Reading this issue’s front page, arts professionals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland might be enviously thinking: time to move north. Scotland seems to have been showered with new cash just lately – a total of £19.5m just in the past fortnight. With the advent of Creative Scotland, moreover, it looks as though there might be some new thinking and fresh ideas on the way as well as enough cash to stuff the most capacious sporran to the brim
However, there might be another side to... more
Witty, purposeful, high quality public art is possible in a community context, as Richard Erwin-Jones shows.
Jenny-Anne Dexter takes us on a tour of her favourite virtual haunts.
Jane Thomas suspects that many small arts organisations are missing a trick in terms of how they make use of low cost IT solutions.
Sean Egan counsels us to beware of infringing discrimination laws when dealing with unsolicited employment applications
Involving communities and workforces is the key to cultural projects in the build-up to 2012, explains Sally Shaw.
In-house audio description and captioning has made its mark at a newly refurbished theatre, writes Miranda Yates.
Disabled people just want access to the same kit and the same websites that the rest of us take for granted, writes Jo Verrent.
How can arts organisations join the preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012? Alex Homfray explains.
Adaptive technology can be surprisingly low-tech and low-cost, as Julia Piggott discovers.