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Opinion
It’s 8.30am and by my rights as a student I shouldn’t even be out of bed yet. As a student, I should be nursing a god awful hangover and missing a lecture. As a student, I’m pretty...
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Opinion
Ever heard the expression “Make hay while the sun shines”? For music professionals the sun probably doesn’t shine that often. I subscribe to the theory that the times when you aren...
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Opinion
Like anyone involved in running an Arts Council England RFO, it was difficult to think about much else last week except our Briefing Session on the Portfolio funding programme. The choice of venue...
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Opinion
One of the joys of having a Wednesday to work from home is watching the weekly car crash that is Prime Minister’s Questions. But since the Dark Lords of Austerity took office, I’ve come...
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Michael Clark Company has appointed BRANISLAV HENSELMANN as Executive Producer. He joins from DanceEast where he was Head of Programming and Learning.
MADELEINE LOVELL will become the...
From issue 228
Opinion
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Paul Harman, Chair of TYA-UK, hits back at ACE’s claims that it prioritises young people, but endorses the idea that regularly funded organisations should take more responsibility locally and regionally for building audiences, touring circuits and promotional activity
From issue 228
Opinion
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Louise de Winter, Mark Pemberton, Roy Clare, Marcia Hutchinson, Stephen Cottrell, Hannah Nicklin, Michael Boyd, Francis Reid, Paul Kelly, John Smith, Rachel Tackley, Gerry Morrissey, Caroline Miller, Nica Burns and Mark Skipper comment on the Spending Review and ACE’s funding decisions
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Opinion
WEB EXCLUSIVE: While the arts community considers its response to the fine print of the Comprehensive Spending Review, Neil Darwin, Director of Regional Cities East, proposes setting aside local projects and dissolving local authority boundaries in favour of more substantive partnership investments at a sub-regional level
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Opinion
Clare Cooper urges arts organisations to understand that they have the power to change hearts and minds as we face up to the challenges posed by global warming and resource scarcity.
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Feature
Women still lag behind men in the arts – especially in leadership roles. Hilary Carty looks at the issues that lie behind the figures
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Feature
Jenni Lomax gives a personal view of women in the visual arts today – and how things have changed
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Networking can be a great way to get extra support, contacts and confidence if you are thinking of starting a business, says training consultant Diana Barden.
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Elizabeth Newman, Assistant Director at the Octagon Theatre Bolton at the age of 24, charts her path as a young director and considers whether being a woman has made things harder
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Are there any legal sticking points that arts organisations need to be aware of if they cater exclusively to women? Keith Arrowsmith, Partner at Ralli Solicitors LLP, investigates
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WEB EXCLUSIVE CASE STUDY: Networking can be a great way to get extra support, contacts and confidence if you are thinking of starting a business, says training consultant Diana Barden.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE CASE STUDY: Elizabeth Newman, Assistant Director at the Octagon Theatre Bolton at the age of 24, charts her path as a young director and considers whether being a woman has made things harder
From issue 228
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WEB EXCLUSIVE CASE STUDY: Are there any legal sticking points that arts organisations need to be aware of if they cater exclusively to women? Keith Arrowsmith, Partner at Ralli Solicitors LLP, investigates
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Arts People
Michelle Carwardine-Palmer reveals the route she took to her current role
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News
ACE announces its funding plans in response to grant in aid budget cuts of 29.6%
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A £30,000 award for performing artists to explore climate change has been launched by ‘Without Walls’, a consortium of eight street arts festivals, and ‘TippingPoint’,...
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News
In the wake of the Spending Review, Arts Council England’s (ACE) grant in aid budget for 2011/12 to 2014/15 will be set at £1.49bn, a real terms cut of 29.6%. ACE is being required to cut...
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It was standing room only earlier this month at the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee investigating Funding of the Arts and Heritage. Alan Davey, Chief Executive of Arts Council England (ACE...
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A small study looking at why young people who attend cultural events don’t go to classical concerts, suggests that audience behaviour at two ‘traditional’ classical concerts (by...