Example sentences of "arts council " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arts Council should be abolished , he wrote . |
| 2 | The Festival also plays a role in the artistic renaissance of Birmingham , a profile confirmed by the continuing success of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , under its Artistic Director , Simon Rattle , the recent move of both the Birmingham Royal Ballet ( formerly Sadler 's Wells Royal Ballet ) and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to Birmingham , the newly launched ‘ Towards The Millennium ’ annual arts Festival and the Arts Council of Great Britain 's invitation to Birmingham to launch Arts 2000 , as the UK City of Music in 1992 . |
| 3 | Festivals are one of the few opportunities in the UK for screening short films , and we will be presenting not just this year 's BFI New Directors shorts , but also programmes of short films from film schools in the UK and Canada , from the Arts Council funded schemes and films funded by the filmmakers themselves . |
| 4 | Screenings of recent work from a variety of schemes funded by the Artists Film and Video Committee at the Arts Council . |
| 5 | arts council film and video at the festival : |
| 6 | The Arts Council presents an exciting programme of new work at this year 's festival . |
| 7 | Leonard did , however , manage to get a grant from the Canadian Arts Council . |
| 8 | I am not a modernist , though I presided at the Arts Council with liberal equanimity over the public funding of much modernist art which I did not understand . |
| 9 | Thames Water Authority was fined £3,000 with £1,000 costs by Newbury magistrates after it admitted pumping ‘ virtually raw ’ sewage into a stream flowing through land owned by Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , at Bagnor Manor , Winterbourne , Berkshire . |
| 10 | The information , collected for the Arts Council by the British Market Research Bureau , shows that in an average period of four weeks during 1988-89 , 6 per cent of the adult population went to the theatre , 4 per cent to an art gallery , 2 per cent to classical music and 1 per cent to jazz . |
| 11 | Arts Council officers are understood to be considering changing the practice of handing out separate information about the arts to the different political party conferences . |
| 12 | As reported in some editions of The Independent last week , the Arts Council leaflet aimed at this week 's Conservative Party conference differs starkly from the one handed out to Labour delegates in Brighton last week . |
| 13 | Neil Kinnock appears to have failed to convince the Arts Council that his party now has a wide constituency covering large sections of the middle classes , and might have business contacts . |
| 14 | Sir : Your report ( 9 October ) stated that the Arts Council had prepared two leaflets for separate distribution at the Conservative and Labour Party conferences . |
| 15 | ACCORDING to Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , in the United States 90 per cent of the arts are funded by individual donors . |
| 16 | WEALTHY businessmen who have benefited from low tax rates should do more to subsidise the arts , the chairman of the Arts Council said yesterday . |
| 17 | Introducing the Arts Council 's annual report , Mr Palumbo , a highly successful property developer , pointed out that the public sector gave five times as much as the private sector in Britain , whereas in the United States 90 per cent of the arts were funded by private donations . |
| 18 | The Arts Council is holding a special meeting in November to discuss the funding crisis ; it is thought that it might decide to cut the number of bodies receiving grant if more government money is not forthcoming . |
| 19 | He also implied that the Arts Council might soon give greater emphasis to its former role as a policy body as well as a grant-giving organisation . |
| 20 | Luke Rittner , secretary general of the Arts Council , said inflation had outstripped grant aid by 6 per cent , and ‘ a failure by government to recognise this situation will be a cruel slap in the face to an arts world that has done so much to adapt to the market economy of the 1980s ’ . |
| 21 | Sir : Fiona Pith-Helmet must have had her hard hat pulled over her ears and eyes leaving only her mouth operational when she accused the Arts Council of inverted racism ( 'What about the special needs of a struggling poet without funds ? ’ by Fiona Pitt-Kethley ; Living , 27 September ) . |
| 22 | If anything , the rarity of such successes ( disproportionately few in relation to the number of writers and artists ) testifies to the crucial place of Arts Council grants for minorities in British society . |
| 23 | Rather more fun and doubtless just as fruitful was the Odyssey Theatre Company 's research for their Macbeth : six weeks spent with the support of the Scottish Arts Council on the Indonesian island of Bali . |
| 24 | Stephen Bayley , former director of the Design Museum , will chair a debate , taking questions from the floor ( many pre-wrapped ) and flinging them at a panel of designers , architects , patrons and critics , among them Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , and Mies van der Rohe buff . |
| 25 | The arts generally continued to thrive through public subsidy , to orchestral music above all , and new forms of partnership were being developed between the Arts Council and local authorities and industry and finance . |
| 26 | The arts continued to flourish , amidst growing argument over the role of the Arts Council , the right balance to be struck between the metropolitan and the regional , and between private and public funding . |
| 27 | The Arts Council found its ability to provide patronage made more selective — perhaps rightly so , though the effects proved a serious blow to many theatres and galleries . |
| 28 | If you are the sort of band that wants an arts council grant , then you are probably too special or too precious to conform to the limits set by ‘ popular ’ taste . |
| 29 | The decision was an ‘ effective way of helping our situation ’ when the National was expecting a mere two per cent rise in its Arts Council grant , according to a spokesman . |
| 30 | LAST minute efforts to save Kent Opera from liquidation will be made tomorrow when members of the Arts Council 's advisory music panel , led by Robert Ponsonby , the former BBC Controller of Music , meet Luke Rittner , the council 's secretary-general . |