From issue 237
Opinion
FROM Mike Layward, Artistic Director, DASH
In your article ‘ACE grapples with equality’ (p1, AP236), I would challenge ACE’s statement that it ensured that the cuts were not...
From issue 237
News
Arcola Theatre is one of 25 organisations being held up by NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, as role models for ‘civic entrepreneurship’ in its new...
From issue 237
News
Large-scale live music events across the UK attract at least 7.7 million attendances a year by domestic and overseas music tourists, according to new research by UK Music into the economic...
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Most visual arts organisations are under-capitalised and have reserves that are too small to support investment and growth or to protect the organisation in times of crisis, according to a new report...
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Proposals from six producing companies have been shortlisted, from 62 bids, for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s new £175,000 annual performance award. The money is for the creation...
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News
English National Opera (ENO) has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) award for Audience Development 2011 in recognition of its free membership scheme for young people and its 2010 site...
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News
Ivan Lewis MP, Shadow Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport has accused the Government of “back to front policy making” after Jeremy Hunt announced a review of film funding. Having axed...
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New research endorses the value of Edinburgh’s festivals to the local and national economy
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Cuts to artists’ membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations will have a disproportionate impact, according to new research
Guidance materials to support teachers in assessing pupils’ progress in musical learning within the National Curriculum have been published by the National Association of Music Education. The...
From issue 237
Feature
Emma Geliot on the relationship between artists’ studios and higher education
From issue 237
Feature
Learning how to embrace change and achieve it on its own terms has been hugely beneficial for Helix Arts. Robert Laycock explains
From issue 237
Feature
As I read the stats from Bournemouth University (p2) I realise that we are part of a major phenomenon. When we drove into Manchester last week to see the stupendous Portuguese fado singer Mariza, we...
From issue 236
Opinion
A month has passed since Arts Council England announced the 695 organisations that will make up its new National Portfolio from April 2011. The jubilations of successful organisations and the shirt-...
From issue 236
Opinion
I took a very sad trip around Leicester Haymarket a few weeks ago. Once it was thriving. Once upon a time you could see interesting, quirky and worthwhile productions in the studio whilst the main...
From issue 236
Opinion
When I am not working on technology issues, I am struggling to work out how to raise funds for arts organisations which cover both visual arts and performing arts. I chair the Development Board at...
From issue 236
Opinion
Is it a bit odd that watching someone opening a champagne bottle in Simon Stephens’ Wastwater at the Royal Court last weekend was one of the tensest moments I’ve witnessed on stage? It...
From issue 236
Opinion
Since the 1960s the eco art movement has concerned itself with environmental degradation, the role of the human in this and has an explicit aim to affect behaviour change - but can art really get us...