Monday, 12 December 2011
A new guide toInternships in the Arts is providing advice on how to develop mutually beneficial employment opportunities, and sets out the legal obligations for arts and cultural organisations offering internships. Published through a collaboration between Arts Council England and Creative & Cultural Skills, the guide recommends an open and fair recruitment process based on a wider... read more
Monday, 21 November 2011
The development and delivery of innovative Irish arts and cultural events in Britain is the theme of a new national event organised by the Federation of Irish Societies, the national representative body for the Irish in Britain. The conference will bring together Irish artists and managers to explore how to strengthen their identity as a professional artistic community and capture new audiences... read more
Monday, 31 October 2011
Guidance on the payment of the National Minimum Wage for work experience staff and interns has been updated on the Business Link website, which also gives details of the rules regarding volunteers and voluntary workers in relation to the minimum wage.
www.businesslink.gov.uk/nmw; http://bit.ly/oMEcs5
Tested as a theatre during a recent Shakespeare Festival, the Bristol Bierkeller is set to... read more
Monday, 10 October 2011
Derby City Council’s arts team is bringing together arts organisations from across the city to raise funds through the crowdfunding website www.wedidthis.org.uk. The public will be able to visit the website, view the projects that they want to see happen in Derby and then make a donation. Each organisation will aim to generate donations for their individual projects, and donors will be... read more
Monday, 19 September 2011
London’s theatre producers and owners will be given more support by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) to ensure the accessibility of their events in the build-up to the Olympics and Paralympics. SOLT already produces the Access London Theatre Brochure giving details of assisted performances taking place in London theatres and information about the access provision at each individual venue. It... read more
Monday, 29 August 2011
For the first time, this year’s Turner Prize exhibition and award ceremony will not be held at Tate. Instead, the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead will exhibit the four shortlisted artists from October, and will host the prize-giving in December.
Performers, audiences and organisers are being invited to share ideas on how to make the Edinburgh festivals better. The Ideas... read more
Monday, 25 July 2011
Dance UK is recruiting 10 choreographers to help update ‘Look Before You Leap’, a guide for choreographers. Experts in the field are being encouraged to read a chapter, provide feedback as to whether this is still relevant and up-to-date, and suggest amendments or new information that is needed. The updated book is due to be published in October, supported by the Rayne Foundation.
A new... read more
Monday, 04 July 2011
A new report, ‘Youth Arts Transforms Lives’ has been published by Artswork, the national youth arts development agency. Coming out of Artswork’s year-long national campaign for the English National Youth Arts Network, the report aims to illustrate the impact of participation in the arts and culture with, for and by young people. It offers statistics, case studies and articles drawn... read more
Thursday, 09 June 2011
A new education resource from the BFI has documented the histories of dance, acting, theatre, music, performance art and the spoken word on film and television. The Performing Arts on Film & Television Catalogue references around 3,500 film and video titles selected from the combined collections of the BFI, Arts Council England, Central St Martins British Artists Film & Video Study... read more
Monday, 23 May 2011
Guidance materials to support teachers in assessing pupils’ progress in musical learning within the National Curriculum have been published by the National Association of Music Education. The materials include an assessment framework that describes essential standards in students’ understanding of their music, their practical work and their ability to evaluate and improve their work. The current... read more
Tuesday, 03 May 2011
Developers at Lancaster University’s Computer Studies department will trial a new app for a next-generation travel information system at the FutureEverything festival in Manchester. Funded by the Technology Strategy Board, the free travel/event app, ‘Our Travel’, has been adapted for FutureEverything to enable festival-goers to interact with communities created for specific events during the... read more
Monday, 11 April 2011
A free, online, step-by-step Business Survival Toolkit has been designed to help people in the creative industries survive and prosper during difficult times. The toolkit is a partnership project between Creative & Cultural Skills, Cultural Leadership Programme, Crafts Council, Design Council and Heritage Lottery Fund.
www.business-survival-toolkit.co.uk
The winning artwork for the Fourth... read more
Monday, 21 March 2011
The Crafts Council has launched ‘Hothouse’, a new programme of business skills and creative development for emerging makers. It is open to those based in England up to two years into their careers, as part of Crafts Council Collective, the professional development programme for makers. The closing date for applications is 15 April, and application forms can be downloaded from the Crafts Council’... read more
Monday, 28 February 2011
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 leadership that will inspire and from which others can learn. Entries close on 4 March.
http://www.charityawards.co.uk
A £5m grant from the Department for Education is set to transform an old fire... read more
Thursday, 03 February 2011
£820,000 has been awarded to 13 new commissions for ‘Unlimited’, the Cultural Olympiad programme that celebrates arts and culture by Deaf and disabled artists. There are eight projects from England, three from Scotland, one from Wales and one from Northern Ireland. With support from the British Council many of the commissions will see collaboration with artists in other countries. The projects... read more