A stage manager who spent six months in hospital and uses a wheelchair since an accident at Soho Theatre will receive one of the biggest ever compensation payouts in the UK entertainment sector.
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The new College is one of seven employer-led, Government-backed initiatives aiming to plug skills gaps in sectors considered critical to economic growth.
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FRANCESCA HEGYI has been appointed Director of Partnerships and Development for Hull City of Culture. Hegyi recently led Culture at King’s Cultural Enquiry into major events and will remain...
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Writer and filmmaker HANNAH ROTHSCHILD will take over as Chair of the Board at the National Gallery when MARK GETTY’s current term comes to an end in 2015. Rothschild, who has served on the...
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Labour MP CHRIS BRYANT is the new Shadow Minister for the Arts, replacing HELEN GOODMAN MP, who takes over his appointment as Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform. 
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The new CEO of the Nordoff Robbins music therapy charity will be JULIE WHELAN. She leaves the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust after six and a half years at the helm.
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Musical Theatre Network has appointed two new trustees to its board: the new Artistic Director of Leicester Curve, NIKOLAI FOSTER, and ANDREW SUBRAMANIAM, Partner at chartered accountants HW Fisher...
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After eight years as part of Longborough Festival Opera’s administration team, AMANDA LAIDLER is leaving to pursue freelance projects.
Plans to give Edinburgh International Festival-goers more lead-time to book some events have backfired, with customers complaining about having to book one half of the Festival without knowledge of...
From issue 280 Feature
Partnership working has aided the fortunes of arts organisations across the country, allowing them to embark on projects previously unimaginable. Mary Cloake explains how collaboration has helped in Liverpool.
Theatre-in-education company The Play House, based at the Birmingham Rep theatre, will be funded by the Home Office to run 40 anti-extremism workshops as part of a wider action plan being drawn up in...
A supplier has taken full responsibility for a production error which led to Edinburgh Playhouse sending hundreds of pornographic DVDs to children and their parents. The DVDs should have featured...
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Among an expert audience of 100 film, TV and arts practitioners, Maggie Brown could find no one to speak up in defence of the £16m digital platform 'The Space'.
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Damian Thompson reports on allegations of a darker side to the Venezuelan music ‘miracle’ El Sistema, and finds some parallels in the UK's specialist music schools.
Up to £20m will be spent on planned improvements to the McLellan Galleries, to enable staff and students to take up permanent residence in the Sauchiehall Street building.
A thief has walked away with a £400,000 sculpture from Italy’s National Gallery of Modern Art by hiding it under his jacket and walking out of the building while staff were distracted....
The High Court has overturned Justice Secretary Chris Grayling's ban on sending books to people in prison, imposed last year as part of a wider crackdown on prisoners’ “perks and...
From issue 280 Case study
Lincolnshire’s network of arts venues has been a life-saver – as some venues may not have survived without it, according to Chloe Brown.
From issue 280 Case study
Louisa Davison tells how two companies have pulled down the barriers between ballet and integrated contemporary dance.
From issue 280 Case study
The European Regional Development Fund can be a crucial source of funding, but relations and processes between the partners involved need to be coherently managed, advises Florence Harmelin.
From issue 280 Case study
Glasgow will be hosting the Turner Prize next year for the first time. Marie Christie believes that a partnership approach will make the event stronger and its reach wider.
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Sir Peter Bazalgette has outlined a “fundamental shift” in the Arts Council’s approach to diversity, aiming to make creative opportunities more accessible to all.
"Misconduct and/or mismanagement" by two former trustees at the Concordia Theatre in Hinckley, Leicestershire, coupled with shortcomings in the charity’s Child Protection Policy, put...
The Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) is leading the development of a comprehensive online catalogue of sculpture held across the UK, including pieces on display in museums and galleries, works in...
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Bob and Roberta Smith sets out an election manifesto to take on Michael Gove in his Surrey Heath constituency.

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