A strong chair takes legal and financial responsibility for an arts organisation. Caroline Sharpen outlines seven essential qualities for an effective leader of the board.
News
A flexible main auditorium with 450 seats, a 100-capacity studio and a café bar are part of plans submitted by Dorchester Arts for The Maltings, located in the regenerated Brewery Square.
News
Children and the Arts is complaining to Trading Standards after receiving an unsolicited invoice and correspondence from the Regulator implying that a voluntary levy is compulsory.
News
Arts organisations should understand the make-up of their young participants as well as they understand their adult audiences, a report has concluded.
Arts People
After 12 years in post, KERRY MICHAEL is to step down as Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East at the end of 2017. He will announce future plans in due course.
News
In a plan to save £433k over three years, the council will phase out its arts grants programme – which awards grants of up to £5k – from the end of the financial year. A...
News
Screen organisations should also consider dropping age limits for training programmes and increasing targeted initiatives to support the development of under-represented groups.
News
As part of Canterbury Council plans to hand control of the Marlowe Theatre to a charitable trust, the Canterbury Heritage Museum will be converted into an arts centre managed by the theatre. Key...
Feature
Aside from pockets of innovative practice, many arts organisations are at a loss as to how to engage young people, who behave and think quite differently to older marketers and programmers. Lucie Fitton offers an insight into their world.
Confidence in Liverpool was renewed by its year of culture. A similar change will surely come to Hull at the end of its period of cultural activities, argues David Barnett.
Manchester’s cultural boom must be managed correctly to ease the North / South divide, whilst also avoiding tensions between the East and the West of the country, says Ben Walmsley.
News
A ‘stage-around theatre’, in which seats rotate to face different stages, is part of plans to revitalise Liverpool’s Ten Streets dockland area into a creative hub for arts and tech...
News
Plans to transform a Grade II listed terrace of townhouses near the V&A in South Kensington into 30 commercial art galleries have received support from senior staff at the Royal College of Art...
Arts People
What should you look for in a guru? As she leaves the Arts Marketing Association, Julie Aldridge reveals who has helped and guided her career – and how.
Arts People
Regional Producer at Pavilion Dance South West since 2012, ZANNAH DOAN is to lead the organisation from 1 March as Chief Executive. Current Chief Executive DERYCK NEWLAND will join the Live Theatre...
Arts People
MATHEW RUSSELL is to become Executive Director at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, alongside CLAIRE GERVEAUX, who is the organisation’s new Chair.
Arts People
Head of Solihull Music Service for 17 years, TIM LOW is to become Assistant Manager at OHMI. He is joined by SHOSHANA PAVETT who will take on special projects with the organisation.
Arts People
PETER KELLER, currently Treasurer of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Director of the Salzburg Cathedral Museum (Dommuseum), has become Director General of ICOM.
Arts People
JOHN WILLIS, former Chairman of BAFTA and Director of Programmes at Channel 4, will take up the role of Chair of Central School of Speech and Drama from July. He will replace PAUL TAIANO, who steps...
Arts People
PR and Press Manager at Buxton Festival, LIZ MACKENZIE, is leaving to take on a new role as Engagement, PR and Events Manager at Buxton Crescent Hotel and Spa.
Feature
Following the Brexit vote, are young European actors who have chosen to work in the UK likely to stay? Mark C. Hewitt sounded out a few of them.
Case study
The first Mossley Light Festival may have transformed the northern town for just one night, but the change in the community will be much more long term. Leon Patel explains how it empowered local people.
Opinion
UK cities must be granted freedoms to attract inward investment and build the country’s reputation as a creative powerhouse, or risk being left behind, argues Councillor Phil Bale.
News
Income generating activities by ACNI’s core-funded organisations have failed to offset the loss of Government funding and artists’ costs have been slashed to balance budgets.
The next NPO funding round will bring some disappointments, but it’s time to be more positive about life outside the national portfolio, says Lyn Gardner.