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JUDITH CLARK has resigned from her post as General Manager of Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra. She will be pursuing a number of independent consultancy projects in music and the arts.
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JONATHAN METH has taken over as Convenor of the MA in Writing for Perfomance and Dramaturgy at Goldsmiths University, London. He continues to curate The Fence, an international network of playwrights...
Tate St Ives will be closed for around four months while building work begins on extending the gallery into the coastal hillside. Further work will continue into 2016 allowing for three exhibition...
Proposals submitted for the grade-two listed theatre to be turned into a £35m eight-screen cinema with four restaurants have been described as ‘invalid’ by Brighton and Hove City...
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Downloads haven’t reduced the number of sell-out music gigs, and Lyn Gardner suspects that digital platforms wont be a threat to theatre-going either – quite the reverse.
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Max Stafford-Clark explains the long-lasting impact of Arts Council England’s last round of funding cuts on the theatre company Out of Joint, in an extract from his new book ‘Journal of the Plague Year’.
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Jesse Norman says there’s no point in free entry to the arts if you can’t get to them, as two-thirds of the country live beyond affordable travel to national cultural organisations.
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Burns Night is celebrated in some style in Dumfries, with three days of music, theatre and carnival. Graham Main describes how thousands of local people take part and many more attend.
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Are membership schemes a great idea or a lot of work? In the first of two articles Alex Youel helps you think through your business objectives and membership design before it’s too late...
A piece of set from the Fuerzabruta show at the Roundhouse in Camden collapsed onto the audience, and three people with minor injuries had to be taken to hospital. The Roundhouse is investigating the...
Car manufacturer Hyundai is to take over as the sponsor of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in an 11-year commitment beginning in 2015. Previous sponsor Unilever took leave in 2012.
Wolverhampton City Council is removing funding for 13 arts and community organisations from April, while 17 others will only receive funding for the next year. The Central Youth Theatre will lose its...
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Jo Verrent finds arts organisations, producers, venues and artists to be surprisingly uncreative when it’s comes to access.
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Employment in music and the performing and visual arts has been growing more slowly than in the rest of the creative economy, but their financial performance is forging ahead.
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Ten successful bidders will be part of a £3m programme which aims to develop partnerships between arts, culture and tourism in England.
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A House of Commons Select Committee has opened an inquiry into the work of Arts Council England and its regional funding policies.
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Nine digital start-up businesses and SMEs are being given the chance to win a share of £225k and to work with cultural organisations as well as big-name commercial brands.
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Boris Johnson has issued a statement supporting the preservation of Southbank’s undercroft skate park, a week after a petition against the Festival Wing plans was submitted with over 27,000 signatures.
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The National Portrait Gallery has announced the appointment of PHILLIP PRODGER, founding Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, as Head of Photographs Collection...
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DANNY BOYLE has been announced as a Patron of HOME, the new cultural hub and social space for Manchester, which opens in Spring 2015.
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MICHAEL CROSS has been appointed as Director of White Rock Theatre in Hastings. He has spent the past 11 years as Artistic Director of the Key Theatre in Peterborough.
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Blackpool Council and Wyre Council have appointed two Directors to lead on LeftCoast, a Creative People and Places project in the North West. JULIA TURPIN will be Executive Director and artist...
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Two of Festivals and Events International’s (FEI) Associate Directors are embarking on new roles alongside their consultancy work with the organisation. PAUL GUDGIN will be Director of the City...
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Leadership style is changing, from the extrovert personality controlling from the front to someone who shares power and develops and fosters relationships, believes Sue Hoyle.
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Arts People
Peter Welch, Managing Director of arts sponsorship agency Showcase, names those who inspire him.