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With so many festivals in the UK what makes for a successful and sustainable festival? Holly Lombardo discusses some vital building blocks.
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Sara Pepper just landed her dream job as Director of Creative Economy at Cardiff University. She tells us what exactly she does and how she came to do it.
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At the Conservative Party Conference, Sam West explains exactly why culture matters, how it can be used to build a better nation, and issues a rallying cry to end cuts to local authority budgets.
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Guy O’Donnell explains how Sherman Cymru is encouraging first-time attenders, and making sure they return, through a pioneering new project.
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Want to encourage your audience and visitors to become donors? David Dixon explains how.
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Musician Anthea Prince reflects on her journey into the music education sector.
New scheme GiveADay is pairing information security professionals with charities. Each expert will volunteer at a charity for a day, giving advice on data protection, information security and ways to...
Following the loss of its National Portfolio status, the gallery has posted a notice on its website saying “we are now concentrating intensively on fundraising to ensure a future for Spacex...
More than half of all comedy events on sale outside of London take place in theatres, a new report has shown. Theatres are also generally preferred over arenas as venues, while a third of comedy...
Seventeen organisations will receive grants totalling £1.42m from a fund set up by the city council following its decision to axe regular funding to arts organisations. Among the biggest...
Sunday's live broadcast from London’s Victoria Palace Theatre took a record £1.9m, beating new release The Equalizer and becoming the first ever live cinema event to top the UK box...
Petitions against local authority cuts to arts organisations in Portsmouth and Harrow have attracted hundreds of signatories.
There will not be a single painting or sculpture on display at the Turner Prize 2014 exhibition. The four nominees – Duncan Campbell, Ciara Phillips, James Richards and Tris Vonna-Michell...
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Catherine Mallyon and Sarah Ellis of the RSC talk about building the confidence and capacity required to make the most of digital technologies.
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Ambassador Theatre Group has launched a scheme that will combine a business foundation with specialist placements to give graduates industry-specific knowledge and experience.
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Policy ideas for Labour’s 2015 manifesto and beyond will be the focus of a new initiative, announced at the party conference.
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How can the arts, and ballet in particular, show that they represent value for money? David Jays compares a trip to the theatre or ballet with some similarly prestigious events.
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Roberta Comunian argues that traditional views on the benefits of arts sponsorship to business have been far too limited, as demonstrated by some recent collaborations in Italy.
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What will happen when we only like what we already know? Ed McKeon questions the filtering systems used online which limit the range of information we receive.
A new on-demand streaming website for the arts will bring together content from across the web. Digital content company Rightster has been awarded the £1.8m contract to set up and manage it.
Theatre Delicatessen has become the first theatre company to be officially accredited by the Living Wage Foundation. It will pay all permanent staff the London living wage of £8.80 an hour, and...
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After almost a decade at the helm of London’s Photographers’ Gallery, Brett Rogers discusses changes in the medium, the importance of trainee programmes and why photographers are interested in accountancy.
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Index on Censorship's Julia Farrington argues that the controversial cancellation of Exhibit B reveals the much bigger issue of mono-cultural bias in the arts.
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The Chief Executive of Arts Council England (ACE) is leaving to join BBC Radio 3 as Controller. Previously a Civil Servant at the DCMS, Alan Davey, who joined ACE in November 2007, will remain at the...
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Free unlimited entry to exhibitions is among the benefits being offered to those who join.