Many voices, open minds, commitment to change
What should underpin our evaluation practice in the arts? Oliver Mantell reflects on the new Evaluation Principles from the Centre…
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Evaluating cities and capitals of culture
With the winner of the UK City of Culture 2025 to be announced imminently, four academics outline their recommendations for t…
Culture-led funding or funding-led culture?
There is a crucial disconnect between how the sector evaluates the impact of culture and using it to influence policy. It’s…
Taking up the evaluation challenge
Practitioners have seen with their own eyes how arts and health interventions can make a real difference to young people’s m…
Storytelling – a different way of evaluating
Conventional monitoring and evaluation isn’t always helpful in community settings, but with some creative thinking, it can b…
Working together to articulate cultural value
When the coronavirus crisis ends and government is prioritising what happens next, nothing will be more important than being able…
Art ‘doesn’t need to be useful’, report advises self-evaluating organisations
A new resource aims to guide arts organisations through self-assessment, whether they have chosen to do it or been asked to do so…
New guidelines for evaluating arts-based health interventions
A framework giving guidance on how to assess arts projects and programmes aimed at boosting health and wellbeing has been publishe…
Creative evaluation
Meg Attwood explains how enlisting the help of evaluation consultants helped arts-based Community Interest Company Light Box gain…
