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Pop Up People Report Launch

What makes somebody one of the pop up people? The Empty Shops Network has been looking at the people behind pop up events across the UK and have produced a report, Pop Up People.
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Notes from Northern Network Meeting

NFASP has begun a programme to set up studio networks across the UK, bringing artists' studio providers together to share intelligence and offer each other support. On 05 December 2011 the first Northern Network meeting convened in Leeds. What follows are notes of that meeting.
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NFASP Responds to the Olympic Legacy SPG

NFASP has submitted a lengthy and detailed response to the Olympic Legacy Supplementary Planning Guidance (OLSPG), making the case for distinguishing between the proposed commercially developed creative workspaces and the affordable artists' studios sector.
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NFASP joins arts organisations to criticise the National Planning Policy Framework

NPPF must not be silent on culture said 20 major arts organisations in a letter published in the Sunday Telegraph today (02.10.2011)
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Culture and Arts Endorsed by CLG Select Committee' Inquiry

The Theatre's Trust has just published their response to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee's report, following the inquiry into the draft National Planning Policy Framework. NFASP joined many others to contribute responses to the draft.
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Events

LABOUR: a live exhibition of performances by Northern & Southern Irish female artists

LABOUR is a touring exhibition of Live Art,
featuring eleven leading female artists who
are resident within, or native to, Northern
and Southern Ireland.
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Grand Union, Torsten Lauschman, Growing Zeros

Torsten Lauschman: Before The Revolution

Grand Union is proud to present an exhibition of work by Glasgow based artist Torsten Lauschman.
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Symposium on Emerging Practice, Tramway

A cross art form symposium bringing together New Work Scotland Programme (NWSP) 2011 and Tramway’s New Work Season.
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Jobs and opportunities

Studio Space at Phoenix Brighton

Phoenix Brighton runs a gallery, an education programme, residencies, events, and over 100 artists’ studios all under one roof. We are keen for artists working in all disciplines to have the opportunity to become studio holders at Phoenix Brighton.
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Kingsgate Emerging Artist Residency

Kingsgate Workshops Trust is inviting applications for its Emerging Artists Residency 2012.
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Call for entries: The John Ruskin Prize 2012 for a New Look at Nature

The Campaign for Drawing, in collaboration with the Guild of St George, announces a new art award: The John Ruskin Prize. The award is open to everyone over 18 working in painting, drawing, printmaking or mixed media, and resident or domiciled in the UK.
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Investing in Creative Communities. The Provision of Affordable Artists' Studios: a Role for Spatial Planning Read More about new guidance 


Finding the Right Premises, NFASP Guidance 2011

This NFASP guidance is designed to help artists' studio groups to identify the right building for their need and covers a range of topics and questions to make the process of selection easier. Read More....

 

Developing artists' studios in a housing market renewal area

Manor Oaks Studio: Yorkshire Artspace has created affordable artists' studios in South Sheffield through an innovative partnership with Sheffield City Council and Arts Council England. Read more......

 

Developing an artists' studio website: Value Added Online, NFASP Guidance 2010

This Guidance Note was created in response to two events jointly organised by NFASP and Axis for artists’ studio groups and organisations. Read More......

 

Read more on the Equality Act 2010 in relation to inclusive access for artists' studio providers


 

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