John Holden
Head of Culture
John Holden is Head of Culture at Demos and a visiting Professor at City University. He has Masters Degrees in law and art history and is the author of an influential body of work on cultural value and on leadership
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- The Big Picture With the moving image sector the fastest growing part of the creative economy,Demos Head of Culture John Holdon has written this study of the nine Regional Screen Agencies. The Big Picture looks closely at how the screen agencies work, highlighting their impact across communities, creativity and the economy. from : markfuller 21st July 2006
- Knowledge and Inspiration: the democratic face of culture Produced in partnership with The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), this report looks at the changing face of our museums, libraries and archives. from : markfuller 25th October 2006
- Local Authorities This report warns that in some places in the UK, culture faces a crisis at Local Authority level. from : markfuller 5th December 2006
- Cultural Diplomacy Cultural Diplomacy argues that the huge global reach and potential of Britain’s world class artistic and cultural assets – from Razorlight to the Royal Ballet - should be at the heart of government relationship building abroad. from : markfuller 27th February 2007
- Fact and Fiction More than half the population have a library card and the number of visits to public libraries is increasing. Libraries are among the most loved and trusted public services. But debate has raged about the direction that libraries should take, and about where and how resources should be invested. Recently, Demos published an article in association with Hampshire County Council that looks at these debates and argues that the future of our libraries should lie in the hands of local people. from : samjones 7th December 2007
- Sir Brian McMaster's Excellent Adventure The DCMS has just released the McMaster review of excellence under the rubric “from measurement to judgement”. Demos has been arguing for years, starting with our Valuing Culture conference in 2003, that it is vital to reintroduce discussions of quality and excellence into cultural policy. Many of our publications and speeches have emphasised the point (have a look at Capturing Cultural Value and Cultural Value and the Crisis of Legitimacy). So we very much welcome this move on the... from : johnholden 10th January 2008
- Women and culture New report into women in the workforce in the cultural sector... from : johnholden 21st April 2008
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Culture and learning urgent news
We experienced severe problems with our emails around the deadline for responses to the cultural learning paper on April 30th. If you sent a response then, you will probably have received a message saying that your email could not be delivered.
Responses that did not get through can still be sent to
cultural_learning@demos.co.uk; or to
rachel@cloreduffield.org.uk
With many apologies for this inconvenience. from : johnholden 28th April 2008