MONEY ENCOURAGEMENT INVOLVEMENT
If you're still a student, you may feel that arts funding is a step ahead of where you're currently at. But in this modern age, we all need to know how and where to access funding, in the future if not today. So this is really worth reading.
CREATIVE SCOTLAND
Creative Scotland's February Newsletter might provide you with food for thought, sparking off ideas for similar or even radically different projects that might attract funding. There is truly so much going on that you may not even be aware of. Exciting times.
Read it here.
Meanwhile, one of the news items is directly relevant to our students:- 'Volunteers aged 14-23 sought to join the National Youth Arts Advisory Group.' Click the link above, to see what that's about. Wouldn't it be great to have some of our creative community involved?
Whittaker noted this on the PRS for Music Foundation website - significant funding for emerging artists:-
"Momentum Music Fund
Momentum offers grants of £5k-£15k for artists and bands to break through to the next level of their career.
To find out if you, your band, or an act you represent, could be
eligible for funding from Momentum read through the information below.
You can also find links to the online application process.THE NEXT APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 24TH JANUARY 2014."
And here's the link - click here
Since 2005, there has been a BRILLIANT (no exaggeration) initiative bringing pop music to young people in public libraries around Britain. It won awards, and rightly so.
Gigs were arranged, and teens/young adults flocked to hear them. A disenfranchised group discovered that libraries were cool, and great places to borrow CDs and sheet music.
Now Lancashire Libraries has cut the funding. Shame! Read more ...
http://www.emusicscotland.co.uk/
"Enterprise Music Scotland is the body funded by Creative Scotland to support top quality live chamber music concerts. By providing centralised services and ongoing funding and support, EMS enables over 450 concerts per year to take place." Find out more.
Why not save it to your Diigo list? I'm saving it to mine!
Students researching in the humanities will already know about the AHRC. But how much do you know about the bigger picture?
Aiming for a research career? You need to be able to 'talk the talk' about the bigger issues. And what better place to start?
News from JISC - an award to the University of Oxford for integrating ballad materials:-
Integrated Broadside Ballads Archive, Alexandra Franklin, University of Oxford, £145,244
•The University of Oxford will integrate existing resources for the study of the English folk song and printed ballad tradition. Resources to be clustered are: a corpus of nearly 30,000 ballads, many of them unique survivals, printed between the 16th and 20th centuries, in Bodleian Library collections; nearly 5,000 largely pre-1700 ballads from the University of California’s online resource; and the Roud Broadside and Folk Tune Indexes, comprehensive indexes of the song tradition and references to songs, based at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
