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    Quick read: delivering the Government's Culture Recovery Fund

    By Arts Council England,

    This quick read provides an easy summary of the points covered in our blog 'Delivering the Government's Culture Recovery Fund'.

    Two actors on stage at the curtain call from The Merchant of Venice and Othello.
    Photo by Curtain call from The Merchant of Venice and Othello. Photo by David Tett (C) RSC
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    How To Adapt Participatory Arts Activities In Lockdown

    By Nicky Goulder,

    The Covid-19 pandemic has posed serious questions to arts and cultural organisations across the country. One of the biggest has been: how do you continue to use the creative arts to empower the most vulnerable in society during lockdown? Nicky Goulder, Founding Chief Executive of Create, tells us how Create Live! enabled them to do this and what they've learnt.

    Create Live! participants
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    The government's arts, culture and heritage rescue package

    By Darren Henley,

    Our CEO Darren Henley blogs about the new £1.57 billion government relief package for arts, culture and heritage in the UK.

    Children and adults gather around craft tables at the end of a hallway with pictures on the wall.
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    Doing more, for more

    By Darren Henley,

    Our CEO Darren Henley blogs about the grants we have awarded from the first two rounds of our Emergency Response Funds.

    Five dancers on stage at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
    Photo by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Ronald K. Brown’s Four Corners. Photo © Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater / Paul Kolnik.
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    A tonic for the nation

    By Arts Council England,

    In the next in our series of blogs about the contribution of culture under lockdown, Alexandra Brierley from the Southbank Centre in London discusses how the organisation is reaching those without access to digital technologies, to keep the nation creative and connected.

    Photo by (C) thatthingyoupluck
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    Black Lives Matter

    By Darren Henley,

    Our CEO Darren Henley blogs on the Black Lives Matter movement, and diversity within the arts and culture sector in England.

    A woman stands facing a portrait on a gallery wall taking a picture of it on her phone.
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    What comes next?

    By Darren Henley,

    Since lockdown began, we've been focusing on doing what we can to support you in the immediate future. Now that we're moving into a new phase of response to the Covid-19 crisis, our CEO Darren Henley has outlined what we think comes next and how we're planning to support the longer-term recovery of culture and creativity.

    I See You, Urban Projections at Frequency Festival 2019.
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    Five questions with...Take A Part

    By Arts Council England,

    Plymouth’s Take A Part are experts in socially engaged audience development. We caught up with their Director, Kim Wide, to find out how they’ve adapted their work to support their community during lockdown.

    Take a Part
    Photo by Community Art March, 2012 (c) Dom Moore. Image courtesy Take A Part.
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