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Disabled-led arts organisations welcome funding, but Arts Council admits it must do more

By John Pring on 10th November 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disabled-led arts organisations welcome funding, but Arts Council admits it must do more
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Disabled-led arts organisations have welcomed millions of pounds in annual funding awarded by the Arts Council, although new figures suggest that progress in expanding investment may have stalled. Arts Council England (ACE) has awarded funding to 32 disabled-led organisations, with the […]

Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders

By John Pring on 5th September 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders
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Disabled-led organisations have secured funding of more than £750,000 to develop three separate programmes that will aim to produce more disabled leaders in the arts. All three of the programmes receiving funding from Arts Council England (ACE) are headed by disabled-led […]

Katherine Araniello: Tributes to ‘force of nature’ and ‘creative genius’

By John Pring on 28th February 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Katherine Araniello: Tributes to ‘force of nature’ and ‘creative genius’
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Disabled artists and activists are mourning the death of Katherine Araniello, a “force of nature” who leaves behind a “hugely significant” disability arts legacy. Araniello was a performance and video artist who used satire and subversive humour at the expense of […]

Disability arts misses out again, despite huge rise in diverse-led Arts Council funding

By John Pring on 29th June 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability arts misses out again, despite huge rise in diverse-led Arts Council funding
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Disability arts organisations have missed out on a huge increase in funding that has been handed to other diverse-led groups by Arts Council England (ACE). Although there has been a significant increase in the number of disability-led arts organisations that will […]

Arts Council funding is ‘vote of confidence’ in disability arts organisation

By John Pring on 11th August 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Arts Council funding is ‘vote of confidence’ in disability arts organisation
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The Arts Council has awarded hundreds of thousands of pounds to the disability arts movement in a bid to address the under-representation of disabled-led organisations among those receiving its funding. Arts Council England (ACE) announced this week that it was awarding […]

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