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 Challenge initiative specifically wants suggestions for making the festivals greener and dealing with queues. The top 25 entries as voted for by the public will be awarded a prize pack worth £100. These will form a shortlist from which a panel of judges will select a top five who will each win a prize worth £500 – including an iPad or two night’s accommodation and festival tickets for 2012. The judging panel includes Will Gompertz, Lyn Gardner, Bill Thompson and Faith Liddell, and ideas need to be submitted before the end of October.
www.ideas.edinburghfestivals.co.uk
Arts Quarter is calling on arts organisations to take its latest survey and share their experiences of working through the recession. A year on from its previous research, it is now looking to update its findings in order to plot ongoing effects on communities and to continue to explore key issues.
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Crowd funding website WeDidThis has launched a ‘Crowds for Culture’ campaign, calling on Arts Council England (ACE) to reward micro-philanthropy when it announces further details of its £30m Catalyst Arts scheme in September. The campaign asks that funding secured from a broad base of small givers should be rewarded by more matched funding; that future ACE capacity-building funding should include a strand specifically aimed at encouraging those who give small amounts; and that ACE should look at new ways to bring public funding and crowd funding together.
www.wedidthis.org.uk