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Arts People
Mary Cloake, Chief Executive of the Bluecoat in Liverpool, takes a moment to reflect on her career in the arts.
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THOMASINA CARLYLE, who previously ran her own theatre company and was a producer at Pentabus Theatre for five years, has taken on a new role as Manager of Bishop’s Castle Town Hall.
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Children’s theatre Director TONY GRAHAM will be joining the team at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre as Creative Associate. Writer ALAN POLLOCK has joined the Board.
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Alfred Hickling on purchasing moments in time: how about buying a bar of music before a concert, rather than sponsoring a theatre seat?
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Nina Simon says research aiming to prove the arts’ worth has two big problems: assessment is on someone else’s terms, and it prevents us from focusing on transforming and moving forwards.
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Materials scientist Markus J. Buehler explains the science behind structures and how musical compositions can be used to create better materials, if the underlying mathematics is appreciated.
Plans are being made to relocate the Scottish theatre, currently based at former farm cottages in Cumbernauld House Park, to a purpose-built facility at a newly developed Academy school; the merger...
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Southbank Centre is withholding its Festival Wing planning application to allow time for an alternative funding solution to be found.
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Margaret Heffernan says the arts teach us how to think and work better, even in the business world which trivalises them.
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Arts Council England must act to avert the regional crisis growing from local authority arts funding cuts, says Helen Goodman.
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Eleonora Belfiore says the cultural sector suffers from justification anxiety, which is particularly intense in times of austerity.
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Feature
With its new name and status as an independent charity, Peckham Platform is a very different organisation, according to Emily Druiff.
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Opinion
Rich Hadley believes that cultural organisations must lose their "remote, elitist, rarified, out of touch and unyielding" image.
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Tom Uglow is looking forward to the day when today’s intimidating digital technologies seem as natural as a pen or a camera.
St David’s Hall and the New Theatre in Cardiff are under threat as part of a round of cuts at Cardiff Council. The Council, which needs to make savings of £50m this year, says it can no...
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Since Derby Theatre became a learning theatre academics and students work alongside theatre staff. Sarah Brigham explains why.
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In Alex Youel’s second article on membership schemes, he shines a light on operational aspects as the scheme grows.
Arts group ‘Through The Wall Project’ is calling for the Theatre One building in Coventry to be saved from demolition and revived as a cinema and arts venue. Plans for the £2.2m...
The Victoria & Albert museum's first permanent home outside of London has received £9.4m from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards its £45m costs. The project is still £13m...
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Yorkshire Festival 2014 will be the first arts festival to coincide with the Tour de France in its 111 year history.
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Creative Scotland sets out the themes that will guide its work over the next ten years.
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The digital fundraising pilot scheme was granted almost £100k from Arts Council England’s ‘hidden’ strategic fund and is now being rolled out nationally.
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The new service will offer advice and support to UK cultural organisations wanting to broker effective European and international partnerships.
Details have been revealed of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme, which will coincide with the Commonwealth Games. Events covering theatre, dance, music, visual arts, comedy and digital media...
Wakefield's Unity Hall, an arts centre which has stood derelict for more than a decade, has been awarded a £420k grant from the Department for Communities and Local Government to renovate...