A new ten-point code of conduct states that volunteers at the city’s events and festivals must not be deployed in place of paid staff and cannot be left “out of pocket”. It follows new guidelines calling for festival staff to be paid at least a living wage.
The proposed £13.5m redevelopment, due to be debated by the local council next week, would see capacity increased in the main auditorium, the cinema expanded, and the addition of a new café and bar.
Former National Theatre bosses Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr are set to take on a second theatre in London, according to The Stage. Plans for a new development, which include a 600-seat theatre, have been submitted to Camden Council by the King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership.
Elisabeth Murdoch’s foundation has granted £375k each to the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh, G39 in Cardiff, Site Gallery in Sheffield, and PS2 in Belfast. Each gallery will support 20 emerging artists over the course of the five-year programme.
A new interactive data map shows where musical activity is concentrated. The London Mayor hopes it will support grassroots music by highlighting where facilities are needed.
The complex will allow most productions to be rehearsed onsite for the first time in the venue’s history and will be hired out to external producers outside of its own season.
Around £7,000 of equipment has been stolen from Pop-Up Opera’s tour van. This follows a £50k van theft from the Central School of Ballet’s premises, and the theft of theatre company The Lord Chamberlain’s Men’s tour van.
New figures from UK Theatre reveal ticket sales were down £1.9m across its member theatres in 2017. The number of tickets sold fell by almost 2%, despite a 3% increase in the number of performances.
Months after being dropped from Creative Scotland’s regularly funded portfolio, public art organisation NVA has announced it will close in September. It has abandoned £11m plans to restore the derelict St Peter’s Seminary as a cultural and performance space, despite having already spent £2.3m on the site since 2013.
Formerly known as Olympicopolis, the revamped ‘East Bank’ project has been backed with £385m from London Mayor Sadiq Khan and £151m from the Government. It will house a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum, a mid-scale venue for Sadler’s Wells and a campus for University of the Arts London.
Poetry Can, which was dropped from Arts Council England’s national portfolio for 2018-22, has announced it will cease operations by the end of the month after an unsuccessful Grants for the Arts funding bid has left it with no guaranteed income.
