Contractors have discovered a range of issues with the building, including rotted timber and damaged drains. The council, which has already dedicated £13.5m to the project, described the problems as “much, much worse” than expected.
Arts Council England has guaranteed funding at the same level for the venue, which says the financial strain of maintaining a rep company took the organisation “towards a tipping point from which we now need to step back”.
Further investment from Creative Scotland and BBC Arts into the Edinburgh venue will support an expansion of its artist development programme, allowing it to double the number of artist labs.
Lack of career progression among women in the cultural sector is the overwhelming contributor to the significant gender pay gap revealed in initial findings from the 2018 ArtsPay survey.
New research finds 80% of creative businesses expect to grow in the next three years, but urges further support from the Government to ensure barriers such as Brexit and a lack of funding can be overcome.
Burnley Empire Theatre, the only purpose-built Victorian theatre in East Lancashire, and which has been on the Theatres Trust Theatres at Risk register since 2006, has been bought by Burnley Empire Limited – a friends group backed by the National Trust and the Theatres Trust.
Research by ComRes found that 69% of people who had attended a live ticketed event in the past year agree measures should be put in place to stop people taking pictures and videos during performances. But more than a third also said recording on their phone is an important part of the live experience.
A collaboration between the city council and the foundation’s Momentum Music Fund will award one musician £15k and two other artists up to £5k each, alongside mentoring from national experts and support from Momentum partners.
After ten years of activity in the city’s west end, Creative Scotland-backed gallery The Common Guild has announced it will stop exhibiting in its space in Woodlands Terrace, and will seek a different a way of displaying work with better access.
The Royal Northern College of Music has responded to increasing complaints of mental health challenges across higher education – and among musicians as a whole – by employing a clinical psychologist and trained pianist as a lecturer focused on musicians’ health and wellbeing.
The local council has rejected an expression of interest from a community group wanting to refurbish the derelict building as a performance venue, and favours developing it as a site for testing driverless vehicles.
The organisation announced on Twitter that the 2019 ceremony has been cancelled, and that the awards themselves had “come to an end”. The initiative had been criticised for shortlisting a production that used white actors to portray Asian characters.
The consultation, which will guide spending for the period 2019-24, includes proposals for introducing three- to five-year funding periods for grants from the National Lottery.
A new parliamentary inquiry will report on the barriers to social mobility and identify practical action that can be taken by charities and the Government to address them.
An evidence review concludes that nuances around the impact of arts interventions are being lost as evaluations take “an overly narrow focus on data and measurements”.
