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COVID-19 Impact
Youth Arts Fund 2021 Evaluation
BOP Consulting, commissioned by Creative Scotland, February 2023
In August 2020, the Scottish Government announced that the culture and heritage sectors in Scotland would benefit from a £59 million funding package to protect jobs and help the industry weather the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of this, the Youth Arts Fund was created as an emergency response to support the youth arts sector.
This evaluation looked both at the fund’s set-up as well as its impact on participants and the sector, and centred on collaboration with three self-nominated participant cohorts across the evaluation period. These provided feedback to the evaluation framework and approach; contributed to the creation of eight in-depth case studies and fed back on the administration of the fund.
Arts Council of Northern Ireland: Covid Recovery programmes evaluation
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, February 2023
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has published survey-based evaluations of the impact of its two Covid Recovery Programmes, co-designed with the Department for Communities to help the creative sector re-establish itself following the relaxation of coronavirus pandemic restrictions in 2021.
The main aim of the Creative Individuals Recovery Programme, which opened for applications in September 2021, was to help individuals working in the creative economy to reactivate or maintain their trade, profession or vocation. The main aim of the Covid Recovery Programme for Arts Organisations, which opened in January 2022, was to reduce operating deficits in eligible organisations which had arisen in the 2021/22 financial year due to the pandemic.
Weathering the cost-of-living storm across the UK
The Audience Agency, December 2022
The last six months have seen audiences returning to our venues and sites in a steady flow. But, just as hard-pressed organisations are getting back on track, Audience Agency research shows the cost-of-living crisis is likely to have the feared impact on audiences and how much they spend, compounding the budget squeeze on fuel bills and other overheads. And of course, it will also affect the well-being of our communities.
Key Changing Audiences for Art Forms (YouTube)
The Audience Agency, January 2023
This YouTube seminar also presents recent key findings and emerging knowledge from the Audience Agency team regarding key changing audiences for art forms. First Covid, then the cost-of-living crisis: these events have shaken up the picture of not only how many people attend, but also who. Some groups are as ready to go out to arts and culture as ever; other are much less likely than they were. We look at who is responding which way and how changing attendance patterns vary for different art forms.
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Creative Industries
At risk: our creative future
House of Lords: Communications and Digital Committee, January 2023
The House of Lords Communications Committee warns that Government complacency risks undermining the UK’s creative industries in the face of increased international competition and rapid technological change.
In this report the Committee notes that the UK’s creative industries should sit at the heart of the UK’s economic growth plans. But the Committee sounds the alarm over missed opportunities and a failure among senior Government figures to recognise the sector’s commercial potential.
Understanding Createch R&D
Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, Dr Josh Siepel, Hasan Bakhshi, Dr Martha Bloom, Dr Jorge Velez Ospina, December 2022
Createch is a term that has been used broadly to characterise the role of technology-driven innovation in the creative industries.
This report aims to propose a practicable definition of ‘createch’ business for researchers and policymakers that is easily implemented and scalable, and to understand the differences in R&D investments, activities and practices between createch and other technology firms
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Cross sector
Arts in Education
Research Scotland, commissioned by Creative Scotland, December 2022
This short report sets out findings from a review of Creative Scotland supported research into arts and creativity in schools and education in Scotland. The review focused on three main publications:
The report also considers findings from the National Partnership for Culture independent report, which included education and learning as one of the first four priority areas considered by the Partnership. There is clear evidence from the three reports that arts and creativity can:
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support cross curricular learning – enabling in-depth exploration of topics, and building literacy skills through arts and creativity activities
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develop skills around critical thinking, creative thinking, communication, problem solving, group work, resilience, curiosity and inquisitiveness – which are important across all areas of learning and build skills across the curriculum through the arts
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support health and wellbeing, emotional literacy, expression and inclusion
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contribute to skills for employability
Digital Impact in Museums & Galleries
One Further and Cultural Associates Oxford, commissioned by Art Fund and the Museums Association (MA), December 2022
In 2020, for the first time in living memory, cultural attractions across the world shut their doors. This called into question what a museum or gallery is to people, if it cannot be accessed in the physical space, and cultural institutions were compelled to pivot their public engagement almost exclusively to digital.
Art Fund and the Museums Association commissioned this research to help museums better understand and assess the purpose and impact of digital work - to build our understanding, and that of other funders, of how best to direct future investment in digital capacity building. This report briefly summarises the findings of the investigation we commissioned from One Further and Cultural Associates Oxford.
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Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion
Disability Access Card Scheme Research
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, February 2023
This report presents new research into the potential introduction to Northern Ireland of a UK-wide Access Scheme for disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent audiences members buying tickets for creative and cultural events and venues. Key findings include:
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81% of potential users would be in favour of an Access Card Scheme which is eligible across all participating venues.
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65% of respondents, including potential users, event organisers and venues, would prefer to see the card scheme provided free of charge.
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Venues and event organisers expressed a positive view of an Access Card.
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Key issues to be addressed include data protection, compatibility of venues’ booking systems, and the recognition that not all venues are able to provide the same level of access and support due to limitations with older premises.
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Fair Work
Freelance Report | Literature Alliance Scotland | Caidreabhas Litreachais Alba
Ruthless Research, commissioned by Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS), February 2023
Scotland’s largest literary network has launched a research report on the worrying state of the literary freelance workforce in Scotland that is sending them to a financial precipice, and highlights a complex and challenging picture that is reflected across Scotland’s creative industries.
LAS is urging arts organisations that engage freelance writers, editors, event organisers and arts administrators, proof readers, educators, publishers and programmers to value them better by offering fair and fast pay and fair working practices - or risk losing them from the sector completely.
UK Authors' Earnings and Contracts 2022
CREATe, commissioned by UK Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, Dec 2022
CREATe has released a study of UK Authors’ Earnings and Contracts based on a large-scale survey of 60,000 authors conducted in 2022. The survey is the latest in a series of longitudinal, comparative surveys since 2006 and raises serious questions about the sustainability of the writing profession in the UK with an increasingly unliveable wage as incomes consistently decline. This appears to form part of a wider trend of de-valuing creative labour both in the UK and across the globe.
The report also finds that writing is far from an equal opportunity profession. There are substantial inequalities between those who are being adequately rewarded for their writing, and those who are not. Women, people of colour, the very young, and the very old, are all consistently earning less than their respective counterparts. This raises important questions about whether we are stifling our creative culture by disincentivising a broad and diverse group of writers from participating in this market.
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Health and Wellbeing
Brainstorming Report ‘Youth, Mental Health and Culture’
Voices of Culture, Goethe-Institut, Brussels, funded by the European Union, January 2023
The focus of this research was on one of the most pressing issues of our time: Youth Mental Health. How can arts and culture address the multiple expressions of troubled young minds when facing the crises of our time? The objective was to gather and discuss the evidence and come up with recommendations for stronger participation of the arts and culture sector in public health in Europe.
Written in an accessible and inclusive language, this document is aimed at both cultural practitioners on a local level, with concrete tips and practices but also provides people in policy making positions with useful tools for their work.
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Music
Music Venue Trust Annual Report 2022
Music Venue Trust, January 2023
A survey of the 960 members of the Music Venue Alliance (MVA) found that there has been a decline of 16.7% from 2019 as venues were forced to make significant cutbacks to continue operating solvently. This decrease saw the number of events staged per week in individual venues fall from 4.2 in 2019 to just 3.5 in 2022 with only 1.97 of those identified as ticketed live music shows.
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Sustainable Development
Place-based creative practices | Creative Carbon Scotland
Creative Carbon Scotland, CreaTures, November 2022
The aim of this research is to understand how place-based cultural practitioners and organisations can progress sustainability outcomes and act as agents of change in their communities. The research focused on the Scottish context, however there are many other examples that could be drawn on globally.
The report includes an overview of place policy and a scan of current cultural organisations engaged in place-making in Scotland. It also offers more detailed case studies of three platforms and organisations working in different contexts across Scotland, and identifies themes and lessons learned which are common to them.
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Screen
Mental Health in the Film and TV Industry Three years on
Film and TV Charity, 16 February 2023
Looking Glass ’22 is the third wave survey, after the groundbreaking 2019 Looking Glass Report and the 2021 follow-up survey, the results of which were published in early 2022. This edition from 2022 adds to the growing body of Looking Glass findings and is beginning to build a longitudinal picture of change. The improvements are small – but they are at least heading in the right direction.
Fiction film financing in Europe: A sample analysis of films released in 2020
European Audio Visual Observatory, 9 February 2023
This report aims at providing figures on how European theatrical fiction films are being financed. Based on the actual budget analysis of 482 European live-action fiction films released / scheduled for in 2020, this is probably the largest pan-European data sample available to date on the financing of European fiction films for this year.
BFI Statistical Release 2022 (Full Year): Box Office, Certification and Production
BFI, 2nd February 2023
Full statistics release for production, tax relief certification and box office figures for 2022 from the BFI Research and Statistics Unit.
Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After [OPEN ACCESS]
Marijke de Valck, and Antoine Damiens, January 2023
This edited collection book aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can’t happen.
Made outside London TV programming
Ofcom, 30th January 2023
Every year Ofcom publishes a list of the programmes produced by the PSBs outside the M25, and criteria against which each programme qualifies as made outside London.
Audiovisual media services in Europe - 2022 edition
European Audio Visual Observatory, January 2023
This publication offers insights into the European audiovisual sector from two perspectives. The first focuses on the supply of audiovisual media services in Europe, presenting figures for television, ondemand services and video-sharing platforms available in and originating from the European market. The second perspective looks at the main players operating in Europe with a specific focus on the top 50 and top 10 TV groups and those for on-demand services.
Viewing is narrowing: Bigger shows, fewer hits
Enders Analysis, 16th January 2023 (PAYWALL)
Structural shifts in the delivery of video are causing long-form viewing to coalesce around fewer programmes—this comes despite an explosion in the volume, spend and perceptual accessibility of content.
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