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Arts People
Former Chief Executive of The City of Edinburgh Council DAME SUSAN BRUCE has been appointed as the new Chair for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
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CAROLINE SHUTTER, who has been a trustee of Nottingham Playhouse since last year, has been appointed Chair of the Board.
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MARGARET CLIFT MCNULTY is set to join National Museums Scotland as the new Head of Development, having recently held a similar role at the University of Edinburgh.
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Barry Hessenius asks why the arts sector consistently refuses to listen to common sense when it comes to promoting and protecting itself.
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New literature suggests not only does the concept of wellbeing have a lot to offer the arts, but the arts have a lot to offer the wellbeing debate.
News
A £60k cinema and arts space, The Vale, has opened in Greater Manchester’s Mossley, offering residents a programme of film, craft, music and carnival, as well as hot desking and meeting...
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Four independent theatre performances will be broadcast live on BBC Four, as part of a £350k initiative supported by Arts Council England and Battersea Arts Centre. ‘Live from Television...
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Case study
Libby Penn reveals how MAC Belfast achieved ambitious attendance targets in its first year of operation with the help of a bespoke segmentation model.
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Do potential donors really understand the value of small-scale touring theatre? Joanna Ridout considers how the sector might better articulate its value.
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With the video of a Taiwanese boy tripping and punching a hole through a £1m painting in a museum going viral, Jean Brown asks what museums should be doing to protect their art.
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A controversial business guide for galleries – suggesting that artists should be paid 30% of sales, instead of 50% – may have enraged the sector. But what do the art experts think?
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The Labour leadership candidate has outlined his national strategy for the arts, which includes reversing arts cuts, introducing minimum fees for performances and exhibitions and setting up a cabinet...
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After landing her dream job at WhatsOnStage, Sita McIntosh reflects on who has inspired her career in theatre.
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Case study
Who really benefits from ‘pay what you can’ and ‘pay what you decide’ ticketing offers? Two organisations reveal whether it worked for them.
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Experimental theatre may now be more about ‘going against the grain’ than daring staging, says Matt Trueman, but artists are still happily experimenting with a fusion of form, technique and tradition.
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Lyn Gardner builds on the recent ‘A Nation’s Theatre’ debate into whether the Edinburgh Fringe is truly a level playing field, finding that artists need greater support if it is to become truly diverse.
News
ATG has acquired ACE Theatrical Group, a network of five theatres across America, taking the total number of theatres it runs to 45 worldwide.
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) are celebrating a record year, with just under 2.3 million tickets issued for Fringe events – an increase of 5% on 2014...
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Want to attract support from local businesses? First you’ve got to learn to talk the talk, advises Jon Flinn.
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Feature
The 2008 crash shook Ali Pretty’s outdoor arts company hard. But after a bold decision to split the organisation in two, it’s now doing better than ever.
News
The society of songwriters, composers and music publishers has decided to take legal action against the streaming service for not paying royalties after “five years of unsuccessful negotiations...
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UK organisations listed as non-profit on Facebook can now add a ‘donate now’ button to their pages and to paid-for adverts. The button redirects users to a web page of the charity’s...
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Is an arts organisation dedicated to LGBT issues still necessary or even relevant? Yes, says Neil Anderson, so long as it moves with the times.
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Arts People
Former Head of LSO Discovery at London Symphony Orchestra, ELEANOR GUSSMAN, is set to join Spitalfields Music as its new Chief Executive.
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The new Head of Theatre, Arts and Culture at Newport Live is GILLIAN MITCHELL, who was Director of Programmes for The MAC in Belfast until 2014.