From issue 261 Feature
Helen Marriage reports on her first six months at Harvard on a Loeb Fellowship and explains the practice of ‘placemaking’, something she would love to see over here.
From issue 261 Feature
When Box Clever learned that it would be losing its small but significant funding from Arts Council England, Michael Wicherek feared that this might be the end of the road for the company.
From issue 261 Feature
Joan Duda, a guest speaker at DanceEast’s rural retreat held in January, discusses the importance of a dancer’s ‘quality motivation’ and empowerment.
Aung San Suu Kyi mingled with stars of the international literary scene at a festival made possible by the lifting of censorship last year.
Gove relents on computing on the grounds of its value to education and the economy, but the arts remain on the sidelines.
Paolo Isotta is waging a personal campaign against conductor Daniel Harding, according to General Manager Stéphane Lissner, who has removed Isotta from the critics list.
Director Max Stafford-Clark has spoken out against government proposals at the opening of ‘Our Country’s Good’, saying that the play’s message of the redemptive power of the...
From issue 261 Feature
Jim Beirne describes how a gastro pub has contributed a significant amount to Live Theatre’s funding for new plays.  
From issue 261 Feature
Sean Egan outlines what you need to know about becoming a charitable incorporated organisation.  
From issue 261 Feature
Eleanor Deem says that the need to make financial cuts is a valid reason for redundancy, but employers may find they can reduce the number they make or avoid them altogether.  
From issue 261 Feature
Peter Tullin is optimistic that there is a huge demand for a form of cultural entrepreneurship where people and experiences that were formerly unconnected are brought together.
From issue 261 Case study
Women & Theatre has delivered comedy courses in residential homes to people with varying degrees of dementia. Sabra Khan asks one of the comedians to reflect on the experience.
From issue 261 Case study
Fergus Early is excited about the funding Green Candle Dance Company has secured for a dance and exercise project for groups of older men.
From issue 261 Case study
Zoë Briggs describes how her Creating Learning department at the Ambassador Theatre Group is successfully targeting the growing retired audience.
From issue 261 Case study
Veronica Franklin Gould of Arts 4 Dementia discusses how partnership projects are benefiting people with dementia by reviving their creative skills and developing new ones.
The National Galleries of Scotland have seen a 17% rise in the number of people joining their £40-a-head scheme.
From issue 261 Case study
Annabel Turpin reports on how ARC’s silver programme is responsive to the needs of the target group − and that’s not ballroom dancing and basket-weaving.
From issue 261 Case study
‘Ageing artfully’ has introduced vulnerable older people to BollyWalking. Christina Christou and John Pinder of Akademi explain all.
From issue 261 Case study
Jane Coyle tells how DU Dance’s inter-generational programme has recently seen a dance performance by women of all ages, including some in their eighties.
From issue 261 Case study
The Elderly Accommodation Counsel launched the Over 60s Art Awards twenty years ago. John Galvin reports on how the awards have showcased the skills and imagination of older people ever since.  
Subsidy of school music lessons and the Big Weekend music event will both end in Cardiff as Council tax is frozen and remaining cash diverted to schools and social services.
Music and drug trafficking have become intertwined as musicians earn cash by playing for the country's drug gangs.
Curriculum time devoted to art has already been cut by 16 per cent on average, according to a new survey of 2,500 teachers by the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers.
The national trend of falling piano sales and a switch to electronic keyboards are blamed for the demise of the department that has been trading for 118 years. 
From issue 260 News
The Olympics had less impact on sales than the Royal Wedding in 2011.

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