Welcome
Welcome to the Great Art For Everyone blog, a place to comment, discuss and find out more about Arts Council England, North East’s event at The Sage Gateshead on Tuesday, 24 March 2009.
We’re working to realise our ambition to get great art to everyone. On Tuesday 24 March we’d love you to join us online for a day of discussion and debate around some key themes from the Arts Council Plan. We will be “twittering” live from the venue from greatartlive. We will also be broadcasting a live video stream of key sessions (more info coming soon!) and a Flickr feed.
This is an opportunity to share ideas on the future of the arts in our region and includes sessions on what we mean by ‘great art’, how ‘for everyone’ might be achieved, the digital opportunity, young people, internationalism and more.
Our guest speakers include our Chief Executive, Alan Davey who during his time with the Arts Council has advocated for artistic excellence, risk and innovation as well as a new sense of ambition as to how we engage audiences.
Check out our Speakers page for a full list of Speakers and be sure to sign up to our RSS feed to get the latest news and posts.
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How much more arts funding are you going to waste on these non-sensical events. They are a pointless expenditure of monies that could be spent directly on art projects. As usual, the Arts Council has yet another self serving event to employ paid arts administrators at the expense of practising artists (all areas). Having been a professional artist for over 27 years, I’m in no doubt that the ACE is the enemy of the artist.
Their hideous new doctrine ‘Good art for all’, is not only fantastically patronising to artists, but also to their audiences. If anyone reads this, could you tell me how much money ACE has wasted on their latest self interested project, which will make no difference to the life or finances to artists, afterall none of the other fatuous schemes have done so. The Arts Council of England has kept artists as LUCKY BEGGARS ever since it was formed and has no other agenda than to exploit and use our talents and financial resources for their own benefit. Artists are the greatest sponsors of the Arts in this country and we are the lowest paid professionals in this country. We have European employment laws, why do they not apply to us. Has any employee of ACE ever met, talked to, or have any interest in artists?
Helen Schell
Helen, your comments cover exactly some of the ground we’ll be talking about at this event (incidentally, when we ask arts organisations and artists how we can work with them better, this kind of sector-led event and opportunity to have grown-up debate is exactly what people ask for)The sustainability workshop in particular will look at how artists and arts organsations can become more viable and achieve stability and/or growth, and what interventions, support, information etc will help – this will directly inform our work – and ultimately benefit artists. Some of the debates will be broadcast live online here. As to your last point – I spend a lot of time talking to, and looking at the work of artists across all disciplines – I don’t think i could do my job if I didn’t!