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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...
11 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...
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year 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 ...
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year 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 ...
about 1 year ago
CAN Conference Handover | 'Whose Culture Is It Anyway?' | action since the 2017 conference
Details of the 2018 CAN Conference will soon be announced and before then we we’d like to reflect on developments since last year’s conference, ‘Whose Culture is it Anyway?’. In 2017 we discussed the factors that impact on the ability of creative organisations to engage diver...
about 1 year ago
Youth Empowerment: an emerging LGBT+ drama group creates awareness
Drama practitioner, Mori Fernandez Plaschinski shares the aims and impact of a newly emergent drama group run by Kite Trust, Cambridge’s leading organisation for LGBT+ youth. Creating a positive platform for expression and developing self and wider awareness. The Kite Trust...
about 1 year ago
Community Focus: We Celebrate our City of Diversity
“Unity in Diversity” was the spirit of an event that showcased the talent and creativity within the membership of Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum (CECF). Eddie Stadnik, CEO of CECF shares the highlights of this successful event expressing the breadth of cultures living in Ca...
about 1 year ago