19th October 2018
Dance and performing arts tutor KELLY RYAN has joined dance enterprise Serendipity as Project Manager. For the past 20 years she has been working with young people in East London and Leicester, including in partnership with East London Dance to deliver The Community Dance Practitioner course.
The board of the Three Choirs Festival has appointed BEN COOPER, a local antiques dealer who regularly appears on BBC One’s Bargain Hunt, as a new director. He will chair the Worcester city committee and act as an ambassador for the festival, as preparations begin for its return to the city in 2020. NICOLA LAWSON has joined the festival’s management team as Trust and Foundations Fundraiser.
12th October 2018
After a long relationship with Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), first as a Development Producer and then as Artistic Director and CEO, DAVID JUBB has announced he will “head off on a new adventure as a parent of young children” from April 2019.
Artistic Associate SHELLEY HASTINGS and Associate Artistic Director SARAH GOLDING will also be leaving next year, in February and March respectively...
After 20 years as Artistic Director, SIMON STOKES is leaving the Theatre Royal Plymouth, to explore new opportunities and artistic challenges. During his time at Plymouth, the theatre has won more than 20 major national theatre awards and proved that “the ‘remote’ and slightly forgotten far south west can also be a huge engine for national creativity.”
One Dance UK has appointed LAURA NICHOLSON as Head of Children and Young People’s Dance, to lead on the strategic planning and delivery of programmes with and for children, young people and teachers. She has worked extensively in the north of England in youth and community settings as a performer, workshop leader and community artist, and in the education sector.
PROFESSOR KATE OAKLEY, expert in cultural policy, cultural and creative industries, and regional development, has taken up a new post as Head of School of Culture and Creative Arts. She joins from the University from the University of Leeds and succeeds Professor DIMITRIS ELEFTHERIOTIS, University of Glasgow’s Professor of Film Studies.
MANON ANTONIAZZI, Chief Executive and Clerk of the Welsh National Assembly, has joined the Board at The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Previously Director of Culture, Sport and Tourism for the Welsh Government, and Chief Executive of Visit Wales, she has been a Non-Executive Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a Board member of the Heritage Lottery Fund and a...
LESLIE MCDONALD has taken on the role of interim Chair at New Art Exchange, the Nottingham-based centre dedicated to culturally diverse arts. He has been a Board member there since 2009.
DR SHIRLEY THOMPSON has been announced as the new Vice Principal (Music) at Birmingham City University’s Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, which she joined in 2001 and was appointed to the role of Director of Postgraduate Studies in 2009.
5th October 2018
JONATHAN MCGRATH has joined street arts development agency XTRAX as a Project Manager. A director, producer and lecturer who has presented theatre events across the world, he has spent the last two years working for Arts Council England in grant management and as a Relationship Manager in Combined Arts.