Barking mad?
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (LBBD) appears determined to withdraw all its £300,000 2012/13 budget for funding…
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Tripping the Light Fantastic
Clare Hearn tells of the logistics of managing an annual event involving naked flames, small children and an un-ticketed audience…
Good neighbours
Steve Ball looks forward to Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s ambitious plans for working with community libraries over the nex…
Not an add-on
Creative Partnerships is about to end. Naranee Ruthra-Rajan shares some thoughts about what its Change Schools programme has achie…
Uncharted territory
Daniel Jones on the education projects around Plymouth’s first ever British Art Show
A new Encounter
This July sees the launch of Encounter, a programme of art in public spaces of North Kent, and the culmination of a long period of…
Nights out all round
When it comes to drama and music, traditional concert halls and theatres are not the only places where you can get your cultural f…
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…
How putting Neil McGregor in a dress could save the arts
Picture the kind of digital messiah the arts really needs. What would he or she look like? Are they minister shaped? No. Are they…
Looking outside the arts
Amid all the furore over the current arts funding crisis, there has been a lot of talk of the arts embracing wider corporate busin…
Goals and Glory: lessons from the manager’s bench?
Last Friday I went to see Cheek by Jowl’s stunning, Russian company, ‘Tempest’ at the Barbican. Then, on Saturday afte…
Standards in community dance
I was recently invited to observe a dance lesson taking place as part of a community education programme. Although the artists kne…
Bigger and better
Robin Simpson tries to unravel what ‘Big Society’ might mean for amateur arts groups
Online communication
Yesterday the movers and shakers and grey old men of the arts industry met at State of the Arts, a conference ‘to debate iss…
Simon Dancey reveals the people who have inspired him most
THE CLASH Leaving school at 15 in the early 1980s with no qualifications and no job in industrial South Wales was not my smartest…
Creative Communities 2.0
In my early days as a graduate, not living in a major city meant I relied on the internet to find out what interesting things were…
Selling a stake
In the first of our brand new series on strategies for financial sustainability, Gwilym Gibbons explains how his organisation is e…
Charity licence exemption to end
The arrangements under which the not-for-profit sector (including charities, community halls, voluntary organisations, socia…
Vetting and barring
Organisations working with children and vulnerable adults are subject to a plethora of rules and regulations. Keith Arrowsmith exp…
Waving or drowning?
Shaun Belcher debates ideas on how to improve community arts
Plug in to the matrix
How can local authorities develop cultural leadership? Kathleen O’Neill explains how matrix management transformed Scotland’s…
The good, the bad and the uncomfortable
Kooj Chuhan examines the dangerous lives being lived on our doorstep, and looks at how artists can support migrants and refugees.
