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Ahead of the Spring Budget on 6 March, UK Music has appealed to the Chancellor to support the music sector, including an extension on Orchestra Tax Relief.
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Elise Phillips's work clearly demonstrates that technology can enhance the health and wellbeing impacts of dance work with neurologically disabled people.
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Eight arts organisations from across the island of Ireland are to receive up to £11,000 each as part of the Bank of Ireland’s Begin Together Arts Fund.
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Four new trustees have been appointed to Equity's board, the union for performers and stage managers.
Taking up their posts this month are actors IMELDA STAUNTON and ADRIAN LESTER,...
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London's Barbican Centre is in need of more than £450m for essential works, the City of London Corporation has said.
The BBC reports that so far £25m has been committed to repair...
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The Open Fund supports activities initiated by artists, producers and creative practitioners across Scotland.
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Manchester City Council's licensing committee has received objections to the planned opening of the 23,500-seat Co-Op Live arena in April from another local venue and the Music Venue Trust (MVT...
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Following an IPO-commissioned report, DCMS Minister Julia Lopez says government will not enforce equitable remuneration for music streaming and will instead convene a music industry working group to consider the matter.
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Emergency roof repairs were carried out across four galleries at the British Museum last week following an "endless series of leaks", according to a report in Arts Newspaper.
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A new survey conducted by SOLT & UK Theatre has found that a higher rate of Theatre Tax relief drove the employment of nearly 15,000 people in the last financial year.
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HELEN MARRIAGE, Founder and Artistic Director of creative company Artichoke, has been appointed as Chair of arts organisation IOU.
Based in Halifax, IOU is a Creation Centre with over 10,000...
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The owner and operator of the Dominion Theatre in London's West End has purchased the Grade-II listed building's freehold with the support of a "multi-million-pound" loan from...
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Millinery is often overlooked in the worlds of fashion and education. But, as Matthew Cunningham shares, it is experiencing a comeback.
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MELANIE LEWIS will join the Association for Cultural Enterprises in March as Chair.
She takes over from CAROLINE BROWN, who has served for eight years as Chair at the Investment Principles...
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Survey commissioned by the National Lottery Heritage Fund highlights action being taken by heritage organisations in the face of budget pressures.
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A £4.7m extension to Nuneaton Museum has been paused after a council review of capital projects said the expenditure in the 2019-2020 business plan had not accounted for soaring interest rates...
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A total of 20 new partnerships between UK- and Germany-based arts organisations have been awarded funding of £310,000 for 2024/25.
The money is being provided through the third annual...
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A letter sent to Arts Council England on 9 February highlighted concerns that guidance around political statements represented 'an attempt to engage in policing of artistic freedoms'.
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A statue of the transatlantic slave trader Edward Colston will go on display at Bristol's M Shed museum after councillors rubberstamped the move yesterday (21 February).
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Royal Ballet Principal dancer ALEXANDER CAMPBELL will be the new Artistic Director at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), it has been announced.
Succeeding RAD's previous Artistic Director,...
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Birmingham City Council has announced plans to remove all financial support for its regularly funded arts organisations as part of a strict budget designed to save £300m over the next two years.
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EMMA NICOLSON is to take up the role of Head of Visual Arts at Creative Scotland.
Nicolson will join the funding body in May, following the early retirement of her predecessor, AMANDA CATTO, in...
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Co-founder and Chief Executive of Threshold Studios UZMA JOHAL has announced she will depart the organisation to take up a new role at Counterculture.
SAMANTHA LINDLEY will step up from Co-...
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Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer says theatre audiences should be 'treated in an adult way' despite campaigners insisting that trigger warnings are an important tool for improving accessibility.
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A group of young people have been given £3.6m to transform a former primary school into an arts, sports and education centre for their community.
The BBC reports that Tiber Young People'...