[cma-l] Community Media ,platform, producer, partner for the arts

[Tamar Millen]

CMA Arts Strategy online
http://www.commedia.org.uk/2010/03/22/arts-strategy/

Community Media
platform, producer, partner for the arts
Community Media Association (CMA), have launched their arts strategy 
which focuses on establishing creative and enduring collaborations 
between the arts and the community media sector. The strategy was 
developed with support and input from Arts Council England and Voluntary 
Arts Network.

Over the next 18 months CMA aims to enhance participation and engagement 
in the arts by reaching out to wider audiences through community media 
and encourage arts content through these mediums.

CMA is the UK representative body for the Community Media sector and is 
committed to promoting access to the media for people and communities. 
It aims to enable people to establish and develop community based 
communications media for empowerment, cultural expression, information 
and entertainment.

Community media is a fast growing sector and includes community radio 
and television broadcasters, community based independent film makers, 
and internet, digital and social media groups.  Community owned and 
controlled with a commitment to social gain, community media 
organisations are in an unequalled position.  Their output is produced 
by and for particular communities whether these are geographical, 
cultural, ethnic, generational or virtual communities.  They give access 
to voices in the community, which encourages diversity, creativity 
engagement and participation.

CMA’s activities over the next 18 months will include:

• Bringing the community media sector and the wider arts sector together 
in a series of regionally based symposia
• Promoting ways of working with community media organisations directly 
to arts organisations
• Promoting the sectors arts activity to potential key partners through 
a series of regional stakeholder meetings
• Supporting the development of a national network of regionally based 
community media champions
• Developing exemplar pilot collaborations between arts organisations 
and community media organisations
• Establishing community media organisations potential as partner in 
audience development activities

To read the arts strategy please visit the website 
http://www.commedia.org.uk/2010/03/22/arts-strategy/

For further information, please contact Tamar Millen, Arts Coordinator 
at tamar.millen at commedia.org.uk or on 0114 2795219


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Tamar Millen
Arts Co-ordinator

Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX

+44 114 2795219

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