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- artsdevuk: New website post: : Big Society Meeting Notes http://t.co/0BJEZZyG
- Four students from NTU are heading to Harbin, China to compete in the Internatio...
- AD:uk 2011 Conference Reports
- Stage: Tributes to former Birmingham Repertory Theatre chairman Andy Allan
- Brecon Jazz Festival seeks new promoter pulls out
- Institute of Cultural Capital Survey
- Voluntary arts week 2012
- New website post: : Creative Apprenticeship Opportunity in South Wales http://t.co/9WD7aEG2
- artsdevuk: New website post: : Creative Apprenticeship Opportunity in South Wales http://t.co/9WD7aEG2
- Libraries Development Initiative announced
- Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker will move to O2 Arena
- Arts Council England and the BBC launch The Space - a multi-platform content channel for the arts
- National Lottery Awards winners announced tomorrow in live broadcast
- Cycling vicar and son propel Godiva from Coventry to London as part of 2012 celebrations
- Tindal Street Press gets double eBook success
- Ironbridge receives Lottery grant for CORE – a major London 2012 digital commission
- Line-up for next year's World Shakespeare Festival is revealed
- Lottery awards for three arts events
- London 2012 seeks volunteer performers for the greatest show on earth
- Arts Council England and the BBC launch The Space - a multi-platform content channel for the arts
| artsdevuk: New website post: : Big Society Meeting Notes http://t.co/0BJEZZyG Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:09 AM PST artsdevuk: New website post: : Big Society Meeting Notes http://t.co/0BJEZZyG |
| Four students from NTU are heading to Harbin, China to compete in the Internatio... Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:19 AM PST Four students from NTU are heading to Harbin, China to compete in the International and University snow sculpture competitions. You can keep up to date with them through their blog NTU at the International Ice and Snow Competition ntuharbin.wordpress.com Blog from NTU students from the College of Art & Design and the Built Environment |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2011 07:59 AM PST The 2011 AD:uk Conference reports and most of the presentations from the breakout sessions, as well as Shona McCarthy's keynote speech is now available on the AD:uk website. We also have a selection of artist presentations from the Writers in Residence, Mike Garry and Tony Walsh, with photographs by Yannick Dixon. The selection of reports [...] Full story...AD:uk 2011 Conference Reports |
| Stage: Tributes to former Birmingham Repertory Theatre chairman Andy Allan Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST A former chairman of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre who guided the venue through the controversial staging of a play which led to riots in 2004, has died at the age of 68. |
| Brecon Jazz Festival seeks new promoter pulls out Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:35 PM PST A search is beginning for a new promoter to run Brecon Jazz after the Hay Festival organisation announced that it is pulling out. Brecon Jazz has suffered a number of financial difficulties, and the Hay Festival took over the running in 2009. But director Peter Florence said it would be concentrating on the Hay Festival's [...] |
| Institute of Cultural Capital Survey Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:44 AM PST The Institute of Cultural Capital (ICC) are running a survey about leadership, aimed at people working in the UK cultural sector. It takes 20 mins to complete and will provide valuable data on current opinion in this area. The survey can be accessed at: http://www.survey.ljmu.ac.uk/iccleadingculture Please feel free to share the link with your colleagues and friends in the sector. Results and findings will be discussed during a series of open seminars in Spring 2012. For more information on the survey the work of the the ICC, click HERE
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| New website post: : Creative Apprenticeship Opportunity in South Wales http://t.co/9WD7aEG2 Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:37 AM PST New website post: : Creative Apprenticeship Opportunity in South Wales http://t.co/9WD7aEG2 |
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| Libraries Development Initiative announced Posted: 25 Nov 2011 07:36 AM PST Arts Council England and the Local Government Association (LGA) have announced the Libraries Development Initiative which is a £200,000 fund available through an application process.
Arts Council England and the Local Government Association (LGA) have announced the Libraries Development Initiative which is a £200,000 fund available through an application process. This will build on the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council's (MLA) and LGA's Future Libraries Programme to ensure libraries are at the heart of society and valued by local communities. The Libraries Development Initiative was developed in partnership with the LGA, and will support around ten projects from March 2012 until March 2013, with a maximum award of £20,000 per project. Successful projects will explore how embedding arts and culture in libraries can bring benefits to library users and library services and increase cultural provision in local areas. Projects will also look at new ways of working that will enhance libraries' sustainability and relevance as vibrant hubs in their local communities. This new initiative is one part of the Arts Council's wider work with libraries, aimed at enabling them to partner with other art forms and arts organisations to improve the cultural experience for users and audiences. The Arts Council is exploring the best ways to deliver on that ambition, and to broaden out the debate about the value of library services, and details of further work will be announced as it takes shape. The Arts Council assumed a non-statutory role for libraries in October. Its role is to champion and help develop the cultural offer of library services with the aim of making them a more relevant and resilient resource for their local communities. Jessica Harris, who became the Arts Council's West Midlands Relationship Manager (Libraries) in October, comments: 'We have designed this initiative to draw on the existing strengths of libraries, but also to enable them to think creatively about new ways of delivering and developing their services.' For more information about how to apply visit: link to www.artscouncil.org.uk
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| Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker will move to O2 Arena Posted: 25 Nov 2011 07:22 AM PST Birmingham Royal Ballet's Nutcracker will move to O2 Arena
Birmingham Royal Ballet's Nutcracker will move to O2 Arena Birmingham Royal Ballet's spectacular production of The Nutcracker, created by the Company's Director Laureate Sir Peter Wright, is running at the Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 11 December. It is the world's most celebrated family Christmas show, and following its Christmas 2011 season at the Hippodrome the company will head to London and give six performances of its world acclaimed interpretation at the O2 from 27 to 30 December. Sir Peter Wright created the production in 1990 to thank the City of Birmingham for its support and generosity towards the company following its move from Sadler's Wells. The Nutcracker immediately triumphed, establishing itself as the finest on offer throughout the country in the Christmas calendar of entertainment. The enchanting story of Clara's adventures with her Nutcracker doll, Rat King and the Sugar Plum Fairy is an exquisite seasonal feast. Sets and over 200 costumes have been created by John Macfarlane, the designer of the Company's stunning Cinderella. Trivia: A Magic Circle magician was recruited to device tricks and illusions for the production A huge transformation scene has a Christmas tree growing from four metres to 15 metres and a fireplace expanding to fill half the stage A crew of 50 people will work backstage Flame retardant snow has been imported from a specialist company in New York For more information about BRB: http://www.brb.org.uk/ To book for the Birmingham production: 0844 338 5000 To book for the O2 show: 0844 856 0202
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| Arts Council England and the BBC launch The Space - a multi-platform content channel for the arts Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:02 AM PST Arts Council England and the BBC will work in partnership to create The Space - an experimental digital arts media service and commissioning programme that could help to transform the way people connect with, and experience, arts and culture. Arts Council England and the BBC will work in partnership to create The Space - an experimental digital arts media service and commissioning programme that could help to transform the way people connect with, and experience, arts and culture. Launching in May and running until the end of October 2012, this pop up service - which will be available across PC, mobile, tablet and connected TV - will challenge artists and arts and cultural organisations to collaborate with each other and with partners to capture and create a wealth of cultural experiences, drawing on the richness of the summer of arts of the Olympic year. The service will show a whole host of content including newly commissioned programmes and will also include celebrity curation and critique, live broadcasts and some of the best archive content from the Arts Council and BBC archives. Watch the video:Alan Davey, Alan Yentob and Peter Maniura introduce The Space. £2.5 million fundArts Council England is investing £2.5 million in a commissioning pot for artists, arts and cultural organisations to create work to be shown in The Space. This is open for expressions of interest until 9 December, following which a number will be invited to complete a full application and will receive additional support from the project in developing their proposals. Final decisions will be announced in February 2012. BBC technology and mentoringThe BBC will contribute a £2 million support package including providing the technology solution to make The Space available across four platforms: PC, mobile, tablet and connected TV. In addition they will be mentoring successful applicants - particularly smaller organisations - through the creative process with training and guidance where appropriate. Alan Davey, Chief Executive, Arts Council England, said: 'What's really exciting about The Space is that it will provide a communal playground for arts and cultural organisations, for technological wizards, and for audiences - anyone who's open to new ways to connect with culture - to come in, to be creative, and to feed back about their experience.' Mark Thompson, Director General, BBC said: 'Partnership lies at the heart of our vision for the BBC, and our partnership with Arts Council England is one that we value greatly. Find out more about The Space commissioning fund. Read the inspiration essays'Make it new': imagine an online space for the arts by John Wyver Making meaning out of memory: creative archive in The Space by Paul Gerhardt Digital arts and the imagination by Rachel Coldicutt
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| National Lottery Awards winners announced tomorrow in live broadcast Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:41 AM PDT The winners of the National Lottery Awards 2011 will be announced on Saturday in a special awards event broadcast on BBC One. The winners of the National Lottery Awards 2011 will be announced on Saturday in a special awards event broadcast on BBC One. Two Arts Council-funded projects, mac Birmingham, and Northern Ballet and Phoenix Dance Theatre's shared venue in Leeds are up for the Best Arts Project category, along with Razed Roof: Inclusion Through Practice in Harlow and The Smiling Sessions in London. The categories are:
Tune in at 9.30pm on Saturday to find out the winners of this year's National Lottery Awards. |
| Cycling vicar and son propel Godiva from Coventry to London as part of 2012 celebrations Posted: 17 Oct 2011 06:30 AM PDT Godiva Awakes is one of 12 Artists taking the lead commissions funded by Arts Council England as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The ten metre high moving figure of Godiva will be propelled from Coventry to London next summer by 100 cyclists in an aero-dynamically designed vehicle called a Cyclopedia.
Godiva Awakes is one of 12 Artists taking the lead commissions funded by Arts Council England as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The ten metre high moving figure of Godiva will be propelled from Coventry to London next summer by 100 cyclists in an aero-dynamically designed vehicle called a Cyclopedia. Godiva Awakes is a major project created by Imagineer Productions in Coventry, which become an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation next April. The Rev. Stephen Mayes (aged 64), Vicar of Water Orton, Warwickshire, and his son Jonathan (31), who is Relationship Manager (Music) in the Arts Council's West Midlands region, will join the other 98 cyclists for the 100-mile, five-day journey next July. Jonathan says he and his father have cycled together since he was a child. 'Dad has been a keen cyclist all his life and introduced me to the sport. He goes out regularly with other cycling vicars and he and I go on cycling holidays together. Each year on his birthday we ride the equivalent of his age in miles.....it gets harder every year! 'I went to a briefing about Godiva Awakes and suggested to my Dad that it would be a good idea for us to take part. He agreed readily.' Stephen and Jonathan have attended informal training sessions with other members of the Cyclopedia team. Jonathan, who commutes 20 miles by bike to and from work most days from his home in Leamington Spa, has also joined a cycling team called VISTA and rides tandem along with a visually impaired person. For more information on Godiva Awakes visit: www.imagineerproductions.co.uk/godivaawakes
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| Tindal Street Press gets double eBook success Posted: 14 Oct 2011 07:02 AM PDT Birmingham's independent fiction publisher Tindal Street Press has had a double eBook success, topping the Amazon digital book charts throughout the summer months.
Tindal Street Press gets double eBook success Birmingham's independent fiction publisher Tindal Street Press has had a double eBook success, topping the Amazon digital book charts throughout the summer months. Bone and Cane by David Belbin, a regional crime story set in Nottingham with a 1997 General Election background, attracted eBook reader's attention during May and June when it was a number one bestseller for three weeks. To date this format has sold over 30,000 eBooks. At one point it was the bestselling novel on Amazon in all formats, outselling the number one paperback. But Tindal Street's biggest success came with That Summer in Ischia which was marketed as the perfect summer beach read. It outperformed all other titles on the Amazon Summer Reads promotion, selling more than 74,000 during the two months of July and August and remaining number one for most of that period. Summer in Ischia is the debut novel of Liverpool-based Penny Feeny, a mystery in which the events of a kidnapping in 1979 cast a long shadow into the present day. This eBook success paves the way for successful mass market editions of their books early in 2012. Publishing Director, Alan Mahar commented: 'We have had most of our books available in eBook format as a matter of course, but sales have usually been small. This summer the clear genre appeal of a regional crime novel and a summer beach romance have reached more readers than we could have expected. 'It's a bonus for us at a time when bookshop sales have been doubly hit by the recession and the digital revolution. ' Tindal Street Press, which was founded in 1998, currently receives regular funding from Arts Council England. For more information visit www.tindalstreet.co.uk
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| Ironbridge receives Lottery grant for CORE – a major London 2012 digital commission Posted: 12 Oct 2011 08:23 AM PDT Arts Council England has awarded a National Lottery grant of almost £99,000 to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust for a major London 2012 Cultural Olympiad digital art commission.
Arts Council England has awarded a National Lottery grant of almost £99,000 to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust for a major London 2012 Cultural Olympiad digital art commission. The grant enables the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust to commission international artist Kurt Hentschläger to create a new digital artwork entitled CORE. The lead curator on this exciting project will be Richard Castelli, Director of French-based creative consortium Epidemic. This exciting work will form part of the London 2012 Festival, generating new audiences in the West Midlands and leaving an important legacy for the region. It will be a world-class piece of art and will be premiered at Enginuity, one of the ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums. Anna Brennand, Deputy Chief Executive at Ironbridge, said: 'We believe that being part of the London 2012 Festival will help generate a significantly wider and larger audience for the museum, attracting 60,000 new visitors to the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site. It will deliver on the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad vision of inspiring creativity across all forms of culture, especially among young people.' Paul Kaynes, West Midlands Creative Programmer, London 2012 commented: 'Next summer the world's athletes will be coming to the UK for the Olympic and Paralympic Games - and at the same time the world's great artists will be coming here for a cultural festival to match the quality of the sport.' Chicago based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger says that CORE is the next generation of his generative 3D and audio work. The commission will feature a sequence of windows into a weightless world populated by groups of humanoid figures. 'These figures interact like a school of fish or a flock of birds and at other times like intricately choreographed modern ballet dancers or synchronised swimmers.' The work will be created by several synchronised projections. Visit www.kurthentschlager.com Also visit: www.ironbridge.org.uk
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| Line-up for next year's World Shakespeare Festival is revealed Posted: 07 Sep 2011 05:28 AM PDT The line-up for next year's World Shakespeare Festival, has been unveiled. The line-up for next year's World Shakespeare Festival, has been unveiled. The festival, which the Royal Shakespeare Company is organising as part of the London 2012 Festival, will feature performances in venues across the UK. New commissions include:
The programme will run between 23 April and 9 September, with Stratford-upon-Avon, London, Birmingham, Newcastle and Edinburgh among the cities getting involved. Along with established performers, the events being staged as part of the festival will incorporate the talents of amateur performers and young people just starting out in the world of theatre. The Barbican, the Roundhouse, the BBC and the National Theatre are among the partners supporting the World Shakespeare Festival. Find out more about London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad of which Arts Council England is a principal funder. Find out more about the Royal Shakespeare Company, which will be part of Arts Council's National portfolio in 2012. |
| Lottery awards for three arts events Posted: 06 Sep 2011 07:15 AM PDT Three major Lottery awards have been made by Arts Council England for key arts in the West Midlands.
Three major Lottery awards have been made by Arts Council England for key arts events in the West Midlands. They include a craft exhibition across the West and the East Midlands, a youth project in Herefordshire and Stratford Music Festival. Made in the Middle has received a Grants for the arts award of £39,000. The grant is to Craftspace in Birmingham which is organising this exciting, triennial craft exhibition. For the first time it will feature work from makers from both the East and West Midlands. This major touring exhibition will launch at mac birmingham in February 2012. The exhibition, which is free to visitors, will showcase work of all disciplines by contemporary craft makers based in or affiliated to the region. Work will be on sale. Made in the Middle has been developed by Craftspace, which is an independent crafts development organisation based in Birmingham. Craftspace is well known for their innovative work and exhibition partnerships with venues in the Midlands and other parts of the UK. Previous Made in the Middle exhibitions have focussed on the West Midlands, so it is a new approach to involve the whole of the Midlands. It will be the seventh Made in the Middle show, and is a partnership between Craftspace and mac birmingham in collaboration with The National Centre for Craft and Design. The selection of makers for the exhibition has recently taken place and will be announced on Craftspace's website: www.craftspace.co.uk An award of nearly £38,000 has been made to Herefordshire Council for an arts project involving young people, aged between 11 and 25. The pilot - named y.Art - will involve a series of contemporary arts projects led by professional artists. It will end with a large-scale evening public performance in Hereford in March 2012 showcasing all the work that has been produced from ten groups. The project will employ a lead artist and lead designer/technician to guide and oversee the work of six artists who will lead 140 workshop sessions with the young people. Around 600 individuals are expected to be involved in the project with 300 taking part in the final celebration. They will be recruited from youth centres, skate parks, social housing projects and through publicity activity. Stratford Music Festival is receiving £17,000. The festival runs in the town from 15 to 22 October this year. During the eight days the music will range from contemporary, classical, jazz, folk, world and music played on period instruments. The 2011 Festival seeks to develop new audiences, old and young and give performing opportunities to young artists and composers alongside established musicians. Ambrose Miller, Artistic Director, said the festival has existed since 1996 and has a reputation for offering a high standard of performances and value for money. This year's theme is New Lands, New Horizons. It will include work associated with or influenced by a country, rather than the composer's own. The festival takes place at various venues around the town. For more information visit the website: http://www.stratfordmusicfestival.com/
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| London 2012 seeks volunteer performers for the greatest show on earth Posted: 15 Aug 2011 03:20 AM PDT Artistic Directors Danny Boyle and Kim Gavin are searching for 10,000 volunteer performers. Today, Monday 15 August, The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympics Games (LOCOG) begins a search for adult volunteer performers to participate in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Artistic Directors Danny Boyle and Kim Gavin are searching for 10,000 volunteer performers to fill roles as dancers, actors, percussionists and general all-round performers in the Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Successful applications will perform in front of a packed Olympic Stadium and a worldwide broadcast audience of more than one billion people this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of one of the largest events ever staged in the UK. Taking partApplicants must be able to participate in up to two auditions that will take place evenings and weekends in November and early December of this year, up to two or three rehearsal sessions each week of up to four hours per session from March 2012, and a number of all day rehearsals in the three weeks leading up to each Ceremony. All of these rehearsals will take place in East London. Bill Morris, LOCOG Director of Ceremonies, Education and Live Sites, said: 'To deliver Ceremonies of this scale a significant amount of time commitment is required from the volunteer performers. Performers will be required to attend up to two or three rehearsals each week in London from March 2012 so applicants should consider this. Previous performance experience is not required for people to apply, applicants simply need lots of enthusiasm, personality, a positive attitude, huge amounts of energy and a willingness to perform in front of a stadium audience and to millions of people around the world.' People can find more information and register their interest for this opportunity by completing the online application form on the London 2012 website. The deadline for receipt of applications is Wednesday 31 August and it is not a first come first served process. To be eligible applicants must be aged 18 years or older on 1 March 2012. Only one application per person will be accepted and if LOCOG receives over 15,000 applications a computerised draw will be used to randomly create the short list for auditions. |
| Arts Council England and the BBC launch The Space - a multi-platform content channel for the arts Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:02 AM PST Arts Council England and the BBC will work in partnership to create The Space - an experimental digital arts media service and commissioning programme that could help to transform the way people connect with, and experience, arts and culture. Arts Council England and the BBC will work in partnership to create The Space - an experimental digital arts media service and commissioning programme that could help to transform the way people connect with, and experience, arts and culture. Launching in May and running until the end of October 2012, this pop up service - which will be available across PC, mobile, tablet and connected TV - will challenge artists and arts and cultural organisations to collaborate with each other and with partners to capture and create a wealth of cultural experiences, drawing on the richness of the summer of arts of the Olympic year. The service will show a whole host of content including newly commissioned programmes and will also include celebrity curation and critique, live broadcasts and some of the best archive content from the Arts Council and BBC archives. Watch the video:Alan Davey, Alan Yentob and Peter Maniura introduce The Space. £2.5 million fundArts Council England is investing £2.5 million in a commissioning pot for artists, arts and cultural organisations to create work to be shown in The Space. This is open for expressions of interest until 9 December, following which a number will be invited to complete a full application and will receive additional support from the project in developing their proposals. Final decisions will be announced in February 2012. BBC technology and mentoringThe BBC will contribute a £2 million support package including providing the technology solution to make The Space available across four platforms: PC, mobile, tablet and connected TV. In addition they will be mentoring successful applicants - particularly smaller organisations - through the creative process with training and guidance where appropriate. Alan Davey, Chief Executive, Arts Council England, said: 'What's really exciting about The Space is that it will provide a communal playground for arts and cultural organisations, for technological wizards, and for audiences - anyone who's open to new ways to connect with culture - to come in, to be creative, and to feed back about their experience.' Mark Thompson, Director General, BBC said: 'Partnership lies at the heart of our vision for the BBC, and our partnership with Arts Council England is one that we value greatly. Find out more about The Space commissioning fund. Read the inspiration essays'Make it new': imagine an online space for the arts by John Wyver Making meaning out of memory: creative archive in The Space by Paul Gerhardt Digital arts and the imagination by Rachel Coldicutt
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