Council grants 10-year extension on Covid loan for performing arts company
A Blackpool performing arts organisation has had a Covid-era loan from the city’s council extended to support its recovery. Blac…
A Blackpool performing arts organisation has had a Covid-era loan from the city’s council extended to support its recovery. Blac…
Senior civil servants from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have been quizzed by MPs over the decision to hand P…
A company that sells greetings cards featuring the work of graffiti artists, including Banksy, is going to court to challenge the…
Nine UK theatres have been awarded grants totalling nearly £170,000 for environmental sustainability projects. The project fundin…
A new campaign is seeking to put arts subjects at the heart of teaching in British schools. The Arts and Minds campaign has been d…
The comedian Peter Kay has defended ejecting two hecklers from his show at Manchester’s AO Arena. Kay asked security staff to remo…
Senior civil servants have faced scrutiny from MPs over whether the management of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Co…
A newly created citizens’ network is hoping to “rethink” decision-making in the cultural and creative sectors. The Citizens In P…
A memorandum of understanding between four trade unions and Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture has been agreed, securing creative wo…
Activists from Greenpeace UK have staged an elaborate performance art protest at Shell’s London HQ to highlight the oil and gas…
The number of people working in the creative industries from working class backgrounds is declining, according to findings from a…
Manchester’s culture sector generated an economic impact of more than £342m last year, according to the findings of a new repor…
A new Midlands-based management organisation will be created to care for the nearly 800 works of modern and contemporary art in th…
London’s Central School of Ballet is receiving an increase in funding from its long-term supporter, Leverhulme Trust. The multi-…
Mid Wales Opera (MWO) has credited an arts transition and resilience grant from Powys County Council with saving the company from…
Trade union Equity has called for an urgent conversation over the use of artificial intelligence in the performing arts. In an op…
London Borough of Croydon is not planning to sell one of its major cultural venues, its mayor has said. In a statement released on…
A Halifax theatre in receipt of Arts Council England (ACE) funding as part of the National Portfolio has announced it is closing i…
Addressing inequality in cultural education requires sustained long-term investment, not “short-term governmental funding cycles”,…
At least 44 leaders within the performing arts sector moved on from their roles last year, the highest number since 2018, analysis…
A musician-in-residence scheme in a Nottinghamshire primary school has improved pupils’ concentration and behaviour, and crea…
Performing arts organisations, including the National Theatre, Royal Ballet and Opera and the Royal Shakespeare Company, have achi…
An annual community festival in Sheffield has cancelled this year’s event due to a lack of funding. The Sharrow Festival, which us…
There is a £32.3m annual budget shortfall between the demands being placed on music education hubs to deliver the National Plan f…