They say it’s lonely at the top. I am a festival director and I am lonely. But not for the reasons you might expect. As a chief executive of an annual festival in London, I schedule over 200 music events, talks and performances that draw 50,000 people to the area. All part of the job for a festival director – except that I am deaf and rely on a limited funded quota of sign language interpreters to access the very programme I am responsible for. This means I often struggle to access the... more
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Issue 267: Local authorities' latest practice
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Local authorities' latest practice
30 Sep 2013The Bloomsbury Festival in a Box outreach scheme is tackling cultural exclusion, reports Cathy Mager.
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30 Sep 2013When the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust sought a new chief executive it chose someone with a financial background and not a museum one. Paul Gossage explains why.
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30 Sep 2013Theresa Lloyd and Beth Breeze share some insights from their study of the attitudes and habits of potential donors.
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30 Sep 2013Gillian Taylor looks at how festivals can involve communities in making site-responsive works that create a sense of pride in lost and forgotten places.
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23 Sep 2013Skilled and experienced in their craft, but with their physicality threatened and changed by time, what does it mean to be an older professional dancer? Stella Lyons has been exploring this question.
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23 Sep 2013Group singing brings many benefits to people living in areas of disadvantage, according to a new report by Evan Dawson and Kathryn Deane.
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23 Sep 2013Working in partnership with a Ugandan arts organisation has been a fraught experience (an understatement) for Blackpool’s TramShed, but as Zac Hackett and Marge Ainsley report, they are not giving up.
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16 Sep 2013The government’s new primary sports funding will increase dance provision in primary schools. Sally Fort urges dance practitioners and companies to get involved.
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16 Sep 2013Emma O’Neill reflects on how the spirit of a gallery can enhance a touring exhibition.
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16 Sep 2013Many see zero hours contracts as exploiting workers, but Eleanor Deem points out that the flexibility they offer can prove invaluable in certain circumstances.
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09 Sep 2013Arts Development UK’s latest survey on arts spending in local authorities in England and Wales reveals a "dramatic and changing picture". Pete Bryan and Judy Hughes set out their findings.
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09 Sep 2013Rach Flowers describes how Warwickshire County Council has used the arts as a consultation tool for developing its all-age autism strategy.
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09 Sep 2013To replace events previously run by Lincoln City Council, former member of the arts team Sara Bullimore founded the Lincoln Inspired festival. She tells the story so far.
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09 Sep 2013Oxford City Council has launched CREATE, a peer-to-peer, cultural micro-funding and collaboration event, which is offering new opportunities for artists to pitch for some cash.
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09 Sep 2013Kent County Council turned to Ladder to the Moon to deliver workforce development training for dementia care, and to create a classic movie. Emma Hanson is delighted with the outcomes.
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09 Sep 2013The running of the Hazlitt Arts Centre is being contracted out by Maidstone City Council. Mandy Hare explains the rationale for the decision.