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Part of a ‘creative skills partnership’ with London Southbank University and University of the Arts London, the Southwalk Council bursary will encourage young people to take creative courses.

Attendance at live music events is at an "all-time high", partly due to the growing popularity of music tourism, though smaller music venues are losing out.

Following a successful bid to Arts Council England, the 19th century Whitworth Mill in Peterborough will be transformed into artist studios and work spaces, and become the home for arts group Metal. This follows news that Pendle’s Brierfield Mill will be converted into an art-library, open air cinema, gallery and performance space.

An annual public sculpture commission, led by the Cass Sculpture Foundation, will be launched in the autumn as part of a commercial and residential regeneration project around Battersea Power Station. £6.8m will be invested in the culture programme on the site, which will also include a 2,000-seat venue and pop-up spaces and workspaces for artists.

A successful bid for £348k in core funding from Arts Council England will see arts organisation In-Situ develop Pendle’s Brierfield Mill into ‘Northlight’, an art-library, open air cinema, gallery and performance space.

Members of Bulgaria’s Plovdiv 2019 Foundation board are threatening to resign unless the local council’s influence is reduced. They say councillors are more interested in political games than the Foundation, and there is no time to prepare for the event.

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Selected audience members at a Royal Shakespeare Company performance of Titus Andronicus will wear pulse-monitoring wristbands as part of a research project examining whether the bard’s work still has the power to shock.