by Claudia Spencer | May 9, 2018 | Uncategorised
Musical Borrowing: Sources of Creativity A Training Day for Composers In conjunction with the Claude Debussy in 2018: a Centenary Celebration Conference at the Royal Northern College of Music, I was involved in organising an RMA (Royal Musical Association) Training...
by Carole Arrowsmith | Jun 1, 2017 | Uncategorised
This post is the first in a series by DevoCulture in the North PGR Policy Correspondents. DevoCulture in the North aims to provide a critical space for civic, cultural and academic partners. It allows them to discuss plans and ambitions for arts and culture in times...
by Carole Arrowsmith | Mar 23, 2017 | Uncategorised
26th-30th June 2017 at the Sidney Nolan Trust, Powys Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council, North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership. Practice-based research is a growing methodology within arts and humanities. It is though relatively young and...
by Carole Arrowsmith | Mar 1, 2017 | Uncategorised
Some immediately spring to mind: Beyonce & Jay Z, Tosh & Marley, Kahlo & Rivera, McFadden & Whitehead, Westwood and McClaren, Laurel & Hardy… I love hooking up with other artists to try things. The effort of mutual attunement. The challenge that...
by Carole Arrowsmith | Jan 25, 2017 | Uncategorised
The poet, Coleridge was famously interrupted as he was writing his brilliant work, Kubla Khan. He said he dreamt the entire poem (some reaearchers say possibly under the influence of opium!) then sat down to write it. He was halfway through when someone knocked on...
by nwcdtp-admin | Jul 11, 2016 | Uncategorised
Blog post by Frances Williams, PGR policy correspondent for the Art of Devolution Conference. Director of the Whitworth, Maria Balshaw, began her keynote speech at the conference, The Art of Devolution: Culture and the North, by quoting at length from an editorial in...
