We are very excited to announce the dates of our newest network launches! Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts (UACA) will be hosting launch events in London, Bristol and Liverpool on the dates noted below. We have already celebrated the successful launch of UACA in Birmingham, at the most recent …
UACA’s cutting-edge research on arts networks and audiences went down a treat yesterday at the iNARPA symposium on Audience Research in Leeds. As part of a packed programme of all things audience-related, Dr Sarah Price and Prof Stephanie Pitts were there to present some of their research findings, with a …
Congratulations to Dr Sarah Price and Dr Lucy Dearn, who graduated on 20th July with doctorates from the University of Sheffield’s Music Department. Dr Price and Dr Dearn worked with SPARC on their AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Awards and Dr Price is currently Research Associate on our UACA project. Here they are celebrating …
Exciting start! UACA truly got underway on 14 July with our first network meeting with the Birmingham Contemporary Arts Network (Bham CAN). We met at the beautiful CBSO Centre, Birmingham, generously hosted by one of our four UACA lead partners, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. We look forward to working with Bham CAN …
UACA team members, pilot project colleagues and wider University of Sheffield colleagues celebrated the official launch of UACA in style on Monday 3 July! Here we are outside the Humanities Research Institute: On the day, we were treated to a fantastic workshop on academic/cultural sector partnerships – ‘Making Partnerships Work’ …
Our project, Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts (UACA) got its first public launch on 27 June, with our press release going live across the University of Sheffield website, as well as mainstream and industry media outlets. Read our press release HERE!
Sarah and Lucy have enjoyed presenting at the “Decoration of performance space: meaning and ideology” conference, which took place last week in Fondazione Cini, Venice. As well as exploring this beautiful city, Lucy and Sarah were able to take part in exciting discussions around the impact of venue on audiences …
Stephanie Pitts was part of a panel on ‘researching jazz’ at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival on Friday 29th April. Joining other researchers and jazz festival directors, she contributed to a day of sharing ideas across disciplines and contexts with a talk called ‘From first-timers to old-timers: audience experiences of live …
‘A mix of some really practical engagement for teachers and singers, and some deeply thought-provoking content for those with more scholarly interests’. The Music Department recently hosted an interactive choral research conference, organized by Dr Michael Bonshor, in collaboration with Professor Stephanie Pitts, SPARC, and the Institute of Musical Research. …
SPARC is hosting an exciting conference organised by Dr Michael Bonshor in his role as fellow of the Institute of Musical Research: Choral practice, performance and pedagogy: real world applications of choral research The conference will take place in the Department of Music, University of Sheffield on Friday 8th April …