Power Shift – An Artworks Alliance & Engage Peer Learning Event

Join Engage and Artworks Alliance in Bristol for a day of peer learning on the topic of power-sharing and power shifting. Stuck operating within unjust power dynamics that disadvantage and disempower individuals and communities? Want to stretch your practice and thinking around co-creation, community-led and socially engaged arts practices? Not sure what any of it means, or how to apply it practically?

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Tough Times: A Gathering – Friday 20 March – Artworks Alliance

In a period shaped by division and uncertainty, how do we sustain the work that holds communities together? ArtWorks Alliance, in partnership with UNION , is ho

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Tough Times: A Gathering – Friday 20 March

In a period shaped by division and uncertainty, how do we sustain the work that holds communities together? ArtWorks Alliance, in partnership with UNION, is hosting Tough Times: A Gathering, a participatory workshop designed to create space for reflection, dialogue, and collective thinking. Using an Open Space format, the day will be shaped by those in the room, enabling shared exploration of the challenges we face and the possibilities ahead.

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ArtWorks Alliance Gathering – Tough Times Refresh and Revitalise

Participatory Arts has rarely been more needed than in the tough times we are currently experiencing. Artworks Alliance will be holding our first in-person meeting for several years. It is crucial that within this time of fragmentation and division that we come together to share our experiences, frustrations, fears, hopes and strategies and find ways to support each other. This Gathering will be an opportunity for anyone involved in participatory arts, socially engaged practice and creative activism to come together to create a safe space in which we can:

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Where is Participatory and Community Arts in the Hodge Review?

The independent review of Arts Council England (ACE), led by Baroness Margaret Hodge, is now part of the policy landscape in which participatory and community arts will have to operate for the next several years. The review is candid about bureaucracy, uneven cultural investment, weakened local cultural infrastructure, and the need to rebuild trust in the funding system. It also points towards a structural shift, including stronger local and regional decision-making and a more explicit relationship between culture and place.

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ArtWorks Alliance Gathering – Tough Times Refresh and Revitalise

Participatory Arts has rarely been more needed than in the tough times we are currently experiencing. Artworks Alliance will be holding our its first in-person meeting for several years. It is crucial that within this time of fragmentation and division that we come together to share our experiences, frustrations, fears, hopes and strategies and find ways to support each other.

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Rebalancing the Arts Economy — Beyond Crowding In, Towards Foundational Culture

A recent report commissioned by Arts Council England, Leading the Crowd: A report on the role of public investment in Crowding In, offers compelling evidence that public investment in arts and culture remains essential. It documents how institutions such as the National Theatre, Southbank Centre, and English National Opera have used public grants as leverage to secure significant additional income from private sources.

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Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts

The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.

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Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common Wealth

The upcoming BBC Charter Review is an opportunity to transform the BBC into a public service mutual, founded on a genuinely democratic relationship with the public.

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Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts

The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.

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Distraction Therapy – On Impermanence, Power and the Metamodern Moment – Radio Lear

There are moments in Shakespeare when the illusion of theatre dissolves and something deeper stirs—something that reminds us of our own impermanence, the fragil

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Distraction Therapy – Recursive Thresholds – Radio Lear

Why are we’re drawn to Shakespeare’s “Seven Ages of Man”? Surely not simply for the elegance of its verse? Perhaps for the deeper psychological and symbolic que

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Tackling Online Harms - Cultural Sector Survey

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Kingston 2025 Launch — Traceworks Dance

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Evaluation for Arts, Culture and Heritage: Principles and Practice

A free-to-access online course to help you understand the principles and master the practice of carrying out evaluation. Developed by the Centre for Cultural Value with the University of Leeds, learners...

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Manchester University Press - Culture is bad for you

Culture is bad for you - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Culture is bad for you by Orian Brook

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