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The Culture Secretary and Culture Minister, who stood on opposing sides during the European Union Referendum, have come out in support of former Education Secretary Michael Gove’s bid for...
News
Competing UK cities will continue with their bids, despite a lack of reassurance from organisers Creative Europe that the UK will remain a host country in 2023.
Arts People
Executive Director of Reading Rep SHARON LAWLESS is leaving to become Forest Forge Theatre Company’s first CEO and Creative Producer, following the recent departure of Artistic Director KIRSTIE...
Arts People
KATHLEEN SORIANO, previously Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, will become Chair of the Liverpool Biennial from October 2016. She replaces PAULA RIDLEY, who steps down after nine...
Arts People
Former Director of Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, LIBBY BUCKLEY, is to take up the position of Director of the Leach Pottery, St Ives, from early July.
Arts People
TAMSIN DILLON, former Director of Art on the Underground, and REBECCA HEALD, former Director of New Contemporaries, are both to join the King's Cross Central Limited Partnership as the new...
Arts People
Recently interim Artistic Director at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, IVAN VAN KALMTHOUT is to become Chief Executive of Mahogany Opera Group from the end of July.
Create affordable subscription schemes, expansive seasons and extend the age limit for ‘youth’ tickets if you want to attract more young people, Abraham Benson-Goldberg tells theatres.
Opinion
Twenty-five years after writing an article about his concern for ‘the future of black arts’, David Bryan considers whether progress has been made and looks to the future.
Case study
Major audience development initiatives may be inspiring, but most arts organisations can learn more from what the smaller players are doing. Sara Lock shares a few examples.
News
Charities are invited to weigh in on discussions on how best to fund the new Regulator ahead of its launch next month.
Feature
From arts on prescription to recovery colleges, there are a range of ways for arts organisations to engage with public service commissioning. Jessica Harris explains exactly how each model works.
News
New research findings have cemented the necessity of supporting design in schools, following a 19,000 drop in GCSE design and technology entries since 2015.
Arts People
Executive Producer at The Roundhouse, Co-Director of World Stages London and co-founder of What Next?, Nicola Thorold has died of cancer shortly after receiving an OBE for services to the arts.
The average festival-goer may be socially engaged, but that doesn’t mean they want live events to espouse ethical values, says Gary Sinclair.
News
Two businesses have put their sponsorship of Stroud Fringe Festival on hold because of economic uncertainty following the EU referendum result, leaving the festival with a £25k funding...
Arts People
Shadow Culture Secretary MARIA EAGLE has stepped down. She has been replaced by KELVIN HOPKINS, who was Co-Chair of the Labour Leave campaign in the run up to the EU referendum. He is the fifth MP to...
Theatre shouldn’t be challenged for a lack of plays about the EU referendum – its job is not to be the case for alternatives, but to be the alternative itself, argues Matt Trueman.
With the UK seeming to opt for isolation by leaving the EU, the arts community must ask itself how it will continue to exchange ideas with people around the world, says Anne Bonnar.
News
The Contemporary Art Society and Frieze London have selected Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima) as the first recipient of a new £50k annual fund, which Mima will use to purchase a...
Feature
To engage visitors, a museum must start by cultivating dialogue between its staff members, says Corinne Estrada.
Feature
Life is full of twists, turns, knocks and challenges, says composer Aleah Morrison-Basu – but this doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
Cultural figures find themselves on one side of the great divide in British life, but the country needs them to venture across the rift and interpret the fractured country, says Charlotte Higgins.
The Government’s lack of commitment to arts in schools will stunt young people's development of imagination, curiosity, empathy and tolerance, says Stephanie Merritt.
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An extra £2m of funding from Stockton Council has restarted the theatre’s restoration, which began in 2011 but stalled due to problems accessing funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.