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DAN THOMPSON and TAMSIN COX have joined the board of a-n The Artist Information Company. Thompson is an artist and Cox is a cultural researcher and Head of Policy and Research at DHA Communications.
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RACHAEL EASTON has joined the Toptix team and will be working with KARL VOSPER, Toptix’s Managing Director, on a Global Marketing Strategy.
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CRAIG PIKE has been elected as the next Chair of Aberdeen Performing Arts. He will take over in November when the current Chairman DR GRAEME ROBERTS steps down.
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Stratford Rising has appointed SUE ROBERTSON as its new Chair. She takes over from KERRY MICHAEL who helped found Stratford Rising in 2007.
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The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has appointed EMILY STUBBS as its new Director of Development. She joins from English National Opera where she was Head of Development for ten years.
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Feature
Brian Gambles explains how Birmingham’s new library is engaging with young people so that culture and creativity can become part of their lifetime journey.
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Rachael Steven explains how a new interactive donations box is hoping to engage the public and encourage them to give to Dundee Contemporary Arts.
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Opinion
In an era of cuts, what choices would you make? Three arts professionals make the case for their priorities.
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Arts People
Ruth Gould found her mojo on her journey through the arts into disability cultures and activism, to her current role at DaDaFest.
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Arts People
Purni Morell, Artistic Director of the Unicorn, a theatre for young people, names her most inspiring gurus.
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Feature
A year since receiving a Google Ad Grant, Liz Walker and Frances Richens reflect on the highs and lows of Watford Palace Theatre’s campaigns.
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Feature
Lucas Stewart reports on the difficulties involved in ‘Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds’, a British Council project in Burma seeking to develop ethnic minority language literature.
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Feature
Do commissions from funding bodies based on measurable outcomes really benefit arts organisations? Ross Harvie reflects on the issue.
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Feature
Eleanor Deem recommends a flexible approach when no single candidate appears to be the perfect fit for a job vacancy.
Nimax’s Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue will reopen on March 26 with a new tenant, having been closed since December after part of the ceiling collapsed. The upper gallery will remain...
A campaign group trying to save Theatre One in Coventry has failed to raise the necessary funds in time to purchase the site, so the building will be demolished to make way for a £2.2m retail...
Edinburgh Free Fringe Festival is in danger of reaching capacity as applications have risen by 60% for this summer’s event. Peter Buckley Hill, the biggest promoter at the festival, fears...
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News
Three-quarters of income at the self-financing venue came from ticket sales and admission charges in 2013, though almost a half of all tickets were priced at £5.
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Independent schools offer outstanding facilities that offer pupils a head-start in the ultra-competitive theatre industry and helps them justify their huge fees, says Boarding School Beak.
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News
A £500k prize fund has been set up to give Clore Fellows the chance to devise a creative and inspirational project that aims to change people’s lives for the better. The award, which...
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News
‘New ways of doing’ will be the focus of the latest event in the ‘State of the Arts’ thought leadership series in Bristol and York next week.
Dame Helen Mirren has echoed growing concerns among actors that their profession is becoming the “prerogative only of kids who have got money” due to the cost of drama training.
Director's £28k bonus has sparked a protest by security staff and assistants fighting for the London Living Wage.
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Tom Service observes that The Met may be pulling in cinema crowds for opera, but the live experience is proving more difficult to sell at “the world's most glamorous opera house.”
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Diana Ragsdale reframes some fundamental beliefs about the role of buildings in the creation and distribution of the arts.