Courageous Change: The decision to end the January Challenge
64 Million Artists’ co-founder Jo Hunter reflects on the final iteration of the organisation’s annual creative provocation –…
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Migration Museum promises community ‘ownership’ of central London space
As the Migration Museum prepares to move to its permanent home in the City of London, it has opened applications to its People’s…
Tremendous potential: Matching opportunity to appetite within inclusive dance
Keep Moving is a project designed to advance disabled leadership and champion inclusive participation. Becky Bailey of Fabric, a s…
Art UK to expand global reach of national collection in bid to support ‘creative expression’
Investment in “much-needed” digital infrastructure will help a charity committed to sharing the UK’s public artworks expand to sho…
Belgrade Theatre to support PhD research into co-creation
A more than three-year research project will probe “one of the most important developments in theatre today”, in a collaboration b…
National Lottery funding to spur children’s ‘creative journeys’
Scotland’s children and young people are among the beneficiaries of a £1.2 million injection into the nation’s creative landscape…
BFI film festival boasts ‘record-breaking’ audience numbers
The London Film Festival (LFF) at the British Film Institute (BFI) has reached “record-breaking” audience numbers of more than…
National Lottery operator backs Bradford City of Culture on volunteering programme
National Lottery operator Allwyn has signed up to partner with Bradford City of Culture 2025, with investment specifically channel…
Local engagement, national conversation
In an era of political division, it’s more important than ever to build collaborative networks that link the local to a wider co…
Going Places: New Faces, New Focus
From Aberdeenshire to Armagh, communities are shaping new exhibitions and rediscovering museum collections through Going Places �…
Leicester Curve ‘immensely proud’ after annual attendance swells by nearly a quarter
Leicester’s Curve has announced “yet another record-breaking year”, with its annual turnover for 2024/25 sitting at £18.5m, the h…
Gallery takes over London streets with pop-up exhibition space
Contemporary art space ST.ART is hoping to turn London’s streets into a “moving gallery” with the release of a portable exhibition…
Creating belonging: Museums as spaces for community knowledge-making
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is pioneering a radical and potentially transformative approach to museum-based research and p…
Museums’ ad-hoc funding for learning activities jeopardising youth engagement
Project-based funding for museum learning programmes poses a “clear challenge” when it comes to sustaining engagement with chi…
ACE-funded research into early access to the arts could ‘drive culture spending agenda’
A 25-year research programme investigating the impact of sustained interaction with cultural activities on children and families c…
The Bula-Mela partnership: Leaving footprints in the sand
Following last summer’s riots, Ajay Chhabra reflects on the importance of partnership in supporting diaspora communities to reco…
Leeds’ year of culture like ‘building plane while flying’
A year of cultural activities held in Leeds throughout 2023 has been commended for its “unprecedented scale”, reaching people…
Giants, rivers and dancing queens: Thoughts on participation
Ahead of Inside Out Dorset 2025, a biennial festival of free international outdoor arts, its co-artistic director Bill Gee reflect…
Why back the arts?
In the first in our series of articles focusing on charitable giving, Louise Magill of the Oglesby Charitable Trust makes the case…
The value of venue hire
Find a cultural organisation with a building and more than likely you’ll find a ‘hire us’ call to action on their website, w…
Scotland to ‘talk about heritage’ in national consultation project
People across Scotland are invited to submit their thoughts on what heritage means to them, in a national survey open until 7 Dece…
Borough Yards artist’s takeover ‘more democratic’ than galleries
Artist Philip Colbert has said he is “obsessed” with presenting his work outside of official gallery spaces, expressing concern th…
Dulwich Picture Gallery leader: the pandemic proved why a sculpture garden mattered
A £5 million project to transform three acres of green space at Dulwich Picture Gallery (DPG) represents a “must-have” act of com…
Scotland’s festivals to boost global profile with £1.8m fund
Non-profit arts and cultural festivals across Scotland will be able to apply for grants of up to £200,000 to promote themselves a…
