News
A new pilot scheme led by Imaginate and National Theatre Scotland will bring live performances to 15,000 schoolchildren this autumn.
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A new commissioning round focuses on access and diversity in a bid to address issues raised in the White Paper and Warwick Commission report.
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Brookside creator Phil Redmond has been appointed to lead the city-region’s new Cultural Partnership, whose first plans include a “world-class calendar of cultural events” –...
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The building closed as a bingo hall in 2009 and has not been used as a theatre since the 1960s, but Black Country Hippodrome Ltd – the group that has been battling to reopen it - has been given...
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The Draped Seated Woman sculpture is to return to London's East End after a four-year legal battle over who owns it. It was originally removed following attempts by a former Mayor to put it on...
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A £1.75m grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow the museum to expand its research and teaching activities over the next five years. 
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Key activities and services to members are being transferred to others, with the T S Eliot Foundation taking on the management of the T S Eliot Prize. Inpress, a marketing and distribution service...
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New guidelines propose strategies to help museums and galleries rise to the challenge of integrating migrants and refugees into society.
News
An outcry among Brazil’s cultural community has led the interim government to u-turn on its plans to abolish the culture ministry, which was due to be merged with the education ministry in a...
Arts People
After just nine months in the role, JONATHAN CHURCH is to step down as Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company. He said it had “not proved viable” to balance the job with his other...
Arts People
BBC England’s Chief Operating Officer JENNY BAXTER will take up the position of Project Director of Manchester’s £110m new arts centre The Factory, which is scheduled to open in...
Arts People
The current Executive Director of Unlimited Theatre, MARK HOLLANDER, is to join Phoenix Dance Theatre as Executive Director, replacing interim Executive Director CHRIS LLOYD.
Arts People
ANDREW BURN has retired as Head of Projects of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra after 23 years with the Company.
Arts People
BECKY CRESSWELL, Head of Marketing at Tobacco Factory Theatres, has gone on maternity leave. Marketing Officer HILARY COLEMAN is covering her in the new role of Marketing Manager.
Arts People
Concert Hall Manager at Turner Sims KEVIN APPLEBY has been appointed Chair of the British Association of Concert Halls, following the retirement of previous Chair ANDREW JOWETT. He will be joined by...
Arts People
Freelance Producer PHIL HARGREAVES is to join Déda as Creative Producer, thanks to funding from The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
How exactly do you take a production on a 197-country tour? AK Bennett-Hunter chats to the team behind Shakespeare’s Globe’s mega tour of Hamlet.
News
Following a funding cut from the European Union and an extensive campaign to save the organisation, an EU action grant of €600k has been approved to prevent the EUYO from closing down. In...
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Ipswich Borough Council has approved plans to renovate the 15th Century St Clement’s Church into a 250 – 400 capacity arts centre, saying it could open as a “pop-up venue”...
News
The 800-seat theatre, which closed in 2007, is to be returned to use as a performance and music venue by Leicester City Council. The decision follows failed attempts to market the theatre for other...
Arts People
Meadow Arts’ Louisa Mayor shares her week installing art and meeting artists in Hay-on-Wye.
Opinion
Too many cultural conferences borrow their model from the corporate sector, but there is another way, says Adrian Lochhead.
Feature
After seeing countless talented women have their ambitions thwarted, Amanda Brennan asks what can be done to achieve gender equality in film and TV.
Feature
Is it feasible for primary school children to be based full time in a local museum? Wendy James discusses a pilot project where children benefit from learning in stimulating and beautiful environments.
The EU is a cultural fortress, which the UK’s arts sector would be better off out of, argues Manick Govinda.

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