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Creative Scotland have been advised a new model to help individual artists work with producers.
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A new app will enable community and school groups to put together a pantomime, using a sketchbook format to help users with a step-by-step story plan, set design and characters. The Panto-maker was...
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A public consultation is asking anyone interested in or involved in new music to give feedback on the role currently being played by new music promoter Sound and Music, and to suggest priorities for...
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The Musicians’ Union (MU) has launched ‘Work not Play’, a campaign for fair pay in the music sector. Musicians are being encouraged to upload stories of being asked to play for free...
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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead has been presented with a National Lottery Award for Best Arts Project by sculptor Anthony Gormley after winning a public vote. The gallery is an...
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Doncaster’s new £22m performance venue will be called ‘Cast’ – a name chosen because of the word’s theatrical associations as well as providing a link to Doncaster...
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The £50mScottish museums budget, first announced in Scotland’s draft budget for 2013/14, has been confirmed by Scotland’s Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop in a speech to UK Museum...
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PRS Music Foundation’s new board members are JOHN REID, a music and entertainment lawyer; AMEET SHAH, Chair of MeWe Foundation and; VANESSA SWANN, Chief Executive of Cockpit Arts.
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Theatre503 in Battersea has appointed JEREMY WOODHOUSE as Executive Director, while PAUL ROBINSON will sole responsibility for the role of Artistic Director at the venue following the departure of Co...
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MARY PATERSON is stepping down as curator at London Southbank University’s Borough Gallery.
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The loss of arts cash will be a problem, but the loss of arts education would be a catastrophe, says Liz Hill.
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A landmark piece of public art on a Belfast roundabout has become the first sculpture to have won a major engineering prize. The judges of the Institution of Structural Engineers’ Structural...
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The selection process for the Artists Taking the Lead (ATTL) award in Yorkshire is to be subject to an internal review by Arts Council England (ACE). An ACE spokesperson told AP that “in the...
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Linda Jasper calls for the proposed EBacc qualification to include the opportunity for young people to continue to study dance.
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Funding agreements should do more to recognise the need for proper investment in artists, say membership bodies.
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The future of education in London should include schools engaging with cultural institutions, teaching about the city’s cultural significance and recording children’s cultural...
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Cultural organisations need to tailor their offer to help schools achieve their individual goals in a cost-effective way, according to a new report commissioned by A New Direction (AND), one of the...
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has opened Rijks Studio, an online presentation of 125,000 works in its collection, to enable members of the public to create their own artworks. The ultra high-...
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Amateur dance is thriving but skills shortages and lack of scope for career development are holding back the professional sector.
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Government proposals for replacing GCSEs will leave the arts outside the core curriculum
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ACE’s latest funding stream will provide professional development for fundraising and capacity-building support for arts consortia.
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The £50mScottish museums budget, first announced in Scotland’s draft budget for 2013/14, has been confirmed by Scotland’s Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop in a speech to UK Museum...