New structure for Youth Music
Youth Music will be operating a new funding model from November, following the publication of the National Plan for Music Educatio…
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Starting young
New evidence has confirmed the vital influence that attending and participating in the arts during childhood plays in adult involv…
World stage for Shakespeare Festival
Arts organisations across the world to join forces in the 2012 celebrations
Dance UK challenges Willetts
Caroline Miller responds to David Willetts’ comments about A-level dance
Finders keepers?
Art Asia’s experience of the high-profile funding scheme Find Your Talent typifies the journey of many arts organisations as the…
Mike Ingham, Creative Manager for Performance in Education
In the light of the recent riots it’s extremely telling that one word has been missing amidst the demands for blame, answers…
D-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y
‘Diversity’ – a buzz word we all are guilty of using in the arts. A buzz word, dare I say it, that we over-use. All of…
Taking Youth Dance seriously
I’ve recently had the pleasure of attending and reporting on a number of youth dance showcases, including Dance Futures at t…
Green light for school trips as red tape is cut
Guidance for teachers wishing to organise learning opportunities outside the classroom has been revised by the Department for Educ…
Funding the future of risky business
In his recent blog post ‘Funding the future – a risky business?’ Peter De Haan quotes the question “where…
The best ticket for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Whether or not you got tickets for London 2012, it is now swinging firmly into view. The Cultural Olympiad was officially launched…
Jimmyteens.tv
Claire Pope on a film project for teenage cancer sufferers
Music to their ears
Catching them young and teaching them to listen is the way to get kids interested in music, believes Richard Gill
High notes
Ginny Greenwood on a new scheme designed to boost musical opportunities for young people
Bristol-based youth work
I’ve been busy getting my feet under the table at Travelling Light Theatre Company, producing projects with young Bristolian…
Art in action
Christine Kapteijn on hands-on art activism in Cambodia
Early arts fears for new portfolio
Fears that Arts Council England’s (ACE) new National Portfolio does not involve many organisations that deliver arts for, by…
The Traditional, The Risky, The Unpaid & The Ugly: life after redundancy
In the wake of the NPO funding announcement last Wednesday there will be organisations up and down the country saying goodbye to s…
Curation vs. education
Practically all public art Galleries have some kind of “education” or “engagement” arm to them, specifical…
Bridging the gap
£10m a year is being earmarked from Arts Council England’s (ACE) predicted Lottery funds for 14 organisations across E…
Listening and learning
I was recently at a training course, which looked at how to work with young people at risk of getting trapped in the benefits syst…
Boost for poetry and literature
A new £1m funding programme has been created with the aim of enabling children and young people to experience literature and…
£8.2m gift will support new facilities for arts education
The National Theatre, Tate Britain, and the Royal Shakespeare Company are to receive the lion’s share of a £8.2m windf…
Cultural apartheid risk
Twenty-six arts leaders have written to the Prime Minister requesting a meeting to discuss levels of arts investment planned for 2…
