Angered by Alexander Pereira’s deliberate overspending and his threats to walk away from the festival, the board told him directly that “there will be no contract extension after 2016 and the board is already in discussions with potential replacements.”
Category: issues
Major Makeover For London’s Southbank Center
“London’s Southbank Centre is to bring its Festival Wing out of the 1960s and into the 21st century with a £100m overhaul that marks the “final piece in the jigsaw” in the transformation of the cultural venue.”
Belfast Increases Arts Funding 27 Percent
“Almost £1.4 million will be distributed annually from 2013-16 – compared to just over £930,000 per year in 2010 to 2012 – through the council’s Core Multi-Annual Funding scheme which will also see the number of organisations receiving core funding increasing more than threefold from 16 in previous years to 52.”
London’s Westminster City Council Eliminates Arts Funding
“Soho Theatre and English National Ballet are among the groups set to lose funding under the plans, which will see the £350,000 the council currently spends on ‘commissioned community arts projects’ reduced to £192,00 in 2013/14 and cut completely in 2014/15.”
British Authors Back Drive For Libel Law Reform
“Some of the Britain’s most acclaimed authors and playwrights including Stephen Fry, Sir Tom Stoppard, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Ian McEwan and Sir Salman Rushdie have called on the main party leaders to honour their pledge and implement a defamation bill aimed at transforming 170-year-old laws they say have silenced scientists and authors as well as journalists and activists.”
Is The ‘Creative Class’ About To Suffer The Same Fate As Factory Laborers?
A “culture and creativity consultant” argues that, with the ever-increasing capabilities of software and the ever-increasing availability of labor from poorer countries, such occupations as designer, film editor, sound engineer and perhaps even music arranger or actor could go the way of the weaver.
The Difficulty Of Researching The Arts
“The arts as a sector is not known, with few exceptions, for leading research and innovation, but rather responding to trends in other fields and disciplines.”
‘Only Connect The Prose And The Passion’: A Manifesto For Administrators, Artists And Funders
Marian Godfrey, a longtime official with the Pew Charitable Trusts, calls for organizations to (re-)consider how their activities – and even their stated missions – really relate to and with the people they’re meant to serve (and to remember that the people they’re serving aren’t the artists themselves).
In England’s New Arts Funding Climate, Arts With Business Or Arts Vs. Business?
“In the 90s and early noughties there was a notion that if you appointed a chairman from the business world they would be able to knock an arts organisation in to shape, and in at least two national arts institutions it went horribly wrong … But the mix of management and curation can work. A business manager who loves the arts and can man-manage coupled with a creative team on the same level in the hierarchy or even a notch below can be very productive.”
MacArthur Fellow Liz Lerman Launches Multi-Disciplinary National Civil War Project
The Baltimore-based choreographer, “partnered with the University of Maryland, Center Stage and Harvard University, among others, for the project, which launches Thursday with a presentation in Washington and continues with numerous events through 2015. It aims to raise questions about the war and its repercussions.”