9th November 2018
After four and half years and five festivals, ANU GIRI will be stepping down as Executive Director of Dance Umbrella in Spring 2019 to pursue new opportunities.
Brand and communications strategist SUSIE STUBBS, who is Managing Director of Modern Designers, has been appointed Chair of the Castlefield Gallery Board of Trustees.
The Board of NN Contemporary Art has announced that its new Chief Executive Officer and Artistic Director will be EMER GRANT. She is a curator, producer, and researcher who has curated exhibitions at the Art Center South Florida (USA), The Hessel Museum (USA), Void Gallery (Northern Ireland), Pollinaria (Italy), and worked with programmes at Bard College, the University of Minnesota and Queens University...
Cheltenham Festivals has appointed six new trustees: SARAH COOKSLEY; BETH GRIFFIN; BEVERLEY GRIMSTER; SHAMIL MAKHECHA; MARK PHILIP-SORENSEN and DR DEBORAH COGAN THACKER. The current Chair, DOMINIC COLLIER, will step down at the end of the year on completion of his current three-year term, handing over to DIANE SAVORY...
NICK SWALES, Regional Director of Rathbones wealth managers, has been selected as Newcastle Theatre Royal’s new Chairman.
Director of Liverpool Biennial SALLY TALLANT has been appointed Executive Director of Queens Museum in New York, replacing LAURA RAICOVICH, who resigned earlier this year.
Following the departure of LORD DAVIES OF ABERSOCH, who has served his six-year tenure as Chair of the Royal Academy Development Trust, LADY ALISON MYNERS will take over as the new Chair.
Previously Associate Producer for the Oscar Wilde Season at the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End, ROSIE TOWNSHEND is to become Royal & Derngate’s new Senior Producer. TESS DOWDESWELL joins from Kenny Wax Family Entertainment as Producer, focusing on overseeing the development of new musical theatre at the Northampton venue; and PETER HUNTLEY and SMART...
Intergenerational arts charity Magic Me has appointed four new trustees to its board: PHIL CAVE, consultant and former Director at Arts Council England; HAZEL GOULD, librettist, director and facilitator; DAMIAN HEBRON, Programme Manager in NESTA’s Health Lab; and DAVID RUSSELL, from NHS England’s Strategy Team.
CATHERINE HEARNE, Chief Executive of Helix Arts, has been appointed Chair of Culture Bridge North East’s Advisory Board. She is joined by GEMMA DYER, Prince’s Trust Public Sector Partnerships Manager North, as Vice Chair.