“According to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s annual Taking Part survey – which measures adult and child engagement with the arts – the proportion of five to ten year-olds doing dance, music and theatre/drama outside of school fell by more than 10% between 2008/09 to 2011/12.”
Category: issues
The End Of Berlin’s Most Famous Artists’ Squat (It Was Time)
“[The squatters’] eviction earlier this month marks the end of the 22-year history of Tacheles, a world-famous artists’ center in Berlin’s Mitte district. Tacheles long ago lost its edgy cachet within Berlin’s creative scene. … Should official policy aim at keeping Berlin poor enough to encourage the further influx of sexy hipsters? The majority of Berliners say no.”
The Emoticon Turns Twenty
“Twenty years ago today, Scott E. Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, posted an electronic message on a university bulletin board system suggesting that a colon, a minus sign and a parenthesis be used to convey a joking tone.”
Artist Demands Canadian Content For Charlottetown Festival
“An online petition is pushing for all foreign content to be banned from the stage at the Confederation Centre of the Arts.”
Texting Through A Rosh Hashana Service – At The Rabbi’s Invitation
“‘Let’s see some texting, guys,’ Rabbi Amy L. Morrison told the group. ‘Take those phones out.’ What do you need to let go of, she asked the congregants, in order to be ‘fully present’? Hunched over their phones, they let loose their words and watched them scroll into view: Past mistakes. Shyness. Anger. Fear of failure. Self-pity. Ego. Doubt. Control.”
Internet Users Increasingly Abandoning Search Engines To Ask Their Social Networks
“Such a trend points to an opportunity for the likes of Facebook and Twitter, which have ambitions, respectively, to inject web search in to social and to curate real-time topics may seek out.”
Emory University To Restructure Its Arts Department, Eliminate Visual Arts Department
“Among other changes, the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts will become an institute without a permanent faculty, and graduate admissions to it will be suspended.”
Why Can’t We Sell Charity Like We Sell Perfume?
“What if we let philanthropies operate like businesses? Let them pay for talent, advertise aggressively to build market share – even build a stock market for charity. Maybe then capitalism could finally save the world.”
Brace Yourself: Even More Cuts Are Coming, Says Arts Council England
“Simon Mellor, the new executive director of the arts at Arts Council England, pointed out at the ITC summer conference … that there were likely to be more cuts to arts funding to come and ‘maybe sooner than we think’.”
Can Computers Replace Human Teachers?
“While a computer can emulate, and in some ways exceed, the abilities of a human teacher, it will not replace her. Rather, it’s the emerging hybrid of human and computer instruction — not either one alone — that may well transform education.”