Arts, culture and what’s on mailing lists

Mailing lists are great. Sign up to one and, on a regular basis, suggestions for interesting things to do will drop into your inbox. What’s not to love about that? They’re especially good for getting to grips with a new city.

The problem is that they’re sometimes not all that easy to discover. To the best of my knowledge, there isn’t a handy mailing list repository that anyone can search. So I thought I’d kick something off.

Here’s a spreadsheet of what’s on mailing lists:

I’m pretty certain there are more than this, so…

Help me add to the list

If you know of any other what’s on mailing lists then fill out this very quick form.

If there’s anything wrong on the spreadsheet (for example, dodgy URLs or long-dead lists) or if you can think of any ways to improve this then please leave a comment below.

NB: Ideally, I’m looking for what’s on mailing lists that cover events in a particular geographic areas (regions, cities, etc). I’m not looking for the mailing list for your individual venue/theatre company/band/whatever.

I’ll check for submissions and update the spreadsheet above on a semi-regular basis. I’d open it up more, but I’ve seen this sort of thing get abused by spammers before so am going to take on a bit of admin to prevent that.

A couple of thanks

With thanks to Jake Orr (@jakeyoh) for kinda prompting me to do this and Alex Jones (@jones_alex) for kicking off this list a little while back.

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Links for 17 October 2009

• Society6 – Society6 is a platform for the world’s artists and creatives to promote their work and connect with unique opportunities
• IKEA Heights – “Ikea Heights is a melodrama shot entirely in the Burbank California Ikea Store without the store knowing”. That’s… incredible
• aM laboratory – “Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer”. I love this
• 4iP Birmingham Nick Booth Presentation – Nick Booth talking about Big City Talk, Social Media Surgeries and Help Me Investigate at the Recasting Power event. This made me proud to be working in Birmingham
• Designing Social Interfaces – The patterns in this collection are social design patterns (a.k.a. social user experience design patterns). They are interaction pattern for people designing social interfaces
• Intelligent Naivety – First Art Game For the iPhone – “The soft watches have disappeared from the painting and are hidden in other Dalí works. Players need to find them by exploring enlarged pictures of those other art pieces”
• What’s the best art you’ve ever experienced? | Hello Art – The first stage of the Arts Council’s public engagement project running 2010-12 is a simple question and answer thing. Am wondering if this is as much an email capture system as anything
• Universe Creation 101 » Techniques for Segmenting Content Across Media – “While the notion of episodics is fairly understood, what isn’t is the variety of episodic techniques available and how these can be utilized in a cross-platform project. So, in this post I’ll outline ways a production can be designed for multi-platform segmentation”
• When The Audience Takes Control – “Lance Weiler breaks down the new models independent filmmakers are using to create a fan base”
• ARG Stats – “information about the uptake, impact and awards garnered from ‘alternate reality games’ (ARGs)”

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