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MELANIE LEWIS will join the Association for Cultural Enterprises in March as Chair. She takes over from CAROLINE BROWN, who has served for eight years as Chair at the Investment Principles...
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Survey commissioned by the National Lottery Heritage Fund highlights action being taken by heritage organisations in the face of budget pressures.
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A £4.7m extension to Nuneaton Museum has been paused after a council review of capital projects said the expenditure in the 2019-2020 business plan had not accounted for soaring interest rates...
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A total of 20 new partnerships between UK- and Germany-based arts organisations have been awarded funding of £310,000 for 2024/25. The money is being provided through the third annual...
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A letter sent to Arts Council England on 9 February highlighted concerns that guidance around political statements represented 'an attempt to engage in policing of artistic freedoms'.
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A statue of the transatlantic slave trader Edward Colston will go on display at Bristol's M Shed museum after councillors rubberstamped the move yesterday (21 February). The Art Newspaper...
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Royal Ballet Principal dancer ALEXANDER CAMPBELL will be the new Artistic Director at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), it has been announced. Succeeding RAD's previous Artistic Director,...
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Birmingham City Council has announced plans to remove all financial support for its regularly funded arts organisations as part of a strict budget designed to save £300m over the next two years.
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EMMA NICOLSON is to take up the role of Head of Visual Arts at Creative Scotland. Nicolson will join the funding body in May, following the early retirement of her predecessor, AMANDA CATTO, in...
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Co-founder and Chief Executive of Threshold Studios UZMA JOHAL has announced she will depart the organisation to take up a new role at Counterculture.  SAMANTHA LINDLEY will step up from Co-...
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Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer says theatre audiences should be 'treated in an adult way' despite campaigners insisting that trigger warnings are an important tool for improving accessibility.
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A group of young people have been given £3.6m to transform a former primary school into an arts, sports and education centre for their community. The BBC reports that Tiber Young People'...
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IAIN GOOSEY has been appointed as Executive Director of Kiln Theatre to work alongside recently appointed Artistic Director and CEO AMIT SHARMA. Goosey is currently Director of Producing and...
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The initiative is the first of a raft of measures that form a £2.3m support package for West Yorkshire’s creative sector.
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The UK's departure from the European Union may cause “terminal damage” to the UK’s music industry, the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music has said. Speaking to the...
Working in theatre can feel like a lottery at the moment, says NICK AHAD, so the Mercury Theatre's plan to commission new work by picking a winner out of a hat might offer hope to writers trying to get a foot in the door.
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Peers have raised concerns that singers and musicians touring in the European Economic Area frequently do not receive necessary paperwork in time.
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The Music Venue Trust (MVT) has announced an agreement with RADAR Festival for a percentage of every ticket to go towards supporting grassroots music venues via the charity’s Pipeline...
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From celebrating old factories and buildings to local activities and communities, Historic England has split £875,000 across 56 projects showcasing aspects of England’s working class history.
After 10 years in leadership roles, RACHAEL WILLIAMS reflects on what it means to lead an arts organisation during a time of economic crisis.
Following Northern Ballet's confirmed switch to using recorded music for some of its 2024 tour, HUGH MORRIS interviews four musicians from the Sinfonia who candidly discuss income, mistakes made during Covid and Arts Council England funding.
The risks of professional music-making are equivalent to gambling, argue researchers GEORGE MUSGRAVE, SALLY ANNE GROSS and MAIKE KLEIN as they examine the relationship between optimism, risk and mental well-being among musicians. 
MICHAEL RUSHTON reports on the pros and cons of increasing US government spend on culture and the challenge of justifying taxing people with no interest in the arts in order to fund them. 
Opinion
With the return of devolved government to Northern Ireland, Roisín McDonough, Chief Executive of Arts Council Northern Ireland, reflects on what it might mean for the arts and cultural sector. 
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The role of arts in healthcare settings has become part of the recognised creative landscape, but this is far from how things were when Lucinda Jarrett started out.

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