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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Arts People
The new General Director at Welsh National Opera will be AIDAN LANG, who will take on the role in July next year. Currently General Director of Seattle Opera, and prior to that General Director of...
Arts People
KATHERINE WATSON, Director of the European Cultural Foundation, will retire at the end of this year, after twelve years of service. Her role will be taken on by ANDRÉ WILKENS, who worked previously...
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Michelle Walker said she welcomed ongoing dialogue with residents as she takes on responsibility for culture in a project that will see the creation of 20,000 new homes.
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The public’s growing preference for scratch cards and instant win games is eroding the proportion of sales that go to good causes.
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Abid Hussain urged his organisation to employ more deaf and disabled people in decision-making roles.
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Employees, freelance workers, artists and business owner-managers are being encouraged to contribute to ArtsPay, the first annual survey of earnings.
As Battersea Arts Centre re-opens its Grand Hall, which burned down three years ago, Artistic Director David Jubb reflects on how arts centres could change to empower local citizens.
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The Centre for Contemporary Arts has been closed since fire ravaged the Art School in mid-June and has not yet had a reopening date confirmed. The centre says the “indefinite closure”...
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The comments were made by Rosie Millard, the new Chief Executive of the Prince’s charity, Children and the Arts, at an event to discuss challenges for creativity in schools.
From issue 316
Feature
Ovalhouse’s FiRST BiTES programme ensures that it takes the risks necessary for creating diverse and experimental theatre, explains Owen Calvert-Lyons.
Feature
How can an arts organisation be sure it is working with schools that represent the community? Lucie Fitton and Ashleigh Hibbins suggest combining arts, population and schools data.