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Sep 23, 2024 | artsprofessional.co.uk | Jasleen Kaur

UP Projects is the UK's leading public art organisation specialising in socially engaged practice and community engagement. I founded the organisation in 2002 and over the past two decades we have worked with over a hundred artists to realise ambitious projects in public contexts. At the beginning, my goal was to bring world class art out of galleries and into the public realm. But over the years this has evolved to involving communities directly in the process of creating public artworks.

Sep 18, 2024 | artsprofessional.co.uk | Kate Prince

ZooNation has announced that from 2025 the dance organisation’s youth company - ZYC - will be led jointly by founder and Artistic Director KATE PRINCE and Associate Artistic Director DANNIELLE LECOINTE. Previously, ZYC's artistic leadership changed with each new cohort of students. Prince, who founded the company in 2002, is a noted choreographer, director and writer. She is an Associate Artist at the Old Vic and at Sadler’s Wells where ZooNation is a resident company.

Aug 19, 2024 | artsprofessional.co.uk | Iain Munro

Creative Scotland is closing its Open Fund for Individuals to new applicants due to concerns that the Scottish government cannot confirm over £6m of previously-pledged support. The £5m annual fund aims to support creative activity, including projects, productions or periods of research and development for up to 24 months, with grants ranging from £500 to £100k. It will close to new applications from the end of this month.

Jul 10, 2024 | artsprofessional.co.uk

The Space has convened an Accessibility Working Group to support the sector to work in more inclusive and accessible ways. One of its first outputs has been to provide a pool of knowledge on best practice in digital accessibility, as Harmeet Chagger-Khan explains.

Jul 9, 2024 | artsprofessional.co.uk | Andy Field

Textbook is an ongoing art project that considers alternative perspectives on school. It began with a collaboration in 2021 between 10 teachers, Heart of Glass and artist and educator, Sarah Bailey. Planning took place in the messy middle of Covid restrictions. In the media, schools were spoken about in alarmingly impersonal terms such as ‘vectors for infection’ and ‘lost learning’. We seemed to forget that austerity had already been present in our classrooms.