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The arts sector should be more open to ideas from elsewhere, suggests Liz Hill
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A group of programmers and producers based in the South East is developing a more generous, collaborative model for touring theatre. Gavin Stride explains how
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Arts Council England is making a new funding commitment to touring: Jodi Myers is hoping that this will deliver what the sector really needs
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Rachel Escott looks at the benefits of marketing collaborations for touring productions
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Jane Donald and Sam Stone explain how the RSNO is meeting the challenge of understanding its geographically disparate audience base
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Catering has the potential to provide a healthy income stream and enhance the wider visitor experience, but it needs to be well executed, warns Paul Smith
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Rob Fredrickson explains the challenges the Royal Shakespeare Company faced in bringing its food and beverage operation in house – and the benefits to the Company as a result
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Kate Hall describes the maxims that get her through the challenges of site-specific theatre
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From aircraft hangers to potting sheds, Eastern Angles has toured to all sorts of unexpected, rural venues. Ivan Cutting tracks the company’s long road to success
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Esther Ferry-Kennington calls for a more strategic approach to audience data collection and interpretation
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Natalie Wilson outlines a new schools touring strategy based on collaboration
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Hayward Touring takes work by hot contemporary artists into the UK’s cultural ‘cold spots’. Roger Malbert explains what goes on behind the scenes
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EXCLUSIVE: Private investors will get new arts investment opportunities under a funding scheme being launched this week
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A new concert hall has the facility for a conductor in Europe to conduct an orchestra onstage in Florida while the audience enjoys the performance in the hall and from anywhere in the world connected...
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Current systems for managing major theatre refurbishing and building projects are under the spotlight following the publication of ‘Geometry and Atmosphere’, a new book in which Alan...
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A new survey is inviting feedback on the impact of recent measures to incentivise giving to the arts. It is exploring how the sector has responded to shifts in funding and incentives for philanthropy...
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A new Growth Loan Fund being launched this month by social enterprise Cockpit Arts is set to support the growth of the independent craft businesses based at its London creative-business incubators....
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Increasing sales of Lottery tickets are boosting projections of Lottery cash for the arts over the next five years. If the projections prove accurate, Arts Council England could see its Lottery fund...
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Craft businesses are making a significant contribution to the economy: £457m of sales were made in 2010 according to the latest research into the structure and output of the craft sector. The...
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A new management / union agreement is set to introduce performance management to orchestras
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Arts Council’s NPOs will have to reduce their environmental impact under new funding agreements
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Green shoots emerge for private funding for the arts in London, but business involvement continues to decline
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ACE will lead public bodies in the renewal of England’s strategy for cultural education