Arts Council briefing: Strategic Touring Programme

The Arts Council’s Strategic Touring Programme was launched on 5 December 2011. The Strategic touring programme aims to ensure that people across England have improved access to great art visiting their local area. This includes:

• better access to high quality work for people in places in England which rely on touring for much of their arts provision
• more high quality work to reach people and places with the least engagement
• more high quality work on tour connecting more effectively with people across a wide range of venues

In order to explain the scheme the Arts Council is holding a briefing event at The Pyramid, Palmyra Square South, Warrington, WA1 1BL.

The briefing will:

• outline the new programme and its aims, which have been drawn from our national approach to touring
• provide an opportunity to hear about the programme first hand and ask questions about it
• provide the opportunity to network with potential partners within the region and to discuss any ideas you might have regarding working with other organisations nationally

We anticipate demand for this event will be high so places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis and strictly limited to one person per organisation. 

To register a place, go to http://warringtontouringbriefingfeb2012.eventbrite.co.uk/

Make It Look Good: Photographing Your Work

Waterside Arts Centre, Sale

£12 (plus £1.00 booking fee for card transactions)

Acclaimed photographers Jo and Christoph Shaw present a ‘do it yourself’ guide to photographing your own work. They reveal the tips and tricks to help you photograph your work to its best advantage – ideal for artists and creatives working in 2D and 3D. Learn how to best position your work, how to light it and bring out the details and perspectives you want to highlight.

This session is designed for artists working on a tight budget but who still need to promote their work. Jo & Christoph present a range of examples to photograph your work on both small and medium size budgets, from £50 to £200.

This workshop will help you understand your own digital camera – and give you the knowledge to move away from auto to customized settings, as well as understand how to use cheap lighting to make your work look its best.

Shaw and Shaw are award-winning photographers who have worked with the creative sector for many years. For more information on their work, see www.shawandshaw.co.uk

For more information, go to http://www.creativeindustriestrafford.org/2012/01/make-it-look-good-photographing-your-work/ 

Arts Council Grants for the Arts seminar, Bolton

Bolton Central Library & Museum, Le Mans Crescent, BL1 1SE

FREE 

Grants for the arts are for new activities carried out over a set period and which engage people in England in arts activities, and help artists and arts organisations in England carry out their work. It can fund activities for up to 3 years and is open to arts organisations, individual artists and the third sector.

Bolton Council and the Arts Council are keen to encourage more high quality applications from the Bolton borough and have provided this free workshop which will provide delegates with an insight into the priorities of the Arts Council, what makes an activity bid stand out, and a detailed practical looking at the assessment process of applications.

To  book your place, please contact the Bolton Council Arts Development team on 01204 334335 or email artsdevelopment@bolton.gov.uk

How to create strong arts funding bids

Bolton Central Library & Museum, Le Mans Crescent BL1 1SE

£10 or £5 for past Enabling Event delegates

Following Bolton Council’s series of ‘Enabling’ day conferences in 2011/12, designed to provide support to arts organisations and artists in the changing economic climate, Bolton Council have commissioned MMM Funding Solutions to deliver an intensive bid-writing workshop.

This 3-hr workshop will provide an overview of sustainable funding strategies and look at how to practically improve your funding applications and bid-writing skills.

Please note that places are limited and likely to book up fast. To secure your place, please contact the Bolton Council Arts Development team on 01204 334335 or email artsdevelopment@bolton.gov.uk . Only one place per organisation is permitted.

If you haven’t attended one of our previous Enabling Events, you can qualify for workshop price discounts if you book onto our upcoming 21^st Feb conference, Enabling: Digital Development in the Arts – http://enablingdigitaldevelopment.eventbrite.co.uk/

Measuring the social impact of your arts organisation

Bolton Central Library & Museum, Le Mans Crescent, BL1 1SE         

£10 or £5 for past Enabling Event delegates 

An in-depth workshop for arts organisations and creatives, following on from our successful Enabling Events in 2011. Popular speaker Richard Dickens from Make It Happen will take you through an overview of measuring your Social Return on Investment (SROI) and how the value of the impact can be used to develop sustainable income.

If you haven’t attended one of our previous Enabling Events, you will qualify for workshop price discounts if you book onto our 21^st Feb conference, Enabling: Digital Development in the Arts – http://enablingdigitaldevelopment.eventbrite.co.uk/

To book, please contact the Bolton Council Arts Development team on 01204 334335 or email artsdevelopment@bolton.gov.uk.