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Mike Ingham on ACE’s decision to cut funding to the Audience Development Agencies
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Liz Hill argues that now is not the time to put our heads in the sand about the impact of audience development activity in the arts
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It is so disheartening to hear a theatre manager bemoaning a commitment to increasing audience engagement (Danny Moar, quoted in AP235). Surely he can see the benefits to his box office earnings even...
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How many theatre managers today, despite some being recognised for their great importance, believe their work is imperfectly understood? Yet our role has been established through centuries of...
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Bonnie Mitchell believes that we need a new language to talk about participatory arts
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Apprenticeships can be a great route into employment, and help to diversify a traditionally narrow workforce. Catherine Large explains their importance
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A clear focus on business objectives and a strong partnership between staff and volunteers are the bedrock of an effective costume hire department at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Pam Burrow and Ludmilla Krzak are at the heart of the action
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Peter Shand says the regulatory uplift for Scottish charities has come just in time for ‘The Big Society’
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Ben Cranfield, Sarah Davies and Natasha Silsby look at the value of academic partnerships in the arts and of holding conversations between theory and practice
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As a sucker for the double entendre, I’ve always had a soft spot for the phrase, ‘lie of the land’, which turns rather neatly in the wake of the recent funding decisions unveiled by...
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There's a lot of hubbub on t'internet at the moment about a certain Rebecca Black and her 'viral' 'hit' Friday. It seems the hive-mind can't decide whether she's a real act or whether she's a parody...
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In ‘Charitable Deduction Limit: Bad For Art Nonprofits?’ Elizabeth Blair suggests that President Obama's deficit-reducing proposals to reduce the levels of charitable tax deduction for...
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Christopher Goodhart is absolutely right when he calls for greater focus on developing philanthropy amongst the mass affluent; people with sufficient disposable income to make a real and sustainable...
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I have worked with a lot of boards in my time. Some incredibly supportive, a guiding hand from afar. Others so hands off they appeared once every two months like spectres hovering in the background....
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For the vast majority of arts organisation in England (and pretty much all those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) 30 March is just another day.
These are the organisations who survive...
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They may seem simple questions but topics that seem to be vexing many people at the moment.
Is there a difference between a theatre reviewer and a theatre critic? Should reviews only be positive and...
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I was recently at a training course, which looked at how to work with young people at risk of getting trapped in the benefits system.
One of the discussions focused on how to help young people...
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For years you could hear the cry of education funding bodies, the sound echoing through the corridors of drama schools; “widening participation, widening participation widening participation...
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JONATHAN HARPER will be Wales Millennium Centre’s new Director of Marketing and Communications from the end of June. Previously, he was Marketing Director at The Lowry lead the marketing team...