Emails from the former head of Creative Scotland, Andrew Dixon, have revealed his view that criticism of the funding body was from those who ‘fundamentally opposed the creation of Creative...
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Marketing and Press Manager of Watford Palace Theatre, EMILY ROLLINGS, is stepping down after three years to pursue a career in graphic design. Her post will be filled by an interim appointment,...
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The curators of Liverpool Biennial 2014 will be MAI ABU ELDAHAB, previously Director of Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, and ANTHONY HUBERMAN, the founding Director of The Artist's Institute in...
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NAN VAN HOUTE has been appointed as the new Secretary General of IETM, the international network for contemporary performing arts. She will succeed MARY ANN DEVLIEG who has led the organization for...
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RACHEL KINCHIN has left the Riverfront Arts Centre in Newport to become Head of Marketing at Assembly Festival at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a second year.
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CHRIS HEATON-HARRIS MP is the new Chair of trustees at Northampton Theatres Trust, the charity which runs Royal & Derngate theatres. He is currently the MP for Daventry and is the Vice-Chairman...
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RICHARD HALLAM will succeed SUZI DIGBY as the President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. In his long career in music education, he has worked as a teacher, advisor, inspector and Head of...
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The Theatres Trust has appointed REBECCA MOORLAND as a Theatre Advisor. She has previously been Executive Director at Hampstead Theatre and Administrative Director at Bristol Old Vic.
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POLLY MOSELEY is the first coordinator of the Public Engagement Foundation’s new UK Network for Arts and Health Research. She has previously worked with Arts Council England to develop their...
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ANNA VAUGHN is the new Director of Development at Youth Music Theatre. She has spent the past ten years working in Development at the National Theatre, the last four as Head of Trust Development.
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The centre will conduct a review of space as it becomes part of a new university structure.
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The Ambassadors Theatre Group (ATG) is now among the top 10 of UK companies for profit growth.
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The difficulty of keeping arts graduates in the areas in which they trained, and of communicating the transferable nature of skills gained in the visual arts to employers, are both key issues facing...
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A new survey, ‘Philanthropy in the Arts’, is aiming to assess the current funding climate in the arts sector, including the impact of the first year of Arts Council England’s...
The Theatre owes £80k to advance ticket bookers, £69k to employees and £130k to artists who were due to perform at the theatre. In total, claims made to administrators reach just...
The Theatres Trust is concerned that new rules allowing offices to be converted into residential property may mean more noise complaints from people living next to theatres, curbing venues’...
The North West's Cultural Olympiad programme grinds to a halt in the face of "regulatory and technical challenges" that stymied the proposed steam artwork on the Liverpool skyline.
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"I don’t know whether the cast and crew of Sunday’s performance realise quite what an important thing they did... What this performance did was to make us normal."
Fawn James, who now owns the site that was home to Britain’s first ever strip club, has applied to Westminster Council to transform a former table dancing club into a fringe theatre, offering a...
Newly formed Tone Theatre Association has joined with Taunton Association of Performing Arts and other community groups to present a bid to administrators BDO. Their plans include expanding the 350-...
"I don’t know whether the cast and crew of Sunday’s performance realise quite what an important thing they did... What this performance did was to make us normal."
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Shaun Glanville suggest a new approach to finding economic and social justifications of the arts.
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Karina Mangu Ward argues that art has its place in community cohesion rather than reinforcing links with those you already know.
An art project will be commissioned to help draw attention to the peat lands’ importance to the environment, with funding from Creative Scotland’s Year of Natural Scotland.
Roy Campbell-Moore has been suspended from his post as Artistic Associate at National Dance Company Wales following a complaint by other members of staff, which will be investigated by a third party...