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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This article is written by our Director, Vicky Prior, and is not intended to wholly reflect the views of League of Culture This week, the National Campaign for the Arts launched their ’50p for culture’ campaign. The campaign website is an excellent tool. The NCA have painstakingly collated data from every local council in England […]
This report is by League of Culture’s Director, Vicky Prior, and is not intended to wholly reflect the views of the League I’m writing a very different end of conference report to the one I thought I’d be writing. I thought I’d tell you about all the amazing speakers I heard at No Boundaries […]
Hello everyone! We’re thrilled at the reception we’ve been getting on Twitter. Thank you to everyone who has followed us so far and who has checked out this site. The best news is that arts entrepreneur, broadcaster and campaigner; Amy Lamé, has joined us, saying League of Culture has been set up at the perfect […]
