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Creative Scotland has announced the appointment of IAIN MUNRO as Deputy Chief Executive. He was previously Acting Chief Executive for six months before the appointment of JANET ARCHER.
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SIMON PRESSWELL will be the new Managing Director of Ticketmaster in the UK. He has previously worked for SkyIQ, BSkyB and NBC Universal TV.
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MDQ Tickets has appointed MARK BOWER as Managing Director. He is currently e-commerce Director at Time Out.
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CAROL HAMMOND, who runs her own dance studio based in Hartlepool, has been appointed Director of the International Dance Teachers Association.
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A survey in Scotland has found that people who engage in culture are more likely to report good health and life satisfaction than those who do not.
The Council, which provides the festival with over half of its public funding, has backed plans for the EIF to stay neutral on the issue of Scottish independence.
The body which protects songwriting rights for musicians has put its dramatic increase in members down to the greater need for rights protection in the digital age.
The Derry festival has seen a 50% increase in visitor numbers, which have reached 430k in its Capital of Culture year.
Jenkins has praised Germany’s increase in arts funding and says public money for the arts should invest in a nation’s cultural future.
Last year’s awards cost the agency £30k and were embroiled in debate about the funding body’s support for artists. Creative Scotland says it has “other work to be done...
The 110-seat pub theatre which has featured performances from Clive Owen, Ben Kingsley and Gary Oldman in the past, aims to expand to 200 seats to make it a viable commercial space.
A former Director is proposing the Centre should be run by an independent trust following allegations of interfering university management.
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The culture ministries in Wales and Northern Ireland have set out plans to put social inclusion at the heart of their policy-making.
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£35m of Lottery capital investment in The Public will be lost to the arts when the Council reclaims the building.
A study of the cultural impact of the Edinburgh Festivals reveals that nine out of ten festival attenders think these are 'must-see' events and 80% think they are better than other similar...
Six London venues have joined forces to form 'Circulate', a consortium which will bring theatre to high street locations in the outskirts of the city. The initiative will be supported by...
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Twenty-eight new Fellows are to join the Clore Leadership Programme for 2013/14, 21 of them from the UK and Ireland. General Fellowships have been awarded to Jenny Rutter, who works independently on...
The author has claimed boards of organisations make outside appointments as they don’t think Scottish artists will be as manageable.
A new combined vision for museums and the arts will replace the two current strategic documents in the autumn, ahead of the funding body’s next round of investment for 2015-18.
A survey of children aged two to 12 found that ‘dancer’ was the third most popular career choice for boys.
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The award for the UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre – one of the categories in the Theatrical Management Association (TMA) UK Theatre Awards – is for the first time being opened to any...
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Alan Davey says funded organisations do not lose their right to question and seek the truth.
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Alison Pilling on what really happens inside a What Next? meeting.
Plans to turn a sorting office in Richmond into a £4m development with housing and an arts centre have been called ‘morally bankrupt’ by opposition Councilors, who see the project...
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CAROLINE DOUGLAS has been appointed as Director of the Contemporary Art Society from October 2013. She has been Head of the Arts Council England Collection since 2006.