Income for National Lottery Good Causes had grown consistently for years up until last year, when Lottery sales income fell by 8.8% and returns to good causes by 14.4%. This resulted in £227.4m for ACE, which was £40.9m less than 2015/16 and £21.6m lower than originally forecast.
Category: issues
Wild And Free? The Endless Rules And Bureaucracy Of Burning Man
“As with permanent cities, the construction and maintenance of this municipal infrastructure requires an elaborate regulatory apparatus—and for the greater good, the regs must be enforced. When you imagine Burning Man, you might picture naked people riding bikes and making out and setting things on fire—and, indeed, that’s exactly what you’ll see if you attend. But, for a psychedelic, safety-third debauch, Burning Man has an awful lot of rules.”
NEH Pledges $1M For Cultural Institutions Hit By Hurricane Harvey
“The grants are intended to fund the preservation of humanities collections impacted by the storm, as well as helping institutions – from universities and libraries to museums and historical societies – to get back up and running.”
India’s Big New Performing Arts Impresario Is A Power Company
Energo India’s main business is building electric plants, but last year it opened a new division called Navrasa Duende, which has already produced concert tours and film festivals. Next month, it’s bringing in from Ukraine the first professional staging of the ballet Swan Lake in India in living memory.
Study: The Idea That Universities Fight Inequality Turns Out To Be A Myth
“In a fascinating new paper published this summer, five economists, Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan, call into question higher education’s role in promoting upward mobility. The centerpiece of the paper is “mobility report cards” for each college in America. The researchers considered 30 million students between 1999 and 2014 and compared their parents’ incomes to their own post-college earnings, by school. With this data, they could see exactly which colleges helped the most students rise from the bottom of the earnings ladder to the top.”
Art In Support Of Homeless: 9000 to Sleep In A Park In Edinburgh
“It is hoped 9,000 people will take part in the sleepout, which will see Liam Gallagher, Deacon Blue, Amy Macdonald and Frightened Rabbit play unplugged. No tickets will be sold, with members of the public and businesses joining the event by reaching fundraising targets and accepting the sleep-out challenge.”
How Tiny Eau Claire Wisconsin Became The Mid-West’s Hot New Town
The tipping point came in 2012: Arts advocates, the city, the state, and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC) joined forces on the $85 million Confluence Arts Center. Previous big projects proposed for downtown had failed to gain approval, but Confluence’s critical mass of partners overcame some mild opposition. When it’s completed next year, across from Phoenix Park, it’ll have two theaters, apartments, retail space, and a pedestrian plaza, along with artist and technical training facilities.
Canada’s Globe And Mail Kills Its Weekday Arts Section
The country’s national English-language daily “will be consolidating its ‘Life and Arts’ and ‘News’ sections, beginning in December. The reshuffling means that arts reviews will be relegated to the generic ‘News’ section, and that dedicated space for other arts coverage would be found exclusively in the paper’s weekend edition.”
New York City To Get European-Style Nightlife Czar
“‘Night mayors,’ as they are commonly known, are popular in Europe, where these figures are chiefly concerned with how people can have a good time after dark in their cities. London, Berlin, Paris and Zurich all have them – and now the initiative is making its way to New York, where night life is in great need of attention.”
We Still Have To Defend Free Speech? Here’s Why
“A 2015 Pew Research Center poll reported that 40 percent of millennials think the government should be able to suppress speech deemed offensive to minority groups, as compared to only 12 percent of those born between 1928 and 1945. Young people today voice far less faith in free speech than do their grandparents. And Europe, where racist speech is not protected, has shown that democracies can reasonably differ about this issue.”