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After 10 years running Poet in the City, GRAHAM HENDERSON is leaving to become the Chief Executive of the Rimbaud & Verlaine Foundation. He will continue his association with Poet in the City as...
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Canterbury Christchurch University has appointed SALLY ABBOTT as Director, Arts and Culture, to lead the University’s arts and culture programmes nationally and internationally. She was...
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Theatre and television actor SARA LLOYD has been appointed as the new Associate Director of Theatr Genedlaethol.
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STEVE WINTER is leaving Old Vic New Voices after nine years to pursue a freelance career. ALEXANDER FERRIS, head of OVNV’s community and education work, will take over from him.
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LES MILLER is leaving his post as General Manager of Arts, Culture and Entertainment at the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk. He has been there for six years.
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Curator JUHA VAN T ZELFDE is the new Artistic Director for the digital culture agency Lighthouse.
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REBECCA WILSON has been appointed as Chief Curator and Director of Artist Development for the online art gallery Saatchi Art. She was previously Director at the Saatchi Gallery in London for seven...
The codes used to calculate school league tables have been updated to recognise dance and drama as separate subjects, meaning pupils will no longer be deterred from taking both. Other creative...
A Yorkshire MP who sits on the Culture, Media and Sport select committee has uncovered figures revealing opera has received £347.4m in funding over five years – the majority of which goes...
A new 10-year blueprint aims to recognise the area as Edinburgh’s cultural and literary heart. Regeneration plans include diverting traffic and creating spaces to showcase traditional music,...
Due to open last year the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery will open on 1 April, five years after the redevelopment of the old Music Hall site began.
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Arts People
Emma Anderson, the first Director of The Atkinson in Southport, names the women who have inspired her most.
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Jori Finkel explores the shifting territory that exists between art fairs and biennials.
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The Conservatoire, Blackheath's multi-arts centre, was on the brink of closure in 2012, until it adopted a social business model.
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Feature
As the Writing Squad recruits its seventh group of talented young authors, Danny Broderick and Steve Dearden explain how their formula breaks down the barriers to writer development.
Charities and social enterprises in England looking to attract social investment can apply for grants between £25k and £75k from the Big Potential fund, managed by the Social Investment...
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“Redress the balance at our peril”: Simon Tait sums up the views of theatre union BECTU, which has weighed in on the regional distribution of arts funding debate.
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Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis explains how it’s balancing the books since it stopped charging for tickets.
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Collections Trust CEO Nick Poole identifies 10 lessons from High Speed Rail that the museum sector can apply to its own political strategy.
In the face of Arts Council England and government cuts, the Local Government Association says a review of lottery funding – removing duplications that contradict the Lottery’s...
The Culture Secretary described London’s cultural offer as “a rising tide which carries all ships” in a speech to the Local Government Association conference, in which she...
Almost half of an £860k fund has been pledged to Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, to put on plays and host workshops with school pupils that explore issues of religious intolerance and sectarianism.
Bradford Council is questioning whether priority is given to bigger northern cities, since finding Leeds received 11 times more per head from Arts Council England. The Arts Council responds by...
Whilst choirs attract audiences and can bring money in, the Chairman of the Friends of Cathedral Music says that costs of up to £250k a year have driven almost half of England’s 48...
The council is raising tax, cutting 240 posts and plans to reduce subsidies for York Theatre Royal and York Museums Trust, which runs York Castle Museum, Yorkshire Museum and Gardens, York Art...