Project/Evaluation Report

Social Exclusion (what is it, how can we measure it, social exclusion and the arts), Monitoring and Evaluation (evaluation in theory, evaluation in the arts, challenges in measuring the impact of the arts), the Contribution of the Arts (the literature, effects of the art, drawing conclusions from the evidence, impacts on the individual, the arts in education, arts and offenders, health and well-being, creating social capital, community development and urban regeneration), Working Principles, Conclusion.

Chapters include: reaching new audiences (Only Connect, Hackney Music Development Trust, Raw Material, etc.); democratising the arts; quality and inclusion; conclusions (inclusive strategies, recommendations for practitioners, recommendations for policy makers and funders, the arts and inclusion)

In January 2002 Mith Samlanh (Friends) worked with children and the David Glass Ensemble to produce the theatre piece "Poverty Meets the Cheat". Mith Samlanh work with the street children of Phnom Penh so that they may become, through their own initiative, productive self-suffiecient members of society. The play was created by a group of 60 children in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Assisted by the David Glass Ensemble, the children displayed their own lives on stage: all children had been abused in one way or another. The production has since beenb put into words in the form of this book.

This book marked the end of a twelve month evaluation of 'Otherwise Creative', a programme of arts work with young people educated outside the mainstream, excluded as a result of emotional, behavioural, psychological or social problems.

The London Borough of Lewisham invited Charles Landry to chair its Culture and Urban Development Commission. It took evidence from over 400 individuals and interest groups during 2000 and 2001 and developed a strategy for development based upon principles of The Creative City. This is a report of the process and findings.

An assessment survey and evaluation of over 500 urban innovations and best practices from over 20 countries in Europe, covering environmental, social, business and cultural initiatives to complete a six years study by the European Foundation for Living and Working Conditions. Includes a taxonomy of urban innovations.

The final report of this acclaimed new study (with 12 associated working papers) signals a radical new way of thinking about urban policy. It celebrates the power of modern cities to act a crucibles of innovative solutions to the great economic, social and environmental issues of our time.

This book describes the processes and results of the PYRENNE projects, which were carried out by Interarts between 1999 and 2001 under the European CONNECT initative, aiming to promote linguistic diversity and the role of tradition in contemporary arts productions. The book was published in 2001, and contains articles in both English and French. The aim of the projects was to highlight and promote the relationship and synergy between popular and traditional cultures and contemporary arts. The book contains presentations of the five projects and articles by the project experts.

The contents of this publication are results from the action-research program INCLUDE carried out in 1998-99 and 1999-2000. The INCLUDE Project was designed by the Interarts Foundation in the framework of the Leonardo Da Vinci Programme (Formerly DG XXI: Education and Youth), financed by the European Commission. The main objectives of the INCLUDE project have been to analyse and evaluate cultural policies, projects, programmes and methodologies concerning employment creation within the cultural sector in order to propose a curriculum design for cultural managers as local development agents. One of the main objectives of the INCLUDE Project was to provide a curriculum design built specifically for the cultural management training in order to recognized the role of the Cultural Manager as key agent for local development. The curriculum design introduced in this edition is one of the first of its kind and has been already successfully implemented in training.

A report on Community Drama Workshops in Northern Ghana.