The Get Creative Family Arts Festival will run throughout October 2016, marking the fourth year of this hugely successful national initiative funded by Arts Council England. On 30th March this year’s Festival will be officially launched at the Family Arts Awards event held at The Albany in Deptford, London.
Read MoreCreative Future has just completed Arts Council funded research into the barriers marginalised and disabled artists face when accessing mainstream arts opportunities.
Read MoreNow in its fourth year, the Family Arts Campaign has released an extremely positive independent evaluation of its initial three years following the third successful national Family Arts Festival.
Read MoreBetween January and April 2016 there are further Essential Fundraising Skills training courses taking place across England. Courses cost £95 but there are preferential rates available to CVAN members.
Read MoreIt takes just ten minutes to upload a listing and benefit from the Get Creative Family Arts Festival’s largescale marketing and press campaign, which is targeted at family audiences nation-wide and is run by a professional PR team. Journalists will now be directing families to event listings on the Festival website this half-term.
Read MoreRetreat 1 is an intensive professional development programme specifically designed for arts marketers working at senior marketing officer/new manager level (or equivalent).
Read MoreSpecifically designed for senior marketers working in English arts and cultural organisations with a good to high level of marketing experience, this programme will fast track your digital marketing knowledge to help you, and your organisation, have more impact and deepen engagement with audiences.
Read MoreThe Get Creative Family Arts Festival, an initiative of the Family Arts Campaign, for which CVAN is a partner organisation, takes place this October 2016. The Festival is a national initiative promoting thousands of arts events for families, and is an entirely free marketing opportunity for arts organisations.
Read MoreNew research from the Audience Finder National Visual Arts cluster has shown that galleries play a significant role in the visitor economy, with one in three visitors specifically planning their trip to visit a particular gallery.
Read MoreOn Thursday 30 July at The Tetley, Leeds, Picture This will share the findings from the National Visual Arts cluster of the Arts Council England funded Audience Finder programme. The event is free but places are limited, so early booking is advisable.
This month CVAN will be meeting with Audience Agency and ACE to discuss the first year findings from the Audience Finder Programme.
Read MoreAudience Finder is a national programme funded by Arts Council England and delivered by The Audience Agency enabling arts organisations to collect, understand and use audience data.
Read MoreBlaze and Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West (CVAN NW) are looking to contract an expert in Podcasting to support a group of young people to podcast their responses to artwork displayed in three special exhibitions.
Read MoreHere's the latest update from Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy on their March offers; remember that CVAN members receive discounted rates through our partnership.
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The Family Arts Campaign aims to support organisations, networks and hubs across the UK and across the visual and performing arts in providing high-quality activities for families and in growing and broadening the number of families taking part in the arts.
From Monday 12th January the Family Arts Campaign, working with the Family and Childcare Trust, is asking workers in the arts to complete the UK’s first national on-line survey focusing on the family-friendliness of the arts sector as employers.
Read MoreCVAN has joined the Family Arts Campaign Consortia – a large scale, national collaborative programme led by the visual and performing arts sectors to increase levels of art engagement by families. The second national Family Arts Festival began on 17th October and continues through half-term until 2nd November.
Read MoreThe 2014 engage International Conference will be held in Leeds in November, and explore the broad and inspiring theme of innovation in the context of education and learning in galleries, museums and the visual arts.
Read MoreA report by the AHRC says that arts and cultural organisations don't always realise the positive knock-on effects their work can have on health and wellbeing in their communities.
Read MoreAn interview with Sarah Boiling from the Audience Agency about how the Audience Finder project aims to help the visual arts sector to maximise the value of audience data.
Read MoreThe Contemporary Visual Arts Network’s ultimate goal is to nurture contemporary visual artists and organisations in order to produce internationally regarded, critically engaged work that is valued by our society.
