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NICHOLAS JENKINS is to become the new Chorus Master for Glyndebourne from September. He succeeds JEREMY BINES, who will become Chorus Master for Berlin’s Deutsche Oper at the end of this summer...
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Festival General Manager at Salisbury Festival since 2012, HELEN KEALL is set to join The Place as Administrative Director.
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DAN JONES, who became an Associate Director at The Other Room earlier this year after joining as a Trainee Director, has been appointed Artistic Director for the venue. He will take over from KATE...
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Following five years in the Royal Academy of Dance’s marketing team, including as Lead Marketing & Communications Officer, JESSICA WILSON has joined DanceEast as the new Marketing &...
Whichever party wins the general election, the arts could end up thriving, given both Conservative and Labour have promised new arts funding streams, writes Martin Bailey.
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The local council has backed out of the competition following concerns it didn’t have enough time to build an effective bid for the title.
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Accounts for the year ending August 2016 show the deficit more than doubled, from £16.9m to £35.7m, and that five senior employees earned more than £183,000.
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Feature
Cultural organisations are missing a trick by not tapping into the tourist trade, but a successful strategy involves more than a new leaflet. Anne Torreggiani and Helen Palmer share their advice.
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Research by the Creative Industries Federation suggests almost 75% of creative organisations think restricting immigration would hurt business.
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Members of the House of Lords blamed the market for squeezing artists out of cities as they championed Creative Enterprise Zones.
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Case study
Tourism has been in decline in England’s seaside towns for years, but now a network bringing world-class circus and street arts to the coast is enticing the tourists back. Joe Mackintosh tells the story.
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Case study
Millions of tourists flock to see Shakespeare’s England, but they don’t all have time to catch a play. Geraldine Collinge explains how the RSC has extended its offer beyond theatre.
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Scotland’s year-round programme of cultural events attracts huge numbers of international visitors, but it takes careful strategic planning and continuous improvement, says Stuart Turner.
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An assessment and accreditation scheme is encouraging arts and cultural events and venues to reduce their environmental impact.
A survey found festival audiences are more concerned with atmosphere than the programme. Elisa Bray profiles one arts festival that realised this before most.
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Tate Modern and the Hayward Gallery were among 12 cultural organisations around Bankside to issue a joint statement pledging to keep their venues “safe, open and welcoming to all”. Many...
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An Upper Tribunal ruling could result in lower business rates for hundreds of museums across England and Wales. York Museums Trust has won an appeal for its business rates to be based on its net...
(IN PORTUGUESE) Margarida David Cardoso explains how diverse programming – including parkour lessons and illustration workshops – have helped the Lisbon book fair grow.
Arts organisations must distance themselves from philanthropists such as the Koch Brothers, who have given millions of dollars to the arts but are also helping to pull America out of the global fight against climate change, argues Philip Kennicott.
Theatre and the creative industries must be properly funded if they are to weather the artificial intelligence revolution, thrive post-Brexit, and address the postcode lottery, argues Nicholas Hytner.
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The founding Director of South Wales’ logistics company ArtWorks, Pete Goodridge, died on 1 June following a road crash. His family said the National Museum in Cardiff – one of the...
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The venue’s announcement of the line-up for River Stage has been postponed following the terrorist attack that killed seven people in London Bridge and Borough Market on Saturday night.
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Almost 200 professors at the University have signed a letter accusing the institution’s management of acting in an “ill-considered and unjustified way”, following plans to axe 171...
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Following the publication of its general election manifesto, the party was contacted by journalists questioning the lack of any reference to the arts or creative industries.
Are community ownership and crowdfunding the future of music pubs? Mark Wilding tells the story of the Napier.