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Applications for Northern Ireland’s biennial Young Artist Platform Award open on 28 July. The Arts Council of Northern Ireland offers three awards of £5,000 to instrumentalists aged up to 26 and singers aged up to 29, and BBC Northern Ireland offers two professional broadcasts to each winner. One of the 2006 winners, Catherine Coulter, is pictured working with the Ulster Orchestra on a concerto performance, which is also part of the award. The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 28 August.
w: http://www.artscouncil-ni.org

A new consultation has been launched by the Government relating to copyright exemptions that apply to playing recorded music in public. The exemptions principally allow not-for-profit and charitable organisations, in certain circumstances, to play copyright sound recordings in public without being required to pay a licence fee for use of those sound recordings or the performances they contain. Depending on the outcomes of the consultation, these may be repealed. The deadline for responses is 31 October.
w: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/consult-musiclicensing.htm

A report examining 20 years of work with refugees, asylum seekers and new migrants by arts organisations in the UK identifies 200 organisations involved in this and highlights good practice. Commissioned and funded by the Arts Council, England, London, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Baring Foundation, the report can be downloaded from the Baring Foundation and Arts Council England websites.
e: [email protected]; w: http://www.baringfoundation.org.uk/

Freelancers and employers with an understanding of what a freelance job in the arts entails are being invited to complete an online questionnaire. Responses to this will be used to help CCSkills, the sector skills council for the creative and cultural industries, to write an appropriate set of National Occupations Standards for this type of work in the sector.
w: http://www.ccskills-nos.org.uk/consultation.html

The Campaign for Learning is extending its annual celebration to a month-long Family Learning Festival during the whole of October to mark 10 years of work in this area. It is specifically inviting museums and galleries to get involved and will be producing activity ideas and planning materials to help them make the most of the Festival and attract families.
w: http://www.familylearningweek.com; t: 020 7766 0001; e: [email protected]

The ninth Big Draw will run from 1 to 31 October, involving galleries, museums, science centres, heritage and environmental sites, libraries, archives, shopping centres, colleges, schools and art clubs hosting drawing activities for people of all abilities. Event organisers are being invited to register now.
w: http://www.campaignfordrawing.org/bigdraw/intro.aspx

As well as launching a new website offering free resources to volunteer and inexperienced fundraisers, the Institute of Fundraising, supported by The Vodafone UK Foundation and The Office of the Third Sector, has created a new email bulletin and news service containing hints and tips to improve fundraising effectiveness.
w: http://www.how2fundraise.org/how2news/

The Turner Prize 2007 generated in excess of £10m for the Merseyside economy, according to research commissioned by the Northwest Regional Development Agency. More than 3.6 million watched Turner Prize coverage on Channel 4 and 71,800 people visited the exhibition at Tate Liverpool. This was the first time the prize had been presented outside London. It will return to Tate Britain in 2008.