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Greater fairness in Lottery funding would help to redress the wider geographic arts funding imbalance that sees London benefit “out of all proportion to its population”, says Select Committee.
Shakespeare's Globe has launched GlobePlayer.tv to host its film catalogue of more than fifty productions. Thirty are foreign language stagings, including Richard III in Mandarin and Troilus...
UK arts and cultural organisations received 25 donations worth over £1m in 2013, compared with 20 the previous year, but the total value of these fell from £95m to £91m.
Proposals for plugging a £46m hole in Gateshead Council's finances include 15% funding cuts for Sage Gateshead and BALTIC, and a 10% cut to the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums Service.
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Hye-Kyung Lee traces the history of arts marketing though three different phases, each posing new challenges and requiring arts marketers to rethink their aims and remits.
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Securing funding to produce its own play for the first time has been the breakthrough that Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury has wanted for some time, says Mark Everett.
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Local authority cuts mean that some libraries are no longer lending music scores to amateur groups. Barbara Eifler explains why she is campaigning to restore this valuable service.
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Arts Council England's response to a potentially fraudulent funding application reveals a culture of deliberate secrecy that puts government departments to shame, says Mira Bar-Hillel.
Bangor University cancelled its opening production and refunded tickets at the last minute, despite having been warned six months earlier that its £44m arts centre was at high risk of being...
The Duke Street Theatre was converted from a derelict warehouse by Renegade Theatre Company for a single site-specific production. But the company “fell in love with it”, and the venue...
Dejan Lazic wrote to the Washington Post to request that a 2010 review of his performance be unpublished online under the European Union ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling, prompting a debate...
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How a project teaching clowning, mime, and dance techniques to medical students is helping them develop communication skills and bring compassion to their work.
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How the arts-on-prescription service in Sefton is turning every £1 of expenditure into £6.95 worth of health benefits.
The union has submitted a claim which would see commercial producers paying higher minimum rates on tours and the introduction of a new single living away allowance for performers and stage...
Magnus Linklater, Chairman of Horsecross Arts and a former chairman of the Scottish Arts Council, has spoken out against Creative Scotland’s decision to cut funding while its theatre is closed...
New research by the Crafts Council found that the contribution of craft is much bigger than previously thought. It concludes that £3.4bn was generated through craft skills in the craft sector,...
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Changes to charity law will give greater powers to the Charity Commission to tackle abuse and mismanagement.
Paul Roseby has come under fire after telling an Artsmark conference: “We don’t need drama on the curriculum in such a formalised way.” The NYT Chief Executive would like to see...
The school is planning a £13m redevelopment and expansion of its campus in Swiss Cottage, London, in a bid to turn it into “one of the major Off-West End sites”.
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Chief Executive of Luton Culture, MAGGIE APPLETON MBE, is stepping down after six years in post to take up the position of CEO at the Royal Air Force Museum. Appleton is also a Heritage Lottery Fund...
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After nine years as Director of Stratford Circus, CLARE CONNOR is stepping down to become Director of Business Development at the Southbank Centre.
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JASON WOOD is leaving Curzon, where he has been Director of Programming for five years, to become Artistic Director: Film at Manchester’s new art centre HOME.
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The new Producer for English Touring Theatre is JAMES QUAIFE. His recent productions include Next Fall at the Southwark Playhouse and Good People at the Noel Coward Theatre.
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Manchester Camerata has appointed three new board members: Chief Executive of the Commission for the New Economy MIKE EMMERICH; Partner, Transaction Advisory Services at EY (formerly Ernst and...
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The Interim CEO of Poet in the City, ISOBEL COLCHESTER, will remain on permanently in the role. She has been associated with the organisation for more than five years.