2010-01-09 FeedMingle.com feedmingle@eulogik.com urn:uuid:2216de1f-fee2-6a35-7aa9-b99b4af7881b Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:37:57 UTC Social Media, depending on your point of view, is either marketing heaven, free and easy to use, or a hellish wasteland of crap that is free and easy to annoy the hell out of people with. If companies play... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:38:19 UTC Amid all this political talk and Jeremy "grim reaper" Hunt trying very hard to undo 15 years of progress there is still a lot of arts activity going on, especially in the dance world. The summer months are usually... Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:16:33 UTC Regular readers of Article19 will know that we, here in TheLabâ„¢, have little time for the AD of Sadler's Wells Theatre Alistair Spalding. We have our reasons, do some digging to find out why. That said the man came good... Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:02:36 UTC A letter sent by Arts Council England (ACE) to their client list of Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) tells those organisations to make preparation for cuts to their annual budgets of 10%. The letter, signed by ACE's Chief Exec Alan Davey,... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:40:05 UTC Let's talk about swimming pools! We've touched on this subject, via TheImp, in a very general way but the more we started digging into the massive amounts of money being spent on the "greatest show on earth" that is The Olympics in London in 2012 the more fascinating and disturbing it all becomes. Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:32:24 UTC We don't really do a lot of "info" news here in TheLabâ„¢ but let's do a quick round up of the latest snippets of information that might just be of some use to you, our dear readers! Impulstanz The... Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:25:11 UTC It's time to put the horseshoes in the boxing gloves and start swinging because the politicians are coming after the arts and pretty much everything else in christendom. In our editorial 'Get Off the Floor' we pointed out that should... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:19:24 UTC On the funding ladder of life, just one rung above Arts Council England (ACE), is yet another acronym. the DCMS, The Department for Culture Media and Sport. Although they recently added the Olympics in there somewhere the civil service appears... Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:55:55 UTC Arts Council England, the funding monolith that provides core funding for thousands of arts organisation across England, has announced that the vast majority of their "clients" will receive a cut of just 0.5% from their current financial year budget. Organisations... Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:50:38 UTC The United Kingdom may well be unique in the wide world of dance thanks to the, so-called, National Dance Network, a group of dozens of dance agencies located all over the country, mostly in England. We look beyond the hyperbole and seeks answers on dancers pay, health care and jobs.