Brief update on funding stuff.
The Lottery Recordings and Publications scheme
i flagged up earlier in the summer is now going ahead.
No dates announced as yet - but it is imminent
to come on-line. Budget ceiling has been fixed and
small orgs might well find it tough on the battle
-tables. No reason not to bid.
If you've been in existence for 2 years or more and have
an out program that doesn't pour too much unreconstructed
scorn on marketing and public money then get on down.
First port of call would be your RAB (likely to have
massively enhanced powers in the forthcoming Arts shakeups
and shakedowns over the next 3-5 years) but talk to either
Gary McKeown in ACE Literature or Combined Arts if your
program really just beyond the moulded lit boundaries
into performance writing and on.
Watch out for NESTA (Chris Smith's new National Endowment
for Sports Technology and the Arts) - People's Lottery
Chapter 6 for those who follow such blurbs. It's promising.
Just because, as with the Mistress trix Sweeney can administer
net-wise from Chad Valley that this is not something to
get involved with - in particular 'young artists with talent'.
New Labour has some pretty unpalateable babble ' creating a
virtuous hub' for example. But the grounds are, as John rightly
emphasises, there to be contested.
best of luck
love and love
cris
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