{"id":56,"date":"2017-07-01T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2017-07-01T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T11:35:08","slug":"portsmouth-arts-centre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/portsmouth-arts-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth Arts Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 1997 Tamworth Borough Council caught a whirlwind of change, and the Leisure Department was broken up. The line management that had supported me retired or left, and I too jumped ship, while the going was good, and found myself Director of Portsmouth Arts Centre. This rather shabby old school building in the backstreets of a heavily residential area of Southsea had recently been inherited from Hampshire County Council by the newly unitary Portsmouth City Council. It was in a hopeless state.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I developed Arts Policy for the Centre, including programming and especially refurbishment.<\/li>\n<li>I won a \u00a36000 grant from Southern Arts towards Programming.<\/li>\n<li>I worked on a Lottery Funded Feasibility Study for an independent Film Theatre and related media facilities in Portsmouth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disatisfaction with Portsmouth City Council, with Portsmouth Arts Centre, with Portsmouth, with local government, and with Venue Management as a whole, compounded by personal differences with the City Arts Officer, persuaded me to instigate a career change towards more academic pursuits, and I went off to <a href=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/cyborg.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salford University<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 1997 Tamworth Borough Council caught a whirlwind of change, and the Leisure Department was broken up. The line management that had supported me retired or left, and I too jumped ship, while the going was good, and found myself Director of Portsmouth Arts Centre. This rather shabby old school building in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/portsmouth-arts-centre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Portsmouth Arts Centre&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}