Creative Midlands collation |
- Passage to India
- Frequency, digital culture festival
- Frequency, digital culture festival
- E: Food Festival, Rutland
- W: Poetry, Festival, Wenlock, Shrops
- ArtsFest, Birmingham, WM
- W: Art Fair, Coventry, Warks
- Meet the BBC
- WenlockPoetry: THREE POETS WALK INTO A PUB<br>20th Sept 8pm-10.15pm<br>A Triple Bill of Top Performance Poetry<br>TheOddfellows Wine BarMarket PlaceShifnal TF11 9AU
- Arts Jobs - Runner for Live Broadcast Artists' TV
- Festival Director, The Spark Children’s Arts Festival
- Editor at Grapefruit Productions, Birmingham (but any)
- Professional development | Studio for rent - Stroud
- Ludlowfoodfest: & not forgetting every single person who visited #Ludlowfoodfest this year we can not thank you enough for your support & great feedback
- wirksworth_fest: What a fantastic Wirksworth Festival weekend! The town has been buzzing! Thank you to everyone who has taken... http://t.co/3UJsvUP
- Making Moves II: Resident Artist Opportunity (Birmingham)
- Jeanie Scott is 2011/12 Creative Scotland Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme - Arts & Business
- Arts & Business Scotland announces partnership with Heineken UK - Arts & Business
- 25th anniversary Arts & Business Scotland Awards... shortlist announced - Arts & Business
- Peter Shand explains SCIOs (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisations) - Arts & Business
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:23 AM PDT
If you read this blog, chances are good that you'll already know Nottingham folk as an enterprising, inspiring bunch. Well, I hate to reinforce that stereotype (actually, I don't hate it at all!) because here is another incredible tale of Nottingham tenacity, determination and lunacy. Do you know the tuk-tuk? Half moped, half taxi, the tuk-tuk is a symbol of India, and great fun for the occasional journey across town, if you're not especially safety conscious, and if you're not that into comfortable travel. Having said that, how about long-distance travel in one? Down to London? Further – maybe down to Folkstone? Aw, heck, let's just drive it to New Delhi! That's what I can only imagine the conversation must have been like between these four friends. Sanjay, Mukesh, Kelham and Johnny are four Nottingham residents who, following Kelham's father's death through cancer, decided to drive this serious mission all the way to India to raise awareness and money for charity.
So, with a week left to go on the trip, there's still plenty of time to check out the blog and donate to loads of good causes… Here's hoping Flying Rani and the team make it back okay! Follow their progress on twitter and Facebook, and check out some previous press coverage here. |
| Frequency, digital culture festival Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:46 AM PDT Coming soon, Luke Jerram, Peter Kirn and Metro-Boulot-Dodo. Frequency Festival Friday 21 October to Sunday 30 October. |
| Frequency, digital culture festival Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:34 AM PDT Coming soon, Luke Jerram, Peter Kirn and Metro-Boulot-Dodo. Frequency Festival Friday 21 October to Sunday 30 October. |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:17 AM PDT Recurring Event First start: 2011-09-12 11:30:00 BST Duration: 3600 Where: Rutland, UK Event Status: confirmed Event Description: http://www.list.co.uk/event/20224871-rutland-food-festival/ |
| W: Poetry, Festival, Wenlock, Shrops Posted: 12 Sep 2011 01:57 AM PDT Recurring Event First start: 2012-04-13 BST Duration: 259200 Where: Much Wenlock, Shrops SY13, UK Event Status: confirmed Event Description: http://twitter.com/#!/WenlockPoetry |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 01:46 AM PDT Recurring Event First start: 2011-09-10 BST Duration: 172800 Where: Birmingham, WM, UK Event Status: confirmed |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 01:45 AM PDT When: Sat Sep 24, 2011 10am to 5pm BST Where: Canal Basin, Coventry, Warwickshire, United Kingdom Event Status: confirmed Event Description: local (and beyond) artists and craftspeople http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Lock-Gallery/87838710522 |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:47 AM PDT Date: Sep 29, 2011 Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Where: BBC Mailbox B1 1RH Birmingham United Kingdom Organized by: CIPR Midlands |
| Posted: 10 Sep 2011 05:47 PM PDT WenlockPoetry: THREE POETS WALK INTO A PUB 20th Sept 8pm-10.15pm A Triple Bill of Top Performance Poetry TheOddfellows Wine BarMarket PlaceShifnal TF11 9AU |
| Arts Jobs - Runner for Live Broadcast Artists' TV Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:19 AM PDT Runner for live broadcast of Artists' TV An arts organisation are seeking dynamic and enthusiastic runner for a series of new live artists commissions this September. Driving... View the full article |
| Festival Director, The Spark Children’s Arts Festival Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT |
| Editor at Grapefruit Productions, Birmingham (but any) Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:35 PM PDT I am looking for an experienced editor for a short film which has been already shot. You can be based anywhere as I can send you the footage. Please apply with CV and showreel. Unfortunately this is... |
| Professional development | Studio for rent - Stroud Posted: 10 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT WHO: All WHERE: South West England - Stroud DEADLINE: 30 November 2011 |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2011 01:02 PM PDT Ludlowfoodfest: & not forgetting every single person who visited #Ludlowfoodfest this year we can not thank you enough for your support & great feedback |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2011 01:54 PM PDT wirksworth_fest: What a fantastic Wirksworth Festival weekend! The town has been buzzing! Thank you to everyone who has taken... http://t.co/3UJsvUP |
| Making Moves II: Resident Artist Opportunity (Birmingham) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:28 AM PDT [Freelance Opportunities] Birmingham City Council and Birmingham City University (School of Jewellery and Textile Design Departments) are working in partnership to offer two experienced artist/ designers a residency in Birmingham as part of the Making Moves II project. ... |
| Jeanie Scott is 2011/12 Creative Scotland Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme - Arts & Business Posted: 06 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT
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| Arts & Business Scotland announces partnership with Heineken UK - Arts & Business Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Arts & Business Scotland (A&BS) is pleased to announce that Heineken UK has agreed to support Arts & Business Scotland's Skills Bank Programme to 2013. Skills Bank is a body of business volunteers from a wide range of sectors looking to offer their time and expertise to guide and support an arts organisation. The Skills Bank programme was originally launched in the early 1990s and since then, over 280 arts organisations from around Scotland have benefited from the advice and support from the business volunteer placed with them. During the current challenging economic climate, those who support the arts and creative industries believe that now is the right time to re-launch the skills bank programme to provide business support and advice both to the not-for-profit arts sector and to micro pre-profit creative companies. Skills Bank for the arts and creative industries The Creative Industries Partnership Report 1 recognises that "those involved in creative industries need a range of skills from the creative and technical relating to the demands of their specific industry, to more general entrepreneurial, management and business skills". Creative & Cultural Skills, the Sector Skills Council for the creative industries, in The Creative Blueprint for Scotland 2, also goes on to identify technical and specialist skill gaps as well as a need for higher skills in business and enterprise as amongst the key challenges which need to be addressed by the sector. Arts & Business Scotland's Skills Bank programme, a work-based learning programme, is uniquely suited to assist such businesses. What difference will Heineken UK's support make? Heineken UK's support allows A&BS to make this service free to both business volunteers and the supported arts and creative industry organisations, in order to encourage take-up amongst large and small organisations alike. Kieran Simpson, Corporate Relations Director, Heineken UK said: "At Heineken we take a lot of pride in the time and resource we commit to the development of our people, and we were keen to spread this ethos by supporting the Skills Bank programme. Headquartered in Edinburgh, we are passionate about supporting, and sharing best practice with, the Scottish arts and creative industry community. In addition to the financial support we will provide, Heineken UK will also have the opportunity to involve our employees directly in the programme, as Skills Bank volunteers. This opportunity will allow our colleagues to develop their own potential, to use and build their professional skills in a different and challenging environment, and to play a personal role in making a difference for an arts organisation." Barclay Price, Director, Arts & Business Scotland said: "The arts and creative sectors face a period of economic uncertainty and technological change, and if Scotland is to sustain and grow a resilient creative eco-system, it is essential that creative companies are equipped to meet such change. This scheme is a cost effective way of developing the management skills of arts and creative industries workers and enabling businesses to foster coaching skills among their workforce. We are delighted that Heineken's valuable support will help us to deliver relevant skill transfer linked to on-the-job issues, offering arts workers effective learning." How does Skills Bank work? The Skills Bank programme matches up business volunteers with relevant skills to coach individuals in arts organisations on specific management issues or tasks, such as strategic development, business planning, financial control, project management, marketing or HR, and to transfer those skills to the arts worker. The Skills Bank involves the volunteer in coaching on a specific, defined issue with clear goals to achieve by the end of the placement period. The business volunteer gains an overview of the arts organisation's work while assisting the arts manager gain new skills. Business volunteers: - build on their areas of expertise - enhance their communication, motivation and delegation techniques - develop new skills in a different and sometimes challenging environment - bring about demonstrable and measurable behavioural change. Arts workers: - develop new skills with expert support - enhance their learning and communication techniques - improve the arts organisation's operation. [1] http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/ArtsCultureSport/arts/CulturalPolicy/creative-scotland/partnership-report [2] http://www.ccskills.org.uk/Research/Scotland/tabid/90/Default.aspx
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| 25th anniversary Arts & Business Scotland Awards... shortlist announced - Arts & Business Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:00 PM PDT The Arts & Business Scotland Awards celebrate and showcase exemplary partnerships between business and the arts across Scotland. For a business, being shortlisted provides an opportunity to have its arts engagement given public recognition, while for the arts organisation, nominating its business partner is a way of showing thanks for the company's sponsorship support. This year there are shortlists in six categories: Community Award sponsored by McGrigors LLP Sponsorship by a Small Business Award sponsored by Bank of Scotland Young People Award sponsored by Aberdeen Asset Management New or Returning Sponsor Award sponsored by Whitespace & Allander Print Limited Cultural Branding Award sponsored by Shell UK Limited Sustained Partnership Award sponsored by TAQA Bratani Limited Four additional Awards will be announced at the Awards event Aberdeen City Arts Award sponsored by Aberdeen City Council The Awards are kindly supported by: Aberdeenshire Council and anCnoc Single Malt Scotch Whisky. The panel of Judges for the 2011 Awards are: |
| Peter Shand explains SCIOs (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisations) - Arts & Business Posted: 04 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Peter Shand, Murray Beith Murray Solicitors tells Arts & Business about SCIOs, the new legal form that is now available for charities in Scotland Whatever it eventually comes to stand for, The Big Society will, almost inevitably, lead to a greater role being played by charities, whether limited companies or, on the other hand, some arts organisations that might be euphemistically described as more 'loosely constructed'. Consequently, the latter may no longer be able to operate on 'a wing and a prayer' as many of them have done up to now – all of which makes new charity law in Scotland all the more timely, albeit coincidental to the Prime Minister's pronouncements on The Big Society. From 1 April all new arts charities in Scotland and any existing ones that don't yet have company status will be able to apply to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator to become a "Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation" (SCIO). The aim of the new regulation is to make charities, particularly small to medium sized ones, more soundly structured from a legal point of view, thus enabling them to achieve the same kind of status as charitable companies without the equivalent set-up and administrative costs that this can involve. So far so boring, but in addition to better governance, there are likely to be real, practical, everyday advantages to having the new legal template. Those involved in the management of unincorporated arts organisations, including those who act as volunteers (and especially those with 'executive' positions of responsibility) may be unaware of the potential financial exposure that their activities could lead to. The main draw of the SCIO is that becoming 'incorporated' will provide arts professionals who run their own business with greater protection from liability and claims from third parties against their own assets. This is the same kind of protection that those involved in the running of a limited company would expect to have and it should help to encourage those people who are keen to get 'hands on' in charitable organisations to take up the responsibilities that go with it. But while one primary purpose of setting up SCIOs is to tackle some of the more negative aspects of being on a charity, there are also positive reasons for it too. A SCIO will be treated as a separate legal entity (just like a company), enabling it to acquire title to property, take on a lease, enter into contracts with third parties and employ staff in the name of the charity. This implies that some arts groups which have, up until now, been less formally regulated can become more professional and efficient in their business dealings without themselves having to take on all the expensive, but necessary, legal trappings of a limited company. At its most basic level this may give these organisations more power to 'bargain' for deals on everything from leases of halls and meeting rooms to catering. SCIO accreditation will be open to any arts organisation in Scotland with charitable objectives and there are no monetary limits, so even a charity with minimal earnings may see a SCIO as a desirable structure if, for example, it holds large levels of non-income producing capital assets. For those arts charities that are already in the shape of a company, conversion to a SCIO will become an option from 1 January next year. The introduction of the SCIO will be, in itself, be a big step towards better governance of the charity sector in Scotland but Mr Cameron's pronouncements on The Big Society – no matter how coincidental – seem to emphasise the benefits even further."
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