From issue 184
There is clearly a perception in the arts world that the iron is hot and the time to strike is now. In a matter of weeks we have had two important papers suggesting – nay, insisting upon...
From issue 184
Craftspeople are facing the same challenges as arts workers, and often working in the same areas, writes Rosy Greenlees.
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Brian Healy suggests ways of squeezing more value out of online activities.
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Helen Renwick on what the London 2012 Olympics should learn from the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
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Sean Egan unpicks the legal issues of archiving live performance.
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There’s a distinct shift in the way London plans to look at itself in the run-up to 2012, as Munira Mirza reveals to Catherine Rose.
From issue 183
I was talking recently to a seasoned cultural academic and lamenting the lack of a national cultural policy. He knowingly told me of the time he went to see the Office of Arts and Libraries, which...
From issue 183
Birmingham Hippodrome has appointed Emma Phillips as Press & Marketing Assistant and Sally Pennington as Development Officer.
Artistic Director, Jon Adams, a research fellow at University of...
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Rebecca Lee surveys the work done in a single region to shorten the distance between artists in rural locations.
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Theatre continues to grapple with the big political issues running through rural life, writes Daniel Buckroyd.
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When the staff of a rural venue couldn’t find any relevant diversity training, they set up their own, explains Paula Redway.
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Abigail Cheverst explores how a climate of fear has robbed artists of a palette of creative and organisational tools.
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A healthy musician initiative is optimising health and performance, writes Aaron Williamon.
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New plan for the capital combines pragmatism with celebration and development.
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Less than two years ago, Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) was under threat of closure due to funding cuts being made by Wandsworth Council, its landlord at the Old Town Hall (see AP138). Now celebrating...
From issue 183
The National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA) has attacked the DCMS’s free ticket plan (see AP179), calling it an “elitist gimmick”. The £2.5m government-funded scheme...
From issue 183
A new engagement strategy for older people will support work with regularly funded organisations in Northern Ireland. The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) is developing the plan in light of...
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A 35-foot-high mural (pictured top) has been demolished after Cardiff City Council granted consent for a new commercial development that led to the building being torn down (pictured bottom)....
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Differences in the costs of grant-making and lack of collaboration across the nine principal grant-makers sponsored by the DCMS are among failings identified by the Committee of Public Accounts in a...
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A formal bid to the DCMS for the return of £150m in Lottery funds has been unanimously endorsed by MSPs. The Scottish Government has submitted the bid to retrieve the cash diverted from...
Responding to Government moves to make Shakespeare study optional, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has invited schools to stage an assembly as part of a ‘Stand Up For Shakespeare’...
From issue 183
Viewers of the BBC’s adaptation of Dickens’s ‘Little Dorrit’ will have heard the elder Mrs Gowan’s hasty assertion that her artist son does not paint for money –...
From issue 183
Arts organisations should become social enterprises, according to former Arts Minister Margaret Hodge, but Trisha Lee argues that many of them already are.