The second annual State of the Arts conference brings together a wide range of creative voices to debate issues around resilience, audience and the value of arts and culture. To help kick off the discussions we have commissioned four pamphlets from leading thinkers within the industry to examine topics such as funding, collaboration and technology.
You can download and read the papers at the links below and also post your comments and reactions on this blog to join in the discussion.
About the provocations:
Arts Funding, Austerity and the Big Society: Remaking the case for the art
Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA and John Knell Leading cultural policy strategist, are authors of 'Arts Funding, Austerity and the Big Society: Remaking the case for the art ' in which they maintain the arts sector urgently needs to strengthen the case for funding. Otherwise, it the arts will be ill-prepared during the tough fiscal decade ahead. The report calls for more precise definitions of artistic excellence; new approaches to engagement; and a better account of the relationship between artistic participation and individual and social outcomes.
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Collaborative Arts
Peter Aspden, Arts Correspondent for the Financial Times, is author of 'Collaborative Arts' in which he explores how arts bodies' activities could be harnessed to encourage and produce an environment of genuine collaboration; one that will support the arts and organisations through the forthcoming financial hardships, and produce a new creative synergy.
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Rethinking Cultural Philanthropy, Towards a More Sustainable Arts and Cultural Sector
Diane Ragsdale of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, is author of 'Rethinking Cultural Philanthropy, Towards a More Sustainable Arts and Cultural Sector ' in which she examines how the internet can help raise funds for arts projects, increase transparency and ensure a broader representation of community interests on the governing boards of arts institutions.
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Look Out - Look In
Moukhtar Kocache of the Ford Foundation in Cairo is author of 'Look Out - Look In' and maintains that the arts are out of kilter with an increasingly interdisciplinary and connected world. He argues that what's needed on both sides of the Atlantic is a new social contract for the arts in which the artistic community embraces itself within new models of creative production and artistic activity.
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