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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.
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JOTI FAGE has become the new Communications Manager at the OHMI (One-Handed Musical Instrument) Trust, with a brief to raise awareness of the Trust’s work.
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Creative Director of St. James Theatre, JAMES ALBRECHT is joining United Music, part of United Agents, as Head of Venues.
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After directing Bloomsbury Festival and managing the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, CATHY MAGER has become Artistic Director of Worcestershire waterway arts project, ‘The Ring’.
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PAUL SMITH, Headmaster of Hereford Cathedral School, has been elected Chair of The Choir Schools’ Association, the umbrella organisation for schools educating cathedral and collegiate chapel...
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Feature
What does excellence mean to the communities experiencing the arts through the Creative People and Places programme? Mark Robinson and Jamie Buttrick report on their research.
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How do the public make value judgements about works of art? To find out, Saul Albert did some eavesdropping at Tate Modern.
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Case study
What is it about great art that makes one’s hair stand on end? Claire Gulliver describes a contemporary art programme that tried to figure it out.
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Case study
Rhian Hutchings tells the story of how ArtWorks Cymru came to develop a set of quality principles for the participatory arts in Wales.
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Case study
Looking to measure the impact of their work in hospitals, Air Arts found that pre-existing evaluation methods didn’t work. Laura Waters describes their bespoke approach.
From tech nights to post-show dance parties, Neena Arndt reports on the Goodman Theatre’s latest audience engagement efforts.
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The principal double bassist, co-founder of the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, and founder of the Chineke! Foundation, was honoured at the 2016 Black British Business Awards.
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DCMS-sponsored museums had 21.2 million visitors between April and August, down from 22.5 million last year. The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions has pointed to security fears following...
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Student Pulse, an app offering students discounted tickets to classical concerts which was first launched by the London Symphony Orchestra in 2011, has been extended to Birmingham by Birmingham...
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Royal & Derngate has put forward proposals for a new free school that will specialise in the cultural and creative industries – the first to be run by a theatre.
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Research by Jerwood Charitable Foundation found only a quarter of people working in the arts entered the sector with a paid position.
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National Portfolio Organisations must diversify their programming to access ACE funding, but there will be no naming and shaming or sanctions applied if arts organisations fail to achieve workforce and governance objectives.
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Dance training increases “global connectivity” in the brain, whereas music training strengthens “specific pathways”, according to researchers at the International Laboratory...
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The area was chosen ahead of Sheffield, Bradford and Blackpool to host the £5m exhibition, with Culture Secretary Karen Bradley praising the bid’s ambition to attract three million people...
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The BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour Craft Prize 2017 will be open to established craft makers. It will see the work of 12 finalists exhibited at London’s V&A Museum and the winner...
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TOM WATSON has become the Labour Party’s sixth Shadow Culture Secretary since May 2015. He replaces KELVIN HOPKINS, who was removed after just three months in post.
Saying that artists in the UK are the result of ‘British creativity’, rather than an international, cross-pollinated culture, is like calling a lightbulb a generator, says Tom McCarthy.
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The charity fundraising scheme, which asked members of the public to make a 1p donation each time they used a contactless card to pay for travel in the capital, has been brought to an end after...
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The Creative Industries Federation has laid into Government plans to make the EBacc compulsory, demanding an audit of education and training in the UK.
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The sector has voiced concerns about barriers facing diverse artists and the ‘ghettoisation’ of diverse art.