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The Council will also employ a dedicated post to support the development of the creative industries in the town.
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Funds raised from donated paintings will be used to give curatorial support and profile to emerging artists.
A Lottery funded project to display art on lorries travelling between the East Midlands and Europe prompts local anger about spending priorities.
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Former Labour culture secretary JAMES PURNELL is returning to the BBC in a new role as Director of Strategy and Digital. He left politics in 2010 and is currently a senior producer at production...
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Chisenhale Gallery has appointed ANDREW HALE, founding member of band Sade, and KEIR MCGUINNESS, a management and art consultant, to its board of trustees.
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The Courtyard in Herefordshire is the first arts venue to sign up to the Dementia Action Alliance and Alice Saunders hopes it leads where others will follow in improving accessibility for affected families.
A new national organisation will help galleries to alert police and each other to criminal behaviour.
Historian says the arts can stimulate interest in the past, but shouldn’t act as a substitute for knowledge of actual events.
New visualisation software reveals the pathways of the brain in vivid colour, giving “a guided tour” of what happens inside the head.
The Curtain Theatre will become a 250-seat open-air amphitheatre, and another six-storey theatre will include a 235-seat auditorium if planning applications succeed.
Council Leader Nick Forbes said it was "not a u-turn" but a "completely new way" of funding the arts.
Ending funding for the arts will save the council £94,000 over three years, as part of a £30m package of cuts. Moray is thought to be the first local authority in Scotland to withdraw its...
A new £1.25m grant for the “new home for music in Glasgow” has been confirmed by Creative Scotland, months after the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council agreed to up their...
The 111-seat venue that can be put together and dismantled again in a matter of hours by just two people, is due to be used for creator Paines Plough’s 40th anniversary tour. Andrew Lloyd...
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RUPERT GOOLD has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre company, replacing MICHAEL ATTENBOROUGH who stepped down in October last year. Goold has been Artistic Director of...
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ED FISHWICK, Managing Director of BlackRock's Risk & Quantitative Analysis Group, is the new Treasurer at the English Folk Dance and Song Society, replacing MIKE WILSON-JONES who has held the...
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Anne Bonnar reflects on an experimental approach to attracting audiences that paid off at the Citizens Theatre.
The Evening Standard’s new channel, set to go live in 2014, will include ‘London Go’, a programme featuring information about the arts, theatre productions and cultural events. The...
Welsh language music will be played on the radio while musicians and the BBC station try to reach a permanent agreement.
Community hopes to raise £10m to transform the Telford building, used as a cinema 24 years ago, back in to an arts venue.
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South Cambridgeshire Council is to end the £70k annual funding which currently pays for seven Arts Development Managers to be based in secondary schools, serving both students and local...
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Initial funds have been granted to a planned archive of the Disability Arts movement which aims to record the historical influence of Disability Arts and the social struggles of the movement....
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A marginal increase in cooperation between small creative businesses and their suppliers can have a positive effect on their turnover, says a report by the University of Bath. Data gathered by Dr...
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The first ever Shakespeare Week, an initiative designed to help primary school children learn about the playwright and his cultural legacy, will be held in March 2014. Pupils will receive a ‘...