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Case study
As part of a project to build new audiences for orchestral music, Rachel Escott explains her ‘stumbled across’ tactic to bring music to people in everyday places.
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News
A new national initiative to boost the development of choreographic practice will give groups of secondary school and college students from across the UK the chance to create and perform short works...
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News
Following in the footsteps of the theatre sector, Orchestras Live is looking to tackle the relative inaccessibility of orchestral concerts.
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Darren Henley, ACE’s new Chief Executive, joins the chorus of senior arts figures denouncing a recent comment piece in the Telegraph calling for the end to subsidised theatre.
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Julie’s Bicycle profiles rural touring theatre company Pentabus, as it attempts to give every facet of its work an ecological makeover.
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There is a shortage in excellent opportunities for ethnic minority and disabled actors, so let’s stop talking about change and give quotas a try, says Lyn Gardner.
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News
The success of the Cultural Programme associated with the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has led to cultural activity being listed among the formal criteria used to judge bids to host future Games.
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Sian Hoyle and Jenny Denton explain how, with relatively little experience, they established The Derby Book Festival.
Chancellor George Osborne announced a £30m cut for the DCMS as part of his £4.5bn savings plan for 2015-16. Arts Council England has been asked to make savings of 0.3% this year, which...
A survey looking at actors employed at 18 theatres over the course of a month found that disabled people, women and minority ethnic groups are significantly under-represented.
The Jubilee Amphitheatre in Oadby’s Brocks Hill Country Park will be used by professional, amateur and community theatre groups. It was funded by the borough council, which manages the park.
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News
Research into the impact of local government cuts on cultural activity has found sports and libraries face heavier cuts than the arts.
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News
The Arts Council of Wales has published details of progress in the Investment Review that will determine its portfolio of revenue funded organisations from April 2016.
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News
A new writer-in-residence based at the National Library of Scotland will lead Creative Scotland’s drive to promote the language.
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News
Universities will partner arts organisations to deliver robust research outcomes that will make the case for investment in culture.
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Formerly Senior Relationship Manager at Arts Council England, MELANIE KEEN will join Iniva in September as Director. She returns to the gallery having previously held the role of curator.
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After eight years as Head of Marketing and Communications at West Yorkshire Playhouse, PAULA RABBITT is to leave to become Communications Manager at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre.
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We are delighted to announce that FRANCES RICHENS has been promoted from Web Editor to Deputy Editor, and that CHRISTY ROMER has joined the team as our Publishing Executive. Welcome!
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TERRY HANDS, who has been Artistic Director of Clywd Theatr Cymru since 1997, will be replaced by TAMARA HARVEY, who recently directed Pride and Prejudice at Sheffield Crucible.
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REYAHN KING is to replace JANET BARNES as York Museums Trust Chief Executive. King leaves the Heritage Lottery Fund, where she worked as Head of the West Midlands region.
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PIPPA FOX, formerly of Theatre Royal Bury St Edmonds, is to be the new Company Administrator at Gecko Theatre.
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Chichester Festival Theatre Artistic Director JONATHAN CHURCH is set to leave in 2016, after 10 years in post, to establish his own production company backed by Delfont Mackintosh Theatres.
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DAVID BROWNLEE, who has been Executive Director of UK Theatre since 2012, will step down in September to form a new industry guidance company called Bon Culture, in partnership with Family Arts...
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News
Most arts sector workers feel able to discuss their caring responsibilities with a manager, but few are actively asked about these, a survey reveals.
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Feature
David Carrington explains what arts organisations seeking commercial support can learn from the recent Tate/BP sponsorship freedom of information case.