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US music festival AfroFuture Fest dropped plans to sell half-priced tickets to people of colour after its ticketing partner, Eventbrite, threatened to remove the event from its listings. Festival...
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Plans for the teaching and performing arts building have been lodged by South Essex College and Southend Council, which are collaborating on the project. The facility will include a recording...
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DCMS estimates there were more than two million jobs in the creative industries in 2018 - 1.6% more than in 2017 - accounting for about 6% of UK jobs. The rate of growth is double the national...
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A report says “radical, bold action and a sense of collective responsibility” are needed to transform inclusion practices in the arts sector.
An editorial by The Guardian called the BBC Proms "an audible spa treatment". BBC Classical Music Controller Alan Davey and others respond to criticism that the event is unchallenging and elitist.
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Three Choirs Festival Chief Executive Dr Alexis Paterson said sales for a performance of Beethoven's 9th were "below the level we would generally expect for our final night" after...
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The 200-seat Turbine Theatre will open next month beside Battersea Power Station, enabling "world class artists to tell stories that enchant", Artistic Director Paul Taylor-Mills said....
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Hannah Rothschild, who recently stood down as Chair of the National Gallery, had received letters from politicians about the dismissals of 27 lecturers and educators who brought legal claims against...
Controversy over donations runs the risk of making the arts "unfundable". Courtney Goldsmith asks the experts how organisations can make decisions about whose money to accept - and what for.
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A group who were turned away from the venue's bar have rejected allegations from its management that they were upsetting other customers and abusing the staff. Anne Ruzylo, who was wearing a...
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The Competition and Markets Authority says it will pursue a contempt of court charge against the ticket seller, claiming it has failed to correct misleading information on its website. Viagogo...
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Seventy-eight British artists have written to the National Portrait Gallery's Director Nicholas Cullinan asking the insitution to sever ties with BP, who sponsor its Portrait Award. Growing...
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AMANDA PARKER is the new Editor of ArtsProfessional. Parker is the founder of Inc Arts, a new national arts collective campaigning for greater inclusion in the arts sector workforce. She is also...
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MELANIE KEEN, currently Director and Chief Curator of Iniva (the Institute of International Visual Arts), has been appointed Director of the Wellcome Collection. She is an independent advisor to the...
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Birmingham Hippodrome has appointed two new Directors following the departure of former Director of Marketing and Development ROB MACPHERSON. CHILINA MADON, former Head of Marketing and Sales at the...
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Birmingham City Council decided a proposed 30% cut would have been too “damaging”, but says there is still an urgent need to find new sources of revenue.
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The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) has appointed Dr JENNIE HENLEY to the new position of Director of Programmes. Henley is currently Area Leader for Music Education at the Royal College of...
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SHAKIRA MARTIN is joining Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance as its new Head of Student Experience. She joins the college following a two-year tenure as President of the National Union...
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Sir CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH CBE is succeeding HOWARD MARKS as Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Royal Drawing School, who steps down after five years in the post.
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Existing Eden Court Board Member, DON ROBERTSON, has been appointed its new Chair. Also joining the Board of Directors is DUNCAN HENDRY, Chief Executive of Capital Theatres, Edinburgh and HEIDI HALL...
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A new report warns organisations that “everyone you let in though the back door will disadvantage someone without those connections”.
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The company says its operating model was too “old school” to remain sustainable after the loss of NPO funding in 2018.
In Iran, where dance is forbidden by law, "hypocrisy and stigma" is erasing traditional forms of the art, a dancer writes. She talks about her experience of dance as a form of expression and resistance.
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The V&A Director warned against getting “too romantic about what Stratford was like before the Olympics”.
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Conservative MP Giles Watling and Labour MP Tracy Brabin, both former actors, founded the all-party initiative to support "the resilience and relevance of theatre in the UK for audiences, its...