Arts People
English National Opera (ENO) has announced that HARRY BRUNJES will step down as Chair of ENO and London Coliseum at the end of the company's 2024/25 season.
Brunjes has been Chair of the...
News
Additional funding would help arts and heritage organisations deal with the 'crisis in capital funding of cultural and heritage buildings', report says.
Arts People
Outside Edge Theatre Company (OETC), which uses the performing arts to support people affected by addiction, has welcomed SARAH FRANKCOM, BRIAN DORGAN, TANIA MOY and DAVID WORKMAN to its Board.
As...
News
Norwich Theatre is offering a creative programme for children that will be accessible on a 'pay what you can' basis.
Aimed at children aged seven to 15, the scheme, which runs during the...
News
The Tyne Theatre and Opera House has been awarded £500k as part of Creative Central NCL, a project funded by the North East Combined Authority and Newcastle City Council to develop creativity...
From issue 379
Feature
Fiona Morris explores the wide-ranging benefits of arts organisations building place-based partnerships.
Opinion
Do your governance and leadership teams have a strategy for the use of AI? Or are your teams just experimenting without direction? Cath Hume thinks now’s the time to develop robust policy.
Feature
Universities and creative industries may seem unlikely bedfellows, but their potential - in partnership - to catalyse growth should not be underestimated, write Professor Katy Shaw and Darren Henley.
Arts People
MICHAEL EAKIN will retire as Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society in March 2025 after over 16 years leading the organisation.
Eakin joined the...
Arts People
The Welsh government's Deputy Minister for Culture and Sport has confirmed JULIE SANGANI, SARAH BOSWELL and JONATHAN PUGH as members of Arts Council Wales.
Currently a Cabinet Member...
Opinion
Why are athletes praised for being elite, while the same epithet applied to musicians carries a connotation of being exclusionary? asks Michelle Robinson.
News
Signs of a slowdown follow years of rapid growth for the creative industries with both the previous Conservative government and the current Labour government hailing them a global success story for the UK.
News
Equity has announced that its members in the chorus of the Welsh National Opera have voted to pause their first and second days of strike action planned for 21 September and 29 September, following...
Arts People
Bradford-based performance company, Mind the Gap (MTG) has appointed a new co-leadership team of CHALI WARD as Creative Director, and MARIA THELWELL as Executive Producer.
They take up the...
News
Caroline Dinenage, Chair of the Commons Culture, Media, and Sport Committee, has criticised the government for revoking the appointment of Mary Archer as Chair of London’s Royal Parks.
News
The Library Campaign has submitted a formal complaint to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) against London Borough of Croydon.
The complaint, filed under Section 10 of the Public...
News
A report from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation shows arts and culture grants from trusts and foundations spiked in financial year 2020/21, before falling below pre-pandemic levels in 2021/22.
News
A five-week run of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been cancelled at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
A modern take on the Shakespeare classic was due to run from September 6 until...
News
Joe Lycett has launched an arts 'manifesto' after being unveiled as the orchestrator of a series of staged protests by a masked group claiming to oppose the arts.
Arts People
The Turner’s House Trust has announced JENNIFER FRANCIS as the museum’s new Director and LUCY LITTLEWOOD as its new Chair with immediate effect.
Francis succeeds MATTHEW MORGAN, who is...
Arts People
JEANIE SCOTT has been appointed Chief Executive of Dance Base.
She will take up the role as head of Scotland’s National Centre for Dance in November, succeeding JIM HOLLINGTON....
Feature
Among the thousands of art lovers that flocked to the Edinburgh Festival last month was a British Council delegation of global creative tastemakers who are working to build international connections. Alex Lalak met one of them from China.
News
Arts Minister Chris Bryant says DCMS is working with the Welsh government to ‘understand the situation’ around Welsh National Opera’s funding, but ruled out his department stepping in.
The heritage industry needs all the resilience it can muster, reasons Simon Tait as he looks at the legacy of the business support programme, Heritage Compass.
Council support for the arts isn't only a case of cash, says Tom Plater. Here are his recommendations for measures local authorities can take to help the sector during difficult financial times.