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Arts Council England 'confident' ahead of Spending Review

Arts Council England says it it "confident" of the Government's support as the Spending Review...
UNBOXED 2022 offers innovation - and employment

Next year's cultural mega event will showcase the best in cross-sector innovation - and provide...
Khan invests £1m to diversify London’s public spaces

A new fund to improve the diversity of London’s public spaces has been announced by London Mayor...
Question marks over festival insurance scheme

Event organisers say they have been unable to obtain quotes for the Government's Live Events...
Over a third of music industry jobs lost in 2020

69,000 music jobs – one in three of the total workforce – were lost last year due to Covid-19, UK...
Manchester’s Factory to open in 2023 after delays

Manchester’s flagship arts venue The Factory won’t open until 2023 due to delays caused by Covid-19...
CMA to assess music streaming market

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a study into the UK’s music streaming...
White-led Chinese art gallery seeks new director

Manchester’s Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) is recruiting a new director following the...
LGBTIQ+ development programme reopens

Brighton's Malborough Productions has opened applications to the fourth year of its New Queers on...
Science Museum slammed over 'reckless' sponsorship deal

The Science Museum has struck yet another sponsorship deal with a fossil fuel funded company,...
Design chosen for National Windrush Monument

The Windrush Commemoration Committee has selected Basil Watson’s design to stand as the National...
Essex to launch local arts recovery fund

Essex County Council will launch a local Arts and Cultural Recovery Fund for next month. The fund...
London to repurpose Royal Docks as cultural quarter

London’s Royal Docks is set to become ‘London’s cultural engine’ under plans to repurpose the space...
Scotland starts enforcing vaccine passports

Scottish venues that fail to verify vaccine passports face fines of up to £10,000. The Scottish...
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory stops production

Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory has announced it will stop producing plays after 21 years. Sited...

Arts People

Glyndebourne's Managing Director to retire

Glyndebourne's Managing Director SARAH HOPWOOD will retire this autumn. Hopwood's career at Glyndebourne has spanned almost 25 years. She...

Frome Festival Director announces retirement

MARTIN DIMERY, Frome Festival's Creative Director since 2007, will retire after the 2022 festival. Prior to his work with Frome Festival,...

Abel named new Iris Prize chair

TOM ABELL has been named as the Iris Prize's new chair. He succeeds ANDREW PIERCE, who chaired the LGBT+ short film prize for almost seven...

Al-Salloum to leave Spark Arts for Children

Spark Arts for Children Director ADEL AL-SALLOUM is set to leave on October 29. Al-Salloum, who has led the charity for nine years, will...

Opera North refreshes senior management team

Opera North has announced changes to its senior management team, including DAVID COLLINS' appointment as Executive Director / Deputy CEO....

Latest Features

Welcome to UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK

What happens when creative minds from different sectors and disciplines come together to imagine and design bold, large-scale events to reach millions of people worldwide? Martin Green reveals what’s in store for 2022.
Covid-19 and the global cultural and creative sector

Anthony Sargent says we need to identify what we've learned from Covid, then build on those foundations rather than reassemble broken pieces of the past.
Arts and higher education: a successful partnership in action

Creating and sharing new knowledge - through teaching, learning, impact and public engagement - lies at the heart of relationships between universities and cultural organisations, Professor Katy Shaw and Claire Malcolm write.
An explosion of creative energy

Universities often lack the resources for large scale art programmes, yet the University of Kent has launched an ambitious creative season. David Sefton explores the relationship between academic institutions and the arts.
Changing lives with creativity

The arts have a huge role to play in health and wellbeing. Jane Rich shares how creative practitioners can support mental health without being mental health professionals themselves.
Governance beyond the ‘great and the good’

Our sector is supported by trustees and directors who, through their passion and skills, have stepped up to support organisations when the need has been greatest. But, as Jonathan Mayes argues, our boards could do better.

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Posted by ruth_hogarth on We need to talk about race

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One of the most challenging but a better way of running diverse teams is to engage them in arts production and delivery. I would like to...

Posted by Change Agent on We need to talk about race

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Diana, you provide devastating news about how work in London based HE is no longer a strategic priority for government. Yes, higher...

Posted by Change Agent on Levelling down London’s HE sector

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Hi Joel - the report can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/music-creators-earnings-in-the-digital-era

Posted by adele_redmond on Only 720 UK artists make a living from music streaming

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Posted by Joel Mills on Only 720 UK artists make a living from music streaming

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I think it was the highly experienced Arts Manager Sir John Tusa who, some years ago, remarked that whilst the Arms Length principle still...

Posted by Paul Kelly on Is DCMS any longer fit for purpose?

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It was Raymond Williams who, in a celebrated 1979 Political Quarterly essay about his experience on the Arts Council, first christened it...

Posted by Diogenes the cat on Is DCMS any longer fit for purpose?

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This is an excellent set of notes and papers which will lead to much bigger things as the work matures. The writer will be aware that...

Posted by Change Agent on Need to diversify, but can’t find the staff?

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This is a very useful contribution in that it tries to examine and provide the mechanism for levelling up in the arts and the cultural...

Posted by Change Agent on How Government can avoid missing the mark on levelling up

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It would be interesting to know if either study took into account the furloughing of staff - many marketing teams were running at reduced...

Posted by Amy from AMA on Digital didn't change arts engagement, study finds

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