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Theme : arts
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Women at the Top
'Women at the Top' is an event that will focus on women and leadership in the cultural and creative industries, with a provocation paper by Demos.
It will be held on Monday 4th June, 2007, from 12.30-4.30 at the Barbican, Silk St, London, EC2Y 8DS
from : samjones
29th May 2007
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The Mad-for-it Hatter's Tea Party
What did that handshake with Noel Gallagher really mean?
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16th May 2007
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Artists help public diplomacy to push Australian 'soft power' | The Arts | The Australian
Cultural diplomacy in Australia.
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19th April 2007
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John Tusa on Arts Funding
Sir John Tusa, Director of the Barbican Centre has written a piece in today's Times that strikes out at some of the mentalities that can dog debates around cultural funding.
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17th April 2007
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Cultural Literacy
We’re currently developing some work around the idea of cultural literacy. Both Cultural Diplomacy and As You Like It raised the need to focus on a new skill. Mass communication enables us to express and focus on individual interests to a greater degree than ever before and culture has come to the fore as a means by which, and space in which, we relate to each other. But do we have the skills with which we can make the most of this? Historians offer an insight onto what these skills might be.
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17th April 2007
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Culture Flows Through English Channels, but Not for Long -
An article from Wired suggesting that one of the challenges to cultural diversity lies in the media dominance of the English language.
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13th April 2007
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Whipping up a perfect storm...
Last year’s Demos report A Perfect Storm? predicted that there would be widespread cases of local authorities cutting back their cultural provision. Since then, Wandsworth has threatened to close Battersea Arts Centre and Walthamstow Museum, the William Morris Museum in Waltham Forest is under threat, Bolton is selling assets, and Southampton is discussing closing part of its museum service.
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6th March 2007
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We're all diplomats now...
Today, we launched Cultural Diplomacy at the V&A in South Kensington. It argues for the importance of culture in the way that we relate to each other in the world today. As well as providing a medium through which we can relate to one another, culture is emerging a space in which those relations can be conducted.
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28th February 2007
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Visitor numbers soar at Britain's free museums and galleries | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
Visitor numbers to museums rise again, and comedian Frank Skinner aims to 'persuade people of the benefits of going into a gallery, even for a short time and even if it is just to get out of the rain'
from : samjones
4th December 2006
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Louder than Words
I've been meaning to blog this for a little while. A couple of weekends ago, I went to a see an exhibition by the Birmingham artist, Barbara Walker. It's currently on show at the Unit 2 Gallery at London Metropolitan University. There are two reasons to go and see this show. First, the close draughtsmanship of the works reveals close observation and familiar care. As a result, they are deeply engaging and clearly very personal images. Scenes on the walk home,...
from : samjones
1st December 2006
