After 20 years running Walk the Plank, my secondment in Ukraine with the British Council has taken me right outside my comfort zone: working on my own but for a global organisation, and in a country where I don’t speak the language, was always going to do that. But I had no idea that I would witness such tumult. Three weeks into my visit, Ukraine’s President announced the deal with the EU was off and protests began. By the time half a million people had taken to the streets outside my flat... more
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Issue 272: Building resilience
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Building resilience
03 Apr 2014On an arts programme secondment with the British Council in Ukraine, Liz Pugh has been witness to the turbulent geopolitics of the past six months.
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31 Mar 2014Mat Fraser focuses his disability activism on how exhibitions in medical museums can change ideas and attitudes around disability.
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19 Mar 2014Alex Jones urges those in the early to mid stage of their career (like her) to join a What Next? Generation group.
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19 Mar 2014Kate Reynolds describes a multi-arts project for young people with autism spectrum disorder that has gone off the beaten track and now includes others without the condition.
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19 Mar 2014Crowd-funding was a rough but eventually successful ride for Gill Kirk. She reveals the highs and lows of her month-long campaign.
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12 Mar 2014How did Robert Sanderson turn an overspending council-run facility into a theatre and concert hall thriving without subsidy? Erik Peterson tells the story.
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12 Mar 2014Scotland’s museums sector has taken an innovative approach to overcoming financial challenges, according to Joanne Orr.
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12 Mar 2014Carolyn Black reflects on our use of language in recent papers and discussions at the No Boundaries conference on resilient practice.
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12 Mar 2014Ten years ago Belgrade Theatre Coventry had to find new sources of income. Joanna Reid tells how its production services subsidiary is now contributing £400,000 a year.
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12 Mar 2014Cultural investment in Salford’s regeneration may have created The Lowry, but its impact comes from a distinctive, entrepreneurial financial model, says Julia Fawcett.
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10 Mar 2014Jim Beirne describes how Newcastle’s Live Theatre has created a portfolio of creative enterprises to support the theatre's core new writing and education work.