From issue 233 Opinion
Contemporary dance has always been just a little bit cool. It may not be rake-in-the-money cool, or even city-street-corner cool, but a good healthy detachment from popular culture, from the...
From issue 233 Opinion
About nine months I sat, along with some other staff at B arts, in a room with friends from Stoke-based digital and music collective bitjam. We wondered what we could do together – and one half...
From issue 233 Opinion
I've been preparing for an audition recently. I'm learning a particularly tricky bass line played by one of the stalwarts of the low end, Jaco Pastorius. Aside from the note bashing and training my...
From issue 233 Opinion
Last week was a very interesting week indeed for the arts in general. For me, not so. The BBC reported the Forbes Top 100 Billionaires list. Interesting read, especially in light of the Government...
From issue 233 Opinion
I recently visited rural West Dorset twice in a week. An early evening visit to the beach enclave of Burton Bradstock prior to a Teddy Thompson gig at Bridport’s amazing Electric Palace was...
From issue 233 Book review
For over 15 years, something remarkable has been happening in the small Aberdeenshire town of Huntly. There, a small organisation called Deveron Arts has been occupying a space somewhere between a...
From issue 233
WENDY MARTIN has been appointed Head of Performance and Dance at Southbank Centre, taking up her post full-time on 9 May. Previously she spent three years as the Sydney Opera House’s Head of...
From issue 233 Feature
Claire Antrobus asks whether two heads are better than one, or whether joint leadership models are double trouble
From issue 233 Feature
William Shaw describes a project where even the local residents joined in to make it successful
From issue 233 Feature
Alan Hewson reports on a collaboration which is enabling a new production of ‘Wuthering Heights’ to tour Wales
From issue 233 Feature
James Evans considers the value of research and of having that research at your fingertips
From issue 233 Feature
The methodology and dissemination of economic impact studies needs examining, says Richard Fletcher
From issue 233 Feature
Damian Cruden argues that economic impact studies fail to identify the true value of the arts
From issue 233 Feature
Hall for Cornwall has found collaboration invaluable and hugely beneficial, finds Adrian Ient
From issue 233 Feature
Cleo Evans on a project that saw artists collaborating with engineers
From issue 233 Feature
Faith Liddell explains how collaborating has helped Edinburgh’s festivals to join together into something bigger than the sum of its parts
From issue 233 Feature
Smaller charities say collaboration works, especially if it is with local partners with similar aims. That’s the message from the Charity Commission, reports Adrian Ient
From issue 233 News
New figures suggest heavy reliance on volunteers and public subsidy
From issue 233 News
Seven ‘TippingPoint’ commissions, which aim to develop a critical mass of performance-based work in response to climate change, have been announced. The largest of these, a £30,000...
From issue 233 News
In the context of proposed changes to the English education system, the Education Committee has issued an inquiry and call for evidence into the new English Baccalaureate (E-Bac). The Committee will...
From issue 233 News
TV channel Sky Arts has re-emphasised its commitment to bringing the arts to wider audiences, and challenged the assumption that the current outlook for the arts is bleak. Its new report, ‘...
From issue 233 News
Creative England, the new body taking on the work of the Regional Screen Agencies following the abolition of the UK Film Council, is consulting on its strategic priorities for 2011/12. These include...
From issue 233 News
A&B pledges continued focus on corporate sponsorship as business support for the arts falls to a 7-year low
From issue 233 News
From issue 233 News
Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) and Cape Town Opera are to join forces in a three-year strategic partnership aimed at strengthening cultural links between Wales and South Africa. The company, South...

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