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Jacksons Lane Arts Centre has backed out of proposals to provide a home for Highgate library service after a feasibility study showed the sale of the existing library site would not cover the costs...
Rural areas don't attract arts donors at the same level as big cities, but philanthropists Peter and Sarah Finn recognise the impact their investment can have beyond the urban centres. Mike Scutari explores their motivations.
As a winning artist rejects the cash that comes with the BP Portrait Award, Jonathan Jones asks, if artists don’t want BP’s money, how can the National Portrait Gallery keep offering it?
David Taylor puts forward eight reasons why every orchestra is going to scrap sheet music and go digital.
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Nick Gibb has justified excluding the arts from the English Baccalaureate, on the grounds that the EBacc should be "sufficiently small to enable pupils to specialise in different things"....
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Councillors are divided over whether the city should back its neighbour's bid, claiming that Leeds provided minimal support when Bradford made an unsuccessful bid for the 2008 title.
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A three-year evaluation has commended the Arts Council England programme as a source of learning for community arts, but raised concerns about its long-term sustainability.
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Arts leaders have hit back at the Regulator for “behaving like a mobile phone company who refers a dispute to the debt-collector without engaging with the client”.
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GCSE pupils are choosing not to study art and design becasue of government messaging around the EBacc, a survey of Norfolk schools has suggested.
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The Garage in Norwich and Travelling Light Theatre Company are among those to receive a grant from the one-off £40m fund.
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The £57m Birmingham Conservatoire, the first purpose-built music college to be built in the UK since 1987, has been formally opened by musician Julian Lloyd Webber. With five public performance...
Arts People
After 23 years with theatre company Out of Joint, founding Director MAX STAFFORD-CLARK will leave the company to focus on his international freelance work. The announcement follows the appointment of...
Arts People
MAX ROBERTS, Artistic Director at Live Theatre for the past 30 years, is stepping down. He will take on a new role as Emeritus Director at the theatre and continue his work as Visiting Professor of...
Arts People
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) has appointed two new members to its senior management team. Associate Leader of the Orchestra BILL CHANDLER becomes Director of Artistic Planning and...
Arts People
TONY HALES, Chair of the Greenwich Foundation and a board member of the Welsh National Opera, will take over as Chair of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) when DAME COLETTE...
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MARK LAVILLE is taking up the role of Senior Lecturer at Falmouth University, where he will co-ordinate the new degree in Theatre and Performance. He will step down as Artistic Director of the...
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PRS for Music has reached an agreement with major industry bodies representing live music for a new tariff for festivals and concerts. The move follows a long-running dispute over proposed changes to...
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Liberal Democrat councillors are demanding an extended consultation in their attempts to save the Surrey Performing Arts Library, which is at risk of closure by Surrey County Council.
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The specification for the level 1/2 Technical Award in Performing Arts prepared by exam board AQA is the only new technical qualification to have been approved by the Government and recognised in...
Feature
Andrew Miller, a regular visitor to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, shares his shocking experiences of inaccessible venues, poor seats and the city’s precarious pavements.
Opinion
Adults – parents, teachers and theatre-makers included – need to stop trying to control children’s experience of theatre and let them enjoy it on their own terms, argues Kate Cross.
Case study
Noticing that families were under-represented in their audiences, art galleries in the North of England decided to take a collaborative approach to commissioning and communications. Elaine Lees tells the story.
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The venue will close for two years for work to be undertaken, including the creation of a new stage suited for mid-scale dance.
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Taking place from 2019 to 2020, the joint initiative will aim to bring together artists, technologists, researchers and business to build new Japan-UK networks and drive innovation.
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In order to make the venue more ‘approachable’, the Royal Opera House plans to remove its stall seats to make way for standing audiences for one week a season from 2020.