How to grow disability arts audiences
In early December I helped with the first event of Europe Beyond Access - a 4-year Creative Europe programme led but the British...
Together round the table
15.01.2018
Access, Audience development, Co-creation, Customer relationships, Engagement, Families, Galleries, Museums, Participation
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I love this. The (outgoing) Director of Middlesborough Institute of Art – aka MIMA –set up a free community meal in the gallery...
Over-intellectualising
14.09.2017
Access, Art, Audience development, Communications, Education, Engagement, Museums, Reviews
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I loved the Fundação de Serralves in Porto on a visit this summer. A variety of contrasting exhibitions, beautifully-lit spaces, peaceful with just...
Test, risk, change – Circuit Conference
13.03.2017
Advocacy, Audience development, Co-creation, Collaboration, Diversity, Galleries, Participation, Young people
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Our conference last Friday to mark the formal end of the four-year Circuit project was one of the most energetic, urgent and exciting conferences...
Books where they’re wanted
How's this for a nifty and humorous way of getting people reading - at a time when libraries are closing or having shorter...
#Museums2016
Heading home from Museums Association conference #Museums2016 in wonderful Glasgow. Many interesting provocations about whose voices are/ aren’t heard; the role of museums...
Marketing for youth recruitment
23.02.2016
Audience development, Audiences, Co-creation, Collaboration, Customer relationships, Digital, Diversity, Engagement, Evaluation, Galleries, Marketing, Organisational change, Participation, Research, Segmentation, Social media, Training, Young people
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Circuit is a four-year national programme connecting 15-25 year olds to the arts in galleries and museums working in partnership with the youth...
Circuit – what we learned so far
09.02.2016
Audience development, Customer relationships, Evaluation, Organisational change, Participation, Young people
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At the Circuit national sharing event in December, staff and young people from the galleries involved around the country came together to share and discuss...
July 2015 News
July means it’s AMA Conference time, so I’m off to Birmingham to meet up with all those inspiring colleagues – many of whom will be...
Making pop-ups work
The Museums Journal in March had a feature on pop-up exhibitions that let museums take themselves out into the heart of the community. May Redfern...