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Challenging Inequality through Arts and Culture … in the UK’s most unequal city
First of all, there is the news that Cambridge is the UK’s most unequal city for the second year running. Second, there is the report that places Cambridge as one of the worst performing authorities in terms of social mobility and child poverty. How does this fit with the hist...
3 months ago
The giddy world of ‘start-stop’ funding for small arts charities
Oblique Arts is an artist-led arts charity. We enable communities to work with us to explore their creative potential through high quality visual arts projects. We provide unique creative workshops, projects and multimedia installations for the public, individuals and groups t...
3 months ago
‘What you don’t see’: Cambridge’s LGBT+ drama group’s first performance
In February, Mori Fernandez Plaschinski introduced us to the fledging Queer Arts Cambridge Youth (QUACY), a platform for LGBT+ youth, using creativity for self-development and as means to raise awareness of the issues affecting them. Mori has followed up to share the outcome...
3 months ago
Extensis Portfolio User Heritage & Culture User Group Meeting
The urge for digitisation has faced many Heritage and Culture organisations with new technological challenges. Extensis Portfolio Heritage & Culture User Group Meeting will take place on the 24th in London in a day dedicated to exploring these issues.Gathering around 70 de...
3 months ago
Handle with Care! Why Teaching Art to Primary School Children is Still Important
Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt addressed Somerset Primary Art-Coordinators at the SPAEDA Annual Art Conference, stressing the importance of creativity for each and every child at school.After many requests for a transcript of the speech, AccessArt is sharing it in the hope t...
6 months ago
'Incredible project' (Cambridge105) reaches its culmination
Sourth Cambs composer Jenni Pinnock's new soing cycle is premiered at Anglia Ruskin University on 10 March. This 'incredible project' (Cambridge105) gives voice to forgotten characters from the borderlands of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire drawn from original texts by Graha...
6 months ago
Call out for ARTISTS as Research Participants
Dear all, I am a doctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London exploring the notion of entrepreneurship through the lived experience of Cambridge Arts Network-related artists. The notions of artists as cultural entrepreneurs are at the forefront of discourses coverin...
6 months ago
Finland’s Approach to Cultural Learning: An Education
How can arts and culture leaders advocate for the value and impact of cultural education in society? Lisa Broom, Cambridge Junction’s Creative Learning Manager went to Helsinki researching how Fins value art and culture within children and young people’s education; she shares ...
6 months ago
LGBT+ CHARITY CELEBRATES SILVER JUBILEE
The Kite Trust, the East of England's leading organisation for LGBT+ young people, is 25 years old in 2018. To celebrate, they are having a BIRTHDAY BASH at The Junction on Tuesday 20th February. All welcome! Headlining the Bash is Mock the Week's Zoe Lyons, with her "...inca...
6 months ago
CACL Declares Committment to The Equality Pledge
On Friday 7 July at a reception for the Big Weekend, Malavika Anderson gave a speech declaring Cambridge Arts and Cultural Leader’s commitment to the Equality Pledge. This is what she said: Thanks Elaine [Midgley]. Good evening everyone and many thanks to Cambridge Live for ...
7 months ago