Opera company calls council grant ‘a lifeline’
Mid Wales Opera (MWO) has credited an arts transition and resilience grant from Powys County Council with saving the company from…
Mid Wales Opera (MWO) has credited an arts transition and resilience grant from Powys County Council with saving the company from…
The Welsh government’s culture committee has said it has “significant concerns” about whether Wales’ Culture Minister Jack…
Cardiff University has announced plans to cut 400 academic staff jobs and close a number of courses entirely, including music. The…
Welsh government budgets should include a “preventative” category of spending that recognises the value of culture in improving ph…
A new national theatre for Wales will be established by actor Michael Sheen following the closure of National Theatre of Wales las…
The Welsh performing arts sector has reached a “critical tipping point” as ongoing funding cuts place “unsustainable pressur…
A new funding programme designed to mitigate the financial risk associated with promoting grassroots music events has launched in…
National Theatre Wales (NTW) will no longer exist in its current form following the loss of its core funding from Arts Council Wal…
After a year of change across the government and arts councils of the UK, here’s a handy, end-of-year round up of the current chai…
The National Museum in Cardiff has been hit by flooding again due to recent heavy rain, a hearing of the Welsh Senedd’s culture co…
Arts organisations in Wales have tentatively welcomed the country’s draft budget for the next financial year as a positive first s…
The Welsh government has allocated the culture sector an additional £6m in its draft budget proposal for 2025-2026, following an…
A project run by a town council in Wales has given artists the opportunity to rent affordable studios. Penarth Council’s West Ho…
EMYR AFAN has been announced as the new chair of Anthem Music Fund Wales, succeeding DAVID ALSTON, who established the charity in…
That Welsh government has announced that arts and cultural organisations will receive £1m in new funding in this financial year,…
Papertrail Theatre has unveiled a new co-leadership model with JONNY COTSEN appointed as co-creative director to work alongside fo…
The economic value of the creative industries in Wales came to £1.52bn in 2023, statistics published by the Welsh government show…
Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has published its first plan for climate justice and the arts. The plan sets the vision of arts playin…
The union representing chorus members of Welsh National Opera (WNO) has said that while they have made enough progress in talks ov…
Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) has unveiled plans for a digital-first performance venue as well as facilities for production, rehea…
JESS MAHONEY has been appointed chief executive of the Cyfarthfa Foundation, a charitable organisation aiming to revamp Cyfarthfa…
Arts Council Wales (ACW) has announced that it has been granted funding from the Welsh government to protect jobs and strengthen r…
Equity has announced that its members in the chorus of the Welsh National Opera have voted to pause their first and second days of…
Arts Minister Chris Bryant says DCMS is working with the Welsh government to ‘understand the situation’ around Welsh N…