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Seven cities make Eurovision 2023 shortlist

Seven UK cities are in the running to host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The shortlist...
Repatriation: Museums must be 'transparent' about collections

Museums should make efforts to publish detailed provenance information about their collections and...
Arts businesses have six months to register banking disputes

The Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS) has announced that cultural and creative sector...
Brunel Museum to support young women in engineering

The Brunel Museum has announced it will use funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund to...
Heritage Fund moots investment in 'places of need'

The rationale for deciding which heritage projects receive National Lottery funding is to be...
UK's only LGBT+ theatre seeks new home

The UK's only exclusively LGBT+ theatre is seeking a new home after the sudden announcement of its...
HOME Slough opens applications for arts grants

HOME Slough has launched the On Your Doorstep programme, an arts grant funding scheme that aims to...
Controversial museum expansion given green light

Controversial plans to add a new central hall to the National Railway Museum in York have been...
Equity launches Comedians’ Charter at Edinburgh Fringe

Equity has launched a new Comedians’ Charter that aims to improve the working lives and ensure the...
One person turns up to watch Fringe comedian

A comedian who went ahead with his Fringe show despite having just one person in the audience has...
Croydon criticised for insensitive name of arts fund

Croydon Council and Executive Mayor of Croydon Jason Perry have come in for criticism for the name...
New funding round for British music exports

DCMS and the Department of International Trade have committed £500,000 in new funding for the...
ACE disability access card pilot rescheduled to 2024

A sector-wide access card for disabled audiences is due to be trialled two years later than first...
Johnson considers peerage for Dorries

Boris Johnson is preparing to offer Nadine Dorries a peerage in the Prime Minister’s Resignation...
Liverpool Playhouse plans major refurbishment

Liverpool Playhouse Theatre is set to undergo a major refurbishment. The Liverpool & Merseyside...

Arts People

Three trustees join Association of Independent Museums

The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) has elected three new trustees. LIZ POWER is Director of the London Museum of Water and Steam...

Arts University Plymouth appoints Chief Operating Officer

RICHARD WATSON is Arts University Plymouth's Chief Operating Officer, a new role at the university. A Finance Executive, Watson has 25...

Bandopadhyay joins Paul Hamlyn Foundation

SHOUBHIK BANDOPADHYAY has been named as Head of Programme - Arts at the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Bandopadhyay, who will join the...

Ruane reappointed by Abbey Theatre

Dr FRANCES RUANE has been reappointed as chair of the board of Abbey Theatre by Irleand's Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht,...

Clean Break names three new trustees

Clean Break, a charity committed to transforming women’s lives through the power of theatre, has welcomed EMILY ASHTON, RANIA JUMAILY and...

Latest Features

Is ACE’s diversity strategy - and reporting - fit for purpose?

Reading ACE’s latest Equality, Diversity and Inclusion data report, it appears diversity is primarily seen as the number of people who work for or visit arts institutions like the Royal Opera House, says Kevin Osborne.
Museums must play a role in climate emergency

With the climate crisis worsening, museum professionals are having to put environmental issues at the forefront of their decision-making, writes Veronica Ferrari.
The future of storytelling

One of 50 creative practitioners trained in immersive technology to create UNBOXED’s StoryTrails, DJ McDowall shares how these skills can celebrate communities and foster a sense of belonging.
Mass gift-making as a shared symbolic act

With athletes about to arrive in Birmingham for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, a mass gift-making initiative has been underway to welcome them. Deirdre Figueiredo led the project.
Strengthening the India-UK bond

Marking the 75th anniversary of independence, India/UK Together is a season of culture with co-created projects that address shared global challenges. Jonathan Kennedy reports.
Supporting health workers through dance

Can the arts help restore wellbeing and resilience to health workers? Becky Wright shares a pilot project addressing this question.

Readers' Comments

The decreases in participation must be taken seriously and actions should emerge once the real impact is felt. However, readers will find...

Posted by Change Agent on Deprivation gap for arts participation widens

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Of course the creative arts should be treated seriousy - they used to have a place in both the NHS and Mental Health NHS work - Speech,...

Posted by CCPMarketPlace COLIN on Government mental health strategy 'needs to include arts'

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Surely one of the most worrying aspects of this is responsibility for the breach of customer data being disclaimed because it’s “lost”...

Posted by HCB on Exclusive: Major arts organisations affected by ransomware data breach

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Just to clarify that Creative Estuary (as our CDF project is known) is across the Thames Estuary in both Kent and Essex.

Posted by EWilcox on Successful CDF bids share commitment to cultural legacy

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This clearly very worrying as jobs will be a stake if ACE clients lose their funding. Following this shoch, attention will turn to the...

Posted by Change Agent on ACE to offer 'wind down' funding for unsuccessful NPOs

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The Grantium portal is fairly easy to use but it not impossible to follow. It is not a bridge for 'spoon feeding'. Arts...

Posted by Change Agent on ACE pandemic response was a lifeline for the arts, new report says

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Plus ca change? No, Not change for the sake of change. Even worse, the threat of using 'change' as a' 'weapon' to...

Posted by Change Agent on Government schedules ACE review for 2023

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The above article is full of good intentions and so it is best to ignore some of the critical assumptions which need to be challenged, The...

Posted by Change Agent on Tackling taboos in the British South Asian community

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Working with an for arts production companies has made it very clear that most, if not all, of their work is funding led. Put in common...

Posted by Change Agent on A radical re-think of R&D policy

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Dorries says, "For me what's important is that the money goes out into the areas of the UK where it has never been spent before,...

Posted by Change Agent on Dorries: abolition of ACE 'not on government agenda'

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