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Hola to Cambridgeshire Music's Second Online Orchestra Challenge!
Hot on the heels of the success of Cambridgeshire Music’s first Online Orchestra, we’re delighted to bring you news of the second Online Orchestra challenge! For the first challenge, Cambridgeshire Music transported everyone to the sunny beaches of Hawaii with a heart-warming...
4 months ago
Arts newsletter helps residents connect through creativity whilst social distancing
CAMBRIDGE City Council has launched an e-newsletter for residents listing creative activities and events to engage with from home.Creative at Home is a fortnightly digest edited by the council’s Culture and Community Team, highlighting contributions from local creative and cul...
4 months ago
Zealous: Bringing a More Creative World Together
For freelancers and organisations making more of to digital resources at this time useful solution might be found with Zealous.Organising open calls, competitions, awards, residencies, commissions or creative projects? Make collecting, managing and reviewing submissions easy w...
5 months ago
The end of the beginning
First published: by Arts Council England, 1 May 2020Arts Council England CEO, Darren Henley, writes about what comes next for culture and creativity in England, as we emerge from the initial shock of the Covid-19 emergency and look to the future. It’s now nearly six weeks sin...
5 months ago
Aloha to Cambridgeshire Music's First Online Orchestra
Aloha! Cambridgeshire Music is delighted to unveil the very first performance of Cambridgeshire's Online Orchestra - in a specially arranged version of the classic TV theme tune for Hawaii Five-0. We received more than 60 video and audio recordings from 50 different musicians ...
5 months ago
New Virtual Community Centre Welcomes Cambridge Residents
CAMBRIDGE City Council has launched an online community centre in response to the temporary closure of its community buildings during the coronavirus crisis. The Cambridge Virtual Community Centre, which launched this week, is a Facebook page, offering ideas and information fo...
5 months ago
MAJOR NATIONAL SUTDY INTO THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF COVID-19 - TAKE PART
University College London is running a major national study into the psychological and social effects of Covid-19 in the UK. The results are analysed weekly and fed directly to government, Public Health England, NHS England and other national bodies as well as being made publi...
5 months ago
Employers Can Now Claim Wages through Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
First published: by Support Cambridgeshire, 20 AprilUK employers can now claim for 80% of their employees' wages, plus any employer National Insurance and pension contributions, if they have put them on furlough because of coronavirus (COVID-19).Under the Coronavirus Job Reten...
5 months ago
Coronavirus Impact Study
First published: by Culture Capital Exchange, 31 March 2020The UK Creative and Cultural Sector Coronavirus Impact Study will document and report on the impacts of COVID-19 on our sectors organisations and workforce.This includes the opportunity to contribute to a crowdsourced ...
6 months ago
How can the creative industries come together to share how COVID-19 is impacting the sector?
First published: by Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre, 24 March 2020Collecting data from across the sector to help policymakers understand and respond to the ongoing crisisAt a time of huge uncertainty in all areas of the economy, including the creative industri...
6 months ago