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Given the high concentration of dance artists living and working in the capital, Brendan Keaney wonders why dance buildings remain substandard.
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It was interesting to learn of the RSA’s hope to run an annual State of the Arts conference (AP210). It sounds remarkably like the sizeable annual arts (craft and film) conference that used to...
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New reports criticise the expectation that creative graduates will work for free.
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Scottish public bodies and organisations could do more to integrate the traditional arts into their activities and events, according to a new report from the Traditional Arts Working Group. A wide...
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A further 291 culture jobs for young unemployed people have been created in London and Essex. This is part of the second tranche in the Government’s scheme to create 120,000 new jobs,...
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Live broadcasts of the National Theatre’s production of ‘Phèdre’ to cinemas across the UK attracted lower income audiences than the usual National Theatre demographic...
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A scheme to give free theatre tickets to young people aged 16–25 is lagging behind its own targets on the anniversary of its launch. ‘A Night Less Ordinary’ (ANLO), funded by...
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Brighton-based artist Grant DeJonge has been announced as the winner of artrepublic’s street art competition, for his work ‘Lost’. The contest was designed to raise awareness...
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The Anne Peaker Centre for Arts and Criminal Justice (APC) will close at the end of this month after 20 years in operation, due to lack of funds. The Trustees considered “a number of...
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Leicester Theatre Trust, which runs the Curve Theatre, has been awarded more than £1m in the penultimate round of Arts Council England’s (ACE) ‘Sustain’ programme....
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Leicester Theatre Trust, which runs the Curve Theatre, has been awarded more than £1m in the penultimate round of Arts Council England’s (ACE) ‘Sustain’ programme. Despite...
Commitment to the arm’s length principle, a new taxation scheme to release more money from the National Lottery and a higher level of political recognition for donors to the arts are...
The new £7.6m Theatre at the Mill has opened in Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland. The new theatre comprises a 400-seat auditorium, foyer cafe, offices, dressing rooms, green room and the...
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Chris Holifield looks at how poetry and other artforms can seize the opportunities presented by the web.
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Q I’ve always prided myself on my friendly management style. My theory was always that if staff were happy and relaxed they would do a good job. If anything went on the slide then an...
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It’s time to stop thinking in terms of being either amateur or professional. Robin Simpson argues for a new perspective.
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Jodi Myers considers how to keep former board and staff members up to date.
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Gissa job?
Employment is in the news once more, with the movement for paid internships (p1) not quite being balanced out by the Government’s recession-busting attempts at creating minimum wage...
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Martin Pople is the new Director of the Bath Area Cultural Forum. He was previously Director of Bath Spa Live at Bath Spa University.
Group Chief Executive of Creative & Cultural Skills,...
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Should the role of the evaluator be reinvented? Martin Heaney considers the problem of how to turn anecdotal evidence into significant and useful data.
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Adrian Slatcher and Hannah Rudman explain how and why AmbITion embedded evaluation into its projects from the start.
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Beatriz Garcia explains how long-term research can open up a project to deeper scrutiny.
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ACNI furious at policy recommendations as budget promises are broken.
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Young people are being invited to promote their own dance activity or event through a new social network campaign which aims to boost young people’s participation in dance. ‘I Love...