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News
Collaboration and partnerships are seen as key to achieving the overarching goal of “achieving great art and culture for everyone”.
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News
Individuals working as actors, singers or musicians will now pay Classes 2 and 4 National Insurance Contributions, aligned with other self-employed workers.
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Music and entertainment brands and youth sector organisations from the UK are joining forces to bring positive changes to the lives of young people.
Demolition of Chester’s Commerce House has begun to make way for a new £37.5m theatre, library and cinema complex. The city’s only theatre, the Gateway, closed in March 2007. The...
The Shell Theatre on Southbank, designed by Cecil Beaton, has been described by the Trust as an “important cultural resource”. It has criticised Lambeth Council for failing to properly...
A 12-month public arts project at the site of a former MG Rover car factory in Birmingham has been launched as part of a £1bn redevelopment in Longbridge. Birmingham-based EC Arts will lead the...
Spending in Hull increased by £2m during its Freedom Festival, where more than 80k people attended over three days in September. A report by the city council also claims that museums and other...
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Susan Elkin says theatre for young audiences isn’t an inferior genre and should be taken seriously.
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Dominic Cavendish reflects on the continuing acceptance of recorded and live cinema screenings of theatre which are taking the place of live productions.
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The RSC has appointed two new board members, PATSY RODENBURG OBE, Head of Voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and actor NOMA DUMEZWENI.
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TOM TREVOR, Director at Arnolfini since 2005, is leaving his post to develop a number of curatorial projects internationally.
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SARAH MARTIN, Head of Exhibitions at Turner Contemporary in Margate, is one of five new trustees appointed to the Axisweb board. The other new appointments to the Board are RUPERT WILCOX-BAKER, who...
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NewcastleGateshead Initiative and Gateshead Council have appointed KATY FULLER of outdoor arts company Pinwheel as Creative Producer of its Enchanted Parks event.
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Promote YT, the national organisation for youth theatre arts in Scotland, is changing its name to Youth Theatre Arts Scotland, and has announced Scottish actor SAM HEUGHAN as its new Patron.
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PROFESSOR SIMEON YATES has been appointed as Director of the Institute of Cultural Capital. He is the former Director of Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI) at Sheffield...
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The Ticket Factory has appointed three e-commerce and ticketing experts. ROB WILLIAMS who was previously at Nottingham’s Capital FM Arena joins as Operations Director, GAIL WEBB has been...
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Opinion
If ‘access for everyone’ is the policy goal, then regional funding is the elephant in the room, says Liz Hill.
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Arts People
Lisa Marie Trump, Chief Executive for the UK Centre for Carnival Arts, on who has inspired her most in her career.
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News
An ongoing funding bias towards London is denying huge proportions of England’s population fair access to the arts, according to a new independent report by three senior arts figures.
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Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan has set out a vision for creativity in education over the next 10 years.
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Josie Gurney-Read reports on the Your Paintings project which toured 26 masterpieces worth around £14m to schools across the UK.
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Rupert Christiansen asks if half empty theatres should still be subsidised.
Ofqual has indicated that, along with proposed changes to the way GCSE exams are graded, future changes could include subjects such as PE, media studies and drama being ‘renamed’ to...
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Feature
Yvonne Farquharson believes that academic research and evaluation are essential to demonstrate the clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of arts in health interventions.
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Feature
How much has the arts marketing role changed in the last twenty years? Strikingly, says Sarah Chambers, who examines what is now required to market culture.