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A campaign to save the City of Edinburgh School of Music – one of Scotland’s six ‘Centres of Excellence’ – has been given hope following rumours the Scottish Government may block plans to close it. The council hopes re-distributing the school’s facilities to four sites across Edinburgh will save it £383k a year and widen access to music.

The theatre has been criticised for ‘turning a blind eye’ to inappropriate sexual behaviour by Kevin Spacey while he was Artistic Director, after actor Roberto Cavazos relayed a “couple of unpleasant encounters” on Facebook. The Guardian has reportedly been contacted by a number of people who have worked at the theatre claiming Spacey’s behaviour was well known. The news follows the Old Vic’s decision to invite anyone who would like to make a retrospective complaint to contact them.

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Dundee, Milton Keynes, Belfast, Leeds and Nottingham will compete for the title, which will be awarded to one UK city and one Hungarian city for 2023. A shortlist will be announced by the end of the year, and the winner will be announced in 2018.

The Humber Street venue will be repaired and extended under plans that include the creation of a sound-proofed multi-arts performance space, a new gallery, flexible studios and work spaces for creative businesses, and a café.

More than 150 museum directors, curators and artists – including Turner prize winner Helen Marten and gallery owner Sadie Coles – have signed an open letter denouncing abuses of power and sexual harassment. This follows a day of action at the Royal Court theatre in London at the weekend, which will inform a code of behaviour for theatres, casting directors, agents, drama schools, and other industries.

Audience heart rates rose by roughly the same amount during a virtual reality experience, a live performance and a cinema screening of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Titus Andronicus, although the live audience were overall more positive about the experience.

Commissions by DanceXchange, the Citizens Theatre and Told by an Idiot are among the first 15 projects to be funded through the scheme, which aims to explore post-Brexit Britain through a commission of 50 artworks.