Arts Council spending in Yorkshire broken down by artform #artsfunding #npo...
Theatre £36,665,554Dance £19,612,345 (includes Northern Ballet)Visual arts £18,475,136Combined arts £5,892,419Music £4,412,739Literature £1,111,375Not artform specific £678,300Opera North £50,355,401...
View ArticleArts Council #NPO funding broken down by artform, national totals...
Theatre £504,290,038Combined Arts £288,755,415Visual Arts £210,049,215Music £182,661,161Dance £179,966,183Literature £30,254,260Not artform specific £6,829,794Big Opera £301,846,638 This is Arts...
View ArticleVote! Vote! Vote! For Me! Me! Me! (and other people!) Last chance! @nesta_uk...
The Arts Council (ACE) and NESTA are going to provide funding so that arts organisations can:"use digital technologies to engage audiences in new ways and create opportunities for new business...
View ArticleWhy I Hate The N*rth
I'm involved in a research process which looks at how artists might contribute to imagining The N*rth now.By way of a "hello and getting to know you" I was asked to write briefly about "What aspects of...
View Article“Ask what you can do for the n*rth”
I'm involved in the early stages of a project looking at what the arts can contribute to the new democratic cities in the north (that's my definition, for me, of what I feel like I'm doing as my bit...
View ArticleRe imagining local democracy at City Camp Manchester #ccmcr @CityCampMCR
“Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.”Award winning Constitution Designer Thomas...
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Occupy Bristol and Free All Monsters! @Occupybristoluk @OccupyLSX
Monster Makers from Rossendale in Pennine Lancashire. Press release, apologies for the press release tone.Calling All Bristol Monster MakersSaturday 3rd December, 1pm-4pmBristol children, and even...
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Review of the Hannah Mitchell Foundation public launch
I went to the launch of the Hannah Mitchell Foundation a few weeks ago, which is a campaign for democratic self-determination, authority and responsibility for places in the north of England, and of...
View Article"There the great city stands."
from 81. Song of the Broad-Axe, Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.via Paul Salveson (also here) * *Do you think the great city endures? Or a teeming...
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What should I think about Textizen? What would you think?
Textizen is a new text message public consultation method launched by Code for America.It's an admirably sure footed example of how to use a much underrated portable information technology - printed...
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