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London plans to become ‘world’s creative hub’

A £200 million film centre. A permanent home for fashion shows in London. Funding for avant-garde film projects.

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LONDON: A £200 million film centre. A permanent home for fashion shows in London. Funding for avant-garde film projects. A Davos-style arts and finance conference. These are among a range of commitments to the arts being set out by the British government, Timesonline.com reported on Tuesday. A list of more than 20 schemes, intended to turn Britain into the “world’s creative hub”, have been drawn up by ministers and will be unveiled in a Green Paper next week.

Plans for the global arts conference, the “world creative economy forum” — which will be set up in co-ordination with the West Coast of America — are to be outlined next week as part of a determined push to edge other European capitals to one side.

Britain is keen to demonstrate support its creative talent, highlighting work from fashion to film and cartoons to computer games.  The draft of a Green Paper on the creative industries in England and Wales, to be produced by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, reveal the plans, include promoting conservatories for art and design, a creative festivals season, the new film centre on the South Bank and a permanent home for London Fashion Week.

The draft paper says that the Government should “aspire to the scale of the Davos World Economic Forum to make Britain the world’s creative hub”. It hints at greater intervention in the fashion industry, suggesting a study that would look at its repercussions for matters such as health.

Under the plans, children will have the right to spend five hours a week on activities such as visiting galleries and museums, attending theatre performances and learning a musical instrument. This will be announced together with creative apprenticeships for 1,000 people which will be managed by a new skills academy for the creative and cultural industries.

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