ACE funding announcement
Audience development loses out as ACE prioritises organisations directly producing art
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Child’s play
Tim Webb celebrates 30 years of theatre for young audiences
Equal Opportunities recruitment stifles applications
“The organisation will conduct an equal opportunities interview – asking all interviewees the same questions and scori…
Collaboration is a good thing…
‘Collaboration’ is a word met by many raised eyebrows. It suggests too many cooks, lots of crossed wires and extra adm…
Amala Anyika shares the websites she wouldn’t be without
WWW.DISABILITYARTSONLINE.ORG.UK Disability Arts Online provides lots of information on the disability arts sector, for artists and…
Fun in the theatre
At a recent Devoted and Disgruntled satellite event, I met two members of Filskit Theatre – a company using innovative proje…
Henley Review sparks shake-up of music education
New structures will emerge for music education and funding, but curriculum issues remain.
Action!
Sophie Medd on a film project that teaches life skills and addresses social divides
Theatre by and for young people
And so I went to the Drum Theatre, to see the culmination of a mouth-watering project that the Theatre Royal Plymouth has been run…
Child performance law overhaul
Local authorities and amateur groups are being encouraged to give children every opportunity to perform in local shows, as new Gov…
CashBack for Culture
A scheme which helps young people engage in arts projects in Scotland is able to continue running for another year thanks to an in…
Between a rock and a hard place
Sarah Perks argues that the value of education and engagement programmes cannot be overlooked when cuts are being made
Stories for all
Marge Ainsley advocates putting young people at the heart of the curatorial process
Internships for all
Ensuring that young people from poorer backgrounds have better opportunities to access the creative industries is one of the key a…
Are ideas art?
Tolstoy identified art as an indirect means to communicate from one person to another; Britannica online defines art as the use of…
The value of Art
Cuts, cuts, cuts. In this new ‘age of austerity’, that’s all I hear whenever the Arts [sic caps] are mentioned….
An absolute priority?
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Paul Harman, Chair of TYA-UK, hits back at ACE’s claims that it prioritises young people, but endorses the idea t…
DCMS publishes its Business Plan
Reform for the DCMS’s arm’s length bodies, and support for a move towards more sustainable business models, are at the…
Vetting and barring review
The controversial Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) is to undergo a thorough review. VBS is the system of checks that people who wi…
An absolute priority?
Paul Harman, Chair of TYA-UK, hits back at ACE’s claims that it prioritises young people, but endorses the idea that regularly f…
Music matters
Your focus on music education in AP226 was timely, coming as it did just days after Michael Gove announced his review of mus…
Breaking News: ACE funding decisions
Arts & Business (A&B) is to lose all of its funding from Arts Council England by 2012/13, and suffer a 50% cut in 20…
Playtime for youth music
Music education need not be confined to the classroom, Georgie Goddard and Lyndall Rosewarne desciribe how Power Play makes a diff…
Winning when you’re singing
You don’t have to be a professional to enjoy the benefits of singing – Sarah Robinson explains why Making Music insists we all…
