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Government to end funding for Creative Careers

Government funding for an initiative designed to address skills and workforce shortages in the...
Welsh Government announces £750,000 for libraries and museums

More than £750,000 of funding will be provided to help local libraries and museums develop their...
Lottery supporting artists and live music launches

A lottery designed to support independent artists within the music industry has launched....
National Archives and ACE announce collaboration

A new three-year collaboration agreement between the National Archives and Arts Council England...
Performance royalties lag amid music sector recovery

Royalty revenue from the playing of music in public venues remains down on pre-pandemic levels,...
Wales’ National Music Service gets green light

The Welsh government is moving ahead with plans to establish a national music service. The...
Aston Hall hosts campus for neurodivergent students

A campus offering creative education for neurodivergent students is opening at Birmingham’s Aston...
Global Screen Fund extended with £21m pledge

DCMS is extending its UK Global Screen Fund for three years with an additional £21m of funding....
National Day of Arts in Care Homes set for September

This year’s National Day of Arts in Care Homes will take place on 24 September, The National...
Music festivals pledge to tackle sexual violence

More than 100 UK music festivals have made a pledge to tackle sexual violence by creating a safe...
Musical theatre diner set for West End

The UK’s first theatrical diner is coming to London’s Shaftesbury Avenue. The Theatre Cafe Diner,...
Audit highlights UK's 'world-leading' art and music research

The vast majority of UK-based academic research in art, music, dance and drama is either "world-...
Third of Capital Investment Programme goes to priority places

Around one in three organisations receiving money from Arts Council England's (ACE) Capital...
‘Dynamic pricing’ to blame for £400 West End seats

A spokesperson for West End play Cock says “dynamic pricing” caused tickets to be priced at up to £...
Plymouth museum receives European accolade

Plymouth museum The Box was one of 12 museums to be recognised in this year’s European Museum of...

Arts People

Orange Tree Theatre appoints new Artistic Director

TOM LITTLER will take over as Artistic Director of Orange Tree Theatre at the end of the year. Coming to the new role from the West End’s...

Tawadros to become Whitechapel Gallery director

Whitechapel Gallery has named GILANE TAWADROS as its new director, starting in October 2022. A curator, writer and art historian, she will...

Leeds Playhouse names next Executive Director

SHAWAB IQBAL will become Leeds Playhouse’s Executive Director in October. Currently Gate Theatre London’s Executive Director and Chief...

Artichoke appoints five new trustees

Artichoke has appointed five new trustees to its board. They include World Cities Culture Forum Director of Partnerships LAIA GASCH,...

Creative Access to promote Hilton

BIBI HILTON will become Creative Access’ Chief Executive in September. Currently the organisation’s director of communications, Hilton was...

Latest Features

‘Make it SO’

In the last in our series profiling the shortlisted candidates for City of Culture 2025, Claire Whitaker shares how Southampton has been connecting the UK with people across the globe for thousands of years.
Generation post-pandemic

As the first generation of young people enters the creative industries post-pandemic, Anoushka Dossa has been examining the expectations and aspirations of this year’s school leavers and graduates.
Who runs the arts in England?

New research confirms that elite institutions are still the dominant players in the interconnecting networks running the arts. Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor share their findings.
Comparing apples to oranges

Arts organisations increasingly use data to inform their decision making. But, argue David Johnson and Sarah Thelwall, if it’s not relevant, it risks being distracting, or even misleading.
Evaluating the impacts of cities and capitals of culture

With the winner of the UK City of Culture 2025 to be announced imminently, four academics outline their recommendations for the future of evaluation studies of Cities and Capitals of Culture.
How dynamic are you?

What we used to think of as ‘contingency planning’ is now just planning, says Patrick Towell. That is what it means to be ‘dynamic’.

Readers' Comments

It's great to see the Citizens' Assembly approach taken by Coventry - it's an exciting way of directly engaging the public...

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Issues of culture and community are notoriously complex. It is not unusual for confusing and even contradictory claims to be made in their...

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Changing the name of Kala Sangam and its mission is the first step in cultural erasure. It will stop being about South Asian culture and...

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Hi I am Ahmed Kaysher, the director of Saudha (www.saudha.org). As an avid admirer of Kala Sangam, this report has now given a bit of...

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Thank you @Adele for raising this and writing a balanced article. I have been to number of Kalasangam programmes with my girls in the...

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Do I detect a certain concern for ownership of skills and expertise that are conducive to 'successful' expression'? ? If...

Posted by Change Agent on Sector must 'do less' to protect freelancers

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We are not Birmingham based but are in the West Midlands.We would like to include our names to this open letter. Every artistic project...

Posted by eJN-asM-q28 on Commonwealth Games’ diversity commitments questioned

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Is too much being made out of this? Staff do not have to be nominated Board Members but they must attend as staff, regardless of the rank...

Posted by Change Agent on NPO board rules 'potentially damaging' for arts charities

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I have always understood previous advice from the Charity Commission and the Arts Councils of the UK to be that paid staff of arts...

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