Culture Forum to be elected
Culture Forum set up by Arts & Business and NCA to lead dialogue on funding cuts and private sector funding
Arts & Business and National Campaign for the Arts have created the Culture Forum, in response to the Chancellor's call for dialogue on the government's funding cuts and to "reanimate private sector cultural funding".
"Arts & Business with the NCA are immediately responding to the Chancellor by creating a dialogue with our combined arts memberships of over 1,650 cultural bodies, to identify the impact of where cuts might fall, where growth can come and how we can build our collective cultural capacity for the future," Colin Tweedy, chief executive of Arts & Business says.
"The forum will be the independent voice for the arts focusing on the immediate needs of the arts and the role of the private sector in helping to deliver those needs," Louise de Winter, Director of the NCA says.
The forum will be elected from a combined cultural membership of over 1,650 members, who will vote for representatives to serve, initially for a year on a consultative task force, of up to 20 members. The forum will begin by focusing on England.
Arts & Business and the NCA will open the call for candidates for the week starting 17 June.
The vote by arts members will be at the beginning of July and the first dialogue of the elected representatives will take place before the end of July.
For more info, go to:
www.artsandbusiness.org.uk
and:
www.artscampaign.org.uk
Date posted: 15th June 2010