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ACE and British Council launch travel fund for artists

Posted on 17.02.12 | Categories: arts council, british council, state of the arts

Performers wishing to gain experience outside the UK will be able to apply for travel bursaries from a new £750,000 fund launching next month, Arts Council England has announced.

At ACE’s annual State of the Arts conference this week, chair Liz Forgan announced that it had teamed up with the British Council to create the Artists International Development Fund, which will support English artists to travel the world.

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Magda said 11 days later:
tnkahs for your comments. I am on the run to a meeting so I will be brief. Many of your points are well taken and thank you. I am well aware that copyright is a federal rather than provincial issue. I have been trying to get a discourse going in the BC arts community, at the BCAC and CC, as well as in the mainstream press, as well as specific arts lobbying groups re: the issue of BCAMP/EmbraceBC forcing artists to give up IP for their contracts in spite of the fact that in our case their funding came in at less than 5% of a project. No one wants to deal with this issue and I have heard reasons like yours before, i.e. it’s a minefield it’s a federal and/or legal issue. All these issues of artists’ funding, rights, IP, autonomy, etc. are minefields, all are tangled up and if artists don’t start dealing with them soon, it will be too late. It may already be too late because as the artist and academic Lisa Steele says by the time it gets to me, it will be too late. Well, it got to me when the Campbell government was first voted in, Campbell gave copyright and IP workshops to bureaucrats running granting programs, and BCAMP grants became contracts, went to a bidding/corporate process and IP was demanded by the government, regardless of the fact that all other funders, distributors, broadcasters, etc. stipulated that we own our own IP and industry sector/professional standards. Our tiny organization has already fought this battle legally, i.e. we got our pro bono lawyer involved when EmbraceBC posted one of the photos from one of our performances on their website without our permission or the permission of the youth participants’ parents depicted in the photo. The photo was eventually taken off the EmbraceBC web site once we mentioned the parents they did not give a fig about the fact that they violated our rights as adult artists and were willing to take us to court. Obviously we do not have the money to go to court. Many artists since then have signed contracts with EmbraceBC and clearly did not read the fine print. They have no idea that they gave up their IP or what this means. Sure issues need to be disentangled but unfortunately the BC government has tangled them up so what should we do? Sit idly by while this happens. Frankly and with all due respect to artists in this province, I am amazed at the lack of interest in this issue and/or action, as well as the fact that so many arts groups that have received EmbraceBC contracts may have their music, lyrics, photos, films, etc. exploited by the BC Liberals. It’s not just a legal issue or a federal issue, it’s an issue of policy and I think we need to speak up about it, tangled as it may be. Thanks for hearing me out. Debate is always satisfying with you, Keith.
Magda said 11 days later:
tnkahs for your comments. I am on the run to a meeting so I will be brief. Many of your points are well taken and thank you. I am well aware that copyright is a federal rather than provincial issue. I have been trying to get a discourse going in the BC arts community, at the BCAC and CC, as well as in the mainstream press, as well as specific arts lobbying groups re: the issue of BCAMP/EmbraceBC forcing artists to give up IP for their contracts in spite of the fact that in our case their funding came in at less than 5% of a project. No one wants to deal with this issue and I have heard reasons like yours before, i.e. it’s a minefield it’s a federal and/or legal issue. All these issues of artists’ funding, rights, IP, autonomy, etc. are minefields, all are tangled up and if artists don’t start dealing with them soon, it will be too late. It may already be too late because as the artist and academic Lisa Steele says by the time it gets to me, it will be too late. Well, it got to me when the Campbell government was first voted in, Campbell gave copyright and IP workshops to bureaucrats running granting programs, and BCAMP grants became contracts, went to a bidding/corporate process and IP was demanded by the government, regardless of the fact that all other funders, distributors, broadcasters, etc. stipulated that we own our own IP and industry sector/professional standards. Our tiny organization has already fought this battle legally, i.e. we got our pro bono lawyer involved when EmbraceBC posted one of the photos from one of our performances on their website without our permission or the permission of the youth participants’ parents depicted in the photo. The photo was eventually taken off the EmbraceBC web site once we mentioned the parents they did not give a fig about the fact that they violated our rights as adult artists and were willing to take us to court. Obviously we do not have the money to go to court. Many artists since then have signed contracts with EmbraceBC and clearly did not read the fine print. They have no idea that they gave up their IP or what this means. Sure issues need to be disentangled but unfortunately the BC government has tangled them up so what should we do? Sit idly by while this happens. Frankly and with all due respect to artists in this province, I am amazed at the lack of interest in this issue and/or action, as well as the fact that so many arts groups that have received EmbraceBC contracts may have their music, lyrics, photos, films, etc. exploited by the BC Liberals. It’s not just a legal issue or a federal issue, it’s an issue of policy and I think we need to speak up about it, tangled as it may be. Thanks for hearing me out. Debate is always satisfying with you, Keith.
Sara said about 1 month later:
hello, this is Eusong from Calarts. I already dntaoed for the same ‘Artists Help Japan’ but I’d also like to get your money and donate some more through the purchase…but i am in US, and probably i will have to pay you in US dollar via paypal. would you like to let me know of the exact amount of money in US dollar? and would it be possible for you to ship it to US?thank you very much for your kind help towards japan and amazing works
Sara said about 1 month later:
hello, this is Eusong from Calarts. I already dntaoed for the same ‘Artists Help Japan’ but I’d also like to get your money and donate some more through the purchase…but i am in US, and probably i will have to pay you in US dollar via paypal. would you like to let me know of the exact amount of money in US dollar? and would it be possible for you to ship it to US?thank you very much for your kind help towards japan and amazing works

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