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Monthly Archives: June 2012

Unlocking CASE data

Sally Staples

, June 25, 2012 —

Cultural Strategy Manager at East Sussex County Council

How can CASE data be brought to life through third party software? Sally Staples, Cultural Strategy Manager at East Sussex County Council, explains.

London’s legacy – how can we judge the impact of the Games?

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, June 19, 2012 — Sport

Chief Economist at Grant Thornton and Project Director for the Grant Thornton consortium

Stephen Gifford is the Chief Economist at Grant Thornton and Project Director for the Grant Thornton consortium, which includes Ecorys, Loughborough University, Oxford Economics and a number of academics. He has nearly 20 years’ experience as a professional economist.

Let’s hear it for Tebay South, a prince among motorway service stations

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, June 14, 2012 — Culture

John David Penrose is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare

A few weeks ago I ‘listed’ a couple of petrol stations, both of which exhibited design features that harked back to an era when motoring was more of an ‘adventure’ than it is perhaps today. The experts at English Heritage had enthused about the ‘overlapping parasols’ and ‘hyperbolic paraboloids’ they displayed, and I was happy…

Something we’re rather good at

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, June 7, 2012 — Culture

John David Penrose is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare

So, how was that then? Rather good I thought. The weather could have been a bit brighter but, heavens above, no one who was there – whether at one of the big events or their own local street party – will ever forget it.

Theatres and sustainable development

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, June 6, 2012 — Culture

Theatres Trust Director

Mhora Samuel, Director of The Theatres Trust, identifies some of the issues they’ll be covering at the Trust’s conference, Delivering Sustainable Theatres – the challenge of achieving the triple bottom line, and questions what sustainable development now means for theatres.

Reflections on 30 years of Watershed

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, June 1, 2012 — Culture

Watershed Cultural Arts Centre Director

With just a few days to go until the Watershed Cultural Arts Centre in Bristol celebrates its 30th birthday, we hear from its Programme Director, Mark Cosgrove on the impact it’s had on the cultural landscape of the UK over the past three decades.