30th October: Culture Crawl returns to Doncaster
Join Doncaster’s 2nd Culture Crawl on Tuesday 30th October, starts 5pm
Help crowdfund Doncaster mining memorial
Doncaster Council and the Doncaster Museum are crowdfunding for a permanent mining memorial. It takes the form of a beautiful sculpture by artist Laurence Edwards. The sculpture is a large rock, with spaces hewn into the front for sculpted heads of local miners and their families. On the back, a bronze miner listens to a […]
League of Culture join FreeMoveCreate
League of Culture is thrilled to be supporting FreeMoveCreate, the new campaign from the Incorporated Society of Musicians and a-n The Artists Information Company. FreeMoveCreate aims to highlight growing concerns in the arts sector that the UK’s upcoming Brexit may harm work opportunities. With our current freedom of movement, artists can easily and quickly […]
Donate to eccentric museum in York
Do you love the eccentric and delight in the weird? Then have I got a fabulous new museum for you! In lovely York, UK, the owners of Pandora’s Box want to add a small museum to their existing shop. As ever, these things need funding so they’ve come up with a cool Kickstarter campaign that […]
An attack on happiness
image by Jean Jullien League of Culture exists because of mine (and, thankfully, others) absolute refusal to believe that a world without cultural activities is a fine world to live in. There is no such thing as an acceptable target for attack. Office blocks, military headquarters, cartoonist’s offices, anywhere there is loss of life there […]
MPs stand up for National Gallery staff in House of Commons debate
MPs yesterday debated the issue of privatising staff at London’s National Gallery. Since February, National Gallery staff, who are members of the PCS union, have taken part in 45 days of strike action. This is against plans to outsource 400 of the 600 staff to a private company. Staff have been further angered by the […]
Leeds Arts Party: A bittersweet return to the fight
Every good party needs a cake, although I was disappointed to not see a cheese and pineapple hedgehog. But amongst the cake eating and pom pom making, the blood bag embroideries and the student exhibitions, Leeds Arts Party had something serious going on. Last Saturday, Leeds College of Art hosted what on the surface […]
1 week: New Government, New League
Oof, it’s been a long time talking to you all. In short, your intrepid Director moved house, battled Crohn’s, cared for a poorly mum and tore her hair out. Turns out running an arts advocacy body with zero funding is really tough. I thought about stopping, but what the League managed to achieve […]
Harriet Harman promises bold arts policy in Labour manifesto
This article was written by our Director, Vicky Prior, and is not intended to wholly reflect the views of League of Culture Every time the General Election rolls round, I’m always irritated that the arts don’t feature more heavily. After all, if politicians led the way in emphasising the importance of the arts, maybe the […]
In unexpected praise of Sajid Javid
This article has been written by our Director, Vicky Prior, and is not intended to wholly reflect the views of League of Culture I don’t think it’s unfair to say that expectations of Sajid Javid’s performance as Culture Secretary had been brought low by his predecessors. Jeremy Hunt was vilified by many in […]