Future Events
On Monday 29th September, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) will be hosting a panel discussion, enititled 'What's Wrong with wanting to be Famous?
The speakers will be Toby Young, columnist and author of How to Loose Friends and Alienate People, Cosmo Landesman, film critic of the Sunday Times and author of a new book Star-struck, and Peter Whittle, director of The New Culture Forum and author of Look at Me: Celebrating the Self in Modern Britain.
The discussion will follow a special advance screening of the new film How To Loose Friends and Alienate People, based on Toby Young's book.
Tickets are available from the ICA box office.
www.ica.org.uk
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Submitted by peterwhittle on Sat, 2008-08-16 09:51.
This coming Autumn, the NCF will be holding three events in central London. Details of speakers and times will be confirmed later, but in the meantime:
Deep Freize: Is London's international art market actually killing art?
Ticking All My Boxes: Has corporate giving to the arts become just as politically correct as state funding?
Publish And Be Damned: Do centre-right authors and novelists really face an uphill struggle?
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Submitted by peterwhittle on Sat, 2008-07-26 07:51.
The NCF director has been invited to participate in a 'high level roundtable meeting' on Arts and Diversity which is being hosted by Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA, and at which Ed Vaizey MP, Shadow Minister for Culture, will be present.
This roundtable, on 15 July 9.30am-12pm, will comprise about 20 key people across the arts, policy and equalities environment, and will seek to agree some calls for action which we will then feed through to policy makers. According to the RSA,
' there are not enough minorities studying art, jobs are low paid and internships are a common way of getting in the door. It's also a class issue. The result is that the economy of the sector mitigates against increasing diversity. Some people suggest that wider strategies also have negative effects – including the current skills framework, commissioning and procurement strategies.... Our creative industries are a key and growing part of the economy. They are important for the UK as a whole competing in the global economy, and are central part of the regeneration of specific regions such as the North West. They are also an important for social cohesion at home and in reflecting Britain to other countries. What do we need to do to ensure the sector is robust and sustainable, that diversity is taken seriously?...What would a manifesto for change look like? ...'
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Submitted by admin on Mon, 2008-06-16 09:18.
The New Culture Forum is delighted to be hosting an event at which Jeremy Hunt MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport will be giving a keynote speech on Conservative arts policy.
Tuesday, 24th June at 7pm
The Grimmond Room, Portcullis House, Wesminster SW1A 2LW
Jeremy Hunt will be introduced by Peter Whittle, Director of The New Culture Forum. There will be time for questions after the speech
Places will be limited so if you would like to attend please make sure to RSVP to prwhittle@btinternet.com
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Submitted by admin on Thu, 2008-06-05 07:50.
