Creative Equity Toolkit

'Preserved in aspic': opera embarks on diversity drive

Article on English National Opera's plan to recruit four chorus members that are black, Asian and minority ethnic. Chief Executive Stuart Murphy says it's “really shocking” that 39 of ENO’s 40-strong chorus were white. “We weren’t true to our values, we didn’t represent Britain.”

Employers: preventing discrimination

This guidance, produced by the UK Government gives an overview on how to prevent discrimination during the recruitment process, including the wording of job adverts, where to advertise and questions you cannot ask when recruiting.

Privilege Wheel

A two-page worksheet that helps to map power and privilege for an individual or organisation and compare it to the wider community.

Protocols for using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts

Artform-specific guides looking at respecting other cultures, communication, consultation and consent, interpretation of cultural themes, attribution, copyright and other issues of cross-cultural collaboration in the arts.

While the guides focus on Indigenous Australian artists, these best practice principles can be applied to other cultural groups.

Public Value Measurement Framework. Measuring the Quality of the Arts

Measurement framework that uses the 'CultureCounts' digital app to gather data. Commissioned by Western Australia’s then Department of Culture and the Arts, the work inspired the Arts Council England’s Quality Metric framework.

"CultureCounts allows for both the artists and peers to establish a pre-activity assessment then compare a post activity response that includes the public on exactly the same criteria."