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Upcoming single day and longer courses at Cambridge TV School
Have you seen the rise in online video? Heard about the launch of IGTV (Instagram TV)? Been given opportunities to market your organisation through video but don't know how to prepare? Want to swap careers and get into the media industry? Cambridge TV School can help through a...
about 1 year ago
Call for Entries
Visual artists, working in a variety of mediums are invited to exhibit in the extensive auditorium space at Swavesey Village College CB24 4RS.Exhibition dates (Please note earlier date than past years):Friday 12th October 6.30 – 9pm (Preview and Prize giving) Saturday 13th Oct...
about 1 year ago
Collaborating with Communities
Menagerie is a new writing theatre company, resident at Cambridge Junction. We develop and produce new plays through our annual Hotbed Festival which go on to tour or further production. In recent years, we have run several successful community engagement projects, and are c...
over 1 year ago
Call for abstracts: Creative Research Methods Symposium
Creative Research Methods SymposiumUniversity of Derby – 2 July 2018The University of Derby will be hosting a symposium on Creative Research Methodson Monday 2 July 2018 (University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby).This symposium will bring together researchers from a range of...
over 1 year ago
Call for venue(s) to hold Focus Group for PhD research (participatory arts & ageing)
I am a PhD student at the University of Derby (based in Cambridge). I am looking for a few venues in and around Cambridge to hold a number of focus groups as part of my research into participatory arts in later life. I have NO budget, so am hoping to find places which I can us...
over 1 year ago
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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago