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A new survey launched by Sport England will collect the first local-authority-level data on arts attendance and participation in England since 2009/10.
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Financial support forms part of a new series of sector-led schemes aimed at breaking down major barriers to young theatre companies being able to showcase their work.
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A framework giving guidance on how to assess arts projects and programmes aimed at boosting health and wellbeing has been published by Public Health England. It notes that, “while there is a...
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STEF O’DRISCOLL, previously an associate director at Paines Plough, has replaced JOE MURPHY as Artistic Director of touring theatre company Nabokov.
In addition, LIZ COUNSELL has replaced PAUL...
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Formerly Deputy Head of Culture for Mayor of London Boris Johnson, SALLY SHAW is to join Firstsite as Director. She replaces ANTHONY ROBERTS who returns to his post as Director of Colchester Arts...
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KATHRYN WINTER, whose previous clients have included the BBC and English National Opera, has joined arts marketing agency The Cogency as its first Head of Digital. She is joined by SELINA OCEAN, who...
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The Member of Parliament for Edgbaston since 1997, GISELA STUART, is to become President of Birmingham Bach Choir. She replaces retiring President PAULINE ROUND.
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Arts & Business Scotland has selected Chief Executive of Glasgow Life DR BRIDGET MCCONNELL CBE, Centre Development Manager at Atlantic Islands Centre LAURA MCINTYRE, Senior Executive for Historic...
English National Opera’s Music Director Mark Wigglesworth warns that the organisation’s plan to slash wages and jobs from its chorus would damage it irreparably.
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A branch of the coffee shop in New York has begun a pilot programme, commissioning emerging artists to make work to display and sell alongside its coffee.
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The theatre said its first production in a ‘pay what you can’ season made the same amount of money as it would expect such a show to generate, but 30% of the audience was new to the...
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The Scottish arts funding body has launched a survey into the gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability of people working in Scottish film. It will publish the findings in April.
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‘Stage @TheDock’, a 350-seat outdoor amphitheatre in Hull’s disused Central Dry Dock, will be the only permanent venue created in the city ahead of Hull becoming UK City of Culture...
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Gallery and theatre shops can learn a lot from high-street retailers. Corin Birchall shares his tips.
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Every year, 40,000 people are drawn to Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre for an event that is neither a play nor a musical. Bookey Oshin reports on an unusual partnership.
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Are you sitting on a gold mine? Patrick Towell believes the arts sector is missing out by not exploiting its intangible assets.
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When Pilot Theatre first livestreamed a theatre production eight years ago, it did not foresee this leading to a significant new income stream, says Marcus Romer.
Psychologist have found that artists often display complex and contradictory characteristics. The authors of a new book reveal the mental traits and skills that encourage creativity.
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A new performing arts venue is to be founded in Woolwich as a home for Dash Arts, after the company signed a memorandum of understanding with the local council. The deal is part of plans for a new...
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Gwynedd Council is considering a £169,700 cut to its Strategic Grants for the Arts programme, in a bid to make £4.6m in savings. Arts figures protesting the cut said it would halve the...
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State school art teachers blame the EBacc as young people are steered away from their subject, according to a new survey.
Black and minority ethnic artists are being excluded from modern art history, says Sonia Boyce. She talks to Laura Robertson about her research project that is hoping to put them on Britain’s cultural map.
Lyn Gardner is encouraged by the formation of the ‘new work’ department at the National Theatre – is it finally changing its culture and engaging with the wider theatre ecology?
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A heritage centre showcasing the remains of the Curtain Theatre – where a number of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed – will be the centrepiece of a new commercial and...
With the V&A preparing to move the Royal Photographic Society collection from Bradford to London, Alice Jones spots a sad truth emerging: all art-lovers are equal, but art-lovers in London are more equal than others.