Private Views: Voices from the Front Line of British Culture is available to order from the Social Affairs Unit and Amazon.
NCF Report
The NCF report The Arts Council: Managed to Death can be downloaded here.
NCF TV
Director Peter Whittle hosted over forty editions of Culture Clash, a half hour cultural discussion programme, which ran for a year on the UK's first internet TV site, 18 Doughty Street.
There was a huge diversity of subject matter, and you can view any one of the programmes by clicking here, where you'll find a brief description of each one.
My Cultural Life
My Cultural Life explores the cultural hinterland of figures in our creative, political and social landscape in ten quick fire questions.
"But start making significant cuts to public investment and you'd soon notice the difference. It would be the smaller, most innovative organisations and individual artists who'd suffer the most." - Arts Council staff member
Why? Why does Arts Council England choose to operate in this way when resources dwindle? Why not instead "develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and practice of the arts", as required by the Royal Charter?
The Royal Charter offers a robust recipe for sustained funding of the arts. It is the Arts Council's reluctance to comply with its own Royal Charter that opens the door to serious cuts in public funding.
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"But start making significant cuts to public investment and you'd soon notice the difference. It would be the smaller, most innovative organisations and individual artists who'd suffer the most." - Arts Council staff member
Why? Why does Arts Council England choose to operate in this way when resources dwindle? Why not instead "develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and practice of the arts", as required by the Royal Charter?
The Royal Charter offers a robust recipe for sustained funding of the arts. It is the Arts Council's reluctance to comply with its own Royal Charter that opens the door to serious cuts in public funding.
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