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MENA Arts UK, set up for UK-based professionals connected to the MENA+ region (Middle East, North Africa and the surrounding area), during the first Covid lockdown, is to close.
The volunteer...
Feature
A report from King’s College London looks at potential policy solutions to combat precarity in freelance cultural work. Sana Kim, one of the researchers, shares its key findings.
News
Senior figures from arts and culture organisations say government-ordered review of Arts Council England requires sector input to be meaningful.
News
Glasgow book festival Aye Write, which was cancelled last month after Creative Scotland turned down its funding application, has received an unexpected £65,000 donation that will enable it to...
News
Company says it has taken the 'difficult decision' to withdraw two weeks from its previously announced 2024/2025 season in the face of challenging economic times.
Arts People
ANNA EAVIS and ROISHA HUGHES have been appointed as trustees to the National Memorial Heritage Fund and The National Lottery Heritage Fund by the Prime Minister. Their three-year terms began in...
News
The Scottish Institute of Theatre, Dance, Film & Television (The SI) has been announced as the new name for Scotland's MGA Academy of Performing Arts.
The renaming was instigated by...
Arts People
Visual arts producer D6 has announced three new trustees. EMMA DEAN, DIMA KAROUT and LAURA JEFFERY will all begin three-year terms on the board of trustees in April.
A curator...
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The OHMI Music-Makers programme will now be available for schools in Central Bedfordshire, Southampton and Liverpool.
Arts People
Bradford Producing Hub (BPH) has appointed its first board as part of its transition from an Arts Council England-funded project to an independent organisation.
Leading are Co-Chairs KAREN WATSON...
News
Derry’s Waterside Theatre has announced it will close at the end of June due to a lack of funds.
The 372-capacity theatre was told earlier this month that it would no longer receive annual...
Arts People
The Independent Society of Musicians (ISM) confirmed its presidential trio for the next twelve months at its annual general meeting today (16 April).
Opera performer NICKY SPENCE is the new ISM...
News
A combination of redundancies and roles not being replaced will reduce the public body's staff by 13.
News
Creative Scotland has defended its decision to fund a film installation featuring participants engaging in "non-simulated" sex.
The REIN project, which was initially presented as “...
It’s time for the UK’s creative industry to live up to its name and push for some changes, writes Patience Wheatcroft, as she proposes a tourist tax to support the sector.
Following Arts Council of Wales’ decision to stop funding National Theatre Wales last year, Gary Raymond has an idea to support the future of English language theatre in Wales.
As Goldsmiths becomes the latest higher education institution to announce redundancies in arts and humanities subjects, Zoe Williams considers whether such cuts form part of a wider attack on creative and critical thinking.
How should the sector be preparing for further AI developments? Douglas McLennan shares a framework for thinking, including advice for dealing with new and emerging tech.
A team of researchers have reviewed creatives’ decisions during Covid-enforced lockdowns in Germany to determine what could influence career choices during another lockdown period.
Opinion
A blog post by a former government adviser has called for a cap on the number of students studying creative subjects. Orian Brook thinks the figures used to justify this argument misrepresent creative graduates’ earning power and contribution.
Feature
Being an artist, at all career stages, is a minefield waiting to be triggered without informed guidance. Simon Poulter has been canvassing artists about being sold a dream.
News
The Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme hopes the Fair Play project will empower regional theatres to make the future of British theatre more reflective of society.
News
Plans for a new arts and cultural quarter in Essex have been give the green light by a council planning committee.
Harlow Council secured £19.6m of government funding in 2023 to be spent...
Arts People
ALEXIS PATERSON, Chief Executive of the Three Choirs Festival, has announced she will be standing down after eight years following this summer's festival in Worcester.
She will move on to...
News
Research led by a dance company found keeping pupils active in the classroom improved their maths and English learning.