A new guide to help street arts and circus promoters deal with the new Licensing Act has been published by Arts Council England, in partnership with the Independent Street Arts Network, Circus Arts Forum and Equity.
w: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk
The Playwrights? Studio is creating an online directory of all new plays professionally produced in Scotland, together with world premières of plays by Scottish playwrights produced elsewhere in the UK and internationally. The initiative, Play Resource Scotland, is inviting submissions of all new work staged from January 2005.
w: http://www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk
Britain?s first national Youth Arts Directory has been launched by Artswork in partnership with UPSTART magazine. The publication is designed to provide the first comprehensive overview of youth arts in the UK, with details of funders, organisations, practitioners and training.
t: 023 8063 0960
e: artsplan@artswork.demon.co.uk;
w: http://www.artswork.org.uk/artsplan
A new initiative designed to tackle childhood obesity in Scotland has been launched by Ydance. The Dance in Schools Initiative, funded by the Scottish Executive Health Department, will distribute CD-Roms to help train teachers to use street-dance, contemporary and creative dance workshops to promote healthy lifestyles among schoolchildren. The project is set to become a national initiative for 3 years from September 2005.
e: teri@scottishyouthdance.org
Respond, a publication designed to support and assist Arts Council England-funded organisations in developing race equality action plans, has been launched as part of ACE?s Race Equality Scheme.
w: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk
The Music Publishers Association (MPA) has introduced a new premium rate telephone line to assist people searching for printed music. Enquiries will be dealt with by staff utilising the MPA?s Catalogue of Printed Music, which contains details for over 260,000 works. Calls to the line cost 60p per minute.
t: 0906 163 1998
Disability arts development agency, Dada-South, is holding its inaugural event, premièring new work by disabled artists on 31 March at Fabrica Art Gallery, Brighton.
e: info@dada-south.org.uk
NEXUS 2005, a networking and exchange event for dance artists and practitioners in the North West region, will take place at the Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington on 9 April.
t: 01606 863845;
e: admin@dancenorthwest.org.uk
The Bridewell Theatre?s (pictured) future has been secured through a collaboration between the theatre?s owner, the St Bride Institute, and two amateur dramatic companies, the Stock Exchange Dramatic and Operatic Society and the Tower Theatre Company. Funding restrictions forced the Bridewell Theatre Company to vacate the building in January.