Artsnet e-newsletter: Issue 14 - Oct 2005

louder. Make sure you send us your stories about your work, link into our website and take advantage of the training sessions on offer. Artsnet runs a forum called the culture pool. It involves some commitment and is part of the process of engagement in the city. The culture pool met in July and one issue raised was ensuring the voices of smaller arts projects get heard. To support this profile raising, we will be focussing future issues of Artsnet on particular areas of the city or areas of work. So keep telling us your news. Over the next few months, we hope to be developing some advocacy tools to help promote the creative work which hits some of the key targets in the city. If Artsnet Update 1 News 2 Events 3 Artsnet Members 4 Training News 7 Opportunities 8 inside this issue: you are doing work with links into health, children and young people, sustainable communities and economic development, please let us know what you’re achieving. We will need to build a list of city–based projects for these tools. Finally, Artsnet is back to school this autumn with a new season of Toolkit Training. These free sessions are an ideal way to build some of your skills and get some important information which can help you in your work. To make sure you hear about them, subscribe to Artsnet. Sue Robinson Artsnet Coordinator Say Hello Issue 12 October 2005 Part of the Community Network for Manchester Creative Arts Network Update www. can. uk. com PAGE 1 This newsletter can be emailed to you, sent in large print, tape or braille. . . call 0161 234 2985 or email: artsnet@can. uk. com Small is beautiful, but let us help you shout about it! Community Arts North West is pleased to announce the appointment of David Martin as CAN’s new General Manager. David who is currently Head of Production at Contact Theatre will be joining CAN in November. Jay & Calita at an ‘In The Mix’ jam, greenroom “The role of culture lies at the very heart of neighbourhood renewal and community cohesion, with the consequent benefits for employment, tourism and civic pride”. Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Artsnet exists to enable artists and people interested in culture to engage in the neighbourhood renewal process in the city. In a small way, each local neighbourhood arts project has a role to play in the bigger renewal picture. The challenge is getting those voices heard, and valuing the localised impact of the work. Many smaller arts projects just don’t have the capacity to link into the process, network or lobby and we often don’t know about the real impact of projects until long after they’ve finished. Artsnet offers opportunity to those projects to shout a bit After their action packed six month music workshop leader traineeship, Jay Farquharson and Calita Jawando are leaving CAN for pastures new. All of us here at CAN loved having them around and will miss their company and the energy they brought to the office. We wish them both the best of luck and hope that they’ll continue to be involved in CAN projects in the future. And wave goodbye!