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Skinder Hundal sees the merging of digital and traditional as opening up opportunities for new relationships between artists and audiences
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Lesley Anne Rose describes Stellar Quines’s journey from analogue to digital – and the bright light at the end of the tunnel
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This September Southbank Centre will showcase twenty-three music and dance pieces created by an international band of seventy-two members. Justin Spooner explains how digital technology was integral to the project
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Producing a programme for a digital audience requires many of the same skills as any other type of programming, as young people in Bristol are discovering for themselves
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Kerry Michael and Jessica Kranish explain how audiences are being engaged through digital media in Theatre Royal Stratford East’s new ‘third space’
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Ellie Manwell explains how bringing digital technology into the gallery space is helping Dulwich Picture Gallery enhance the visitor experience and connect with audiences
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The much maligned YTS training scheme provided Dianne Greig with her route to becoming Senior Partner at Culture Sparks
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While colleagues are taking time off to avoid the rain-soaked shires and cities of Britain over the next few weeks, or watching the Olympics, here at ArtsProfessional the staff have...
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Inactive trustees could be the Achilles heel in arts sector efforts to attract individual giving
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Sadler’s Wells has been selected to form the new National Youth Dance Company (NYDC), which will become England’s flagship national company for dance. With a £200,000 funding...
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A bid by Plymouth College of Art to open a mainstream, city centre school for pupils aged 4 to 16 has been given the go-ahead by the Department for Education, which has confirmed its intention to...
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The draft programmes of study for the new primary national curriculum in English, while giving detailed specifications of what pupils should learn, make only passing reference to drama. There will be...
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A review of the extent to which London’s schools are engaging with cultural organisations has revealed a patchy and fragmented picture. Barriers to schools embracing the arts include organising...
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Culture Ministers from around 40 countries will be gathering at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh next month, to hold discussions with leading artistic figures about the role of culture in...
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Arts and culture organisations in England and Scotland looking to explore opportunities presented by digital technologies can now apply for financial support through two new funds. Following a pilot...
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An initiative hoping to establish a ‘.music’ generic top-level domain (gTLD) – the three letters that follow the dot in a web address – for the music sector has been making...
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A review of the Charities Act by Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts has led to wide ranging proposals for the future of the charities sector. The Charities Act 2006 was the first to be written with an...
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Review finds that artistic strengths are counterbalanced by some structural weaknesses in Scottish theatre
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The cultural offers of the world’s most important cities, and the policy structures behind them, is the focus of a new report
A new national audience development agency is being formed out of a merger between Manchester’s All About Audiences and Audiences London Plus. Opening for business in September, The Audience...
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Viram Jasani sees ACE’s rejection of the Asian Music Circuit’s NPO bid (AP255) as symptomatic of its ambivalence towards race equality and diversity
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How do ‘accidental audiences’ for art in public spaces experience performances and what impact does it have? Richard Turpin examines the evidence
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The relationship between the arts and sport has deep roots and will outlive the temporary spotlight cast on it by the Cultural Olympiad. Doug Sandle explains why
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Lucy Shaw explains the challenges of devising and programming creativity into the historic settings of the Houses of Parliament
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As the tide turns against unpaid internships, other solutions are needed to help graduates gain vital work experience. Kate Danielson explains why paid work placements could be part of the solution