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Four out of five 13-year-olds have never seen a Shakespeare play, although 63% have been to the theatre, according to a new survey conducted by Shakespeare’s Globe. The survey, of more than 1,200 students at the Globe’s ‘Playing Shakespeare’ project, also notes that 99% of those surveyed had been to the cinema.
http://www.shakespeares-globe.org
Additional funds of £100,000 from Arts Council England will ensure that the Northcott Theatre in Exeter will remain open and that its spring season will go ahead. The theatre’s other stakeholders, Exeter City Council and the University of Exeter (which owns the building), are developing a longer-term plan including possibly setting up a new company to run the venue (AP213). Jeremy Lindley, the university’s Director of Corporate Services, said that the university “is extremely keen to keep the theatre as a community resource and would wish to provide financial support to a new and viable artistic venture”.
http://www.exeternorthcott.co.uk
Youth in Action, a European Union programme for young people that aims to inspire active European citizenship, solidarity and tolerance, is calling for applications for funding. Money is available to support partnership projects with regional or local public bodies in order to develop long-term projects in the field of non-formal learning and youth. The deadlines are 1 June and 1 September.
Creative Scotland has been given the go-ahead by ministers to relocate to a modern development in the centre of Edinburgh. The move is subject to the City of Edinburgh
Council taking over the remaining years of the Scottish Arts Council’s lease of its offices in Manor Place. The offices of Scottish Screen will remain in Glasgow.
http://www.creativescotland.org.uk
Subsidy of the production of the arts should be replaced by a voucher system, according to a report issued by the Adam Smith Institute. ‘Arts Funding: a new approach’, by Graham Rawcliffe, proposes that all citizens should receive an annual, non-transferable voucher for £11 to spend on arts activity from “a list of approved arts providers”. Rawcliffe says this scheme “would reduce the potential for corruption, and eliminate the politicisation of the arts”.
The Independent Street Arts Network (ISAN) has launched new practical guidance on how to make outdoor arts events more accessible for Deaf and disabled audiences and artists. ISAN commissioned the disability-led arts organisation Attitude is Everything to research and write the Access Toolkit, which identifies steps that can be taken to improve accessibility. It also recommends that programmes include Deaf and disabled artists, as this can be a major factor in increasing diverse audiences.
http://www.streetartsnetwork.org.uk
The Scottish Government has announced £300,000 of funding for Arts and Business Scotland’s New Arts Sponsorship Grants scheme in 2010/2011. The scheme encourages new business sponsorship of the arts, by offering pound-for-pound matched funding to sponsored organisations up to £30,000, down from £40,000 last year.
The National Association of Local Government Arts Officers (nalgao) is surveying the current financial situation of local authority arts services. It invites people to complete a short questionnaire to help it build up a big picture of funding levels.
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A film has been made that follows a family who agreed to live without art for a week, as part of a project designed to demonstrate the importance of the arts to a full life. The family, which included two children, had to go without any arts activities, including flute lessons, drawing and reading. Alison Clark-Jenkins, Director, Arts and Development, Arts Council England, North East said, “Our aim is to show that people participate in the arts more often than they might think.”
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