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JON MORGAN will leave his role as Director of Theatres Trust in December after nearly eight years. Prior to joining Theatres Trust, Morgan...
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Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre has announced SELINA CARTMELL as its Creative Director. She will take up the newly-created role in...
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Clore Leadership has announced SUZANN MCLEAN, JONATHAN REEKIE and KATE VARAH as new trustees. McLean is the Artistic Director of Theatre...
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The Cathedral Music Trust has appointed JONATHAN MAYES as Chief Executive Officer. He will take up the post in July. Alongside Mayes,...
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ANNA WILLIAMS is joining Aesop Arts & Society as its Interim CEO. Her appointment to the charity best known for its Dance to Health...

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    Co-Founder of Freedom in the Arts, Rosie Kay, thinks the arts in the UK have strayed into a culture of intolerance, which has led to cancellation and a climate of self-censorship that has to be addressed. 

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    Voters across England go to the polls next week (2 May) to elect many thousands of new councillors and 10 metro mayors – one of them being the Mayor of London. Phoebe Gardiner outlines what mayoral hopefuls need to understand about the capital’s culture.

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    As global politics become increasingly polarised, the right to freedom of expression is under threat in many countries, including the European Union, writes Johanna Bankston.

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  • brick wall painted in colour of pride/LGBTQ flag colours

    Responding to Arts Professional’s coverage of ACE’s political statements policy in February, Lauren James explains why defending free speech is so important to those working in the sector’s ‘engine rooms’.

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    The future of the arts scene is 'terrifying', according to Ayvianna Snow, Chair of Equity's London North branch. Here, she makes the case for the UK to increase arts spending to 1% of government expenditure. 

  • 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.

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Readers' Comments

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Posted by nowordsfindswords on A cultural revolution in the arts
It's easy to point the finger at 'authoritarian' and 'illiberal' regimes, but perhaps we need to get our own house...
Nothing has replaced the Bridge organisations who were funded by ACE for ten years to focus on cultural learning from Early Years upwards....
Posted by AiQ-vcU-meL on Time for a national youth arts trust?
Some interesting ideas. Wonder about myth re Brexit and the like that autonomy gives agency and power. The arts and creative education so...
Posted by Nikki Shepperd on Time for a national youth arts trust?
Just for the record, I retired from Jazz Services in 2014 before they lost their Arts Council funding and before they rebranded. My crrent...
Thanks for your article Ruth. You make an interesting point about evidence of direct interference by the government of China. The current...
Posted by Hxp-X4v-HMG on Artistic freedom: Threats and challenges
This is all just smoke and mirrors to try to cover up the fact that this organisation is not independent, nor is it interested in talking...
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...
Posted by Diogenes the cat on Arts Council England: What is to be done?
Andrew Pinnock's protest is absolutely correct. I very much doubt that the review led by Dame Archer will produce more than a small...
Andrew Pinnock is right on target but I fear Andrew is only scratching the surface. The problem facing the Arts is the sheer...
Posted by Chris Hodgkins on Arts Council England: What is to be done?

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