New commissioning guidelines will ensure that at least one lead character in all Channel 4 scripted programmes is from an ethnic minority background, has a disability or is lesbian, gay, bisexual or...
The Brighton Hippodrome site has been sold to a landlord who will not be proceeding with plans to turn it into a cinema. The Our Brighton Hippodrome campaign group has welcomed the news, saying this...
Tyne Theatre & Opera House Ltd has been set up by the venue’s owner, Tyne Theatre & Opera House Preservation Trust, to take over from SMG, which ceases management of the theatre after...
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Does charging artists fees to enter open exhibitions amount to asking them to subsidise the sector? Jack Hutchinson examines the issues.
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Andrew Dixon celebrates the huge success of the UK City of Culture programme with Derry in 2013 and Hull in 2017, but feels that it must now seek to build on this positive momentum to the benefit of other regional cities.
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Cost saving measures to be introduced at the flagship Library of Birmingham will see specialist staff working with the internationally recognised photography collection lose their jobs.
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Ten of the UK’s most powerful local authorities will be making the case for devolution across the board – including culture – at a Summit to be held in Glasgow next month.
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Employees of arts organisations are being asked to respond to a questionnaire about parental leave, flexible working and other issues of importance to parents and carers.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has for the first time commissioned artists to promote a supported cause. The online campaign to promote vaccination is using social media to raise...
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New music can be attractive to anyone but it all depends on how we hear about it and then where we first hear it, believes Tania Holland Williams.
Dorset County Council’s arts related services are to be moved into a Community Interest Company, which will be employee owned and supported by the county council.
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Oussama Rifahi explains how the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture supports artists working in challenging situations with very limited resources.
Leading representatives from theatre, music and sport are opposing Government plans to block a clause in the Consumer Rights Bill aimed at ending "unscrupulous" practices in the secondary...
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Local authorities in the UK’s largest cities are calling for a fairer share of government arts funding and devolution of cultural budgets to regional cultural capitals, warning that they will be concentrating their own resources on statutory services.
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Dorothy Wilson offers a celebratory obituary of the career and achievements of Geoff Sims, former Director of mac birmingham.
Stage Directors UK says a survey it conducted shows “shockingly and irrefutably how directors have been subsidising theatre for years”, although two theatres have already disputed low...
Ownership of the theatre is being transferred to York Conservation Trust for a nominal sum, on the condition that it spends £450k to cover “immediate maintenance issues”.
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The future shape and membership of ACW’s revenue portfolio will be determined by a Review aimed at identifying the right organisations to deliver its strategies.
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DR NICHOLAS CULLINAN is the new Director of London’s National Portrait Gallery, following the resignation of SANDY NAIRNE. Cullinan was Curator of International Modern Art at Tate Modern from...
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The new Head of Partnerships for Wysing Arts Centre is CHELSEA PETTITT. She leaves Southbank Centre where she has been for eight years, most recently as Assistant Curator for the Hayward Touring team...
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CEO of the Arts Council of New Zealand, STEPHEN WAINWRIGHT has succeeded ALAN DAVEY as Chair of the Board of the International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies (IFACCA).
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Dance artist and teacher SUE SMITH is the new Executive Director for Dance in Devon, replacing GILLIAN DALE, who retires after leading the organisation for eight years.
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SARAH KELL, who has been running Sarah Kell Ltd since 2008, is the new Programme Manager for Buxton Opera House. SUSANNE HOWE also joins the company as Financial Controller.
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WhatsOnStage has appointed theatre critic and arts journalist MATT TRUEMAN to its editorial team. He is currently Chief London Critic for Variety and co-editor of Theatre Voice.