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Centre for Cultural Value
@valuingculture.bsky.social
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We collaborate and engage UK-wide to advance understanding of arts, culture, heritage and screen. Based at the University of Leeds.
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What has one organisation learnt from 50 years of cultural placemaking?

Kathryn Welch explores the story of @junctionartsuk.bsky.social telling us more about creative placemaking across 50 years of economic, social, demographic and political change.

www.culturalvalue.org.uk/junction-art...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The Centre for Cultural Value has been selected as an international partner as part of The Arts Impact Partnership, a seven-year research initiative coordinated by @torontomet.bsky.social , Canada.

Read more >>> www.culturalvalue.org.uk/working-inte...
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September 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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“What’s emerging is a new shape for the Centre, one that might mean doing less, but doing it better."

Six months into a deliberate and strategic pause, we share our initial reflections, the challenges and the unexpected rewards.

www.culturalvalue.org.uk/taking-the-c...
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August 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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How can immersive art reshape cultural access, foster resilience, & position young people as co-creators and leaders of cultural change?

Read more about Crossover Labs’ Consensus Gentium & a new toolkit for adapting immersive work to non-traditional venues.

www.culturalvalue.org.uk/lessons-of-t...
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August 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The Centre’s online evaluation course, Evaluation for Arts, Culture, and Heritage: Principles and Practice, has received numerous positive reviews, earning it a 4.7-star rating on FutureLearn.

Free-to-access for two weeks, and start anytime.

Learn more: www.culturalvalue.org.uk/evaluation-a...
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June 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Are you interested in how everyday culture and cultural vitality might be measured and reported?

Join us for a free online event to discover more about the Cultural Indicator Suite and our aims for developing a framework for measuring cultural vitality.

www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-c...
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June 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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The team that created the FailSpace framework and toolkit has set up a free mailing list, which will be a space for sharing experiences of talking about failure and supporting each other in doing so.

Join the list >>> www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba...
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May 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM