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Scoping Research: Expressions of interest invited
We are seeking to recruit one or more individuals or organisations to undertake scoping research to inform thinking about how...
Place, Politics, Power event
On the 8th December 2016 the Inquiry held an event 'Place, Politics, Power: What is the Civic Role of Arts...
Should arts organisations have a civic role?
As Project Director for the Inquiry I’ve been privileged to take part in lots of different discussions around the country...
Everyone is creative
All too often, and despite the best of intentions, arts and cultural organisations perceive their role to be to increase...
Why do we talk about ‘the arts’?
If you listen to people talk about arts and culture in the UK, whether they are journalists, or people who run arts...
Chaotic, cruel and unknowable
In 2016 the challenges facing society can appear chaotic, cruel and unknowable. To understand and make positive change we...
How arts organisations can teach us to build a...
On 27 July What Next? and the Inquiry held a roundtable discussion where young arts people were asked to explain what roles...
What is, and what should be the civic role of arts...
Prof. Simeon Yates from the Institute of Cultural Capital, the Inquiry Research partner, writes about developing a definition...
Defining civic role in the UK and US
To kick start the current Inquiry into the Civic Role of Arts Organisations, King’s College London was commissioned to a...
Could the Inquiry unearth a new way of approaching...
We have been very heartened that a couple of people from the arts sector have written to us about diversity since we...
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