A seminar on health and safety issues relating to public art commissioning will be presented by Public Art South West on 12 April in Taunton.
e: pasw@artscouncil.org.uk
The Royal Shakespeare Company has appointed Bennetts Associates as architects for the £100m transformation of its Stratford home. The Company?s 1932 Grade II* listed Royal Shakespeare Theatre will be re-modelled in a courtyard theatre style with a thrust stage auditorium seating around 1,000 people. The distance from stage to the furthest seat will be reduced from 27metres to 15metres.
A new book, ?Edward Bond and the Dramatic Child?, will be launched at the University of Central England in Birmingham on 13 April. Edward Bond will be speaking about his work for young people, and the partnership between him and Big Brum Theatre in Education Company. Contact Miriam Bartlett.
t: 0121 331 7334;
e: miriam.bartlett@uce.ac.uk.
A series of questions and options regarding the relationship between the DCMS and the voluntary and community sector are set out in a new consultation document, ?A Giving Culture?, published on the DCMS website at http://www.culture.gov.uk. Responses to the consultation must be made by 30 May.
e: agivingculture@culture.gsi.gov.uk
A national conference on dance for children will explore the opportunities and obstacles to children?s participation in dance. A joint initiative of by Action for Children?s Arts, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Elmhurst School for Dance and Arts Council England, ?Children+Dance? will take place in Birmingham on 16 April.
t: 01743 243755;
e: admin@belmontartscentre.org.uk
?In The Frame?, an arts conference organised by learning disability charity, Mencap, will take place at Tate Modern on 20 June, the first day of learning disability week 2005. The event aims to celebrate the work of leading learning disabled artists, to examine issues around the training, professional development and opportunities for learning disabled artists and to explore what people with a learning disability want from galleries.
The National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund) has made changes to its grant-giving procedures, which come into force this month. For grants above £5,000, applications will be considered on a bi-monthly basis, while applications for grants below £5,000 will be considered throughout the year.
w: http://www.artfund.org/grants
Seminars for twenty-five teachers will take place in each of the nine English regions and in Wales between March and July, aiming to empower primary school teachers to use the arts and creativity more effectively in their classrooms. The project, ?Walking with Artists?, has come about though a partnership involving The National Campaign for the Arts and the National Union of Teachers? Professional Development Programme.
t: 020 7333 0375
The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), which supports research into the creative and performing arts, will become the Arts and Humanities Research Council on 1 April. The new public body will continue the work and projects of the AHRB.
w: http://www.ahrb.ac.uk
An online database providing contact details for over 200 disability trainers, auditors and consultants has been launched by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council to help arts organisations meet their obligations to improve disability access. Under the terms of the Disability Discrimination Act, the final part of which became law last October, organisations are now required to make reasonable adjustment to the services offered to all disabled people.
w: http://disabilitydatabase.mla.gov.uk
A searchable website database has been established to encourage international cultural exchange and collaboration between the UK and Norway. The Norway Cultural Profile was created by Visiting Arts, and forms part of a series of nine profiles to be launched online during the next six months, including Slovenia, Scotland, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Egypt and Lebanon.
w: http://www.culturalprofiles.org.uk