8th January 2021
Theatre Centre has appointed ROB WATT as Artistic Director alongside EMMA REES as Executive Director. Both were appointed to their respective roles in an interim capacity and will now become permanent additions to the company.
Watt’s inaugural season as Interim Artistic Director saw the launch of an online writing programme for young aspiring talent and ImagiNation, a digital anthology created to unite the...
HAZEL EDWARDS is joining Arts Council England as its new South East Area Director in the spring. For the past six and a half years she has led research in arts, humanities and education at Durham University and the University of the West of England in Bristol. She originally trained as a social history curator and worked in museums and art galleries in the North East for 25 years. She was also the first woman to lead Discovery...
6th January 2021
Leeds 2023 Executive Producer Emma Beverley’s career has come full circle from working with the people she loves to working for them.
17th December 2020
MATTHEW TAYLOR is stepping down as Chief Executive of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), after 15 years at the helm. He is leaving the organisation next year to focus on other projects, including his writing and broadcasting career, but he will retain his connection with the RSA through a new advisory role after this time.
Prior to becoming Chief Executive of the RSA in 2006 Taylor was Chief...
FATOŞ ÜSTEK has left her position as Director of the Liverpool Biennial after just 17 months in the post following a ‘breakdown in the relationship between her and the Board of the Liverpool Biennial’, according to a statement given to ArtsProfessional by a representative of the contemporary visual art festival.
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Choreographer and dancer DANE HURST is joining Phoenix Dance Theatre as its new Artistic Director early next year, succeeding SHARON WATSON who left in May. Hurst is currently the Associate Artist in residence at Jazzart Dance Theatre and Artistic Director and founder of the Moving Assembly Project. He was a company dancer for Phoenix from 2007-2009 and has made guest appearances with National Dance Company of...
Dance Base Scotland has announced that ISABEL MOURA MENDES is joining as its inaugural Centre Director. In this new position she will be a part of the senior leadership team and deputise for the Chief Executive when needed. Currently Head of Culture England & Culture Advisor UK for Creative Europe Desk UK at the British Council, she has also worked at Film Africa, Africa in Motion and Iberodocs, and is a board member of...
Poole Arts Trust, the charity that runs Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts, has appointed Chief Executive of Diverse Abilities MARK POWELL as its new Chair. He replaces MIKE JEFFRIES following his retirement.
Powell will be joined by three new trustees: MT RAINEY, former Deputy Chair of Channel 4 and Co-Chair of the Development Board of 14-18 Now; ALI GANNAGE-STEWART,...
Edinburgh International Festival has appointed three new trustees to its board: management and legal consultant SPIRO PHANOS; Commissioning Editor, Entertainment at ITV LARA AKEJU; and corporate communications specialist and Partner at Brunswick ROYA NASSER. The festival begins its...
SHIRLEY NOVAK has been appointed the new CEO for Charnwood Arts. This follows the passing of founder KEVIN RYAN after a short illness earlier this year. His emphasis for Charnwood Arts was on work at local level while making connections regionally, nationally and worldwide, and the community arts and media organisation has undertaken work in India, Japan and Brazil under his leadership.
Novak was previously...