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Birmingham Rep has announced that its Artistic Director Sean Foley will step down this summer, after five years in post.   During his...
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LYNNE CHARLES has been appointed Artistic Director of the English National Ballet School (ENBS). She will take up the position in September...
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The Independent Society of Musicians (ISM) confirmed its presidential trio for the next twelve months at its annual general meeting today (...
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ALEXIS PATERSON, Chief Executive of the Three Choirs Festival, has announced she will be standing down after eight years following this...
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CLAIRE SADDLETON has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of VocalEyes, the charity bringing art and culture to life for blind and...

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  • Teenagers in an art class

    There has been a massive decline in arts for young people over the last 15 years. So much so that Joe Hallgarten thinks we need a dedicated national organisation to repair the damage. The current review of ACE might provide an opportunity.

  • Image of Watershed in Bristol

    In light of the huge challenges that so many arts and culture organisations have faced in recent years, Watershed’s Clare Reddington shares five ‘rules’ for turning your organisation round.

  • Graphic of individual artists at work

    A report from King’s College London looks at potential policy solutions to combat precarity in freelance cultural work. Sana Kim, one of the researchers, shares its key findings. 

  • Ballet dancers on stage

    A blog post by a former government adviser has called for a cap on the number of students studying creative subjects. Orian Brook thinks the figures used to justify this argument misrepresent creative graduates’ earning power and contribution.

  • Graphic of a face with 'Dreams Here' written above

    Being an artist, at all career stages, is a minefield waiting to be triggered without informed guidance. Simon Poulter has been canvassing artists about being sold a dream.

  • Image of Toomaj Salehi

    Artistic freedom is an increasingly contested area of public discourse. But as Ruth Anderson of Index on Censorship argues, while she might not agree with what is expressed, she defends the right to do so.

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Andrew Pinnock's protest is absolutely correct. I very much doubt that the review led by Dame Archer will produce more than a small...
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Shackled to a10-year strategy rooted in lies - and with virtually no corporate memory - ACE is now utterly adrift in a post truth era. It...
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