogosphere on the under-representation of women in literary publications. The statistics, covering a variety of famous...
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Opinion
The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year was an international jamboree for all things mobile – a industry much more hopeful for the year to come than much of the arts at present. With...
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Opinion
As well as working in the arts, I am a scriptwriter, so it might surprise you to find out that I didn’t enjoy a live play, properly, until I was 24. Why not? Firstly, let me put your mind at...