Writing and Publishing
Friend or foe? - Arts and business in partnership
It has become an erroneous but commonly held belief that the values and practices of 'arts' and 'business' are incompatible.
All about Arts Council England
The Arts Council of England is an organisation of astonishing size and variety. Encompassing everything from lottery grants, to schools…
More than an editorial
Freelance editor, writer and performing artist Dean Nottle talks about what an editor really does. The term is thrown around…
Fab new fest for Scotland's 'friendly' city
Glasgow City Council recently announced details of an exciting new Festival of Contemporary Visual Arts to take place throughout the…
A tsunami of celebration
Anyone involved or interested in the arts cannot avoid festivals; it’s impossible. They have become an intrinsic – almost a…
Culture and Development: developing the role of the arts in UK social policy
Recently Creative Exchange, the network for culture and development, released a discussion paper by Helen Gould that invites us to…
Creative Writing on Campus: What’s Happening in the UK?
Over the past ten years the number of university creative writing courses in the UK has more than doubled. This…
Disability Arts – a celebration of human difference
Xposure 2004 is the third annual month-long festival celebrating the diverse and imaginative world of deaf and disability arts. Venues…
The secret art of Dr Seuss - a retrospective comes to London.
Did you grow up with Dr Seuss? Who remembers his ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ and ‘The Cat in The Hat’?…
International Literary Fellowship announced
With the announcement of a new international literary fellowship, the Scottish Arts Council has honoured a great living Scottish writer…