Monday, 28 January 2008
The Cambridge Summer Music Festival is mounting the UK’s first online NoShow Prom as a fundraising initiative that allows people to get involved in a performance whilst staying at home. Tickets are being sold for a virtual concert at which participants can become members of a virtual audience, join a virtual orchestra or attend a virtual pre-concert party with a celebrity friend. Proceeds will... read more
Monday, 14 January 2008
The DCMS is seeking comments on a proposal to amend the Licensing Act 2003 to provide an easier process for venues to apply for minor variations to their licences. Currently, when licence holders wish to make small changes, they must apply for a full variation, involving advertising in a local newspaper or circular and copying the application to all the responsible authorities. The minor... read more
Monday, 17 December 2007
The Times Higher Award 2007 for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts has been made to Performing Medicine, which was established two years ago as a project to research how the arts can be used for training in the medical curriculum. The collaborative venture involves theatre and performance company The Clod Ensemble (pictured), Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and the... read more
Monday, 03 December 2007
The Manchester Camerata Trust has launched a campaign to raise £1m before the 40th birthday of the Manchester Camerata chamber orchestra in 2012. The Sostenuto Campaign specifically encourages “extraordinary giving”, asking supporters to make donations of shares, real estate and legacy gifts, which will be held in trust to enable the orchestra to undertake new artistic and educational projects.... read more
Monday, 19 November 2007
Axis, the online resource for contemporary art, is launching a curator directory to run alongside its established artist directory. The website will support and profile the work of curators based in the UK and overseas, aiming to promote online dialogue between curators and UK artists, broker opportunities, raise awareness of contemporary art and become an international resource for arts... read more
Monday, 05 November 2007
The Society of London Theatres (SOLT) has put out a warning to the media about the dangers of citing unofficial theatre website URLs in both editorial and show reviews. It gives the example of The Gielgud Theatre, for which the URL at the end of a recent newspaper review for its production of Macbeth was that of a secondary ticket agent who was selling tickets at higher prices than the theatre... read more
Monday, 22 October 2007
A new funding partnership between The Art Fund and the Crafts Council will enable curators to cherry pick works by artists and makers of international status during a special three-hour pre-VIP preview of Collect, Europes only international art fair dedicated to contemporary applied and decorative arts, being held at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 2529 January 2008. A £50,000 fund will be... read more
Monday, 08 October 2007
A three-day cultural summit hosted by the Scottish Arts Council will take place in Edinburgh next year, to encourage discussion and debate of pertinent issues in the context of the development of Creative Scotland, the new cultural development agency that is set to replace the Scottish Arts Council. The event, Scotland: Creative Nation, will include presentations from influential thinkers in... read more
Monday, 24 September 2007
The Scottish Arts Council (SAC) is updating its Getting There CD-Rom on inclusion in the arts, which was created in 2005 to provide information and advice to ensure that disabled people are fully included in all aspects of the work of SAC-funded organisations. It is looking for current case studies which show best practice relating to access to buildings, festivals, programming and employment.
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Monday, 10 September 2007
The Art Fund and Arts Council England have joined forces as lead partners in Channel 4's Big Art Project, said to be one of the most ambitious UK national art commissioning programmes ever undertaken. Working with local communities across the UK, the project will commission public artworks by a group of internationally-acclaimed artists and rising stars, amongst them multi-media specialist Rafael... read more
Monday, 27 August 2007
The UK Workforce Hub and Institute of Fundraising are currently revising the Fundraising National Occupational Standards and are seeking feedback from anyone working within this field. Since the standards were originally drafted in 2003, the profession has seen several changes, including the introduction of the new Fundraising Standards Board, new Codes of Fundraising Practice and a new Charities... read more
Monday, 30 July 2007
A new paper exploring the connections and economic linkages between publicly funded culture and the creative industries has been published by Arts Council England. Prepared by John Holden, Head of Culture at Demos, the reports publication coincides with an ongoing investigation into creativity through the DCMS/DTI Creative Economy Programme, which aims to produce the first Government assessment... read more
Monday, 16 July 2007
A national initiative to make musical instruments more easily affordable for families and those on lower incomes has been launched by Arts Council England in partnership with the Music Industries Association. The Take it away scheme allows individuals to apply for a loan of up to £2,000 for the purchase of any kind of musical instrument, and pay it back, interest free, in nine monthly instalments... read more
Monday, 02 July 2007
Visiting Arts has re-launched its Scotland Cultural Profile website. Aimed primarily at encouraging cultural exchanges involving Scotland, the website offers a one stop shop for information and resources relating to Scotlands cultural sector, including a database of over 5,000 key arts, media, heritage and other contacts. It also covers local authority provision for arts and culture in Scotland,... read more
Monday, 18 June 2007
English National Youth Arts Network is offering free membership to all, in an attempt to better achieve its aims of raising the profile of youth arts and uniting the whole of the sector. The decision to end paid membership followed feedback from a members survey, and full members to date will have joining fees reimbursed.
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The Fourth Plinth Primary School Award has been... read more