Demos (Organization : London, England)

John Holden

Young People, Reading and Public Libraries

Creative Reading

Robert Hewison

Leadership has never been more important to the cultural industries. The arts, together with museums and heritage sites, play a vital part in keeping economies going, and, more importantly, in making life worth living. People in the sector face a constant challenge to find support for their organizations and to promote the value of culture. Leadership and management skills are needed to meet the mission of creative arts and cultural organizations, and to generate the income that underpins success. The problem is, where can you learn these essential skills? The Cultural Leadership Handbook written by Robert Hewison and John Holden, both prime movers in pioneering cultural leadership programmes, defines the specific challenges in the cultural sector and enables arts leaders to move from 'just' administration to becoming cultural entrepreneurs, turning good ideas into good business. This book is intended for anyone with a professional or academic interest anywhere in the cultural sector, anywhere in the world. It will give you the edge, enabling to you to show creative leadership at any level in a cultural organization, regardless of whether your particular interest is the performing arts, museums and art galleries, heritage, publishing, films, broadcasting or new media.

How to Run a Creative Organization

The Cultural Leadership Handbook

Roy Matthews

Archery in Earnest, a complete study of archery techniques and practice, will stimulate archers at all levels to look at their performance in a new light. Topics covered include a fundamental assessment of archery technique; a study of the method and mental approach of a champion archer; picture sequences of top archers in action; tournament tactics; and equipment and tuning explained. A new perspective on shooting, Archery in Earnest is a book for all modern competitors.

Archery in Earnest

John Kieffer

Shelagh Wright

John Newbigin

The New World of the Medical Humanities

Where Does it Hurt?

Samuel Jones

A Cognitive Approach to Organisational Change

All Together

"The 'cultural system' faces a crisis of legitimacy - a problem that has dogged culture for the last 30 years. Cultural professionals have focused on satisfying the policy demands of their funders in an attempt to gain the same unquestioning support for culture that exists for health or education. But the truth is that politicians will never be able to give that support until there exists a more broadly based democratic consensus. The question is where will this come from? Politicians and policy-makers appear to care most about the economic and social outcomes of state-funded culture, while the public and most professionals have a completely different set of concerns. Because of this, the dysfunctional 'cultural system' has become a closed and ill-tempered conversation between professionals and politicians, while the news pages of the media play a destructive role between politics, culture and the public. The diagnosis is worrying, but the prognosis is optimistic. The problems are systemic, but this report argues that solutions must start with cultural professionals. The challenge is to create a different alignment between culture, politics and the public. In practice this will require courage, confidence and radicalism on the part of professionals in finding new ways to build greater legitimacy directly with citizens. The evidence suggests that such an approach would be successful and would serve the aims."-- back cover.

Why Culture Needs a Democratic Mandate

Cultural Value and the Crisis of Legitimacy

John Holden

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