From issue 268 Feature
Chris Bannerman tells how he reluctantly became a key driver in a complex collaboration involving choreographers, dancers and academics from the UK, China and Taiwan.
From issue 268 Feature
Why do we need festivals? In the first of two articles about festivals, Holly Payton-Lombardo asks if we simply enjoy coming together to celebrate culture − or is it more than that?
From issue 268 Feature
Mahmood Reza, a big fan of business planning, explains why it is vital and demystifies some of the terms and tools commonly used.
A ‘high value’ sculpture by Henry Moore has been stolen from Glenkiln sculpture park in Scotland. ‘Standing Figure’, worth an estimated £100k, is among a number of works...
The London-based dance company has increased its number of ‘longer tours’ and will visit at least 27 different venues in its latest season, compared to 17 venues in 2012/13. This is the...
Funding for arts groups could be cut by more than £220k in 2014/15, in plans approved by the local authority’s cabinet. This will include removing a £161k annual grant for Sherman...
From issue 268 News
Vikki Heywood says the arts sector should attempt more ambitious engagement with the public and local communities.
From issue 268 News
Arts organisations benefited from the digital development opportunities presented by The Space, but limited marketing, safe content and technological barriers undermined its impact. 
From issue 268 News
Avid theatre-goer Helen Goodman has added the creative industries, arts and heritage to her portfolio of work as Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport. The MP for Bishop Auckland in County...
Stockton’s grade two listed Globe Theatre, which hosted music acts including The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, closed in 1997 but has now been granted £4m by the Heritage Lottery Fund...
London’s oldest theatre will submit a planning application to Lambeth Council next month with a view to redeveloping its premises, including adding a second performance space in an adjacent...
Gavin Henderson, Principal at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Marcus Davey, the Roundhouse’s Artistic Director, are among leading figures who have written to Brighton and Hove...
Over 40 different sites including city centre galleries in Glasgow will be part of a visual art celebration in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games in the Spring. The festival will include 80 artists...
From issue 268
GARETH LLOYD ROBERTS, currently Producer at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, has been appointed Director of Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
From issue 268
STEVE FREER is the new Chair of Birmingham Museums Trust. Honorary Alderman LEN CLARK steps down as Chair after 10 years in post.
From issue 268
JULIE FINCH, Bristol’s current head of Museums, Galleries and Archives is to head Western Australia’s new museum project. 
From issue 268
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) has announced that ANITA BHALLA OBE will be its new Chair. Until recently she was Head of BBC Public Space Broadcasting.
From issue 268
ALICE WRIGHT has been appointed as the Senior Marketing Officer at the Tricycle Theatre. She was previously at G Live, Guildford.
From issue 268
Wysing Arts Centre has appointed EMMA JOY-STAINES as Development Manager, TAHIRA FITZWILLIAM-HALL as Circuit Programme Manager and MATTHEW GAW as External Relations Manager. KATHY NOBLE, previously...
From issue 268
EMILY MOSELEY is now the Marketing Assistant at BBC London Performing Groups. She previously worked at Shakespeare’s Globe.
From issue 268
CLAIRE MCFAULD recently moved from her position as Sales and Marketing Manager at the Grove Theatre, Dunstable to Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, where she is Marketing Manager. She has previously...
From issue 268
REBECCA RIMMER is moving from her position as Marketing Manager at the Corn Exchange in Newbury to take up the same role at Soho Theatre. She was previously with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
From issue 268
Chloe Hamilton reports on her visit to the “refreshing” Television Workshop where talent comes first and children without means can realise their dreams of acting. 
From issue 268
“Spare us a national theatre!” said Seymour Hicks, an early 20th Century dramatist. Beatrice Rubens explores the relatively young National Theatre’s bumpy road to success. 
From issue 268
The demise of the New York City Opera doesn’t have to be “a nail in the coffin of culture”, says Ellen Rosewall.

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