Excellent new series from ⁦Richard Morrison⁩ on ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩. The latest episode centres on the Festival of Britain in 1951. He talks to me about the impact of public arts investment since then. Earlier programmes in the series are on the iPlayer. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Tonight's BBC Front Row: Hanif Kureishi on The Buddha of Suburbia The RSC, Darren Henley CBE on Arts Council England's Let's Create funding policy, Ingrid Persaud 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇬🇧 on the real Trinidadian gangster behind The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh 715pm R4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Finally finished reading Darren Henley CBE ‘The Arts Dividend Revisited’. Fab that there are lots of examples and references to #Leeds and #WestYorkshire within.

Looking forward to talking to Samira Ahmed about how artists, arts organisations, museums & libraries in our Arts Council England #LetsCreate National Portfolio create excellent cultural experiences across all art forms for and with people in villages, towns & cities across England

Privileged to catch a rehearsal by students at Manchester School of Theatre Manchester School of Theatre today - part of Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan Uni - a university that has the development and training of the next generation of creative making and performing talent at the heart of everything it does

Volunteering opportunities! ✨

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Great piece in Sunderland Echo by Rob Lawson celebrating 10 years of The Cultural Spring in Sunderland and S Tyneside
Congratulations to Emma Horsman, Graeme Thompson MBE, Ray Spencer MBE & all the team that have delivered this place-changing project

Thanks to Arts Council England for supporting us

In Liskeard to sign a memorandum of understanding with @cornwallcouncil, Arts Council England, South West and Arts Council England covering future cooperation on cultural and heritage projects, following great successes in Redruth and Liskeard, amongst many others in Cornwall.

Great positive spirit. 👏

A privilege to witness Sir Andras Schiff rehearsing with Arts Council England #NPO OAE at their home at Acland Burghley in north London today. And to learn more about their longterm, uncompromisingly excellent classical music audience development work across the country #LetsCreate

A big moment for culture & heritage in #Cornwall this morning, with the signing at Liskeard Library of the refreshed (and now bi-lingual) MoU between @cornwallcouncil Historic England & Arts Council England - all of us signing up to a commitment to collaborative working through to 2030.

Changing lives one story at a time: Grimm & Co - a remarkable, awe inspiring Arts Council England #NPO in #Rotherham . A privilege to look round their magical new home today. Their excellent work now leads the way, influencing other literacy organisations around the world #LetsCreate

🎉 This month marks our one year anniversary as an #NPO !

Thank you to Arts Council England for their continued support, enabling us to commission extraordinary work and back disabled artists. We've had a fascinating first year as a National Portfolio Organisation.

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Really excited to see for myself today the new home in Rotherham of the brilliant Arts Council England #NPO Grimm & Co which changes children’s lives across Yorkshire every day by sharing the magic of books and reading as reported here in the The Yorkshire Post #LetsCreate

Tremendous concert by Arts Council England #NPO Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in Birmingham this afternoon with a UK premiere of Ondrej Adamek’s ‘Let me tell you a story’. And a world premiere of Hilda Paredes’s ‘Abalorios’. Both Birmingham Contemporary Music Group commissions. Both terrific #LetsCreate

Take a virtual tour round this wonderful library in the heart of South Manchester 📍

The #ACEsupported LibraryOn programme aims to transform how people engage with libraries, no matter where they are.

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Thanks to London Sinfonietta for inviting me to their Sound Out event at Royal Festival Hall with 2,500 children from 37 schools across London. Congrats to all the children who participated esp on stage Haringey Music Service Enfield Music Service #WalthamForestMusic Arts Council England Arts Council England, London

Are you a practitioner wanting to focus on your creative development? 🤔

There's one week left to apply for Developing your Creative Practice round 20!

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Excited to be recruiting for this Director role Arts Council England, London, with national responsibility for leading Arts Council England's work with and for Individual Practitioners. Deadline 2nd April; happy to have informal conversations this week with anyone interested.
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