Musical groups and organisations shape and are shaped by their localities in a plurality of ways, reaching in and through communities to achieve tangible and intangible impacts. This one-day symposium, hosted by the Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (SPARC) and the Urban Institute, brings together academic and practitioner networks …
#CultureFeast ROUND TWO has just been announced! SPARC is delighted to be working with contemporary arts organisations in Birmingham to offer audiences something a little different. The Spring 2018 Culture Feast will consist of a 7 course menu of contemporary art for only £30. Book now at culturefeast.org Events from Grand Union, Birmingham Hippodrome, DanceXchange,Birmingham …
Birmingham’s leading contemporary arts organisations have joined forces to create Culture Feast: a joint ticket that gives access to six theatre, dance, music and art events all for £25 total. This has grown out of the Birmingham Contemporary Arts Network in response to findings from the Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts project at …
The new SPARC reading group starts Friday 13th October at the Jessop Building, University of Sheffield.
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!