The Manifesto is a call to action to young people, parents, teachers and theatre practitioners to unify their efforts and ensure that young people have access to drama and theatre.

On Tuesday, Business Secretary Vince Cable, Foreign Secretary William Hague and Trade and Investment Minister Lord Green launched a new five-year strategy for UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), alongside the Foreign and Commonwealth’s new Charter.

The Social Enterprise Coalition published research into people’s preferences for public service provision, illustrating a marked preference for community based social enterprises.

Museums at Night is an annual event aimed at raising the profile of the UK’s museums sector.

Following the Henley Review into Music Education, Darren Henley has been asked by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to conduct a second review, this time into the provision of cultural education for 5-19 year olds.

The summer edition of nca news will be published in June. This edition will look at the impact of the Arts Council England National Portfolio announcements for the sector.

The Drama and Theatre Manifesto recognizes a common sense of purpose and a shared belief in the contribution drama and theatre makes to the quality of children’s lives in school and beyond.

The Manifesto has been endorsed by these organisations and associations:

Action for Children’s’ Arts (ACA), Equity,   National Association of Teachers of Drama (NATD), National Association of Youth Theatres (NAYT), National Council for Drama Training (NCDT), National Drama (ND), National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA), Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Theatre Education Forum (TEF), Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) England

If you are an Organisation, you can send the manifesto on to your members and invite them to incorporate it into their practice and policy and to disseminate it to their students, participants and colleagues.  .

The Manifesto is a call to action to young people, parents, teachers and theatre practitioners to unify their efforts and ensure that young people have access to drama and theatre.

The sense of unity within the sector that the Manifesto represents is only the first step to its usefulness as an effective tool for drawing support and funding to the sector. At a time of cuts, we need to be able to advocate with clarity the successes achieved by the sector as a whole and be able to evidence why our community is of such vital importance to the UK’s cultural, educational and economic life and to the lives of individual children and young people who see or make theatre and drama

Download a copy of the Drama and Theatre Manifesto here

Visit www.dramatheatremanifesto.co.uk for more information

Today bought further announcements on the Red Tape Challenge from DCMS, this time to the hospitality and tourism sectors. Over the next four weeks, between the 6th May and the 20th May, businesses, communities and individuals will have the chance to share their views with Government on the various regulations relating to hospitality, food and drink services. Ministers will then have 3 months in which they must justify which regulations they wish to keep.

The Red Tape Challenge is also inviting views on the current Licensing Act, which deals specifically with the sale and supply of alcohol and live performances.

The consultation opens today and closes on the 20th May 2011 to take part click here

For more information on the Red Tape Challenge visit the website here

To read the DCMS press release on the announcement click here

 

It seems apt that during the month in which we respond to Darren Henley’s review into cultural education that on Tuesday the Guardian launched the Children’s Manifesto. The manifesto comes as a result of a recent during which the Guardian asked children across the country about what type of school they would like. Areas of particular interest within the manifesto included a call for creative and colourful learning environments as well as the need for greater flexibility within the school day for favoured subjects, pupils also emphasised the importance of cultural experiences, food and music.

To read the Children’s Manifesto in full please click here

To read more about the Guardian The school I’d like series click here

 

Following the Henley Review into Music Education, Darren Henley has been asked by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to conduct a second review, this time into the provision of cultural education for 5-19 year olds. The review will be seeking evidence from teachers, parents and pupils, alongside input from those working in cultural education, whether individually or part of an organisation.

 

For details of how to respond to the cultural education review click here.

 

The NCA will be responding to the consultation and would like members to share their views with us. Please send your comments to: campaigns@artscampaign.org.uk no later than NOON on Thursday 12th May 2011

The Migration Advisory Committee has launched its first full review of the UK labour market for highly skilled workers since 2008. The MAC welcomes evidence to support the following question

“In which occupation(s) or job title(s) skilled to National Qualifications Framework level 4 or above is there a shortage of labour that it would be sensible to fill using labour from outside the European Economic Area (EEA)”

The MAC will potentially recommend occupations and job titles are added to, and removed from, the Tier 2 shortage occupation list. For details of how to respond to this review click here

The deadline for submissions to MAC is 10th June 2011

The NCA will also be responding to the review and invites members to share their views. Please send your comments to campaigns@artscampaign.org.uk by noon on Wednesday 1st June 2011 

 

The summer edition of nca news will be published in June. This edition will look at the impact of the Arts Council England National Portfolio announcements for the sector.

This is an excellent opportunity to have your image seen by both the NCA’s network of members and our contacts in government and the press.

If you have any suitable images that you would like to be considered then please email them to editor@artscampaign.org.uk.

Very large files can be sent on CD marked nca news to our address as below. Images will be credited on the contents page of the magazine.  

Images must:

 

Be free for the use of the NCA in publications and online (free of charge and free of any permissions or restrictions that would prevent this) Include appropriate credits for featured artists and photographers Be in jpeg, tiff, pdf or bmp format Be at least 216mm wide x 303mm deep (portrait format) Be at least 300dpi

The deadline for receipt of images for the front cover is NOON Friday 17th  June.

 

nca News Spring cover image

And finally…a humble apology from the NCA regarding the last edition of nca news, where we mistakenly omitted to fully credit the artist for our fantastic cover image last month. So without further ado, we would like to credit the image ‘Lucienne Cole, Party Piece, 2010. Documentation of performance at New Art Gallery Walsall. Courtesy of the artist and Axis www.axisweb.org/artist/lucienne-cole   Photo Credit; Chris Keenan 

AXA, in association with Arts Council England, have recently launched the Ambition AXA Awards, making available £200,000 to 5 talented 11-18 year olds in the UK.

Vote now to see your favourite museum make it through to the last round of the Art Fund Prize, which will see one institution crowned “Museum of the Year” and awarded £100,000.

Following the Henley Review into Music Education, Darren Henley has been asked by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to conduct a second review, this time into the provision of cultural education for 5-19 year olds.

The Migration Advisory Committee has launched its first full review of the UK labour market for highly skilled workers since 2008.

 The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) recently published a report into the proposed role for the Big Society Bank.

The summer edition of nca news will be published in June. This edition will look at the impact of the Arts Council England National Portfolio announcements for the sector. 

Recent evidence submitted by CLG to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee lays out plans for a new regeneration toolkit aimed at supporting local and national growth.