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News
A year-long programme is being established to help Yorkshire-based arts organisations come up with new funding strategies. A £75k Arts Council England Lottery grant will fund the Creative...
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Feature
The British Arts Festivals Association’s Capacity to Endure conference last year focussed on how festivals should be valued as an integral and sustainable part of society.
Thomas Hetherwick, designer of the Olympic cauldron, is up against Hopkins Architects, who designed the velodrome.
Artist Dereck Massey is planning a ‘Woodhenge’ made out of rare ancient fenland bog trees. He wants it to become a tourist destination and theatre venue that will raise money to...
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Ex-Lord Mayor of the City of London DAVID WOOTON has been appointed as the Chair of Northern Ballet.
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SALLY ANNE TYE is the new Executive Director of New Perspectives Theatre Company. She replaces CHRIS KIRKWOOD who is leaving the role to become Chief Executive of Lincoln Drill Hall.
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Digital culture agency Lighthouse has appointed its Operations Director MIRIAM RANDALL to the new role of Managing Director, whilst current Director, HONOR HARGER, will become Artistic Director.
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The new members of the board at Museums Galleries Scotland are VIVIENNE COCKBURN, Associate Director at Scottish Futures Trust; PROFESSOR DAVID GAIMSTER, Director of The Hunterianat the University of...
From issue 261
LORNE CAMPBELL has been announced as the new Artistic Director of Northern Stage. He is currently Co-Artistic Director at theatre company Greyscale, freelance director and theatre-maker, and course...
From issue 261
Feature
Following her coverage of the national well-being debate and the exclusion of culture from the Office of National Statistics’ measures, Susan Oman looks at its most recent report and discusses what it might signify for culture’s future role in the UK.
From issue 261
Opinion
Liz Hill explains why ArtsProfessional persists in calling Arts Council England to account.
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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.
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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.
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Feature
Sean Egan outlines what you need to know about becoming a charitable incorporated organisation.
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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.
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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.
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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.