CWL PressCreativeworks London has worked with LadburyPR to ensure that outcomes of funded research projects are widely disseminated. Recent press coverage of the work of CWL includes: The Entrepreneurs, Episode 197 – Monocle
Here’s why High Streets should be less about shopping and more about socialising – City Metric The random journey of the games writer – Develop Young perceptions – Arts Professional The power of research – Arts Professional
If you want creativity, allow artists and technologists operate together – Best Education News If you want creativity, let artists and technologists work together – The Guardian The Inventory: Wayne McGregor – FT Magazine The Value of Participation in Theatre: Theatre Peckham and the Magic Paintbrush – Huffington Post
Money No Object – BBC Movements: The June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive – Birkbeck University of London Hugs, Handshakes & Hi-Fives… is this the new way to pay? – Crafts Council London museums secure researcher-in-residence funding – Museums Association
Digital Shoreditch – The Good Web Guide Teaching pupils that genies are real can work magic in the classroom – The Guardian AHRC grants help scholars and firms to serve up archives – Times Higher
Fiction Is My First Language, So Why Not Use It to Talk About Art? – Huffington Post Creative archives – The Positive
FAR, 2010. Photo by Ravi Deepres In celebration of African cinema – Screen Daily ‘I’m moving to Spain’: now online memoirs are being created from life-defining texts – The Conversation Memorialise your forgotten texts with interactive app – Wired.co.uk Do You Think Before You Text? – Huffington Post Heidi Hinder: money futures – www.imperica.com English Touring Opera / Creativeworks / GSMD research into opera in cinemas The current trend for large opera companies to broadcast their work in cinemas has changed the audience experience of opera. National opera company English Touring Opera (ETO) collaborated in 2013-14 with Creativeworks London and researchers at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (GSMD) on the first academic study of this phenomenon in the UK. The research explored the appeal of live opera and cinema broadcasts, the emotional experience for audiences of both, and whether lessons from the success of the cinema broadcasts could be used to increase the audience for live opera. A series of questionnaires filled out by audience members at opera screenings in 12 cinemas across London was followed by in-depth focus group discussions. The findings were announced jointly by ETO, Creativeworks London and GSMD in May 2014. A second stage of this research, focusing on audiences for opera in cinemas outside London, took place in late 2014, and results are due to be announced later in 2015. A list of press coverage for the initial stage of the research announced in May 2014 is given before. For more information on the research in general please click here.  Image by Richard Hubert Smith ‘Opera in Cinemas: is it creating new audiences?’ – The Guardian ‘News: Opera screenings failing to boost interest in the art form, survey finds’ – The Stage Website  Image by Richard Hubert Smith ‘Only 15% of cinema opera audiences say it’s made them more likely to go live. But that’s no disaster’ – Classical Music Magazine ‘Cinema v opera house: John Suchet kicks off the debate’ John Suchet blog post on Classic FM website on the research – Classic FM (Web) ‘Survey of Opera Cinema Screenings Inconclusive’ – Event Cinemawebsite ‘Does cinema create new opera audiences?’ – Intermezzo ‘Opera Screenings Do Not Drive Actual Opera Attendance, Study Finds’ – Celluloid Junkie |
Creativeworks London is one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations, to strengthen and diversify their collaborative research activities and increase the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.