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Questions are being raised as more details of ACE’s recession fund emerge.
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The first online dance archive in the UK will be unveiled this month, representing a history of choreographer Siobhan Davies’ work. The culmination of a two-year project involving Siobhan...
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New guidance relating to planning legislation suggests that property developers can now be required to pay for public art in future projects as a condition of obtaining planning permission. A new...
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Arts organisations in Scotland and North East England will move towards new operating structures and practices by working together, through a series of six pilot projects supported by Missions,...
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The much-mourned ‘two in a bar’ licensing exemption, under which two musicians were permitted to perform without a public entertainment licence, could be reinstated if the Government...
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Proposals for a radical rethink of current practices and attitudes to partnership working, commissioning, acquisition, disposal of works and risk, are among the issues raised for consultation in a...
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Twelve Scotland-based dance and theatre companies will appear at Edinburgh’s 2009 Fringe Festival through a new £1m two-year programme which aims to showcase national talent, encourage...
The tenth anniversary of the ground-breaking Government report ‘All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education’, which put forward the case for developing a national strategy for...
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Transparency is a variable quality – it could mean anything from an open window to a vague glow through unpolished glass. One example from Arts Council England (ACE) is its decision not to...
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Continuing our series on the recession, Bill Bankes-Jones predicts that opera will remain popular as it diversifies in form.
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Mahmood Reza explains the importance of good risk management to the health of an organisation.
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The creative industries are in the midst of profound change, and Katz Kiely thinks that it might be just what the economy needs.
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Sir Phillip Craven MBE
I was lying dazed and confused in a spinal injuries hospital. It was 1970. A young man, he looked a few years older than me, wheeled past (everyone in here seemed to be in a...
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Jennifer Phillips is moving from Aberdeen International Youth Festival to become General Manager at Citymoves, Aberdeen City’s Dance Agency.
Theatre Is… has appointed Jonathan Meth (...
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Shakespeare can be as relevant today as he was four hundred years ago if you pitch it right, embrace new technology and let the plays speak for themselves, writes Jacqui O’Hanlon
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There are countless ways in to Shakespeare for young people at all stages of their development, as Juliet Forster discovers.
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Pamela Pfrommer highlights the gaps in current training for creative professionals, and suggests how to fill them.
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The Creative and Media Diploma is not only an opportunity for students to prepare for work in the cultural sector, but a chance for arts professionals to work with schools and colleges, writes Joy Aldred.
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The arts will benefit from jobs fund announced in the Budget, say DCMS and DWP.
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Wales launches ‘Arts in Health and Well-being’ action plan
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The high cost of visas and problems in submitting biometric data continue to trouble artists trying to visit the UK, despite improvements announced by Immigration Minister Phil Woolas. The biometric...
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A ‘Creative Futures Festival’, an education-to-work transition programme and services to help creative businesses survive the downturn have been announced by the University of the Arts...
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As part of its response to the McIntosh Report of 2008, Arts Council England (ACE) is developing new criteria to assess applicants wishing to become Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs), which will...
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Arts venues in Northern Ireland generated over £13.3m in ticket revenue during 2008, according to research carried out by Audiences Northern Ireland (Audiences NI). ‘The Audience Audit...
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The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has been asked “to carry out a root and branch review of its funding models”, which will see winners and losers, according to a speech given by Alun Ffred...