Arts People
The Director and Chief Executive of the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield, VICTORIA FIRTH, is stepping down. She will take up the part-time role of Associate Director. KAREN O’NEILL,...
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Cornwall based experimental theatre company WildWorks has appointed two new Board members. GAVIN STRIDE, Director of Farnham Maltings and former vice chair of Arts Council England South East, joins...
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TARA LOPEZ has joined The Spark Arts for Children as Creative Producer, to support the annual festival and take the lead on Vital Spark, a programme addressing the gap of diverse work for children...
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After 15 years as Executive Director of the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres, DEBORAH AYDON is stepping down to pursue new opportunities. An ambassador and champion for Liverpool, she has...
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ALAN BALLANY is Purple Seven’s new Territory Manager, Scotland. He moves from Culture Republic where he was Strategic Planning Director.
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TIM DAVIE CBE, Chief Executive of BBC Studios and industry chair of the Creative Industries Council, has been appointed to the Board of the Creative Industries Federation.
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Askonas Holt has appointed SEAN MICHAEL GROSS as Director, Global Head of Strategy & Innovation. He joins from 21C Media Group where he is currently Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy...
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MANUELA MOSCOSO has been named as the new Curator for Liverpool Biennial 2020. She is the Senior Curator at Tamayo Museo (Mexico City) and will co-curate the 11th edition with the Liverpool Biennial...
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Five new members have been appointed to the Board of the National Children’s Orchestras of Great Britain. BRIAN WEIR is Director of Student Experience at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama...
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Professor LINDA MERRICK, Principal of the Royal Northern College of Music, has become a Board member at the Association of British Orchestras. She is also Chair of Conservatoires UK, a member of the...
News
Calls for unity have been made following comments accusing Arts Council England of appropriating a radical movement and likening the national funder to Nigel Farage playing the sitar at WOMAD festival.
News
The City of Dreams strategy aims to engage 165,000 under-25s in the arts every year for the next 10 years, and hopes to address poverty and mental health challenges.
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Forty signatories to a letter to the Chair are demanding that the theatre does more to champion Welsh artists, describing the organisation as a "roadblock" to success.
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Resources set aside for Paisley and Renfrewshire’s UK City of Culture bid will be redirected to expand capacity for major events and create an organisational development fund to support the...
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A new report aims to improve the way arts interventions are designed and measured and pave the way for further research.
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Female entries for GCSE music outnumbered those from males by almost 4,000 in 2017/18, compared to just 764 five years ago.
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Wales takes a lead as arts professionals across all the countries of the UK are urged to take part in research that will shed light on low pay and earnings in the cultural sector.
Feature
Nurturing young people’s talent is a key part of improving diversity in the arts sector, says Jacqueline Haxton.
Opinion
Having to apply for a separate visa for each and every EU country would put paid to many international careers, including his, writes Paul Bogen.
In Rio de Janeiro, more than 800 people have been killed by military and civil police since January. Sarah Johnson meets an artist who has taken up residence in one police department to see if it’s possible to change the way the force interacts with the public.
News
Nine people aged between 18 and 25 have been chosen to meet once a month to “provoke, inspire and create positive change” at the venue.
News
The organisation hopes the three-year transformation, which includes new public spaces and a new performance space, will help the opera house lose its elitist tag.
In East Africa, theatre is increasingly being used as way of engaging young people in policy development for their cities. Florence Engasser and Tom Saunders report.
International collaboration has always been a source of pride and success for music in the UK – we must ensure that it stays that way after Brexit, writes Joanne Cormac.
Feversham Primary Academy was once in special measures but is now revered for its English and Maths results – all because of a curriculum focus on music. Dougal Shaw reports.