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Five successful applicants in Yorkshire for innovative digital arts service revealed

Arts Council

22 Feb 2012

• pioneering Arts Council service, developed in partnership with the BBC, to launch on 1 May 2012

• 53 original commissions – reflecting an extraordinary Summer of Arts 2012

• arts and cultural organisations at the centre of a creative revolution

• license to experiment and trail-blaze new formats

• major contributions from BBC, Arts Council and the BFI (British Film Institute) archives

• available across all four key digital media platforms – PCs, Smartphones, Tablets and Connected TVs

• Five projects in Yorkshire: Eclipse Theatre; Fabric; Leeds Canvas; Pilot Theatre; Sheffield Doc/fest

Arts Council England and Local Government Association announce successful Libraries Development Init

Arts Council

13 Feb 2012

Arts Council England and the Local Government Association have today (Monday 13 February) awarded £230,000 to fund 13 library projects (see Notes to Editors) through the Libraries Development Initiative (LDI).

Arts Council England announces Renaissance Major partner museums and details of the museum developme

Arts Council

24 Jan 2012

Arts Council England has today (Tuesday 24 January 2012) announced the 16 Major partner museums who will together receive approximately £20 million a year in funding for the next three years (April 2012 – March 2015) as part of its Renaissance programme for regional museums.

Arts Council England opens applications for Renaissance funding of regional museums

Arts Council

13 Sep 2011

Culture, knowledge and understanding: great museums and libraries for everyone – a new strategic framework published

Artist from Yorkshire awarded commission for final round of Cultural Olympiad programme Unlimited

Arts Council

04 Aug 2011

The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Arts Council England, the UK Arts Councils and the British Council have today awarded funding to Jez Colborne and Mind the Gap in Bradford in the final round of Unlimited Commissions, the ground-breaking Cultural Olympiad programme that celebrates arts and culture by disabled and deaf artists on an unprecedented scale.