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The theatre will work with six venues across the borough of Brent, five of which will be for young people and one of which will be for all ages.
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Figures released by campaigners Act for Change show that BME students make up 17.5% of final-year drama students, but only 1% are south Asian, compared with 8% in the population as a whole.
Professor Julian Meyrick and colleagues explain why using a metric for artistic quality is a flawed use of numbers that can only bring harm to the making and curation of culture.
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What does the Artistic Director of England’s most highly-funded theatre think about quotas, naming and shaming, and the lack of progress on diversity over the past 20 years? Rufus Norris chats to AP.
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Thinking differently about how arts organisations talk to the private sector will be one of the keys to sustainability as limited resources pose challenges to artistic ambition.
A charity in Manchester is proving creative movement can support good mental health, Rachel Pugh reports.
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Expand your horizons with travel and remember that every job requires a good listener: advice for 22 year olds from Artes Mundi Director Karen MacKinnon.
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Securing investment to create major sculpture production facilities is among the aims of a new strategy for building the region’s reputation for the contemporary visual arts, launched by the North East CVAN.
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A survey aiming to find out how the governance of arts organisations and museums can be strengthened has been launched as part of an Independent Strategic Review of Governance commissioned by the...
The co-founder of architects Haworth Tompkins explains what makes an ideal theatre.
The death of art history A level is dismal, but inevitable. Adam Sammut proposes a solution: make art history integral to art and design courses.
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Construction delays meant the Glynn Vivian Gallery’s £6m revamp took two years longer than expected, with the gallery finally re-opening on Saturday.
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Five vehicles with armed officers were called to Colab Theatre’s performance of ‘Hunted’, an interactive show in which participants “evade evil agents”, after a local...
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A £3.6m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund will support the development of a performance space and new displays for the museum’s collection of historic instruments.
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Could arts organisations be doing more to help young people at the start of their careers? Sam Jackman and Mary Olszewska feed back on a scheme aiming to do just that in Plymouth.
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Arts Council England’s two new funds aim to increase the diversity of senior leaders in arts organisations and support development opportunities for BME theatre makers.
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The majority of theatres do not think screenings have affected their touring, and audiences still attend live events.
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The theatre, which hopes to become a heritage destination, will spend the funding on the restoration of the building’s original façade, renovations of the historic Coopers’ Hall and...
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18 young people, aged 18 to 25, have been selected to form the Attic Collective. They will receive a year of free training and produce three main stage shows.
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Funders say they will encourage visual arts organisations to implement the payment framework, which aims to create better conditions for artists making work for public exhibitions.
Although creativity is widely celebrated, colleagues who come up with creative ideas are less likely to be promoted or deemed reliable. How do we change this, asks Valerie Casey.
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The decision by AQA - the only exam board that still offers the A level – to cut the subject from 2018 has prompted outcries from art historians, teachers and former students.
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Replicas of five small objects from the North Lincolnshire Museum, each cast in 18-carat gold worth £1,000, will be hidden around the region from February for the public to find and keep.
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The pop-up stage was created in just seven weeks by producer Robert Fox and King’s Cross Theatre to house David Bowie’s musical ‘Lazarus’.
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Formerly Deputy Chief Executive at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Scotland, MARK DA VANZO has joined Liverpool’s Everyman & Playhouse as Managing Director.