Brenda Rawson from Silicon Valley organisation Cultural Initiatives will be demonstrating how to use its recently released tool for cultural policy makers, the Great Cities Simulator at the Creative Clusters Summit, England November 20 to 23. Part of the Laboratory for Cultural Policy, the strategy game has been billed as a SimCity for Arts Councils. Whilst using the simulator, participants must manage the fortune of a fictional entrepreneur's $500 million dollar Rennaissance Foundation, deciding how to balance expenditure between different policy objectives in such a way as to lead Silicon Valley to a 'Belle Epoque'. The player must also choose how best to achieve a balance between education work and arts programming, between capital projects and audience development. A monograph on the Great Cities: A Laboratory for Cultural Poilcy is available online at:www.arts4sv.org/pdf/Monograph.pdf