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The Board of Chichester Festival Theatre has appointed KATHY BOURNE as Executive Director. She returns to the Theatre where she was Associate and Festival Producer between 2006 and 2015, when she...
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LINDSEY PUGH is leaving her role as Executive Creative Producer for Creative Barking and Dagenham, one of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programmes, to become Director of...
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Following the departure of Senior Producer LOUISA DAVIS at the end of February, MICHELLE BARNETTE will take over as Producer at the King's Head Theatre. Her most recent production, SPARKS, won...
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Marketing agency Joe Public Limited has announced the appointment of LISA POPHAM, formerly Chief Operating Officer at Dewynters, as Managing Partner, and CON GORNELL, previously Executive Vice...
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The new Head of Press and External Affairs for London Symphony Orchestra, CHRISTOPHER MILLARD, took up his position last week, moving from his role in Communications and Marketing at the Royal...
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Wexford Festival Opera has named ROSETTA CUCCHI as its next Artistic Director, succeeding DAVID AGLER after this year’s festival. She has a long-term association with the festival where she...
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FIONA MACTAGGART, Chair of The Fawcett Society and former parliamentarian, is taking over from GEORGE OWEN MBE as Chair of Omnibus Theatre. Owen will become honorary president of the theatre.
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The new Producer at Sheffield Theatres will be JOHN TOMLINSON, who previously worked there as Assistant Producer. Currently Producer at York Theatre Royal, he was founder of Stand and Be Counted, the...
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CHRISTINE BROWN joins MMW as its first Executive Director, to work alongside founder LAURA WESTCOTT. She moves from Help Musicians UK where she rose up the ranks from a temp to become Director of...
Given recent reports of anxiety and financial trouble for the owner of the Port Talbot garage on which Banksy installed his most recent work, Janice Aitken asks: is his art made in the interests of local communities, and who should pay to protect it?
Howard Fishman explains why, in an age in which a gun can be made with a 3D printer and a reality TV Star can become US President, we need art that feels “like getting slapped in the face, but in a good way”.
Arts funding has been pumped into Narva, an Estonian town on the border with Russia, to empower the Estonian cultural identity and guard against pro-Russian propaganda, writes Carmen Gray.
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6,000 people have signed a petition to stop the space, which had been used for a Banksy mural, from being turned into flats. City Councillor and Deputy Mayor for finance Craig Cheney said there would...
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A new report calls for an arts education premium for every primary school to address worsening lesson quality and offer opportunities for more cultural trips.
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The funder has also set out plans to create a consultative assembly of arts professionals, after hearing calls to communicate more effectively with the sector.
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Schools Minister Nick Gibb says that the key to increasing the number of music GCSE entries is to improve the quality of lessons for pupils under fourteen years old.
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Labour politicians are increasingly positive about the Arts Council’s work, while sentiment among Conservatives has moved in the opposite direction.
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How can arts and culture reach a broader audience that more accurately reflects local communities? Sarah Boiling explores how to change the pattern of who engages with the arts.
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Noise-induced hearing loss can be career-ending for professional musicians, as demonstrated in a recent case at the Royal Opera House, writes Tim Turney.
Case study
What is it like to be an artist working in the East Midlands? Elizabeth Hawley-Lingham and Paula Serafini spent two years looking beneath the surface.
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Barriers to collaboration between universities and black and minority ethnic community organisations could be removed says Katherine Dunleavy, whose research points to a positive way forward.
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A reflection on the inspirational rule-breakers, unexpected challenges and creative teachers that have shaped the career of Judith Webster, CEO of Music for Youth.
Upon winning a Golden Globe, straight actor Darren Criss promised to act in no more gay roles, in order to open up opportunities for LGBT colleagues. Ryan Gilbey asks, is it a problem to act outside of your sexuality?
How do you make a musical instrument that works in Virtual Reality for disabled performers? Franziska Schroeder and Matilde Meireles explain their research at Queen’s University Belfast.
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Figures provided by the online funding platform to the BBC reveal there has been a 33% drop in giving to arts and culture, and a 10% increase in donations to poverty and health-related charities....