From issue 317
Case study
A project run by the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and a housing provider started with cultural visits and ended with a full-scale theatre production. Inga Hirst tells the story.
From issue 317
Feature
Arts organisations are under growing pressure to demonstrate social impact. Emma Taylor-Collins explains how they can gain robust, high quality evidence to measure their success.
News
A new toolkit aims to give activists key facts to make the case for the arts in their local schools and combat the decline in arts provision.
News
A British Council Wales report says that “small adjustments to the current system will not yield the necessary major changes”.
From issue 317
Case study
A circus artist helped older people and children develop their confidence and communicaton skills in workshops at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, writes Emma Gladstone.
Ahead of the opening of V&A Dundee, Steven Brocklehurst and Graeme Ogston track the city’s journey from industrial decline to videogame-infused design hub.
Charities can only thrive if boards are as invested in the success of the organisation as the Chief Executive and the Chair, writes Debra Allcock Tyler.
News
Proposals by the gallery’s original architect, David Chipperfield, would see the creation of a 100-room building on the seafront next to the gallery.
News
A group of 27 actors will tour a series of shows to six venues as part of the theatre’s summer season in 2019. The organisation stresses the actors will be representative of the nation in terms...
News
Islington Council has joined forces with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to launch the service, which will offer young people aged 5 – 18 access to sustained music education and the...
News
Tristram Hunt said that local authorities in UK cities should be able to fund culture through a tax on hotel visits. He accepted this additional revenue would probably go to institutions that had...
News
Government plans to increase the cost of National Insurance payments to access state benefits – including maternity allowance – for those earning less than £6,205 a year have been...
Arts People
As SEAN HOLMES prepares to step down as Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith next month, the theatre has announced that RACHEL O’RIORDAN, CEO of Sherman Theatre since February 2014, will...
News
Data from the Government’s Taking Part survey also suggests that 2017/18 saw record levels of arts engagement in England as a whole, though changes to the questionnaire could be skewing the findings.
News
Politicians questioned major ticket resellers on their ability to distinguish genuine ticket buyers from ‘bots’ and why the industry seems plagued by low approval ratings.
Arts People
HANNAH KESTER is the new Director at the Roses, Tewkesbury. Previously Head of Operations at Theatr Brycheiniog and Deputy General Manager at the Bristol Hippodrome for ATG, she has taken over from...
Arts People
Currently Creative Director at the Crafts Council, ANNIE WARBURTON will join Cockpit Arts as Chief Executive from November 2018. A writer, presenter and broadcaster on craft, art and design, she...
Arts People
The new Chair of Swindon and Wiltshire’s children’s theatre company Prime Theatre is PAULINE SCOTT-GARRETT. Her career as a freelance consultant was preceded by roles as Director of the...
News
Three of the 160 partners withdrew from the event, organised by the Science and Industry Museum, after hearing Shell would be sponsoring the centrepiece exhibition. A petition protesting ties between...
Arts People
FIONA SINCLAIR, currently Managing Director of Lancaster Arts and previously Chief Executive of the Lancashire Sinfonietta, will succeed MARK WINGATE the new Chief Executive of the Leeds...
Arts People
The Place has appointed two new Board members. DR TZO ZEN ANG’s career includes work at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Opera House and management consultancy McKinsey and Company, while...
Arts People
MADANI YOUNIS will step down as Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Bush Theatre at the end of this year to take on the new role of Creative Director at the Southbank Centre. Before joining...
Arts People
STEPHEN FREEMAN will join Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre as the new Executive Director in January next year. Previously Chief Executive at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, he has also worked...
Arts People
Founder and Creative Director of FutureEverything, DREW HEMMENT, has been appointed to the post of Chancellor’s Fellow at University of Edinburgh, where he will help to found the Edinburgh...
Arts People
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation has appointed NATHALIE TEITLER as Project Manager of Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowships. Director of The Complete Works, the national development programme that...