Thanks for dropping by - and, since you didn't leave an e-mail address, I'll just have to hope you drop by again and pick up this brief answer to your very detailed comments.
You ask what I would have preferred to the dance exercise; I'd better say that I have nothing against dance, and if it worked for you, that's fine. I did think that it went on a bit long, because I could only spare limited time away from work, and a large part of the event was scheduled for speeches, so the dance was eating into the talking-to-people time, which I found more useful. As I said, I thought our five minutes with Jill were the most constructive part of the afternoon.
I'd have liked more opportunity to talk to the other people there, to find out who they were and what they did, and perhaps in a more formal way which made it easier to accost strangers - moving round a circle, say, or taking turns to talk for two minutes... But I'm sure you know more about these techniques than I do.
I hope you found the feedback useful - even if all you learn from it is that I was able to come away from the event under the very strong impression that Creative Durham is a business venture (something I have no problem with, but I see from your reaction that it isn't the case!). So - but this is just me being curious, you don't have to answer - if it isn't a business, how will it fund itself in the long run? Are you more like a local version of Arts & Business (http://www.aandb.org.uk/), then?
Finally, I don't have any inside information about funding; among our clients, ACENE is the major funding body, though we come across others, not all of them in the north-east. But my point was a general one, and is part of a continuing conversation about arts funding.
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Re: Creative Durham
Date: 2007-11-26 09:02 pm (UTC)Thanks for dropping by - and, since you didn't leave an e-mail address, I'll just have to hope you drop by again and pick up this brief answer to your very detailed comments.
You ask what I would have preferred to the dance exercise; I'd better say that I have nothing against dance, and if it worked for you, that's fine. I did think that it went on a bit long, because I could only spare limited time away from work, and a large part of the event was scheduled for speeches, so the dance was eating into the talking-to-people time, which I found more useful. As I said, I thought our five minutes with Jill were the most constructive part of the afternoon.
I'd have liked more opportunity to talk to the other people there, to find out who they were and what they did, and perhaps in a more formal way which made it easier to accost strangers - moving round a circle, say, or taking turns to talk for two minutes... But I'm sure you know more about these techniques than I do.
I hope you found the feedback useful - even if all you learn from it is that I was able to come away from the event under the very strong impression that Creative Durham is a business venture (something I have no problem with, but I see from your reaction that it isn't the case!). So - but this is just me being curious, you don't have to answer - if it isn't a business, how will it fund itself in the long run? Are you more like a local version of Arts & Business (http://www.aandb.org.uk/), then?
Finally, I don't have any inside information about funding; among our clients, ACENE is the major funding body, though we come across others, not all of them in the north-east. But my point was a general one, and is part of a continuing conversation about arts funding.