Cultural Playing Field

Last Friday I was in Peterborough for a meeting of the Participation Manifesto initial development group. We agreed some final changes to the wording of the manifesto document and started to plan its launch and implementation. We hope to encourage as many organisations and individuals as possible to pledge their support for the Participation Manifesto and to create an online ‘Participation in the Arts’ forum and an annual ‘Participation in the Arts’ conference. The forum and conference will enable us to continue the momentum generated by the development of the manifesto, to link organisations involved in arts participation and to share experience and models. We hope to launch the Participation Manifesto in October 2009 – probably at the National Association of Local Government Arts Officers Conference.

Robin Simpson.