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- New IFACCA report
- Creative Partnerships Lit Review
- Leading through Practice
- HIV/Aids: The Creative Challenge
- Arts Council consultation
- Futurelab Call for Ideas
- Clore Cultural Leadership Programme
- Learning in Communities conference
- Children in Scotland training events
- Canadian cultural policies timeline
- Call for papers on Euro-med countries
- Arts at the strategic centre
- Spaces, Places and Future Learning
- Report on community development
- eLearning Papers publication launched
- New report on the intercultural city
- Culture, Arts and Refugees website
- New strategy for community dance
- Culture.mondo Roundtable report
- ProjectsETC website launched
- New ELIA website
- CCC hosts UK women's sector meeting
- CAN report: creative rural industries
- E-gateway to London Funders
- Launch of enquire research
- Report: Arts & Culture in Regeneration
- Public art advisory service for London
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New IFACCA report
Posted: 20 April 2007
IFACCA (International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies) have released their latest D'Art report, 'Policy research by government arts agencies: a review of approaches'. The report summarises responses to a D'Art query about a number of research-related issues, such as whether research is undertaken by agencies in house or contracted externally, whether an agency has a dedicated research unit or a library, and the number of staff and financial resources dedicated to research. The report analyses responses from 19 agencies from 18 countries; most of them government arts support agencies, such as arts councils and ministries of culture. The report served as background to discussions at the second mini-summit for IFACCA researchers held in Singapore on 9-10 March 2007, a report on which will be released soon. To download a pdf of the report visit
www.iffaca.org

Creative Partnerships Literature Reviews
Posted: 19 April 2007
Creative Partnerships, the Government’s creativity programme for schools and young people, managed by the Arts Council England, has launched a new series of research monographs exploring key issues in current literature, and summarising the latest developments in the fields of creativity and learning. Each one is written by an experienced and respected author in the field and aims to act as a 'stepping-stone' resource to underpin the research conducted by and for Creative Partnerships.

The series so far includes: Rhetorics of Creativity, which surveys the core concept of creativity; Youth Voice, which highlights some of the reasons why young learners should be listened to in a way that unleashes their creativity and generates genuine dialogue and collaboration; Whole School Change, which considers the reasons why people engage in school change and the main processes describing how such change occurs; and Creative and Cultural Industries, forthcoming.

All monographs are being made available as free downloadable pdf documents from
www.creative-partnerships.com/literaturereviews. To be alerted when a new Literature Review is available for download, sign up to the Creative Partnerships e-bulletin at www.creative-partnerships.com/ebulletin.

New paper: Leading through Practice
Posted: 14 March 2007
“Artists lead through their practice. One quality of experiencing art is that artists enable us to see the world differently. Our focus is on the ways in which this provides leadership.”

The above statement is taken from Leading Through Practice, the latest in a series of Research papers published by a-n the Artists Information Company. This paper will be of particular ineterst to those working with artists to realise projects and wanting to know more about the role of creativity in culture. Edited by Anne Douglas (artist researcher) and Chris Fremantle (cultural historian), Leading Through Practice presents research that is connected to their ongoing Artist as Leader programme. The paper lays out a typology of issues, substantiated by experience, with a view to enabling and encouraging debate. It includes contributions from Linda Frye Burnham, Reiko Goto, Tim Nunn and Francis McKee that demonstrate a range a perspectives on ‘leading through practice’. A pdf version of the report can be downloaded at
www.a-n.co.uk.

HIV/Aids: The Creative Challenge
Posted: 14 March 2007
A new paper written by Helen Gould reports the initial findings from HIV/AIDS: The Creative Challenge, a project which is developing reflective discussion with field practitioners and policy makers on the value of cultural approaches to HIV and AIDS. The project has been developed by
Creative Exchange in partnership with Exchange and UNESCO. It looks at how the cultural dimension can be more effectively factored into HIV and AIDS communication programmes, which are often the area in which culture is most visible and effective. The paper is No. 7 in the Findings series published by Healthlink Worldwide and can be downloaded at www.healthlink.org.uk

Arts Council consultation
Posted: 13 February 2007
The arts debate, Arts Council England's first-ever public value inquiry, has launched its second phase with an open, online public consultation. The arts debate is a large scale programme of research and consultation to explore what people value about the arts. Its purpose is to help the Arts Council consider whether they need to do things differently in the future to create greater value for all the communities they serve.

Arts Council England now want to offer everyone the opportunity to share their views on the value of the arts and the role of public funding. The early discussion groups have helped them to identify five key questions that they believe should be the subject of a national debate:

• What do you value about the arts? • What principles should guide public funding of the arts today? • What are the responsibilities of publicly funded arts organisations? • When should an artist receive public money? • Should members of the public be involved in arts funding decisions?

To take part in the consultation process visit
www.artscouncil.org.uk/artsdebate

Futurelab Call for Ideas
Posted: 10 January 2007
The next FutureLab call for ideas will be open from 22 January until 2 March 2007, with the theme of Innovative Tools for Future Teaching. Futurelab is seeking ideas for tools that can support teachers to be innovative in their own learning or that of their students. In return, they are offering to turn your idea into a working prototype with investment in the range of £20,000 to £100,000, together with a wide range of support including prototype design, technical help, project management and testing. They can also provide assistance with business planning and introduce multidisciplinary project and business partners.

Futurelab’s emphasis is on originality: things that have never been tried before, which have the potential to transform the way both students and teachers learn. They want proposals based on creative educational practice, new ways of using technology, or innovative technology. The ideas should have the potential to be realised.

Your idea could be a tool to transform initial teacher education or continuing professional development (CPD), or it could be a tool to enable teachers to better tailor education to the needs of their individual pupils. Futurelab welcome ideas from individuals, teams, and organisations and companies of all sizes in the UK. For more information visit their
website.

Clore Cultural Leadership Programme
Posted: 10 January 2007
The Clore Cultural Leadership is an initiative of the Clore Duffield Foundation, whose is to help to train and develop a new generation of leaders for the cultural sector here in the UK. Each year the programme assists a number of Clore Fellows to undertake an individual programme of learning, work, research, training, and secondment, designed to develop their leadership skills and experience. It also aims to report more widely on its work, to disseminate the lessons learned, and to speak out more generally as advocates for cultural leadership and excellence.

Applications opened on 8th January for Fellowships, which this year include specialist Fellowships in Archives, Biomedical Science, Cultural Policy Development, Dance, Environment, Health, Learning, Libraries, Museums, Theatre Administration as well as general Fellowships across a wide range of cultural activity. The closing date for applications is Monday 19 February 2007. For further information, visit the Clore Leadership
website.

Learning in Communities conference 2008
Posted: 9 January 2007
In January 2008 the
Center for RelationaLearning will host its first international conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The event will be a unique opportunity for those involved in community education, community leadership and community development to share learning experiences, hopes and values.

The conference will focus on the following themes:
- Alternative models of community
- Building communities through RelationaLearning
- Securing equity, inclusion, and social justice through community development

And will seek to respond to the following challenges:
- What are the different forms that community might take?
- How do we move from learning in the community to a learning community?
- How do communities secure inclusion, equity, and social justice?
- What can modern communities learn from traditional communities?

Facilitated by Dr. George Otero and Professor John West-Burnham, the event will use a range of learning models centered on building shared capacity to engage in dialogue. Participants will form their own learning communities in action. Contributions from leaders of indigenous communities in Australia, New Zealand, North America and South Africa will be a central feature of the conference. These leaders will lead inspirational talks and facilitate sharing between participants from a variety of cultures.

More details on how to register for this event will be available here soon.

Children in Scotland training events
Posted: 9 January 2007
Children in Scotland have just released their training and conference guide for January - June 2007. Events include: multi-disciplinary traning workshops which aim to promote integrated children's services for all those working with children, young people and families in a variety of settings across the statutory, volunarty and independent sector; seminars on relevant topics; and commissioned training and conference. For full listings visit
www.childreninscotland.org.uk or contact the training department at 0131 222 2426 or training@childreninscotland.org.uk

Canadian cultural policies timeline
Posted: 21 December 2006
A new website from
Culturescope illustrates the sequence of the most important cultural events from the last century in Canada . The website offers a list of cultural policies, arts, communication developments, digital art, films, museums, heritage and music events classified by decade. The dates range from 1849 to 2005 and make the timeline a dynamic and useful tool for understanding and studying Canadian cultural and its evolution. The study was carried out by the Canadian Heritage's Strategic Policy, Planning and Research Branch. You can visit the site here. Source: Cyberkaris Newsletter (Interarts Foundation)

Call for papers: Euro-med countries
Posted: 21 December 2006
The Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures is seeking proposals for activities and initiatives that support intercultural dialogue in the 37 Euro-Mediterranean countries. There are six thematic priorities for 2007: EuroMed music and cultural/artistic creation, EuroMed schools programme; 2 +2 teams of young researchers and academic mobility, Mobility of artists, Women as promoters of Dialogue and the Media, and Network of networks (training, database, exchanges). The two deadlines for sending applications are 1 March and 1 June at 16.00, Egyptian time. You can find the guidelines for the call for proposals at
www.euromedalex.org Source: Cyberkaris Newsletter (Interarts Foundation)

Arts at the strategic centre
Posted: 15 December 2006
IDeA, the Improvement and Dvelopment Agency for councils in England and Wales, has been working with Arts Council England North East since 2002 on an innovative programme of reviews of local authorities, exploring what it means to put arts at the strategic centre.

This has resulted in a peer review programme in the northeast and northwest. The model seeks to help position the arts at the centre of corporate policy-making in addition to strengthening the same aspects of performance management that appear within TAES (Towards An Excellent Service).

The toolkit for embedding the arts at the strategic centre of councils can be downloaded at
www.idea.gov.uk

Spaces, Places and Future Learning
Posted: 15 December 2006
Futurelab's 'Spaces, Places and Future Learning' conference in November brought together a diverse mix of delegates to discuss learning spaces of the future. A range of outcomes from the event are now available, including copies of speakers' presentations, and some sample posters from the Create-A-Scape workshop session. Further transcripts of sessions and copies of presentations will be added to the page over the next few weeks. Please visit
www.futurelaborg.uk

New report on community development
Posted: 14 December 2006
A new report, The Community Development Challenge, finds that community development is crucial to government’s community engagement plans, with many current reforms in public services seeking to engage communities unlikely to achieve their objectives without community development.

The publication is by a coalition of the Community Development Foundation (CDF), Community Development Exchange, Federation for Community Development Learning and the CD2 working group and is published by Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). The report makes it clear that without community development:

- the most disadvantaged people receive poor quality public services yet are least confident and skilled at representing their needs to authorities
- sections of the local population are not able to participate in activities that are intended for the whole community because prejudices, assumptions and cultural differences are not tackled
- public agencies and departments that need to engage with local communities are unaware of each other’s efforts, lack insight into how communities work and have few channels for dialogue

A summary of the report (PDF) can be downloaded by clicking
here. The full report (PDF) can be downloaded by clicking here.

eLearning Papers publication launched
Posted: 12 December 2006
eLearning Papers is a new publication of
www.elearningeuropa.info, the European Commission portal to promote the use of ICT for lifelong learning. eLearning Papers intends to reinforce the visibility of articles, interviews and good practices related to e-learning and, through a more rigorous editorial process, provide readers with more structured and quality texts. The scope of the publication reflects the four community areas of elearningeuropa.info: schools, higher education, training and work, and learning and society.

Published every two months, it will feature articles, interviews and good practices provided by the readers of the portal themselves. Each article has an executive summary that is available in 19 European languages, providing the readers with more material in their own language and therefore making the information more accessible in general. The articles are available in full in their original language.

Researchers and e-learning practitioners of every level are invited to submit their work. The editors are welcome to suggestions and ideas as to how to improve this publication. To read the first edition, please visit www.elearningpapers.eu

New report on the intercultural city
Posted: 8 December 2006
Comedia has launched the findings of a major international research project that considers the extent to which cultural diversity and intercultural engagement can be a source of innovation, creativity and advantage, and a positive force releasing new energy and resources for the development of cities. The final report, Cultural Diversity in Britain: a toolkit for cross-cultural co-operation, is now available from
www.jrf.org.uk.

The project also includes several new publications: The Intercultural City Reader edited by Phil Wood; Planning for the Intercultural City by Jude Bloomfield and Franco Bianchini; More Than Just a Bridge: planning & designing culturally by Richard Brecknock; and The Road to Interculturalism by Naseem Khan.

The project continues with a major internationally-orientated book, The Intercultural City: Making the Most of Diversity, which will be published by Earthscan in 2007. For further information about The Intercultural City and these publications visit the project’s web site at www.interculturalcity.com Source: IFFACA Acorns bulletin

Culture, Arts and Refugees website
Posted: 8 December 2006
The Culture, Arts and Refugees website has been created by Creative Exchange to host materials about the role of arts and culture in the inclusion and integration of refugees and asylum seekers. The site evolved from A Sense of Belonging, a research project which started in 2000 with research on cultural activities with Kosovan exiles in the UK, and evolved into a full research project involving around 70 organisations in the UK.

The site contains materials from the resulting publication including the Executive Summary, Case Studies, Video Clips and contacts. A reduced cost downloadable (pdf) version of the publication is also available from this site. Visitors can also join in online debates about Culture, Arts and Refugees on its web forum, and find out more about what is happening in other aspects of Integration in the UK. Creative Exchange Partners can also access the exclusive bulletins on Refugees, Diversity and Inclusion in our Network section. The site is an evolving resource and will feature new materials and features as it grows. Please visit
http://cultureartsrefugees.creativeexchange.org

Making a Move: a strategy for community dance
Posted: 5 December 2006
The Foundation for Community Dance has led the process of research and development that will provide the community dance profession with a strategy to address its current and future development needs by articulating professional standards, supporting professional development and validating professional status in community dance. Extensive consultation with individuals and organisations across the dance and arts sectors has resulted in Making a Move, a strategy for creating a UK-wide professional framework that will support the practice and professional development of artists working in participatory dance settings, along with those who use, provide, employ and support dance in arts, learning, health and social settings, and providers of continuing professional development opportunities.

Supported by the Arts Council and Creative and Cultural Skills, Making a Move is available in full as well short, simplified versions targeted at four different audiences: dance artists; dance organisations; organisations, employers and providers in the arts, sport, health, education, voluntary and social sectors; and funding, policy and industry bodies. To download a copy visit
www.communitydance.org.uk

Report from Culture.mondo Roundtable
Posted: 23 November 2006
Following the close of the 2nd Culture.mondo International Roundtable held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on 20 - 22 October 2006, coorganized by Culturelink under the title 'Cultural Portals: A New Era of Cooperation', Culturelink have just published the Final Report from this event that was attended by some 50 representatives of over 40 cultural portals from all parts of the world: from Europe and the USA, to Canada, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Australia.

The event served as a platform for the presentation of specific portals and discussions on various aspects of the main topic, ranging from new Web 2.0 technologies to virtual cultural networks, virtual international cultural cooperation and the measuring of success through an evaluation of portal activities. The event's agenda reflected the complexity of the operational contexts of cultural portals. Through discussions and presentations, the participants had the opportunity to exchange their experiences and learn about new operational methods, which is of great importance, given that events like this one are rare occasions. The full report of the roundtable is available
here.

ProjectsETC website launched
Posted: 15 November 2006
An online ideas store to help cultural websites stand out from the crowd has been launched by Culture Online, part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Called
ProjectsETC, the new site aims to encourage information-sharing between institutions and focuses on the overlapping areas of education, technology and culture. The website includes case studies, practical guidance and comment pieces about real issues facing the cultural sector in the digital age.

Subjects covered include the truth behind web statistics, search engine optimisation and how to make websites accessible. The new site – part toolkit, part confessional and part advice centre – aims to help professionals working on interactive projects.

A series of podcasts has also been launched, exploring the issues behind the creation and management of digital resources. The first podcast includes an interview with Chris Smith, director of the Clore Leadership Programme, and Professor Helen Petrie of York University, a specialist in creating accessible sites. Source: Acorns Bulletin

New ELIA website
Posted: 8 November 2006
The European League of Institutes of the Arts, ELIA, has launched its new website. Founded in 1990, ELIA is an independent network of approximately 360 Arts Education Institutes covering all the disciplines of the Arts - Dance, Design, Theatre, Fine Art, Music, Media Arts and Architecture - from 47 countries. Through its membership network ELIA facilitates and promotes dialogues, mobility and activities between artists, teachers, senior managers, administrators and more than 250,000 students. To visit the new ELIA website go to
www.elia-artschools.org

CCC hosts UK women's sector meeting
Posted: 1 November 2006
On 23 October 2006 Centre for Creative Communities hosted Champions of Change, a meeting at London City Hall that addressed the question, "How can we make equality for women a reality in the 21st century?" 75 people registered for the day, with participants representing a wide range of women’s organisations, funding bodies and government agencies from London, Manchester, Belfast, Glasgow, Leicester, Birmingham and more.

The meeting was sponsored by the List Family Foundation, with additional support from Bird & Bird, the Pump House Trust and the Greater London Authority.

The event was facilitated using Open Space methodology, which gives each participant an equal opportunity to formulate the agenda for the day and the recommendations that are carried forward. To read notes from the day
click here.

CAN report on 'Creative Rural Industries' conference
Posted: 1 November 2006
Community Arts Network (CAN) have just publised a report from 'Creative Rural Industries,' a conference at the University of Lancaster which took place September 10-13 2006. The meeting was in tune with the 'rural renaissance' sweeping across Europe as a major EU funding initiative, Leader +, helps spark a regeneration movement in stressed agricultural areas and villages. The conference was organized by Littoral, a Northern nonprofit arts trust, as part of its effort to address the overwhelming crisis for life on the English farm in the wake of recent livestock epidemics.

This 'agri-cultural' gathering brought together artists, craftspeople and artisans; farmers, growers and local rural authorities; cultural and arts agents; social service and government agents; Leader + program officers; and specialists in the creative industries, clusters of entrepreneurs poised to reinvent the country the way they reinvented the city in the 1990s. This report includes an extensive hyperlinked networking list. To view the report visit
www.communityarts.net.


E-gateway to London Funders
Posted: 26 October 2006London Funders has announced the launch of a new section of its website: E-gateway to London Funders (ELF). Targeted at London's voluntary and community sector organisations (VCOs) and funded by the London ChangeUp Consortium, this free e-resource will provide:

- Useful funding resources for fundseekers
- Direct hotlinks to all London Funder Members
- An opportunity for VCO's to get policy updates and changes on London Funders
- A platform to enable VCO's to communicate to funders on key sector issues.

Visit this new resource at
www.londonfunders.org.uk/elf

Launch of enquire research: reports and key findings
Posted: 26 October 2006
‘Inspiring learning in galleries,' the reports from enquire 2004 – 6, has just been published. enquire involves research into the learning benefits to young people of engaging with contemporary art and the conditions for learning in galleries. The enquire research has found that through working with contemporary art and artists young people gain important skills related to art that also impact on their broader education and personal development.

In phase 1, 2004 -6, three ‘clusters’ of galleries, each working with a university research department, developed collaborative projects with artists and teachers investigating three different research questions. The questions cover the development of critical skills, the acquisition of ‘cultural capital’ and how young people can take control of their own learning. enquire continues as a research programme with the three original ‘clusters’ and four exciting new research projects.

The report (£8.50) is available from engage, Suite AG, City Cloisters, 196 Old Street, London EC1V 9FR,
info@engage.org or www.en-quire.org.

New Report on Arts and Culture in Regeneration
Posted: 4 September 2006
IFACCA (International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies) has released its latest D'Art research report, Arts and Culture in Regeneration. The report summarises the outcome of IFACCA's 25th D'Art question, which was a collaboration between IFACCA and Arts Research Digest to produce an international literature review on arts and culture in regeneration for the third World Summit on Arts and Culture in Newcastle, Gateshead, England, in June 2006.

The D'art report includes a copy of an international literature review written by Graeme Evans and Phyllida Shaw, which was published in Arts Research Digest issue 37 and distributed at the World Summit. The review explores art, culture and regeneration across three areas of policy interest: iconic buildings and cities of culture; cultural quarters and clusters; and cultural dynamism. The report also provides a list of additional resources and comments that were provided by D'Art respondents. A PDF version of the report is available at
www.ifacca.org

New public art advisory service for London
Posted: 4 September 2006
Source: IFACCA Acorns bulletinArts Council England, London, is to establish a central information, advocacy and advisory service for people interested in developing new public art for London. Open House, an architecture education organization partly funded by the Council, will run the service, which will also offer an archive and research base, plus professional networking and development opportunities for artists, commissioning agencies, architects and planners.

Sarah Weir, the Arts Council’s Executive Director, said that ACE was 'delighted to be funding this important new initiative and cannot think of a better organisation to incubate it than Open House...The agency will be promoting high quality art in public places, as well as high quality architecture and design across the capital. London's landscape is changing fast, particularly in relation to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Thames Gateway. We believe that it is vital therefore to engage artists, stakeholders and the public in the challenges of shaping our city for the future.' For more information visit
www.artscouncil.org.uk

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Newly designed e-learning europa site
Posted: 8 August 2006
elearningeuropa is an initiative of the European Commission which provides resources and information on the use of multimedia technologies for education and training in the areas of schools, higher education, learning and work and lifelong learning. The site has recently changed its look and structure and as the reconstructing of the site takes place, new sections and functions will be added over the coming months. The new version of the site is available in the European Union's 20 official languages. The easiest, most intuitive way of using the portal is to navigate according to selected area of interest. The site increases users' possibilities of participating, with four permanent forums to stimulate increased interaction and debate. Visit
www.elearningeuropa.info

NNAH: from organisation to network
Posted: 5 July 2006
Source: Creative Exchange BulletinThe National Network for the Arts in Health (NNAH) as an organisation continues with plans to close. However, the National Network for the Arts in Health as a network can continue to grow.

Over the past month, NNAH staff have been working to ensure that the website can remain for at least two years following NNAH closure. Instead of having a Public Area and a Members Area, the website will be opened so that all who are interested in this field of practice can have access to the full website. There will, of course, be monitors to ensure that posts in the message forum are appropriate and relevant. There will be more information forthcoming about how you can contribute articles (including pictures), calendar items, information about new funding resources, links to new developing projects and organisations, project and research reports and all manner of news to be shared. Arts in Health Practitioners will also have topical "blogs" enabling those who work in Arts in Healthcare settings, Community based Arts in Health practice, Medical Humanities and Arts Therapies dialogue separately on issues affecting them most, or come together to discuss matters affecting the entire field.

For further information contact
info@nnah.co.uk or visit www.nnah.co.uk.

Arts Council England Agenda for 2006-8
Posted: 5 July 2006
Arts Council England has published Our Agenda for the Arts 2006-8, in which it states its ambition to "put the arts at the heart of national life and people at the heart of the arts." Its agenda has six priorities: taking part in the arts; children and young people; the creative economy; vibrant communities; internationalism; and celebrating diversity.

The report finds that "to achieve in these areas, we will have to strengthen our own performance and support our main partners, arts organisations and local authorities, to improve theirs. Our work will be informed by our arts policies which summarise the context in which each artform is operating and the challenges and opportunities it faces."

To download a free copy of Our Agenda for the Arts: 2006-8
click here.

LabforCulture goes live
Posted: 13 June 2006
The European Cultural Foundation has announced LabforCulture, a dynamic, new interactive website aimed at all those in arts and culture who collaborate, create, share and produce work across borders in Europe. The site is a vast source of current information and debate on European cultural cooperation, from case studies and inspiring stories of trans-border collaboration to the latest online cultural news and newsletters. From information and tips on how to fund a project to links to key cultural organisations and networks. There is an extensive resource section and research information includes topical cultural trends and debates in Europe.

LabforCulture is unique online cultural concept, and was initiated by the European Cultural Foundation together with many partners. It is supported by leading European cultural organisations, by many Culture Ministries, and the European Commission.
www.LabforCulture.org

Vision of British cultural sector
Posted: 8 June 2006
Leading organisations from across the British cultural sector have joined together to publish a vision for the future and a plan of action. In a joint document, Values and Vision: The Contribution of Culture, the organisations call for a new settlement with government so that Britain can maintain its position as a world-class culture.

The organisations, led by Arts Council England, the National Museum Directors’ Conference and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, set out their values and core principles, and demonstrate the contribution that the cultural sector has made to life in Britain in the past 10 years – in order to ensure that it can make a similar contribution in the next.

The document celebrates the sector’s achievements over the last decade but acknowledges that there is still a great deal more to be done to fully realise its contribution to public life. In return, the cultural sector is seeking a commitment from government that it values the contribution culture makes to learning and education, creativity and economic vitality, social regeneration, health and community cohesion. The Values and Vision document is available at:
www.nationalmuseums.org.uk

Launch of English National Youth Arts Network
Posted: 7 June 2006
David Lammy MP, Minister for Culture launched the first National Youth Arts Network for England 12 June 2006. ENYAN (English National Youth Arts Network) is the culmination of over four years work by Artswork, the national youth arts development agency based in Southampton, and its arrival marks a significant turning point for the youth arts sector in England. A network within and a network of networks, ENYAN will deliver four key areas of work, through ongoing consultation with the youth arts sector in England:

- Information, advice and resources via the ENYAN website
- A national programme of professional development
- A national forum for advocacy and lobbying
- Regional development, supporting local youth arts infrastructures

ENYAN is funded by Arts Council England South East, and supported by DFES, DCMS, First Light, NAYT, NALGAO, Engage, YJB, Youth Dance England, Youth Music, Voluntary Arts Network, NYA, UK Youth and Creative & Cultural Skills. Contact:
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