25th October 2019
The new Centre for Cultural Value in Leeds has appointed TAMSIN CURROR as Communications Manager. She is currently National Communications Manager for Creative People and Places.
DAN HICKLIN is moving from his role as Senior Communications Officer at Bill Elms Associates to become the new Press and Communications Officer at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre. A multi-million pound redevelopment of the venue is underway and the theatre is set to reopen in spring 2020.
DEBORAH BESTWICK, Director at Ovalhouse for over 20 years, will be leaving the organisation ahead of its move to a new theatre in Brixton. She said: “We want a new Artistic Director to have a long lead-in, get to know the building and its community and potential before we open the doors... I will continue to support...
18th October 2019
SEBASTIAN CATER will join the senior management team at UK Theatre and Society of London Theatre in January 2020, taking over from Cassie Chadderton. He has nearly 20 years’ experience in the commercial and subsidised cultural sector, including roles as Director of Marketing and Sales at Sadler’s Wells and prior to that Head of Marketing at media agency Target Live. He is also Director of Dance Consortium.
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Following an open call for Disabled applicants to become board members of the music, disability and technology organisation Drake Music, Consultant CHAS DE SWIET is replacing ROGER VIGILANCE as Chair. He is joined on the board by new trustees JODI ALISSA BICKERTON (Graeae Theatre Company), MATT LLOYD (Consultant and Paralympian) and CAMERON BRAY (Artist). Another...
ANNE WONG-ERVEN has been appointed to the Executive Leadership team at Watershed, taking on the new role of General Manager. SHARMAINE LOVEGROVE (Publisher of Dialogue Books) has become a trustee of the organisation, as has digital illustrator PARYS GARDENER, who joins Watershed as part of a scheme that supports young people to get involved in governance.
Eight new members have joined the board of a-n The Artists Information Company. They are SONIA BOUÉ, HANNAH CROSS, SKINDER HUNDAL, JEROME INCE-MITCHELL, HELEN NISBET, KEITH PIPER, ANJALIKA SAGAR and AMRITA DHALLU, who takes a new Trainee Board position which supports a-n’s commitment to building arts leaders.
11th October 2019
ANNILESE MISKIMMON will be joining English National Opera (ENO) as Artistic Director. Currently with Den Norske Opera and Ballet/Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, she was previously General Manager/Artistic Director of Den Jyske Opera/Danish National Opera and prior to that was Artistic Director of Opera Theatre Company Ireland. Originally from Bangor, Northern Ireland, she will continue as Director of Opera in Oslo until the...
TIM COLEGATE has left Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, where he was Head of Programming/Producer, to join Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, as the new Head of Programming. His earlier career included a role as Artistic Programmer at the multi-space Venue Cymru in Llandudno.
After ten years as Chief Executive, JANE BRYANT is preparing to step down from Artswork next year. Now part of the national network of Arts Council England-funded bridge organisations, the charity was founded in 1987 by Sir Ken Robinson and works to transform the lives of children and young people through arts and culture.