21st January 2014
JO NIGHTINGALE is leaving her temporary position as Cornerhouse’s Media and Communications Officer, with ELISA RUFF returning to the role.
The new Chair of the Board for ISIS Arts is DAVID SLATER, who joins having served for over 20 years on management boards in the Civil Service and local government.
JUDITH CLARK has resigned from her post as General Manager of Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra. She will be pursuing a number of independent consultancy projects in music and the arts.
JONATHAN METH has taken over as Convenor of the MA in Writing for Perfomance and Dramaturgy at Goldsmiths University, London. He continues to curate The Fence, an international network of playwrights and cultural operators.
16th January 2014
The National Portrait Gallery has announced the appointment of PHILLIP PRODGER, founding Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, as Head of Photographs Collection. TERENCE PEPPER OBE, formerly Curator of Photographs, has a new part-time role as the Gallery’s Senior Special Advisor on Photographs.
DANNY BOYLE has been announced as a Patron of HOME, the new cultural hub and social space for Manchester, which opens in Spring 2015.
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MICHAEL CROSS has been appointed as Director of White Rock Theatre in Hastings. He has spent the past 11 years as Artistic Director of the Key Theatre in Peterborough.
Blackpool Council and Wyre Council have appointed two Directors to lead on LeftCoast, a Creative People and Places project in the North West. JULIA TURPIN will be Executive Director and artist MICHAEL TRAINOR will be Artistic Director. Turpin was previously Director of ‘Contacting the World’, Contact Theatre’s international participatory project for young people.
Two of Festivals and Events International’s (FEI) Associate Directors are embarking on new roles alongside their consultancy work with the organisation. PAUL GUDGIN will be Director of the City of London Festival and NIGEL HINDS is joining ex LOCOG colleague JENNY WALDMAN as Executive Producer of the First World War Centenary Cultural Programme. SALLY ABBOTT, who until recently...
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Peter Welch, Managing Director of arts sponsorship agency Showcase, names those who inspire him.