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| Url: | http://artscounselling.blogspot.com |
| Author(s): | Mark Robinson |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | arts, culture, policy |
| Description: | Thoughts and stimulations on arts policy, strategy and development - and related cultural topics - from the Executive Director of Arts Council England, North East. |
| Ratings |  (5 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 82 Followers |
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A thought on writing
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'But why this urge to speak things, rather than make do with observing them? Where does it come from, this compulsion writers have to turn into words everything that touches them or holds their att...more |
2009-11-22
74% of Everybody's Happy Nowadays
| I’ve done a presentation on the headline results of our ‘Stakeholder Focus’ survey twice this week, once to staff and then to Regional Council. It’s a kind of customer satisfaction survey, where pe...more |
2009-11-19
Younger than that now
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There’s been lots of coverage in the last couple of weeks of 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the subsequent ‘domino’ effect across Eastern Europe. Whenever I think of t...more |
2009-11-16
Any appetite for a naked lunch?
| I join the dots between things and look for patterns. I probably over-do it at times, but it’s how my brain works. Here’s my latest set of dots.Firstly a phrase echoing from the IFACCA Summit, She...more |
2009-11-12
Paradoxical times?
| IPPR North’s recent publication Public Sector Paradox draws together some conclusions from the Commission on Public Sector Reform in the North East. These centre on ways out of what they believe is...more |
2009-11-04
Is thinking becoming more popular?
| I spent last weekend mainly at The Sage Gateshead at Radio 3’s ‘festival of ideas’, Free Thinking. I threw a couple of 3 minute theories out, in the Theory Slam -‘Sustainability is a convenient bu...more |
2009-10-30
Last words on the IFACCA World Summit, for now
| I’ve had a very hectic time of it for the last fortnight, which is why it’s been quite on here. I had one or two more things I wanted to say about the IFACCA World Summit, but have decided it’s bes...more |
2009-10-27
Does democracy have customers?
| I wrote about cuts and choices recently , suggesting the debate needed to be about what we are prepared to do without. Matthew Taylor, on his RSA blog, puts his finger on the underlying problem: wh...more |
2009-10-14
Pata pata time
| The posts this week have been a bit serious. No apologies for that, but here's something for a different kind of mood to wind down your week/up your weekend!I wanted to include the video of Miriam ...more |
2009-10-08
Why it needs to be 'for everyone'?
| Just because I like it and want to share it, here’s another quote from Gilles Deleuze’s essay ‘Desert Islands’. I suppose you might say art where he says literature.‘The essence of the deserted isl...more |
2009-10-07
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