The team behind the theatre in the Calais refugee camp have teamed up with the Museum of Immigration in Paris to open a pop-up performance space, run by refugees, which will operate from mid-October to early November.
The Atlantic Project will take place at various locations across the city and feature site-specific commissions by international artists as part of a ‘pilot festival of contemporary art’.
The renovations, now scheduled to start next month, will cost £22m – an increase of a third on the £16.8m originally budgeted. The gallery has admitted the project will not be completed before early 2021.
The representative body for museums said it “strongly supports” the proposals for using culture to improve wellbeing and reduce inequality, adding that cross-government working will be essential to ensure the plan’s implementation.
A new report by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, which analyses learning from the past three years, also expresses concern that statutory grants do not rise with inflation.
Southampton’s Grade-II listed theatre has completed its £7.5m renovation. The walls have been repainted, the orchestra pit has been moved below the stage and the building is now connected to adjacent theatre offices.
A former chapel and women-only gym in London’s Stoke Newington will reopen this week as a home for Tower Theatre, equipped with rehearsal, performance, office and social spaces.
Calls for unity have been made following comments accusing Arts Council England of appropriating a radical movement and likening the national funder to Nigel Farage playing the sitar at WOMAD festival.
The City of Dreams strategy aims to engage 165,000 under-25s in the arts every year for the next 10 years, and hopes to address poverty and mental health challenges.
Forty signatories to a letter to the Chair are demanding that the theatre does more to champion Welsh artists, describing the organisation as a "roadblock" to success.
Resources set aside for Paisley and Renfrewshire’s UK City of Culture bid will be redirected to expand capacity for major events and create an organisational development fund to support the growth of the area’s creative sector.
Wales takes a lead as arts professionals across all the countries of the UK are urged to take part in research that will shed light on low pay and earnings in the cultural sector.
The organisation hopes the three-year transformation, which includes new public spaces and a new performance space, will help the opera house lose its elitist tag.
Located just opposite the main site, the former Peckham Road Fire Station building opens this weekend following a renovation. Alongside hosting exhibitions, it will run an education and events programme.
A new Memorandum of Understanding, in place until 2020, includes commitments for both bodies to share data on the more effective use of Lottery funding and to align funding processes where possible.
£60k has been granted to a South Shields project to turn a pit head building into a cultural hub. Through the Government’s £6m Coastal Communities Fund, Cornwall’s Kneehigh Theatre has also been provided with £800k for a project training people working in the tourism and culture sectors.