Posts Tagged ‘arts advocacy’
Influencing and advocating for your charity, arts or music organisation – part 2 decision science
Advocating for your cause following the Covid-19 pandemic using empathy, behaviour change and decision science – part 2.
Read MoreThe #Mymusicaljourney Twitter campaign
Last month I ran a short Twitter campaign called #mymusicaljourney. I wanted to demonstrate a way of getting interest on social media that perhaps we don’t use enough in the music education/music for wellbeing sectors. It was also an experiment, as I wanted to test what worked, and what I could learn and pass on.…
Read MoreKing’s College, London – editing work culture and creativity reports
We were asked to do some editing and rewriting work by King’s College, London on The Cultural Value Scoping Project report, the second report of The Cultural Value project. This was a significant piece of research supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The report needed to be easy to read for a wide audience of…
Read MoreFour first steps: Lobbying and advocacy for music and arts organisations
WHAT IS LOBBYING AND ADVOCACY? Advocacy in the political sense means creating awareness of an issue in order to influence public policy and funding decisions. The methods you use can be wide-ranging, from communications and media campaigns, to public speaking; from commissioning and publishing research to conducting polls. Lobbying is a type of advocacy that…
Read MoreFrom the band room to the boardroom …The 9 common lessons of music education that translate into success
A blog post that advocates music education from the perspective of business leaders. The author interviewed CEOs and business leaders about the correlation between music education and success. I shared this some time ago, but thought it would be timely to repost, as various campaigns for music and arts education pick up steam in the…
Read MoreArts advocacy – stepping up a gear?
It looks as if arts advocacy campaigning in the UK will be stepping up a gear this year. Not only are the funding cuts forcing us all to look long and hard at the true value of what we do, and to get even better at collecting and sharing evidence and stories – but a…
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