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Arts People
As he prepares to leave Sage Gateshead after 15 years at the helm, Anthony Sargent reflects on his career and the people he’s worked with.
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Daily Telegraph theatre critic CHARLES SPENCER is retiring after 25 years with the paper. He was named the British Press Awards’ Critic of the Year in 1999 and again in 2008. The Telegraph'...
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Director of Imaginate TONY REEKIE is standing down after 20 years and TESSA RENNIE, who has been General Manager for the past 12 years, is departing to pursue a freelance career. The company is...
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Colchester’s Mercury Theatre has appointed STEVE MANNIX as co-Chief Executive, working alongside Artistic Director DANIEL BUCKROYD. Mannix has been Interim Executive Director since March....
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Head Master of The Prebendal School in Chichester, TIM CANNELL, is the new Chairman of the Choir Schools’ Association, the umbrella organisation for independent and maintained choir schools.
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HOME, the new cultural centre formed from the merger of Manchester’s Cornerhouse and the Library Theatre Company, has announced two joint appointments with Manchester Metropolitan University....
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ROSS ANTHONY, who has been with the Theatres Trust since the beginning of the year, has been appointed as its first full-time Planning Adviser.
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Feature
Andrew Miller speaks out on discrimination in the arts, asking why “disabled people are nearly invisible with embarrassingly few leaders”.
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Feature
Creating a level playing field for visual artists is the aim of online gallery Outside In. Kate Davey tells how its surgery days show artists how to display their work online.
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Feature
Lauren Holden explains Spectraitors, her idea for a DISloyalty app which encourages regular arts-goers to be disloyal to their favourite arts organisation.
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Collaborating with international companies can open up valuable funding opportunities, but the real benefits are artistic, argues Lyn Gardner.
Darlington Borough Council has released £425k to buy a former fire station, which is set to be transformed into a specialist children’s theatre by Theatre Hullabaloo and Darlington Civic...
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Classical musician James Rhodes is on a one-man mission to transform music education in primary schools. Janet Murray finds out why.
From 2017, individuals may have to give explicit consent before a company or charity can process their personal data. A report has called the changes “the biggest challenge in fundraising for a...
The two-year pay deal will now be sent to UK Theatre members for ratification. More than 40% of union members voted against the deal following “difficult” negotiations.
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Elisabeth Braw examines the growing trend for company choirs and how they’re boosting employees' health, creativity and confidence.
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A recent Broadway musical closed doors even though ticket sales were still strong. Pia Catton on why it is sometimes wise to quit while you’re ahead.
A new report recommends the south London local authority shut the Secombe Theatre and Charles Cryer Studio Theatre from March 2015, as part of measures to save £40m over the next five years.
The centre will contain an 80-seat performance space, learning/rehearsal rooms, technical training facilities, a workshop, and offices. 60% of the funding required has already been secured and, once...
The festival sold 162,000 tickets, bringing in around £3.15m and smashing the previous record set in 2012 by more than 20,000 tickets and around £320k.
The classical record label is the first in the world to offer a music streaming app. Deutsche Grammophon has made 450 hand-selected albums from its archive available from $3.99 per month.
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Native talks to cultural economist Diane Ragsdale about changes in the arts and society over the last thirty years.
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As Northern Ireland arts organisations reel from unexpected funding cuts, Fionola Meredith argues that placing accessibility above all will starve the arts out of existence.
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News
A new report coincides with a Channel 4 documentary, shining a spotlight on the challenges faced by musicians.
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News
More than €5m has been awarded to UK organisations to lead collaborative projects by the European Commission's revamped funding programme.