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August 2010 Blog Posts (9)

Bryan Appleyard's comment on the current arts funding environment

Bryan Appleyard's cut-out-and-keep guide to saving the arts

Arts bodies face a huge squeeze in public funding, but the American who rescued the Royal Opera House says that austerity begins at home…

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Added by Jonathan Tuchner on August 31, 2010 at 14:59 — No Comments

communities will lose both their unique identity and also thier funding and resources

Please take time to read the minutes below. I am interested to hear the opinions of the members here particularly if you are involved in community arts.

I have tried but i really cannot see this plan as viable. …

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Added by Ceri Nicholls on August 24, 2010 at 22:41 — No Comments

Early Day Motion on Arts Funding

Alison McGovern MP for Wirral South has submitted an EDM on the topic of arts funding. To date the motion has 32 signatures, it reads as follows:

‘That this House celebrates the cultural value of the arts and entertainment sector; notes that the creative industries are a large employer and are currently growing at more than twice the rate of the rest of the economy, contributing 11.4 billion to the UK’s balance of trade; and therefore reaffirms a commitment to public investment in… Continue

Added by Jack J Hutchinson on August 19, 2010 at 11:00 — No Comments

Joined up philanthropy

I'll keep this brief as I wanted to raise an opportunity to share ideas here rather than simply shout out one of my own.

I just watched the Cameron B'ham piece and began to wonder a bit more about the philanthropy opportunity.

1) Here for the first time in my experience of the arts we have a high level figurehead (champion?) telling people to think about how they might individually contribute to sustaining the high profile UK success that is the arts - to donate, volunteer,… Continue

Added by Taylor Nuttall on August 13, 2010 at 14:12 — 2 Comments

Thanks for setting this up

Thanks for doing this Marcus. As the instigator of several Ning sites myself, I know ow important it is to have two way engagement - just like the arts! So I back up Marcus' message to be proactive and send in ideas, info etc to everyone here. I will do my best

Added by Marion Catlin on August 8, 2010 at 12:54 — No Comments

Arts organisation seeks new collaboration -- US style

There's been much discussion in the UK over the possible loss of artistic freedoms in return for private funding. Arts companies in the US have other, and bigger, problems. My own particular area of interest is opera, and the last two years have been particularly harsh in the US -- a dozen companies (with about 400 years of operating history between them) have gone bankrupt in the last two years, and the remainder have reduced the numbers of productions, shortened seasons, deferred new world… Continue

Added by Mike Gibb, Operabase on August 4, 2010 at 23:00 — No Comments

Report from meeting with Tim Farron MP

Last week I set about arranging a meeting with Tim Farron, MP for Westmorland & Lonsdale http://www.timfarron.co.uk/

I keep an eye on what Tim is up to via his Facebook account and after a little messaging we agreed that as he was about to depart for a break with his family I should take advantage of one of his constituency surgeries in Sedbergh late last Friday afternoon. This seemed convenient, but was too short notice to…

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Added by Taylor Nuttall on August 2, 2010 at 20:47 — 2 Comments

Support the Arts

Baba Israel, Artistic Director of Contact (a Manchester theatre that places young people at the heart of everything it does) introduces the views of several young people who will potentially be affected by the proposed cuts to arts… Continue

Added by Barry Priest on August 2, 2010 at 11:18 — No Comments

Treasury accused of 'blunderbuss' approach to spending cuts

See the link, below, to a Guardian article about a report from the Tory think tank The Centre for Social Justice set up by Iain Duncan Smith.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/aug/01/treasury-criticised-spending-cuts

Added by Dave Moutrey on August 2, 2010 at 8:59 — No Comments

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