How to produce sust...

With her experience of working across multiple projects, Sarah Fortescue explores how the sector...

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Culture Secretary says the UK can 'support positive social change' in Saudi Arabia through...

Council urged to di...

Think tank calls for Kirklees Council to abandon plans to demolish a former shopping centre that...

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Everyman and Playhouse theatres name new Creative Director

NATHAN POWELL has been appointed Creative Director for two of Merseyside’s most iconic venues - Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse theatres....
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Lyceum appoints new Theatre Director

GRAHAM MCKNIGHT will join Crewe’s Lyceum Theatre as Theatre Director. He succeeds RHYS HOPKIN who, after two years in the role, will take...
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Midland Art Centre welcomes new Chair

Midlands Arts Centre has named ROS ROBINS as its new Chair, succeeding MARY MARTIN. She joined the venue as Vice Chair in 2023 and will...
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Mercury Theatre Creative Director steps down

RYAN MCBRYDE is to depart from his role as Creative Director of the Mercury Theatre at the end of May after five years in post. As a...
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ABTT welcomes new Chief Exec

LIZ SILLETT has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABBT). She will start the role...

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    How to produce sustainable arts projects

    With her experience of working across multiple projects, Sarah Fortescue explores how the sector can deliver what they do best, in the best way possible?

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    Brexit losses

    After a recent appearance before Wales’s Culture Committee, Charlotte Faucher has been rethinking our new relationship with Europe.

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    We make the road by walking

    Long-term Heart of Glass collaborator Chrissie Tiller reflects on working with the Merseyside-based NPO and how, by building deeper relationships with communities, the arts can create fairer futures.

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    Creating space for collective learning

    Evaluation reports in the cultural sector can be packed full of learning. Emma McDowell explores how we might unearth this existing knowledge.

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    Making friends with philanthropy advisors

    You may not have met a philanthropy advisor before, but it is a growing profession, so be ready. Emma Beeston, who’s been one for ten years, explains how they work and why they can be helpful for your organisation.

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    Why is a theatre company running a leadership academy?

    Introducing an ambitious initiative at a time when subsidised arts organisations are being asked to do less seems like madness. But for Slung Low it is a natural next step in their exploration of where civic responsibility meets cultural capital, writes Rachel Perry.

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Good news. Stonewall have been providing inaccurate information in their training and information packs - focusing in the law as they would...
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Hear, hear - well said.
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Most of the censorship and self-censorship happens well behind the scenes and well before performances, events, exhibitions are ever staged...
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well it depends on what your 'cause' and work is. You are making your life's work putting tans people under threat of...
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Apart from the overall principle that one would imagine and hope that artists would decry what is effectively censorship of any artist, it...
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Trans people have always existed and will always exist. Why does their flourishing trigger you so much? Amazing how theses bigots who...
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This article reads as: 1. Trans people are not humans as we know them - how can we undermine them? 2. We have to get OUR opinions on...
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This is a good and balanced article..it is vital that artists are able to express themselves freely. Having lived and worked in communist...
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Thank you for this thoughtful and heartfelt piece. The hyperbolic first comment- it’s hard to believe the author read the piece- shows the...
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Important and timely piece. The arts and artists should be free to say what they like and say it wherever they can. If you're in...
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