Creating the big society
Sarah Stannage asks whether we can be confident that individuals and communities will step forward to support the development of l…
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A true snapshot of life?
Following her coverage of the national well-being debate and the exclusion of culture from the Office of National Statistics…
Speak up for dance
Neil Nisbet says tweeting links to petitions is a poor substitute for consistent participation by the dance sector in discussions…
Strategies for a digital culture
Oonagh Murphy’s research into how museums are engaging digitally with their audiences took her to New York. Here she reports…
Arts and schools – could do better
Cultural organisations need to tailor their offer to help schools achieve their individual goals in a cost-effective way, accordin…
Audience alert
Rich Hadley reflects on the relationships between artists and their public.
Deepening engagement
Andrew McIntyre outlines a new approach to exploring cultural engagement which provides an insight into people’s behaviour – a…
Arts engagement up
Engagement with the arts grew in both England and Scotland during 2011, according to the latest figures released by the DCMS and t…
A creative space
Boo Chapple has been courting a creative community online
New cash to target fallow areas
The 71 areas of England which fall into the lowest 20% for arts engagement will soon be eligible for investment from a new £…
Assessing the crowd
Evaluating un-ticketed events in ways which are meaningful and sustainable is a challenge that Anne Torreggiani has faced on many…
Last Word
It is no surprise that the latest report on local authority arts expenditure shows a decrease to two-thirds of the levels reached…
Open to all
Jenny Secker on introductory arts courses for people with mental health problems.
Project funding undermines outreach
An investigation into the extent to which museums and galleries are engaged in their communities has provoked a call for a fundame…
No change
Six years of audience development work has not upped engagement levels
‘My research is better than your research’
Liz Hill argues that now is not the time to put our heads in the sand about the impact of audience development activity in the art…
If this is failure, we could do with a lot more of it
David Brownlee on our audience development story
Strength through dialogue
It is so disheartening to hear a theatre manager bemoaning a commitment to increasing audience engagement (Danny Moar, quoted in A…
Who moved my goalposts?
For years you could hear the cry of education funding bodies, the sound echoing through the corridors of drama schools; “wid…
Politics and participation
Toby Lowe considers the role that participatory arts can play in social inclusion
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
Attendance and participation in Northern Ireland
According to figures just released by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), 75% of Northern Ireland’s population atte…
Game on
Videogaming has moved from teenage bedrooms to cultural spaces, says Tracey McGarrigan, but what can artists really learn from the…
Support grows for the arts in Wales
There has been a significant increase in arts engagement, attendance and participation in the arts in Wales since 2005, according…
