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Alexandra Ansanelli in Ondine at the Royal Ballet
The Royal Opera House has announced LADY SARAH CHATTO as President of The Royal Ballet. Vice President of the ballet company since 2004,...
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NATHAN POWELL has been appointed Creative Director for two of Merseyside’s most iconic venues - Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse theatres....
Robert Khan, James Seabright and Sofi Berenger stand outside Kings Head Theatre
The King's Head Theatre, in London's borough of Islington, has announced ROBERT KHAN as its new Chair. He took up the post on 14 May,...
Graham McKnight sits in a theatre auditorium wearing a dark suit
GRAHAM MCKNIGHT will join Crewe’s Lyceum Theatre as Theatre Director. He succeeds RHYS HOPKIN who, after two years in the role, will take...
Lisa Reuben and Bianca Roden
The Royal Academy of Arts has announced that LISA REUBEN and BIANCA RODEN will be joining its board. A former specialist in the...

Latest Features

  • Census 2021 leaflets

    Cultural policy makers have not focused much on census data in the past, but that data is a goldmine for researchers, says Mark Taylor.

  • Image of people dressed in white, hands aloft, with white confetti/petals falling

    Long-term Heart of Glass collaborator Chrissie Tiller reflects on working with the Merseyside-based NPO and how, by building deeper relationships with communities, the arts can create fairer futures.

  • Sky at night with lights

    With her experience of working across multiple projects, Sarah Fortescue explores how the sector can deliver what they do best, in the best way possible?

  • Image of Central School of Speech and Drama

    Covid has affected the UK theatre industry at all levels, with wide ranging impacts on the workforce, livelihoods, working practices and support networks. But, as James Rowson explains, early career workers have been particularly affected.

  • Senedd, Welsh Parliament, Cardiff Bay

    After a recent appearance before Wales’s Culture Committee, Charlotte Faucher has been rethinking our new relationship with Europe.

  • Performers on a stage looking up at multiple spotlights

    Evaluation reports in the cultural sector can be packed full of learning. Emma McDowell explores how we might unearth this existing knowledge.

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Good news. Stonewall have been providing inaccurate information in their training and information packs - focusing in the law as they would...
Trans people have always existed and will always exist. Why does their flourishing trigger you so much? Amazing how theses bigots who...
Posted by jgillham on A cultural revolution in the arts
This article reads as: 1. Trans people are not humans as we know them - how can we undermine them? 2. We have to get OUR opinions on...
Posted by nowordsfindswords on A cultural revolution in the arts
This is a good and balanced article..it is vital that artists are able to express themselves freely. Having lived and worked in communist...
Thank you for this thoughtful and heartfelt piece. The hyperbolic first comment- it’s hard to believe the author read the piece- shows the...
Posted by Rachel Bell on A cultural revolution in the arts
Important and timely piece. The arts and artists should be free to say what they like and say it wherever they can. If you're in...
Posted by Frankafka on A cultural revolution in the arts
At present the dogma that deconstruction and linear forms of activisms (many of which are dully, overtly misogynist and/or hypersexualised...
Posted by Vinaigrette_Girl on A cultural revolution in the arts
Thanks for all your work. The arts council is out of control with authoritarian pseudo intellectualism.
Rosie Kay is a dancer not a writer but, like her dancing, her writing comes from the heart and is grounded in her personal experiences....
Posted by Margaret E on A cultural revolution in the arts
Great article, thank you Rosie for having the strength to speak up. The Arts are indeed truly lost when a ‘minority’ has so much clout - on...
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