NCA Chair, Samuel West, set up poetry-reading initiative – PANDEMIC POEMS – just ahead of the official UK Coronavirus lock-down. The poems provide a much needed sense of perspective, reflection, and some hope in a time of uncertainty and grief.
The efforts of arts organisations to embrace digital performances and online sharing has been awe-inspiring. Particularly awe-inspiring for us at the NCA was how the National Student Drama Festival innovated all of its plans for their 2020 festival into a festival that could be entirely accessible online. NSDF’s Director, James Phillips, tells us of the challenges and successes of this unique year for NSDF.
Last month, Hackney Council’s Petra Roberts picked up the Hearts for the Arts Award for the Windrush Generations Festival, which won the award for Best Arts Project – Community Cohesion. As Cultural Development Manager at Hackney Council, Petra led the Windrush Programme and here she tells about the Festival in more detail; about its inspiring intergenerational approach and why storytelling is everything:
Having just announced this year’s Hearts for the Arts Award Winners on Friday, we got to thinking and hoping that the impact of the awards stretches further than Valentine’s Day. So we asked 2 of our recent winners about what they’ve been up to since winning their awards.
With nominations for Hearts for the Arts Awards opening on Friday 20th November, here’s a reminder of the winners announcement in February this year.
The shortlist has been announced for the National Campaign for the Arts’ (NCA) Hearts For The Arts Awards 2020.
Are your candidates #forthearts? Other topics are being drowned out by the B word, during this General Election. Let’s remind the candidates and parties how important the arts are to us.
In the countdown to the UK General Election, the arts are being drowned out by the B word. We want to push it up the agenda. So we’ll be publishing lists of ground-breaking arts events to remind everyone about the power of culture to transform lives and maintain a healthy, balanced nation.
Nominations are now open for our 2020 Hearts for the Arts Awards. Our trustee, Julia Payne, explains why everyone should get involved and how easy it is to nominate someone.
We were invited to attend the launch of a new book ‘Smashing It: Working Class Artists On Life Art And Making It Happen’. Our Exec Chair Michael Smith went along and tells us what he made of the evening (and the book).
Our Chair, Samuel West, has sent an open letter to Boris Johnson, urging the profound importance of the Arts in the UK.
Our Chair Samuel West was invited to speak on the BBC’s Countryfile last month (available on iPlayer till 23/7/19) about the positive effects of the
Overwhelmed by a recent performance by 1000 children at the Albert Hall, our chair Samuel West answers one of the first questions in the armoury of the arts defender: “Do we want our children to have this?”
Our Chair, actor and director Samuel West recently wrote an article for The Stage about casting, auditions and the advent of the self tape. He was inspired to
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Hearts for the Arts Awards, recognising the UK’s unsung local heroes of community arts.